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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Jae Su Song, Daejeon, KR;
Seok Seo, Daejeon, KR;
Yun Hee Cho, Daejeon, KR;
Seung Hwan Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Seong Chul Cho, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Provided is an antenna apparatus equipped with a single RF chain. The antenna apparatus includes: a combiner configured to divide omnidirectional space into N sectors to perform a sector sweep, combine a reception signal received via the single RF chain for each sector and calculate a gain of a composite signal; a comparator configured to determine a gain magnitude of the composite signal; and a controller configured to perform a beam-forming according to a comparison result of the gain magnitude of the comparator.