IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE WITH AN IMAGE SENSOR AND A THERMAL INFRARED SENSOR AS WELL AS MOTOR VEHICLE WITH AN IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE

• US 20160309098A1
• Filed: 10/28/2014
• Published: 10/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Connaught Electronics Limited (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Connaught Electronics Limited (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Montandon, Ian Barry, Denny, Patrick Eoghan
• Application Number:
  US15/102,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20160309098A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/04 Mounting of cameras operative during drive; Arrangement of controls thereof relative to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/106 using night vision cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/14 Adaptive cruise control
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14618 Containers
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14625 Optical elements or arrangements associated with the device
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14627 Microlenses
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14634 Assemblies, i.e. Hybrid structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14636 Interconnect structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14643 Photodiode arrays; MOS imagers
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14645 Colour imagers
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14649 Infrared imagers
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/1465 of the hybrid type
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14806 Structural or functional details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14881 of the hybrid type
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/11 for generating image signals from visible and infrared light wavelengths
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/45 for generating image signals from two or more image sensors being of different type or operating in different modes, e.g. with a CMOS sensor for moving images in combination with a charge-coupled device [CCD] for still images

Abstract

The invention relates to an image capturing device (1) for a motor vehicle, including an image sensor (2) formed for capturing light in the visible spectral range and for providing photographic image data, and including a thermal infrared sensor (3) formed for capturing thermal radiation in the far infrared range and for providing thermographic image data, wherein the image sensor (2) and the thermal infrared sensor (3) are integrated in a common chip package (4).

Claims

1. An image capturing device for a motor vehicle, comprising:

an image sensor, which is formed for capturing light in the visible spectral range and for providing photographic image data; and

a thermal infrared sensor, which is formed for capturing thermal radiation in the far infrared range and for providing thermographic image data,

wherein the image sensor and the thermal infrared sensor are integrated in a common chip package .

2. The image capturing device according to claim 1, wherein the common chip package is a CSP or a TSV package.

3. The image capturing device according to claim 1, wherein the image sensor and the thermal infrared sensor are disposed on a common substrate within the chip package.

4. The image capturing device according to claim 3, wherein the image sensor and the thermal infrared sensor have respective capturing sides, via which the visible light and the thermal radiation are captured, respectively, and which face the common substrate, wherein the common substrate is formed of a material, which is transparent to both the visible light and the thermal radiation.

5. The image capturing device according to claim 3, wherein electrical contact pads are provided on the common substrate, to which the image sensor and the thermal infrared sensor are electrically coupled for transmitting the respective image data.

6. The image capturing device according to claim 1, wherein at least one micro lens for the image sensor and/or the thermal infrared sensor is integrated in the chip package.

7. The image capturing device according to claim 6, wherein both for the image sensor and for the thermal infrared sensor, at least one micro lens is respectively integrated in the chip package.

8. The image capturing device according to claim 1, wherein the image sensor is formed as a CMOS image sensor or CCD image sensor.

9. A motor vehicle with an image capturing device according to claim 1.

10. The image capturing device according to claim 6, wherein the at least one micro lens is a wafer level optics (WLO).