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US 10,855,906 B2Granted
Camera apparatus for vehicle, and vehicle
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorManhyung Lee
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a vehicle camera device comprising: a lens unit for inducing respective focal lengths of a plurality of image acquisition regions, divided in the horizontal direction, to be different from each other; an image sensor including a plurality of pixel arrays formed to correspond to the plurality of image acquisition regions, and converting, into an electrical signal, light introduced into each of the plurality of pixel arrays through the lens unit; and a processor for generating an image on the basis of the electrical signal.
Claims19
A camera apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
- a lens unit causing a plurality of image acquisition regions to have different focal lengths, wherein the plurality of image acquisition regions comprises a central region and a peripheral region;
- a plurality of pixel arrays corresponding to the plurality of image acquisition regions;
- an image sensor configured to convert light incident on each of the plurality of pixel arrays through the lens unit into an electrical signal;
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- a processor configured to generate an image based on the electrical signal,
- wherein the lens unit comprises a reference lens and a zonal lens interposed between the reference lens and the image sensor, and
- wherein a focal length in each of the plurality of image acquisition regions varies according to whether light having passed through the reference lens passes through the zonal lens in a corresponding image acquisition region.
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