Conti Temic Microelectronic Gmbh

Gerhard Mueller

Thomas Fechner

Dieter Kroekel

Konrad Rothenhaeusler

Rolf Adomat

Lutz Kuehnke

Martin Punke

A stereo camera () for a vehicle includes a first camera (), which has a first image sensor () and the camera field of vision (S) of which has a first opening angle (&#x3b1;), and a second camera (), which has a second image sensor () and the camera field of vision (S) of which has a second opening angle (&#x3b1;). The second opening angle (&#x3b1;) is greater than the first opening angle (&#x3b1;). The first camera () has a first lens optical unit () and the second camera () has a second lens optical unit (), which both have an angular resolution that is higher in a central region (Z, Z) of the field of vision (S, S) lying in the angular range (&#x3b1;) around the optical axis (O) than outside of the central region. The cameras are arranged so that the fields of vision (S, S) overlap.

Stereo camera for vehicles

A camera system for a vehicle, which is to be arranged inside the vehicle behind a windshield of the vehicle, includes a housing, a first camera module that detects or images an area ahead of the vehicle and a second camera module that detects or images at least an area of the windshield.

Camera system for a vehicle

The invention relates to an optical module, comprising a semiconductor element having a surface that is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation and an objective for projecting electromagnetic radiation onto the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element (image sensor or camera chip, in particular CCD or CMOS). The objective preferably comprises at least one lens and one lens retainer. In the optical module, an optical element having two sub-areas is arranged either in the space between the objective and the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element or between individual lenses of the objective in the entire cross-section of the beam path. All electromagnetic radiation that reaches the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element passes through the optical element. A first distance range (e.g. near range) is imaged in a first area of the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element in a focused manner by a first sub-area of the optical element, and a second distance range (e.g. far range) is imaged in a second area of the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element by a second sub-area.

Optical module for simultaneously focusing on two fields of view

An optical device includes an optical module, e.g. with an objective lens, a printed circuit board, an image recording element and a supporting plate. In one embodiment, the optical module and the image recording element are arranged on one side of the supporting plate, the printed circuit board is arranged on the opposite side of the supporting plate, and the image recording element and the printed circuit board are contacted to each other through one or more openings in the supporting plate. In another embodiment, the image recording element is arranged in an opening in the supporting plate and directly joined to the printed circuit board.

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Bad Waldsee, Germany

Gerhard Mueller