Patent ID: 8482457
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: G01S

Abstract:
1. A radar apparatus which radiates an electromagnetic wave, receives a reflected wave caused by the electromagnetic wave reflected from an object, and detects the presence direction in which the object is present, the radar apparatus comprising: an electromagnetic wave radiating section configured to radiate the electromagnetic wave; a reflected wave reception section configured to receive the reflected wave and detect information about the received reflected wave; a reflected wave type estimation section configured to determine which the type of the received reflected wave received by the reflected wave reception section is, a single reflected wave which is just reflected from an object, or a composite reflected wave which is composed of a plurality of reflected waves, reflected from different objects, that have interfered with each other, based on the information about the received reflected wave; and a direction calculation section configured to calculate the presence direction of an object, based on the result of the determination by the reflected wave type estimation section, wherein