US 12,216,196 B2
Methods and apparatus for providing a 360-degree field-of-view radar system
Jingqing Huang, San Mateo, CA (US); Peter Jon Kardassakis, Mountain View, CA (US); Zachary Odenheimer, Mountain View, CA (US); and Russell Leigh Smith, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to NURO, INC., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Nuro, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/465,059.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/080,071, filed on Sep. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0091255 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G01S 13/87 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC G01S 13/87 (2013.01) [G01S 13/931 (2013.01); H05K 1/0243 (2013.01); G01S 2013/93273 (2020.01); H05K 2201/10098 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radar system comprising:
a set of radar units, the set of radar units including a first plurality of radar units and a second plurality of radar units, the first plurality of radar units arranged to provide up to an approximately 360-degree field-of-view; and
a radar synchronizing controller coupled to the first plurality of radar units and configured to:
substantially synchronously trigger operation of two or more radar units of the first plurality of radar units such that the two or more radar units operate together as a substantially single virtual radar unit; and
determine a number of the second plurality of radar units to be synchronized and added to the first plurality of radar units based on one or more of a desired detection performance, a desired field-of-view, or a desired resolution.