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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2013
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc., Shiga, JP;
Hiroyuki Itohara, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Aoyagi, Tokyo, JP;
FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., Shiga, JP;
Abstract
A radar device capable of reducing load of a clustering process and improving the tracking performance is provided. A tracking calculation unitof a radar deviceperforms a clustering process, in which an input detected data set is grouped into clusters, and a tracking process, in which an averaged value and a prediction value are calculated for each of the clusters. In the radar device, the shape of cluster areas for grouping the detected data is defined to be a fan shape. The clustering process and tracking process using fan-shaped cluster areas can reduce the load of the clustering process and improve the tracking performance.