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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Takahiro Tsubouchi, Miyoshi, JP;
Masayuki Watanabe, Toyota, JP;
Takamitsu Furuyabu, Toyota, JP;
Takahisa Sudou, Toyota, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle bottom surface imaging system is equipped with a housing above which a vehicle can pass, first and second reflecting mirrors provided inside the housing and sequentially arranged along a passing direction of the vehicle, and first and second cameras provided inside the housing and arranged apart from each other in a vehicle width direction. The first reflecting mirror reflects the light incident from above the housing onto the first camera. The second reflecting mirror reflects the light incident from above the housing onto the second camera. The first reflecting mirror is so provided as to be changed over between a service state where the light incident from above the housing is reflected onto the first camera and a folded state where the reflected light from the second reflecting mirror onto the second camera is not blocked.