ON-VEHICLE IMAGING APPARATUS

• Main Authors: OTOMO KENTARO, KOJIMA HIROTAKA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 23.05.2019
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; ADVERTISING; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; CINEMATOGRAPHY; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; SEALS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

To provide an on-vehicle imaging apparatus that is able to install, without employing a complicated structure, a camera for monitoring a driver such that the driver is made less aware of being monitored.SOLUTION: As viewed from a position corresponding to a view point of a driver of an own vehicle, a monitor camera 15 is installed in a common region shared with a sign region of an indicator 14, such as a direction instruction, indicating a state of the vehicle. The monitor camera 15 is incorporated in the region of the indicator 14 and made inconspicuous, making the driver not aware of the presence of the monitor camera 15. The monitor camera 15 and the entire indicator 14 are integrally or continuously covered with a film or the like such that the driver recognizes this as a common indicator region. By providing infrared illumination unit 16a and using an infrared wavelength, imaging is carried out using the monitor camera 15.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】複雑な構造を採用することなく、運転者が気づきにくい状態で運転者を監視するためのカメラを設置することが可能な車載撮影装置を提供すること。【解決手段】モニタ用カメラ１５を、自車両運転手の視点に相当する位置から視て、前記車両の状態を標示する方向指示等のインジケータ１４の標示領域と共通化された共通領域内に設置する。モニタ用カメラ１５がインジケータ１４の領域と同化して目立たなくなるため、運転者は錯覚してモニタ用カメラ１５の存在に気づかなくなる。フィルム等を用いてモニタ用カメラ１５とインジケータ１４の全体を一体的に又は連続的に覆い、これが共通のインジケータ領域として運転者に認識されるように構成する。赤外照明部１６ａを設け、赤外線の波長を利用してモニタ用カメラ１５で撮影する。【選択図】図１