Patent ID: 7190305

Claim:
A radar apparatus comprising: a transmitting unit that emits a transmitter pulse, in the form of a radio wave, into space; a receiving antenna including a plurality of antenna elements each of which receives, as a reception signal, the radio wave that reaches a target object and is reflected off the target object; a receiving unit that receives the reception signal, downconverts the reception signal and puts a bandwidth constraint on the reception signal to obtain an analog signal, converts the analog signal into a digital signal, and outputs the digital signal; and a signal processing unit that detects a bearing of the target object, based on the digital signal, wherein a first transaction includes processing of signals output from a first set of the antenna elements, a second transaction involving processing of the signals output from a second set of the antenna elements, and the signal processing unit executes a specified process based on an output of the first transaction and an output of the second transaction.