Displacement detection device and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12585013-B2
Application number	US-202318536530-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2023
Priority date	Sep 9, 2021
Publication date	Mar 24, 2026
Grant date	Mar 24, 2026

Abstract

A displacement detection device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a controller configured or programmed to output a first transmission signal to the transmitter to transmit a modulated wave and acquire a responsive first reception signal in a first measurement period, extract first phase information indicating a phase defined in a correlation between a first transmission signal and a reception signal, output a second transmission signal to the transmitter and acquire a responsive second reception signal in a second measurement period after the first measurement period, extract second phase information indicating a phase defined in a correlation between the second transmission signal and reception signal, and detect a displacement of an object between the first and second measurement periods, depending on a difference between the first and second phase information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A displacement detection device comprising:
a transmitter to transmit, to an object, a modulated wave including a plurality of frequencies; a receiver to receive a reflection wave from the object and generate a reception signal indicating a reception result; and a controller configured or programmed to control transmission of the modulated wave by the transmitter and acquire the reception signal from the receiver; wherein the controller is configured or programmed to:
output a first transmission signal to the transmitter to transmit the modulated wave and acquire a responsive first reception signal in a first measurement period;
extract, based on the first transmission signal and the first reception signal, first phase information indicating a phase defined in a correlation between the first transmission signal and the first reception signal;
output a second transmission signal to the transmitter to transmit the modulated wave and acquire a responsive second reception signal in a second measurement period after the first measurement period;
extract, based on the second transmission signal and the second reception signal, second phase information indicating a phase defined in a correlation between the second transmission signal and the second reception signal; and
detect a displacement of the object between the first and second measurement periods, depending on a difference between the first phase information and the second phase information.

2 . The displacement detection device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured or programmed to:
generate, based on the first transmission signal and the first reception signal, a first analytic signal including an amplitude and the phase defined in the correlation between the first transmission signal and the first reception signal, and extract the first phase information from the first analytic signal; and generate, based on the second transmission signal and the second reception signal, a second analytic signal including an amplitude and the phase defined in the correlation between the second transmission signal and the second reception signal, and extract the second phase information from the second analytic signal.

3 . The displacement detection device according to claim 2 , wherein the controller configured or programmed to:
detect a timing at which at least one of the amplitude of the first analytic signal and the amplitude of the second analytic signal becomes largest; and calculate the difference between the first phase information and the second phase information using the detected timing as a reference timing.

4 . The displacement detection device according to claim 3 , wherein the controller is configured or programmed to measure a displacement amount indicating the displacement of the object, based on the difference between the first phase information and the second phase information and a slope of the phase at the reference timing.

5 . The displacement detection device according to claim 2 , wherein the controller is configured or programmed to calculate at least one of an envelope of the first analytic signal and an envelope of the second analytic signal, and detect a timing at which the amplitude becomes the largest based on the calculated envelope.

6 . The displacement detection device according to claim 2 , wherein the controller is configured or programmed to:
calculate a cross-correlation function between the first transmission signal and the first reception signal to be complexified and generate the first analytic signal, based on the first transmission signal and the first reception signal; and calculate a cross-correlation function between the second transmission signal and the second reception signal to be complexified and generate the second analytic signal, based on the second transmission signal and the second reception signal.

7 . The displacement detection device according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitter includes a thermophone to transmit, as the modulated wave, a sound wave including a plurality of frequencies.

8 . The displacement detection device according to claim 1 , wherein the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal cause the transmitter to transmit the modulated wave by a linear frequency chirp.

9 . A displacement detection method comprising, by a controller to control a transmitter to transmit, to an object, a modulated wave including a plurality of frequencies and acquire, from a receiver to receive a reflection wave from the object, a reception signal indicating a reception result:
outputting a first transmission signal to the transmitter to transmit the modulated wave and acquiring a responsive first reception signal in a first measurement period; extracting, based on the first transmission signal and the first reception signal, first phase information indicating a phase defined in a correlation between the first transmission signal and the first reception signal; outputting a second transmission signal to the transmitter to transmit the modulated wave and acquiring a responsive second reception signal in a second measurement period after the first measurement period; extracting, based on the second transmission signal and the second reception signal, second phase information indicating a phase defined in a correlation between the second transmission signal and the second reception signal; and detecting a displacement of the object between the first and second measurement periods, depending on a difference between the first phase information and the second phase information.

10 . The displacement detection method according to claim 9 , further comprising:
generating, based on the first transmission signal and the first reception signal, a first analytic signal including an amplitude and the phase defined in the correlation between the first transmission signal and the first reception signal, and extracting the first phase information from the first analytic signal; and generating, based on the second transmission signal and the second reception signal, a second analytic signal including an amplitude and the phase defined in the correlation between the second transmission signal and the second reception signal, and extracting the second phase information from the second analytic signal.

11 . The displacement detection method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
detecting a timing at which at least one of the amplitude of the first analytic signal and the amplitude of the second analytic signal becomes largest; and calculating the difference between the first phase information and the second phase information using the detected timing as a reference timing.

12 . The displacement detection method according to claim 11 , further comprising measuring a displacement amount indicating the displacement of the object, based on the difference between the first phase information and the second phase information and a slope of the phase at the reference timing.

13 . The displacement detection method according to claim 10 , further comprising calculating at least one of an envelope of the first analytic signal and an envelope of the second analytic signal, and detecting a timing at which the amplitude becomes the largest based on the calculated envelope.

14 . The displacement detection method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
calculating a cross-correlation function between the first transmission signal and the first reception signal to be complexified and generate the first analytic signal, based on the first transmission signal and t

Assignees

• Murata Manufacturing Co

Inventors

• Watabe Yuuma
• Asada Takaaki
• Sasaki Shinichi

Classifications

• G01S7/53

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• G01S15/526

  by comparing echos in different sonar periods · CPC title

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  Extracting wanted echo signals {(Doppler systems G01S15/50)} · CPC title