Patent ID: 6861973

Claim:
A method of storing data in a radar used for a vehicle, in which said radar transmits a predetermined signal to a plurality of target objects located in front of a moving vehicle, and detects signals reflected from the plurality of target objects, so as to obtain a plurality of detected data, and calculates at least the distances between said moving vehicle and the plurality of target objects and the relative speeds of said moving vehicle relative to the plurality of target objects, on the basis of the plurality of detected data, and thus detects the presence of the plurality of target objects, wherein, when the plurality of detected data is temporarily stored in a data storage unit in order to verify whether or not the plurality of target objects are actually present, priorities are assigned to the plurality of detected data; wherein, when moving target objects and static target objects are present together, higher priorities are given to said moving target objects and detected data associated with said moving target objects is stored in said data storage unit; and wherein, when the number of said static target objects exceeds the maximum number of data permissible with the storage capacity of said data storage unit, higher priority is given to detected data associated with a static target object located in the closer position to said moving vehicle and said detected data is stored in said data storage unit.