Patent ID: 11876583
Assignee: METAWAVE CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of processing data for an antenna system, comprising:
synthesizing a virtual receive array representing a plurality of transmit antennas and a plurality of receive antenna elements of the antenna system;
determining a manifold matrix that represents the virtual receive array based on a function of a geometry of the virtual receive array, a carrier frequency, and a direction of arrival of signal data received from the plurality of transmit antennas;
generating a transformation matrix from the virtual receive array and the manifold matrix; and
determining a linear transformation matrix using an optimization criterion that is a function of the virtual receive array and the transformation matrix,
wherein the antenna system is configured to operate in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar system.