A camera suitable for use on an automated vehicle includes an imager-device, a lens-module, and an array of light-guides. The imager-device is operable to determine an image and includes a plurality of light-detecting pixels. Each pixel is overlaid with a micro-lens. The lens-module directs light from a field-of-view of the camera toward the imager-device. The array of light-guides is interposed between the lens-module and the imager-device, and is arranged so each instance of light-guide is aligned with a corresponding instance of micro-lens. Each light-guide is defined by a lens-end and an imager-end. The lens-end of each of the light-guides cooperates to define a planar-surface of the array, and imager-end of the light-guide is characterized by an angle selected to direct light within the light-guide toward the corresponding instance of the micro-lens. The angle is determined based on a chief-ray-angle (CRA) of light from the lens-module impinging on the lens-end.


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    Title :

    Camera With Light-Guide Array For Automated Vehicles


    Contributors:
    LOW YEW KWANG (author) / YEO KOK WEE (author) / YEO CHEE KENG (author)

    Publication date :

    2017-05-11


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR / G02B Optische Elemente, Systeme oder Geräte , OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS / H04N PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION , Bildübertragung, z.B. Fernsehen



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