Patent ID: 7791532
Filing Date: 2010-09-07
Classification: G01S

Abstract:
1. A radar comprising: a transmitter that transmits a transmission signal which repeats a modulation zone in which a frequency gradually changes over time within a predetermined frequency range; a receiver that receives a reflected signal of the transmission signal from a target; a frequency spectrum unit that obtains a frequency spectrum of a beat signal of the transmission signal and the reflected signal; a means for repeating scanning in which the transmission signal is scanned over a predetermined direction range; a high-noise-state detection unit that detects a high noise state where a number of peaks exceeding a noise threshold appearing in a frequency spectrum changes (1) by a predetermined amount or more or (2) by a predetermined ratio or more as a high noise state by comparing (a) a subject beam with a close beam in an azimuthal direction of the subject beam or (b) comparing the subject beam with the same beam in a recent scan of the subject beam; a peak extraction unit that extracts a peak exceeding the noise threshold from the frequency spectrum in a non-high noise state and extracts a predetermined number of peaks from the frequency spectrum in descending order starting from a peak having the highest value in the high noise state; and a detecting unit that detects information of the target based on the extracted peak.