Panasonic Advances Automobile Millimeter-Wave Mouth Technological innovation to Recognize People on the streets and Automobiles in Low Exposure Conditions
Panasonic Corporation today declared it has designed a sophisticated radar technology for next-generation visitors protection systems that allows to identify people and vehicles in a variety of several hundreds of measures. This millimeter-wave radar technology allows for discovering things outdoors in poor visibility circumstances, such as night, rainfall and snowfall, as well as against the natural light. When applied in visitors undercover receptors located at crossing points, this modern technology will help increase automotive protection by discovering pedestrians and bikes invisible in the driving impaired areas.
As injuries at crossing points account for about a half of all visitors deaths, protection measures are required to avoid mishaps there including vehicles, pedestrians and bikers. Panasonic's new radar technology allows visitors tracking receptors at crossing points to identify pedestrians and bikes up to 40 measures ahead even at night and under bad circumstances that restrict the driving visibility. By notifying the driver of the presence of pedestrians in the crosswalk or bikes in impaired areas, fraxel treatments minimizes the driving problem and visitors injuries.
Panasonic's new automotive radar technological innovation have get over the difficulties with traditional millimeter-wave radar technologies; the innovative radar technological innovation are capable of discovering people and vehicles at the same time regardless of the fact that human system shows extremely poor radar alerts in contrast to car human body. This modern radar technological innovation have also obtained great recognition efficiency with a variety quality of less than 50cm and an angular quality of 5 degrees, which allows to identify pedestrians and vehicles. Furthermore, as opposed to visual and infra-red cameras and laser receptors, whose recognition efficiency can be significantly affected by visibility circumstances, this new radar technology will not be subject to such circumstances as evening hours, rainfall, snowfall or heavy fog.
Panasonic has designed and included the following new element technological innovation to realize the new millimeter-wave radar technology for automotive applications:
- Known as beat modulation strategy that utilizes a newly designed code series for beat radar method to improve understanding features, thereby reaching extension of the recognition variety and finding out small things that have poor radar expression.
- Flexible aerial strategy that includes radar beamforming indication and adaptive array aerial reception with signal handling algorism for evaluation of target direction, thereby reaching great position quality even with a smaller aerial in contrast to traditional one.
With regard to millimeter-wave radars, there presently exist radars for vehicle to measure distance to your vehicle in front. However, these radars cannot identify human system with great quality due to very poor radar expression of human system. In addition, an visual camera is commonly used as a visitors undercover indicator. However, it cannot work well under certain circumstances such as evening hours because it can provide almost the same information as the eye can catch.
Panasonic has obtained the new radar technology as part of the "Research and Development Project for Development of Stations Array Resources" reinforced by the Secretary of state for Internal Matters and Devices of Asia. The company will demonstrate know-how at VTC (Vehicular Technological innovation Conference) 2012-Spring (May 7 to 9 in Yokohama, Japan), using a test equipment with an trial radio license.
On the new radar technology, Panasonic holds 18 patents in Asia and six patents offshore including awaiting programs.