Camera With Light-Guide Array For Automated Vehicles

• Main Authors: YEO KOK WEE, YEO CHEE KENG, LOW YEW KWANG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 11.05.2017
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

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 fr...