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).

  • Patent number: 11960023
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Maniwa, Satoshi Kageme, Teruyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 11921230
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Kageme
  • Publication number: 20230350009
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi KAGEME
  • Publication number: 20230204751
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu SHIMIZU, Satoshi KAGEME, Takayuki KITAMURA, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20220043132
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi KAGEME, Mitsuru KIRITA
  • Patent number: 11237259
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Maniwa, Satoshi Kageme, Teruyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 11231486
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Maniwa, Satoshi Kageme, Teruyuki Hara
  • Publication number: 20210356559
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi KAGEME
  • Patent number: 11163051
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kageme, Teruyuki Hara, Masanori Ito
  • Publication number: 20210325524
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu SHIMIZU, Satoshi KAGEME, Kei SUWA
  • Patent number: 11067682
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kageme, Kazuaki Maniwa, Teruyuki Hara
  • Publication number: 20210190903
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi KAGEME
  • Patent number: 10884114
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuyuki Fukushima, Teruyuki Hara, Satoshi Kageme
  • Publication number: 20200348407
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki MANIWA, Satoshi KAGEME, Teruyuki HARA
  • Patent number: 10746865
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kageme, Teruyuki Hara
  • Publication number: 20200191934
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki MANIWA, Satoshi KAGEME, Teruyuki HARA
  • Publication number: 20200182994
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi KAGEME, Kazuaki MANIWA, Teruyuki HARA
  • Publication number: 20200132828
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki MANIWA, Satoshi KAGEME, Teruyuki HARA
  • Patent number: 10613210
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kageme, Nobuhiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200011983
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi KAGEME, Teruyuki HARA, Masanori ITO