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Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2012
Applicants:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Hallym University, Chuncheon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Kyu-hong Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;

Sung-Chan Park, Suwon-si, KR;

Jung-ho Kim, Yongin-si, KR;

Moo-ho Bae, Chuncheon-si, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/14 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); G01S 7/52047 (2013.01); G01S 15/8977 (2013.01);
Abstract

A beamforming apparatus includes a storage for storing a plurality of basis vectors obtained from a beamforming coefficient of a previously-measured echo signal; a weight calculator for calculating a weight to be applied to an echo signal reflected from a target; and a synthesizer for applying the weight to the echo signal reflected from the target and synthesizing signals to which the weight is applied.


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