US 12,088,912 B2
Vehicle bottom surface imaging system
Takahiro Tsubouchi, Miyoshi (JP); Masayuki Watanabe, Toyota (JP); Takamitsu Furuyabu, Toyota (JP); and Takahisa Sudou, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/940,210.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-163661 (JP), filed on Oct. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0104320 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/90 (2023.01); G03B 17/17 (2021.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01); H04N 23/66 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/66 (2023.01) [G03B 17/17 (2013.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle bottom surface imaging system that images a bottom surface of a vehicle, the vehicle bottom surface imaging system comprising:
a housing above which the vehicle is able to pass;
at least a first reflecting member and a second reflecting member that are provided inside the housing and that are sequentially arranged along a passing direction of the vehicle; and
at least a first imaging device and a second imaging device that are provided inside the housing and that are arranged apart from each other in a vehicle width direction perpendicular to the passing direction of the vehicle, wherein
the first reflecting member reflects light incident from above the housing onto the first imaging device,
the second reflecting member reflects light incident from above the housing onto the second imaging device, and
the first reflecting member is provided in such a manner as to be changed over between a service state in which light incident from above the housing is reflected onto the first imaging device and a folded state in which reflected light from the second reflecting member onto the second imaging device is not blocked.