Multi-directional viewing camera system

A motor vehicle comprising:

• a vehicle body defining an interior compartment and including a body panel having an exterior surface and an interior surface facing the interior compartment;
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• a multi-directional viewing camera system including:
• a mirror module mounted to the exterior surface of the body panel, configured to capture and transmit incident light from at least one field of view (FOV), and having a polarizing beam splitter configured to reflect s-polarized component of the incident light in a visible spectral range and transmit p-polarized component of the incident light in the visible spectral range;
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• a camera module having a video camera mounted to the interior surface of the body panel and configured to receive from the mirror module one of the s-polarized and the p-polarized component of the incident light and selectively display the at least one FOV within the interior compartment.

A motor vehicle comprising:

• a vehicle body defining an interior compartment and including a body panel having an exterior surface and an interior surface facing the interior compartment;
• and
• a multi-directional viewing camera system including:
• a mirror module mounted to the exterior surface of the body panel, configured to capture and transmit incident light from at least one individually selectable rearward, side, and forward fields of view (FOV's), and having a polarizing beam splitter configured to reflect s-polarized component of the incident light in a visible spectral range and transmit p-polarized component of the incident light in the visible spectral range;
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• a camera module having a video camera mounted to the interior surface of the body panel, having an electronically controlled polarizer arranged between the video camera and the polarizing beam splitter and configured to selectively transmit and reflect light, and configured to receive from the mirror module one of the s-polarized and the p-polarized component of the incident light and selectively display the at least one of the individually selectable rearward, side, and forward FOV's within the interior compartment.