US 11,789,354 B2
Windshield-mounted camera module
Kensuke Chikata, Kariya (JP); Takeshi Kazama, Kariya (JP); Yasuki Furutake, Kariya (JP); Kazuyoshi Akiba, Kariya (JP); Sho Okuda, Kariya (JP); and Nobuhisa Shimizu, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/507,674.
Application 17/507,674 is a continuation of application No. 15/842,163, filed on Dec. 14, 2017, granted, now 11,181,816.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-217470 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2017; application No. 2017-224945 (JP), filed on Nov. 22, 2017; and application No. 2017-226024 (JP), filed on Nov. 24, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0043332 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G03B 37/04 (2021.01); G03B 17/56 (2021.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); G03B 11/04 (2021.01); G02B 13/02 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01); G02B 13/04 (2006.01)
CPC G03B 37/04 (2013.01) [B60R 11/04 (2013.01); G03B 11/045 (2013.01); G03B 17/561 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0026 (2013.01); G02B 13/02 (2013.01); G02B 13/04 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera module configured to be mounted on an inside of a windshield of a vehicle and to image an external environment of the vehicle, the camera module comprising:
a plurality of lens units having optical axes, respectively, wherein the optical axes are shifted from each other, an optical image of the external environment individually enters within angles of view, which are around the optical axes, respectively, the angles of view are different from each other; and
an imaging system to perform imaging individually through the lens units and to generate an outside image of the external environment, wherein
an other of the lens units is shifted relative to one of the lens units in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle along the optical axis, and
the other of the lens units coincides with the one of the lens units in a vertical direction of the vehicle,
the angle of view of the other of the lens units is smaller than the angle of view of the one of the lens units, and
the other of the lens units is located on an external environment side relative to the one of the lens units in the longitudinal direction.