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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 11, 2020
Applicant:

Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;

Inventor:

Tobias Moll, Ingolstadt, DE;

Assignee:

AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 1/23 (2022.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01); G02B 6/42 (2006.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); G03H 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/698 (2023.01); G02B 6/4206 (2013.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); B60R 1/23 (2022.01); B60R 2300/10 (2013.01); B60R 2300/20 (2013.01); G03H 1/0248 (2013.01);
Abstract

A camera device having an enlarged or wide-angle field of view generates images of surroundings simultaneously using only one image capturing unit, such as an image sensor, for example. The camera device uses a diverting unit disposed upstream of the image capturing unit. The diverting unit includes so-called holographic optical elements which, based on their deflection structures, divert or deflect light so that the camera device can capture the wide-angle field of view, without generating imaging aberrations on the resulting image(s). The deflection structures are wavelength-selective and/or angle-selective. The total field of view is subdivided into individual angle-of-incidence regions by virtue of the properties of the deflection structures.


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