Patent ID: 8836574

Claim:
An integrated radar system comprising: a plurality of radar devices configured to operate as a system to scan an area covered by the plurality of radar devices, in which a respective radar device of the plurality of radar devices includes: an antenna module configured to have a plurality of antennas to generate a shaped pattern for transmitting an outgoing radar signal and for receiving a reflected signal of the outgoing radar signal from an object located in the area; a shaping module configured to operate with the antenna module to shape outgoing transmission signals for transmission from the plurality of antennas, wherein the shaping module shapes the outgoing transmission signals as shaped transmission signals to generate the shaped pattern of the outgoing radar signal from the plurality of antennas and the shaping module to also adjust shaping of the reflected signal received via the shaped pattern for the plurality of antennas; and a transceiver configured to generate the outgoing transmission signals to the shaping module and to receive the reflected signal that is shape adjusted from the shaping module; and a processing module coupled to the plurality of radar devices to generate individual control signals to corresponding transceivers of the radar devices to generate corresponding outgoing transmission signals and to receive corresponding reflected signals that are shape adjusted from the corresponding transceivers of the radar devices, and in which the processing module is configured to process the corresponding reflected signals from transceivers of the plurality of radar devices to determine a location of the object in the area being scanned by the plurality of radar devices.