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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2021
Applicant:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Satoshi Nakayama, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2022.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); B60Q 9/00 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); G06V 20/584 (2022.01); H04N 5/235 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01); H04N 5/232945 (2018.08); B60R 2300/307 (2013.01); B60R 2300/8066 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01);
Abstract
Automatic exposure control of an in-vehicle camera is performed under dark driving environments such as at night. An in-vehicle camera system includes a vehicle camera mounted in a vehicle configured to capture surroundings of the vehicle, and control circuitry that controls an exposure level of an image captured by the vehicle camera, the control of the exposure level being based on brightness information of a detection area set within the image, the detection area being a portion of the captured image and configured to output the image having exposure control performed thereon to a display.