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Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2023
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Yoshimasa Okabe, Kanagawa Ken, JP;

Seisuke Yamada, Kanagawa Ken, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/931 (2020.01); B60T 7/22 (2006.01); G01S 7/539 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/931 (2013.01); B60T 7/22 (2013.01); G01S 7/539 (2013.01); B60T 2210/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

An obstacle detection device is configured to evaluate a ghost likelihood of a detection point to be high when a movement pattern of the detection point does not match a movement pattern of a detection point when a received carrier wave is a reflected wave from an obstacle, when the movement pattern of the detection point matches a movement pattern when the detection point is a ghost, when a characteristic of a strength or a degree of steepness of the carrier wave matches a characteristic of a strength or a degree of steepness when the detection point is a ghost, or when another detection point that has a direction and a speed correlated with a direction and a speed of the detection point and is different from the detection point, is present.


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