Patent ID: 11874392
Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the machine instructions to cause the radar sensor circuit to generate the radar chirps comprise machine instructions to, for each radar chirp in the radar frame:
transition, during the rising period Trise, the radar chirp from a starting frequency to an ending frequency;
transition, during a first portion of the falling period Tfall, the radar chirp from the ending frequency to the frequency f_step;
maintain, during a second portion of the falling period Tfall and for the period Tstep, the radar chirp at the frequency f_step; and
transition, during a third portion of the falling period Tfall, the radar chirp from the frequency f_step to the starting frequency.