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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2014
Hrl Laboratories, Llc, Mailbu, CA (US);
Jonathan J. Lynch, Oxnard, CA (US);
Zhiwei A. Xu, Irvine, CA (US);
Yen-Cheng Kuan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Abstract
A radar system in which Coded Aperture Radar processing is performed on received radar signals reflected by one or more objects in a field of view which reflect a transmitted signal which covers a field of view with K sweeps and each sweep including Q frequency changes. For Type II CAR, the transmitted signal also includes N modulated codes per frequency step. The received radar signals are modulated by a plurality of binary modulators the results of which are applied to a mixer. The output of the mixer, for one acquisition results in a set of Q·K (for Type I CAR) or Q·K·N (for Type II CAR) complex data samples, is distributed among a number of digital channels, each corresponding to a desired beam direction. For each channel, the complex digital samples are multiplied, sample by sample, by a complex signal mask that is different for each channel.