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Camera system for a motor vehicle

US9630568B2 · kind B2 · utility

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15Claims

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Assignee

VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

Thorsten Kuhn · Braunschweig, DE
Alexander Kirchner · Braunschweig, DE
Reiner KATZWINKEL · Meine, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 18, 2013
Grant date	Apr 25, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 29, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2207/30252
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A camera system for acquiring a stereo image of the surroundings of a motor vehicle having two cameras and a control device, the camera system being arranged on the inside of a motor vehicle window and the two cameras looking outward through the motor vehicle window in order to observe the surroundings. Each of the two cameras has a camera-specific camera viewing cone which forms a penetrating cut surface with the window surface. In order to delimit the installation space of the camera system, the camera viewing cone of each camera is delimited by cropping the penetrating cut surface, the cropping of the two penetrating cut surfaces being performed symmetrically relative to the vertical plane of symmetry of the two cameras. The erroneous formation in the image of one camera viewing cone is compensated in the control device by the image information of the other camera viewing cone.

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