Patents by Inventor Satoshi KAGEME
Satoshi KAGEME has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11960023Abstract: A radar device is configured in such a manner that each of transmission radars uses, as the amount of phase modulation, a value determined from either one of a positive integer value that is less than or equal to a result of division obtained by dividing the number of hits of a transmission RF signal by the number of the transmission radars and a value of 0; a hit number h of the transmission RF signal; and the number of hits.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki Maniwa, Satoshi Kageme, Teruyuki Hara
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Patent number: 11921230Abstract: A first module generates a first reception signal from a reflection RF signal of a transmission RF signal using a first local oscillation signal, a second module generates a second reception signal from the reflection RF signal using a second local oscillation signal synchronized with the first local oscillation signal, and a first signal processor calculates the angle of a target using a signal obtained by coherent integration based on the first reception signal and second reception signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi Kageme
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Publication number: 20230350009Abstract: A signal processor is configured to include: a high-order phase linearizing unit to acquire an input reception signal of a reflected wave from a target to be detected, and raise a sampling number of the input reception signal to power by using an order of a high-order component included in the input reception signal as a power index; and a high-order coherent integrating unit to perform coherent integration of the reception signal having the sampling number raised to the power by the high-order phase linearizing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Satoshi KAGEME
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Publication number: 20230204751Abstract: An object detection device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire wave data; acquire the moving velocity of a radar device; estimate a relative distance between the radar device and a target, angle of incidence of a reflection signal from the target, and a first relative velocity between the radar device and the target, by using the wave data; and estimate a second relative velocity between the radar device and the target in a case where the target is a static object, on the basis of the acquired moving velocity and the relative distance and the angle of incidence, and determine whether the target is a static object by comparing the first relative velocity and the second relative velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yu SHIMIZU, Satoshi KAGEME, Takayuki KITAMURA, Kei SUWA
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Publication number: 20220043132Abstract: An antenna device is formed in such a manner that reception antennas are arranged at regular intervals between two transmission antennas adjacent to each other among transmission antennas, and a spacing between the transmission antenna and the transmission antenna has a width obtained by adding an integral multiple of a spacing dRx between each two of the reception antennas to a width obtained by dividing the spacing dRx by the number NTx of the transmission antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Satoshi KAGEME, Mitsuru KIRITA
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Patent number: 11237259Abstract: A transmission radar (1) divides each of multiple frequency bands in such a manner that differences between center frequencies in respective frequency bands after the division are equal, and transmits, in time division manner, transmission signals of which transmission frequencies are the center frequencies in respective frequency bands after the division; a rearrangement processing unit (13) rearranges each of the reception video signals converted by the reception radar (5) in such a manner that sets of reception video signals corresponding to the multiple frequency bands before being divided by the transmission radar (1) are arranged in a row; and a band synthesis processing unit (14) performs a band synthesis on each of the reception video signals rearranged by the rearrangement processing unit (13).Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki Maniwa, Satoshi Kageme, Teruyuki Hara
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Patent number: 11231486Abstract: Target detection units respectively performing detection processing of targets which are different in spatial extent from each other on the basis of a detection result of amplitude or power by a detection unit are provided, and at least one determination processing unit is configured to determine presence or absence of targets from a result of the detection processing of targets by the target detection units. As a result of this configuration, it is possible to detect a target even when it has a spatial extent.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki Maniwa, Satoshi Kageme, Teruyuki Hara
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Publication number: 20210356559Abstract: A first module generates a first reception signal from a reflection RF signal of a transmission RF signal using a first local oscillation signal, a second module generates a second reception signal from the reflection RF signal using a second local oscillation signal synchronized with the first local oscillation signal, and a first signal processor calculates the angle of a target using a signal obtained by coherent integration based on the first reception signal and second reception signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Satoshi KAGEME
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Patent number: 11163051Abstract: Transmission radars (1-nTX) (nTX=1, 2, . . . , NTX) generate mutually different modulation codes Code(nTX, h) by cyclically shifting the same code sequence by mutually different cyclic shift amounts ??(nTX), and generate mutually different transmission RF signals (4-nTX) using the mutually different modulation codes Code(nTX, h). As a result, the number of transmission radars 1-nTX can be made larger, and target detection accuracy can be made higher than in a case where orthogonal codes are used as mutually different modulation codes.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Kageme, Teruyuki Hara, Masanori Ito
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Publication number: 20210325524Abstract: An angle measuring device includes: a signal extracting unit for extracting a signal that includes a first reflection wave and does not include a second reflection wave as a first demodulated signal and a signal that includes the second reflection wave and does not include the first reflection wave as a second demodulated signal from reception signals output from one or more reception antennas among a plurality of reception antennas; an elevation calculating unit for calculating an elevation of a target by performing monopulse angle measurement using a sum signal of the first demodulated signal and the second demodulated signal and a difference signal between the first demodulated signal and the second demodulated signal; and an azimuth calculating unit for calculating an azimuth of the target using reception signals output from the plurality of reception antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yu SHIMIZU, Satoshi KAGEME, Kei SUWA
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Patent number: 11067682Abstract: A range-direction frequency domain converting unit (231-1) converts reception video signals into signals in a range direction frequency. A hit-direction frequency domain converting unit (232-1) converts the signals in the range direction frequency into signals based on the velocity and the range direction frequency so that the target Doppler frequency belongs to the same velocity bin number independently of variations in frequencies of transmission signals. A correlation unit (233-1) generates signals based on the velocity separated for each of the transmission frequencies and a range after correlation. An integration unit (234-1) generates band-synthesized signals based on the velocity and a range after correlation. A candidate target detecting unit (241) detects candidate targets based on the signal intensity from the output signals of the integration unit (233-1).Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Kageme, Kazuaki Maniwa, Teruyuki Hara
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Publication number: 20210190903Abstract: A radar apparatus includes: a PRI control unit for setting a plurality of pairs of a pulse repetition interval longer than a reference interval and a pulse repetition interval shorter than the reference interval; a signal generation circuit for generating a plurality of transmission pulse signals on the basis of the plurality of pairs of pulse repetition intervals; a transmission and reception unit for sending out the plurality of transmission pulse signals to external space and receiving a plurality of reflected wave signals from the external space; a receiving circuit for generating a plurality of received signals by sampling each of the plurality of reflected wave signals; a signal conversion unit for generating a plurality of frequency domain signals by performing domain conversion processing from a time domain to a frequency domain on the plurality of received signals; and a target detection unit for detecting a target candidate on the basis of the plurality of frequency domain signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Satoshi KAGEME
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Patent number: 10884114Abstract: Transmission antennas (2-#1 to 2-#M) transmit radiowaves of frequency bands uncorrelated with each other. Receivers (5-#1 to 5-#L) receives target-reflected waves reflected by a target. Pulse compressors (7-#1 to 7-#L) and transmission DBF units (8-#1 to 8-#L) suppress false peaks generated by the Doppler frequency in the target-reflected waves and combines the target-reflected waves. A reception DBF unit (9) and a target detector (10) detect the target based on the results of the combined signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Fuyuki Fukushima, Teruyuki Hara, Satoshi Kageme
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Publication number: 20200348407Abstract: A radar device is configured in such a manner that each of transmission radars uses, as the amount of phase modulation, a value determined from either one of a positive integer value that is less than or equal to a result of division obtained by dividing the number of hits of a transmission RF signal by the number of the transmission radars and a value of 0; a hit number h of the transmission RF signal; and the number of hits.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kazuaki MANIWA, Satoshi KAGEME, Teruyuki HARA
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Patent number: 10746865Abstract: A frequency domain transforming unit (231-1) performs a transform into a frequency domain in such a way that a Doppler velocity bin is the same for each of different transmission frequencies. A correlation unit (232-1) generates signals based on a velocity and a range after correlation, the signals being separate for each of the transmission frequencies. An integrating unit (233-1) generates band-synthesized signals based on a velocity and a range after correlation. A target candidate detecting unit (241) performs detection of a target candidate on output signals of the integrating unit (233-1) on the basis of signal strength. A target's relative-velocity/relative-range/arrival-angle calculating unit (242) calculates a relative velocity, a relative range, and an arrival angle of the target candidate.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Kageme, Teruyuki Hara
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Publication number: 20200191934Abstract: A transmission radar (1) divides each of multiple frequency bands in such a manner that differences between center frequencies in respective frequency bands after the division are equal, and transmits, in time division manner, transmission signals of which transmission frequencies are the center frequencies in respective frequency bands after the division; a rearrangement processing unit (13) rearranges each of the reception video signals converted by the reception radar (5) in such a manner that sets of reception video signals corresponding to the multiple frequency bands before being divided by the transmission radar (1) are arranged in a row; and a band synthesis processing unit (14) performs a band synthesis on each of the reception video signals rearranged by the rearrangement processing unit (13).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2017Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kazuaki MANIWA, Satoshi KAGEME, Teruyuki HARA
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Publication number: 20200182994Abstract: A range-direction frequency domain converting unit (231-1) converts reception video signals into signals in a range direction frequency. A hit-direction frequency domain converting unit (232-1) converts the signals in the range direction frequency into signals based on the velocity and the range direction frequency so that the target Doppler frequency belongs to the same velocity bin number independently of variations in frequencies of transmission signals. A correlation unit (233-1) generates signals based on the velocity separated for each of the transmission frequencies and a range after correlation. An integration unit (234-1) generates band-synthesized signals based on the velocity and a range after correlation. A candidate target detecting unit (241) detects candidate targets based on the signal intensity from the output signals of the integration unit (233-1).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Satoshi KAGEME, Kazuaki MANIWA, Teruyuki HARA
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Publication number: 20200132828Abstract: Target detection units respectively performing detection processing of targets which are different in spatial extent from each other on the basis of a detection result of amplitude or power by a detection unit are provided, and at least one determination processing unit is configured to determine presence or absence of targets from a result of the detection processing of targets by the target detection units. As a result of this configuration, it is possible to detect a target even when it has a spatial extent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki MANIWA, Satoshi KAGEME, Teruyuki HARA
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Patent number: 10613210Abstract: A configuration is provided with: a local oscillator 3 which generates M local oscillation signals Lm(t) whose frequencies differ from one another by an integral multiple of an angular frequency ?; receiver devices 4-m each converting the frequency of a received signal Rxm(t) of one antenna element 2-m using one local oscillation signal Lm(t) generated by the local oscillator 3, thereby generating a received video signal Vm(t) having an antenna element number m; an adder 5 which adds the received video signals V1(t) to VM(t) generated by the receiver devices 4-1 to 4-M, and outputs a received video signal Vsum(t) after addition; and an A/D converter 6 which A/D-converts the received video signal Vsum(t) outputted from the adder 5, thereby to generate a received video signal V(n) which is a digital signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Satoshi Kageme, Nobuhiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20200011983Abstract: Transmission radars (1-nTX) (nTX=1, 2, . . . , NTX) generate mutually different modulation codes Code(nTX, h) by cyclically shifting the same code sequence by mutually different cyclic shift amounts ??(nTX), and generate mutually different transmission RF signals (4-nTX) using the mutually different modulation codes Code(nTX, h). As a result, the number of transmission radars 1-nTX can be made larger, and target detection accuracy can be made higher than in a case where orthogonal codes are used as mutually different modulation codes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi KAGEME, Teruyuki HARA, Masanori ITO