Trailer backup camera system
AssigneeR.A. Phillips Industries, Inc.
InventorsAlexander Reid, Daniel William Forthoffer, Peter John Pless
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Abstract
A backup camera system includes a housing configured to be mounted to a back of a trailer at a location of a center marker light of the trailer and having a rear surface offset from and facing away from the trailer, a camera at the housing and configured to capture a rear view of the trailer, a first light at a center of the rear surface of the housing, a second light at the rear surface of the housing and offset from the first light, and a controller within the housing and configured to selectively couple the first light or the second light to a wiring of the center marker light of the trailer.
Claims9
A backup camera system comprising:
- a housing configured to be mounted to a back of a trailer at a location of a center marker light of the trailer and having a rear surface offset from and facing away from the trailer;
- a camera at the housing and configured to capture a rear view of the trailer;
- a first light at a center of the rear surface of the housing;
- a second light at the rear surface of the housing and offset from the first light;
- a switch within the housing and configured to selectively couple the first light or the second light to a wiring of the center marker light of the trailer so that no more than one of the first and second lights is illuminated at any given time based on a control signal, the wiring of the center marker light being an only source of electrical power to the first and second lights from an electrical system of the trailer;
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- a controller within the housing and configured to generate the control signal to selectively couple the first light or the second light based on a mounting position of the housing relative to a center of the back of the trailer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.