Vehicular vision system with forward-viewing camera

A vehicular vision system, the vehicular vision system comprising:

• a mounting structure configured to mount at a headliner region of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular vision system;
• a camera module mounted at the mounting structure;
• wherein the camera module comprises a camera and circuitry including an image processor, and wherein the image processor is operable to process image data captured by the camera;
• wherein the mounting structure comprises a bracket that mounts at the headliner region of the vehicle and that extends from the headliner region of the vehicle downward and partially along an in-cabin side of a windshield of the vehicle;
• wherein the mounting structure comprises a light transmitting panel attached at the bracket, and wherein the camera module is disposed at an in-cabin side of the light transmitting panel of the mounting structure;
• wherein the light transmitting panel of the mounting structure comprises one selected from the group consisting of (i) a transparent glass panel and (ii) a transparent plastic panel;
• wherein, with the mounting structure mounted at the headliner region of the vehicle, and with the windshield mounted at the vehicle, an exterior facing surface of the light transmitting panel of the mounting structure is disposed at the in-cabin side of the windshield so that the camera module disposed at the in-cabin side of the light transmitting panel of the mounting structure views forward of the vehicle through the light transmitting panel of the mounting structure and through the windshield;
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• wherein, with the mounting structure mounted at the headliner region of the vehicle, and with the windshield mounted at the vehicle, the windshield is separable from the mounting structure so that the windshield is removable from the vehicle without removing the mounting structure from the vehicle and without affecting mounting of the camera module at the mounting structure.

A vehicular vision system, the vehicular vision system comprising:

• a mounting structure configured to mount at a headliner region of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular vision system;
• a camera module mounted at the mounting structure;
• wherein the camera module comprises a camera and circuitry including an image processor, and wherein the image processor is operable to process image data captured by the camera;
• wherein the mounting structure comprises a bracket that mounts at the headliner region of the vehicle;
• wherein the mounting structure comprises a light transmitting panel attached at the bracket, and wherein the camera module is disposed at an in-cabin side of the light transmitting panel of the mounting structure;
• wherein, with the mounting structure mounted at the headliner region of the vehicle, and with a windshield mounted at the vehicle, an exterior facing surface of the light transmitting panel of the mounting structure is disposed at an in-cabin side of the windshield so that the camera module disposed at the in-cabin side of the light transmitting panel of the mounting structure views forward of the vehicle through the light transmitting panel of the mounting structure and through the windshield;
• and
• wherein, with the mounting structure mounted at the headliner region of the vehicle, and with the windshield mounted at the vehicle, the windshield is separable from the mounting structure so that the windshield is removable from the vehicle without removing the mounting structure from the vehicle and without affecting mounting of the camera module at the mounting structure.