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Monitoring unit for a motor vehicle, having partial color encoding

US10387735B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH · DE

Inventors

Henryk Frenzel · Regensburg, DE
Thorsten Koehler · Deuerling, DE
Stephan Voltz · Happurg, DE
Ulrich Wagner · Bernburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 20, 2018
Grant date	Aug 20, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 20, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04N25/135
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A monitoring unit for monitoring an environment outside of a motor vehicle includes a camera with an imaging sensor that has both color pixels and monochrome pixels. Pixel groups each include one or two color pixels and respectively three or two monochrome pixels. The pixel groups are arranged in a repeating pattern of partial color encoding.

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