Optoelectronic monitoring device for a motor vehicle

US6452148B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Leopold KOSTAL GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Norbert Bendicks · Breckerfeld, DE
• Frank Blasing · Werl, DE
• Detlef Kerkmann · Altena, DE
• Thomas Weber · Oak Creek, US
• Ralf Bobel · Dortmund, DE
• Harald Donner · Meinerzhagen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 6, 2000
• Grant date: Sep 17, 2002
• Expiry date: Mar 6, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N33/0031
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An optoelectronic monitoring device for a vehicle includes a single optical sensor array having a grid of optical sensor elements. Each optical sensor element generates an electronic signal in response to optical signals imaged onto the optical sensor elements. Optical imaging systems image respective optical signals onto the optical sensor array. The optical signals of each optical imaging system is representative of a monitored condition of a vehicle. The optical imaging systems form a single physical unit which is fixed with respect to the optical sensor array. Each optical imaging system is associated with a respective optical sensor element group of the optical sensor array such that the respective optical signal of each optical imaging system is imaged onto the respective optical sensor element group. The optical sensor elements are configurable by a processor to be arranged in optical sensor element groups for being associated with respective optical imaging systems.