Patent ID: 8487810

Claim:
An integrated radar system comprises: a processing module operable to: generate an outbound signal; generate a control signal to configure the integrated radar system; a radar device including: an antenna module having at least one transmit antenna and a plurality of receive antennas; a configurable shaping module coupled to the antenna module; a configurable transceiver module coupled to the configurable shaping module, wherein the configurable shaping module and the configurable transceiver module are to be configured in accordance with the control signal, wherein: the configurable transceiver module converts the outbound signal into an outbound wireless signal; the configurable shaping module shapes the outbound wireless signal into a shaped signal; the antenna module transmits the shaped signal in a radiation pattern that is at least partially based on shaping of the outbound wireless signal; the antenna module receives an inbound radar signal as a composite signal, in which the plurality of receive antennas generate separate phase and amplitude values from the composite signal and provide the separate phase and amplitude values to the configurable shaping module; the configurable shaping module shapes the phase and amplitude values from the plurality of receive antennas into an inbound wireless signal; and the configurable transceiver module converts the inbound wireless signal into an inbound symbol stream; and the processing module is further operable to determine location information regarding an object based on a time stamp placed on the outbound signal and direction of the composite signal received, and the processing module is further operable to adjust a pattern of the plurality of receive antennas based on the location information prior to generating a subsequent outbound signal.