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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2019
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Minsick Park, Seoul, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A method of monitoring an interior of an autonomous vehicle using an image sensor including a unit pixel composed of an infrared pixel and three primary color-pixels, according to an embodiment of the present invention, includes the following procedure. Setting an RGB mode boundary value that is expressed in illumination and an infrared mode boundary value having illumination lower than the RGB mode boundary value; acquiring an illumination value of the interior of the vehicle; and creating an RGB image and an infrared image from the image sensor in accordance with the illumination value and driving in a common mode that creates both of the RGB image and the infrared image when the illumination value is less than the RGB mode boundary value and is the infrared mode boundary value or more.