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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2018
Applicant:
Continental Automotive Gmbh, Hannover, DE;
Inventors:
Henryk Frenzel, Regensburg, DE;
Thorsten Koehler, Deverling, DE;
Stephan Voltz, Happurg, DE;
Ulrich Wagner, Langenargen, DE;
Assignee:
Continental Automotive GmbH, Hannover, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 9/64 (2006.01); G02B 5/20 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00818 (2013.01); G02B 5/20 (2013.01); G06K 9/00798 (2013.01); G06K 9/2018 (2013.01); G06T 1/0007 (2013.01); H04N 5/369 (2013.01); H04N 9/04 (2013.01); H04N 9/64 (2013.01);
Abstract
A monitoring unit for monitoring an environment outside of a motor vehicle includes a camera with an imaging sensor that has both color pixels and monochrome pixels. Pixel groups each include one or two color pixels and respectively three or two monochrome pixels. The pixel groups are arranged in a repeating pattern of partial color encoding.