US Patent 11397255 Radar apparatus and method for operating a radar apparatus

A radar device having a plurality of transmit devices and a plurality of receive devices. The transmit devices and receive devices are configured in an array having horizontal rows and vertical columns. The radar device includes a control device that is designed to determine, for an arbitrary first transmit device, a phase offset to the corresponding second transmit device, using a first radar signal that corresponds to a first radar wave sent out by the first transmit device and received by the assigned first receive device and a second radar signal that corresponds to a second radar wave sent out by the second transmit device and received by the assigned second receive device.