Sensor device and lighting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10481252-B2
Application number	US-201715602965-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 23, 2017
Priority date	May 26, 2016
Publication date	Nov 19, 2019
Grant date	Nov 19, 2019

Abstract

A sensor device includes a radio wave sensor and a signal processor. The signal processor includes an identifier and a noise remover configured to remove, from a second sensor signal, at least one frequency component determined as a noise component by the identifier. The identifier compares a signal intensity of each of the frequency components with one or more signal intensities of other frequency components. When a signal intensity of a first frequency component is greater than signal intensities of one or more second frequency components located in the vicinity of the first frequency component by an extent exceeding a threshold range, the identifier determines the first frequency component as the noise component.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A sensor device, comprising:
a radio wave sensor configured to transmit a radio wave and to receive a reflection wave which is the radio wave reflected off and returning from an object, and to output a sensor signal containing frequency components proportional to a movement speed of the object; and
a signal processor configured to perform signal processing on the sensor signal output from the radio wave sensor and to determine whether or not the object is a sensing target object,
the signal processor including:
a signal converter configured to convert the sensor signal which is a first sensor signal of a time domain into a second sensor signal of a frequency domain,
a recognition processor configured to determine whether or not the object is the sensing target object based on a distribution of signal intensities showing magnitudes of frequency components of the second sensor signal,
an identifier configured to determine whether or not each of the frequency components is a noise component, and
a noise remover configured to remove, from the second sensor signal, at least one of the frequency components which is determined as the noise component by the identifier, and

the identifier comparing a signal intensity of each of the frequency components of the second sensor signal with one or more signal intensities of other frequency components of the second sensor signal, and
when a signal intensity of at least one frequency component of the frequency components is greater than signal intensities of one or more vicinity frequency components which are located in a vicinity of the at least one frequency component by an extent exceeding a threshold range, the identifier determining the at least one frequency component as the noise component.

2. The sensor device according to claim 1 , wherein
the identifier determines whether or not each of the frequency components is a noise component within a predetermined frequency range.

3. The sensor device according to claim 1 , wherein
the identifier changes a total number of the vicinity frequency components located in the vicinity of the at least one frequency component.

4. The sensor device according to claim 1 , wherein
the noise remover is configured to remove the noise component by setting the signal intensity of the at least one frequency component determined as the noise component by the identifier to zero.

5. The sensor device according to claim 1 , wherein
the noise remover is configured to remove the noise component by setting the signal intensity of the at least one frequency component determined as the noise component by the identifier to a value interpolated with two or more of the signal intensities of the vicinity frequency components located in the vicinity of the at least one frequency component.

6. A lighting device, comprising:
the sensor device according to claim 1 ; and
a lighting fixture,
a lit state of the lighting fixture changing in accordance with a sensing result of the sensing target object by the sensor device.

7. A sensor device, comprising:
a radio wave sensor configured to transmit a radio wave and to receive a reflection wave which is the radio wave reflected off and returning from an object, and to output a sensor signal containing frequency components proportional to a movement speed of the object;
a signal processor; and
a non-transitory memory storing a program,
wherein the program, when executed by the signal processor, causes the signal processor to perform:
converting the sensor signal which is a first sensor signal of a time domain into a second sensor signal of a frequency domain;
determining whether or not the object is a sensing target object based on a distribution of signal intensities showing magnitudes of frequency components of the second sensor signal;
determining whether or not each of the frequency components of the second sensor signal is a noise component by comparing a signal intensity of at least one frequency component of the second sensor signal with a value calculated from the signal intensities of one or more vicinity frequency components of the second sensor signal, the one or more vicinity frequency components being located in a vicinity of the at least one frequency component; and
removing, from the second sensor signal, one or more of the frequency components which is determined as the noise component.

8. The sensor device according to claim 7 , wherein
the program, when executed by the signal processor, causes the signal processor to perform determining whether or not each of the frequency components is a noise component within a predetermined frequency range.

9. The sensor device according to claim 7 , wherein
the program, when executed by the signal processor, causes the signal processor to perform changing a total number of the vicinity frequency components located in the vicinity of the at least one frequency component.

10. The sensor device according to claim 7 , wherein
the program, when executed by the signal processor, causes the signal processor to perform removing the noise component by setting the signal intensity of the frequency component determined as the noise component to zero.

11. The sensor device according to claim 7 , wherein
the program, when executed by the signal processor, causes the signal processor to perform removing the noise component by setting the signal intensity of the frequency component determined as the noise component to a value interpolated with two or more of the signal intensities of the vicinity frequency components located in the vicinity of the frequency component.

12. A lighting device, comprising:
the sensor device according to claim 7 ; and
a lighting fixture,
a lit state of the lighting fixture changing in accordance with a sensing result of the sensing target object by the sensor device.

13. A sensor device, comprising:
a radio wave sensor configured to transmit a radio wave and to receive a reflection wave which is the radio wave reflected off and returning from an object, and to output a sensor signal containing frequency components proportional to a movement speed of the object; and
a signal processor configured to:
convert the sensor signal which is a first sensor signal of a time domain into a second sensor signal of a frequency domain;
determine whether or not the object is a sensing target object based on a distribution of signal intensities showing magnitudes of frequency components of the second sensor signal;
determine whether or not each of the frequency components of the second sensor signal is a noise component by comparing a signal intensity of at least one frequency component of the second sensor signal with a value calculated from the signal intensities of one or more vicinity frequency components of the second sensor signal, the one or more vicinity frequency components being located in a vicinity of the at least one frequency component; and
remove, from the second sensor signal, one or more of the frequency components which is determined as the noise component.

14. The sensor device according to claim 13 , wherein
the signal processor is configured to determine whether or not each of the frequency components is a noise component within a predetermined frequency range.

15. The sensor device according to claim 13 , wherein
the signal processor is configured to change a total number of the vicinity frequency components located in the vicinity of the frequency component.

16. The sensor device, according to claim 13 , wherein
the signal processor is co

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Masuda Tatsuo
• Murakami Tadashi
• Gotoh Shigeo

Classifications

• F21V33/006

  General building constructions or finishing work for buildings, e.g. roofs, gutters, stairs or floors; Garden equipment; Sunshades or parasols · CPC title

• F21Y2115/10

  Light-emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title

• G01S13/88

  Radar or analogous systems specially adapted for specific applications (electromagnetic prospecting or detecting of objects, e.g. near-field detection, G01V3/00) · CPC title

• G01S13/56 Primary

  for presence detection {(presence detection using near field arrangements G01V3/00, e.g. G01V3/08, G01V3/12; burglar, theft or intruder alarms with electrical actuation G08B13/22 - G08B13/26)} · CPC title

• F21V23/0471

  the sensor detecting the proximity, the presence or the movement of an object or a person · CPC title