Phase based search procedure for radar detection

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12130377-B2
Application number	US-202117302295-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 29, 2021
Priority date	Apr 29, 2021
Publication date	Oct 29, 2024
Grant date	Oct 29, 2024

Abstract

In some aspects, a radar device may receive a received signal comprising a reflected frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar signal and interference. The radar device may identify the reflected FMCW radar signal based at least in part on performing a phase based search procedure to facilitate removing the interference from the received signal. The radar device may perform an action based at least in part on a characteristic of the identified reflected FMCW radar signal. Numerous other aspects are described.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by a radar device, comprising:
receiving a received signal comprising a reflected frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar signal and interference;
detecting, based at least in part on a sign flip transition point index and a ramp ratio, a turnaround point of a phase profile of the received signal;
identifying, based on the turnaround point, the reflected FMCW radar signal to facilitate removing the interference from the received signal; and
performing an action based at least in part on a characteristic of the identified reflected FMCW radar signal.

2. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the phase profile corresponds to a phase search range, and
wherein the phase profile represents a plurality of phases of a plurality of time domain samples over a time period corresponding to a transmitted FMCW radar chirp.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the phase search range is based at least in part on a hardware capability associated with the radar device.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining the phase profile by correcting a plurality of phase angles by adding a correction factor to a phase angle of the plurality of phase angles, or a plurality of signal samples of the received signal, based at least in part on determining that an absolute jump between the phase angle and an adjacent phase angle satisfies a jump tolerance threshold.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the turnaround point comprises:
determining a phase differential sequence of the phase profile based at least in part on a sliding window; and
detecting a differential transition point based at least in part on the phase differential sequence, wherein the differential transition point corresponds to the turnaround point.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the phase differential sequence comprises a sequence of values of one and negative one.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein determining the phase differential sequence comprises determining, for a sample point corresponding to a first time instance, a sign of a difference between a phase value at the sample point and a phase value at a second time instance,
wherein the second time instance is separated from the first time instance by a length of the sliding window.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the sign of the difference between the phase value at the sample point and the phase value at the second time instance is based at least in part on a relationship between a chirp length and a turnaround time.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sign flip transition point index corresponds to a detection point instance that is based at least in part on a difference between half of a chirp length and a length of a sliding window.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining the sign flip transition point index based at least in part on applying a moving average window to a phase differential sequence of the phase profile.

11. The method of claim 2 , further comprising identifying a starting point of a frequency ramp corresponding to the transmitted FMCW radar chirp,
wherein identifying the reflected FMCW radar signal comprises identifying the reflected FMCW radar signal based at least in part on the starting point of the frequency ramp corresponding to the transmitted FMCW radar chirp.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein identifying the starting point of the frequency ramp corresponding to the transmitted FMCW radar chirp comprises:
determining an end point of the frequency ramp corresponding to the transmitted FMCW radar chirp based at least in part on the turnaround point; and
determining a time period that ends at the end point of the frequency ramp corresponding to the transmitted FMCW radar chirp.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the reflected FMCW radar signal comprises extracting a truncated set of sample points based at least in part on the turnaround point.

14. A method performed by a radar device, comprising:
receiving a received signal comprising a reflected frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar signal and interference;
detecting a turnaround point of a phase profile of the received signal;
determining a first ratio associated with a subset of a truncated set of sample points corresponding to a first time period prior to the turnaround point to a length of the first time period;
determining a second ratio associated with a subset of the truncated set of sample points corresponding to a second time period after the turnaround point to a length of the second time period;
determining whether at least one of the first ratio or the second ratio satisfies a ratio threshold;
identifying the reflected FMCW radar signal after determining whether at least one of the first ratio or the second ratio satisfies the ratio threshold; and
performing an action based at least in part on a characteristic of the identified reflected FMCW radar signal.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising discarding the truncated set of sample points when at least one of the first ratio or the second ratio satisfies the ratio threshold.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the action comprises determining timing information associated with the reflected FMCW radar signal.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein performing the action comprises:
identifying the interference based at least in part on the timing information associated with the reflected FMCW radar signal; and
removing the interference from the received signal.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the action comprises detecting a radar target.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the action comprises determining a delay estimation based at least in part on a slope of a phase.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the delay estimation comprises an estimate of timing of at least one of the reflected FMCW radar signal or the interference.

21. The method of claim 19 , further comprising:
determining the slope of the phase based at least in part on determining a plurality of local slopes of the phase; and
determining a low capture quality based at least in part on at least one of:
determining that a first local slope of the plurality of local slopes within a moving window is different than a second local slope of the plurality of local slopes within the moving window, or
determining that a difference between the first local slope of the plurality of local slopes within the moving window and the second local slope of the plurality of local slopes within the moving window indicates a change in a direction that is different than an expected direction.

22. A radar device for wireless communication, comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors, coupled to the memory, configured to:
receive a received signal comprising a reflected frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar signal and interference;
detect, based at least in part on a sign flip transition point index and a ramp ratio, a turnaround point of a phase profile of the received signal;
identify, based on the turnaround point, the reflected FMCW radar signal to facilitate removing the interference from the received signal; and
perform an action based at least in part on a characteristic of the identified reflected FMCW radar signal.

23. The radar device of claim 22 ,
wherein the phase profile corresponds to a phase search range, and
wherein the phase profile r

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Yang Xinjie
• Zhang Nan
• Rimini Roberto
• Zhang Danlu

Classifications

• H04W88/02

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