Patent ID: 7683824

Claim:
A radar apparatus comprising: a sending unit that sends a transmission wave of a fixed frequency or variable frequency; a plurality of receiving parts that receive a reflected wave of said sending wave from a reflecting object in a parallel manner; beat signal generation parts that acquire beat signals for said plurality of individual receiving parts, respectively, from the transmission wave generated by said sending unit and the reflected or reception wave received by the individual receiving parts; a beat signal processing part that individually processes the beat signals of said plurality of individual receiving parts thereby to acquire a beat signal processing result; a DBF processing part that DBF processes said beat signal processing result thereby to acquire a DBF processing result; and an object detection part that acquires information on at least one of a distance, a speed and an angle of said reflecting object from frequency components of said DBF processing result or said beat signal processing result; wherein amounts of phase lag of said plurality of receiving parts are set to values mutually different from one another; said beat signal processing part includes a phase correction processing part; said phase correction processing part corrects the amounts of phase lag corresponding to said plurality of individual receiving parts in said beat signal processing part so as to make them equal to one another; and wherein said object detection part decides, among two positive and negative frequency components of which the absolute values are equal to each other based on said DBF processing result, the one of which the reception level is larger as a true frequency component, and the other of which the reception level is smaller as a false frequency component.