Back to results
US 7,253,833 B2Granted
Vehicle periphery visual recognition system, camera and vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus and vehicle periphery monitoring system
AssigneesAutonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorMasayoshi Imoto
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A vehicle periphery visual recognition system 1 is made up of an image pickup unit 11 for picking up images of image pickup ranges in three directions of the lower area at the front of a vehicle and the left and right side areas at the same time, and a controller 10 for performing image processing of an image signal provided by the image pickup unit 11 and then outputting the signal to a display 15.
Claims14
A camera comprising:
- image pickup means including a single image pickup device and image pickup lenses placed at the front of said image pickup device;
- and
- one or more prisms each shaped roughly like a triangle pole, placed at the front of said image pickup means with prism back faces directed to said image pickup lenses and prism sides directed to different side visual fields for twice internally reflecting light incident on the prism side on the visual field side between the prism side on the opposite visual field side and the prism side on the visual field side and emitting the light from the prism back face, wherein
- said image pickup means forms images of the incident light twice internally reflected through said prisms from the side visual fields and incident light from the front visual field without the intervention of said prisms on said image pickup device through said image pickup lenses at the same time.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.