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US 2006/0187303 A1Published application
Imaging generator
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsHans-Dieter Bothe, Hoang Trinh, Heiko Freienstein, Thomas Engelberg
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Abstract
An imaging sensor disposed in a vehicle includes an evaluation unit for monitoring the imaging sensor's operability based on an image signal, for example, by an evaluation of invariant patterns, empirical knowledge about measurement signal profiles, utilizing the redundancy of a network of sensors, or utilizing time-related redundancy.
Claims12
1-11. (canceled)
An imaging sensor disposed in a vehicle, comprising:
- an image acquisition unit for generating at least one image signal;
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- an evaluation unit configured to monitor the imaging sensor's operability based on the image signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.