US 11,938,870 B2
Vehicle compound-eye camera
Yosuke Kurihara, Toyonaka (JP); Yasuki Furutake, Kariya (JP); Tatsuhiko Futamura, Kariya (JP); and Hiroto Hayashi, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/387,455.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-166693 (JP), filed on Oct. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0105878 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/90 (2023.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); H04N 23/51 (2023.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 11/04 (2013.01) [H04N 23/51 (2023.01); B60R 2011/0026 (2013.01); B60R 2300/105 (2013.01); B60R 2300/107 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle compound-eye camera that picks up an image of a world outside of a vehicle, the vehicle compound-eye camera comprising:
a plurality of cameras arranged to be spaced apart from each other in a predetermined direction and disposed such that respective maximum image-pickup ranges of the plurality of cameras are partially shifted from each other in the predetermined direction and the maximum image-pickup ranges of each of the plurality of cameras partially overlap with each other and a portion of the maximum image-pickup ranges of each of the plurality of cameras do not overlap with each other, wherein the plurality of cameras have the same angle of view; and
a processor configured to set an overlapping image-pickup range in which each of the plurality of cameras picks up an image of a same target object from a different viewpoint, wherein:
the processor is configured to set an image-pickup range of a first camera of the plurality of cameras disposed on one end in the predetermined direction to have a first angle;
the processor is configured to set an image-pickup range of a second camera of the plurality of cameras disposed on another end in the predetermined direction to have a second angle, the second angle being narrower than the first angle, wherein
the processor sets the image-pickup range of the second camera to be within an overlapping range in which a maximum image-pickup range of the first camera and a maximum image-pickup range of the second camera overlap each other, and
an entirety of the image-pickup range of the second camera is set to be within the overlapping range.