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US 2003/0117522 A1Published application
Vehicle vicinity-monitoring apparatus
AssigneeAutonetworks Technologies, Ltd.
InventorJun Okada
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Abstract
A vehicle vicinity-monitoring apparatus 1 includes a casing 15 having vicinity-monitoring window portions 15L and 15R and a night-vision window port 15F, a single image pickup device 17 which is contained within the casing 15, and has an image pickup surface 17a which is divided into a vicinity-monitoring image pickup region 17L, 17R and a night-vision image pickup region, an optical system 19 and 21 which is contained within the casing 15.
Claims3
A vehicle vicinity-monitoring apparatus comprising:
- a casing having a vicinity-monitoring window portion and a night-vision window portion;
- a single image pickup device which is contained within said casing, and has an image pickup surface which is divided into a vicinity-monitoring image pickup region and a night-vision image pickup region;
- an optical system which is contained within said casing so as to cause incident light, passing through said vicinity-monitoring window portion, to be focused on the vicinity-monitoring image pickup region of said image pickup device, and also causes incident light, passing through said night-vision window portion, to be focused on the night-vision image pickup region of said image pickup device;
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- an infrared absorption filter provided on an optical path of travel of the incident light which passes through said vicinity-monitoring window portion in said casing, and is focused on the vicinity-monitoring image pickup region of said image pickup device through said optical system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.