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Camera module

  • US 10,232,800 B1
  • Filed: 04/19/2018
  • Issued: 03/19/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A camera module configured to be mounted on an inside of a windshield of a vehicle and to image an external environment of the vehicle, the camera module comprising:

  • a plurality of lens units having optical axes, respectively, wherein the optical axes are different from each other, an optical image of the external environment individually enters within angles of view, which are around the optical axes, respectively, the angles of view are different from each other;

    an imaging system to perform imaging individually through the lens units and to generate an outside image of the external environment; and

    a hood defining an imaging space, which is to guide the optical image of the external environment within an imaging target range of the imaging system to the lens units, and to restrict incidence of light on the lens units from an outside of the imaging target range, whereinone of the lens units is a wide angle unit having an angle of view defined with the wide angle lens,another of the lens units is a narrow angle unit having an angle of view narrower than that of the wide angle unit,the hood includes;

    a base wall portion to be located to face the windshield via the imaging space; and

    a side wall portion raised from the base wall portion at a lateral side of the imaging space and inclined laterally outward correspondingly to an angle of view of the wide angle unit from a periphery of the wide angle unit toward an external environment side, anda narrow angle exposure window is provided as an opening in the side wall portion on the external environment side of the wide angle unit and exposes the narrow angle unit to the imaging space.

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