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US 10,474,009 B2Granted
Filter adjustment of vehicle cameras
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsEric L. Reed, Adil Nizam Siddiqui, Jonathan Diedrich
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Abstract
Method and apparatus are disclosed for filter adjustment of vehicle cameras. An example vehicle camera includes sensors, a lens to direct light to the sensors, a slide including a first filter and a second filter, and an electromagnet to actuate the slide between a first position and a second position. The first filter is between the sensors and the lens at the first position. The second filter is between the sensors and the lens at the first position.
Claims17
A vehicle comprising:
- a camera including a lens, image sensors to collect light, a first electromagnet, a second electromagnet, a first slide including a first filter and a second filter, and a second slide adjacent the first side and including a third filter and a fourth filter;
- and
- a filter controller to:
- determine a light condition based upon the light;
- and
- responsive to determining the light condition is a first light condition, cause:
- the first electromagnet to position the first slide at a first position at which the first filter is between the image sensors and the lens;
- and
- the second electromagnet to position the second slide at a second position at which the third filter is between the image sensors and the lens.
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A method for adjusting vehicle camera filters comprising:
- collecting light of a surrounding area;
- determining, via a filter controller, a light condition based upon the light;
- and
- responsive to determining the light condition is a first light condition, sending:
- a first signal to a first electromagnet to position a first slide of a vehicle camera at a first position, a first filter of the first slide being between image sensors and a camera lens at the first position;
- and
- a second signal to a second electromagnet to position a second slide of the vehicle camera at a second position, a second filter of the second slide being between the image sensors and the camera lens at the second position.
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A vehicle camera comprising:
- sensors;
- a lens to direct light to the sensors;
- a first slide including a first filter and a second filter;
- a second slide including a third filter and a fourth filter;
- a first electromagnet to actuate the first slide between a first position and a second position, the first filter being between the sensors and the lens at the first position, the second filter being between the sensors and the lens at the second position;
- and
- a second electromagnet to actuate the second slide between a third position and a fourth position, the third filter being between the sensors and the lens at the third position, the fourth filter being between the sensors and the lens at the fourth position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.