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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2010
Applicant:
Matthias Karl, Ettlingen, DE;
Inventor:
Matthias Karl, Ettlingen, DE;
Assignee:
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 11/04 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01);
Abstract
A camera for a vehicle, in particular for monitoring the exterior environment. The camera having: an imager having a plurality of pixels, having different imager regions for different object distances, and an objective situated before the imager. Between the objective and the imager there is provided an additional optical unit that has in particular optical microelements, e.g., microlenses, the additional optical unit having different imaging properties for the imager regions of the imager, in particular for the compensation of different object distances and/or image distances.