US 12,145,513 B2
Vehicular windshield-mounted forward camera vision system
Nagender Reddy Kasarla, New Hudson, MI (US)
Assigned to Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed by Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/045,484.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/262,363, filed on Oct. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0114533 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 11/04 (2006.01); B60R 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 11/04 (2013.01) [B60R 1/04 (2013.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); B60R 2011/0026 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular vision system, the vehicular vision system comprising:
a camera module mounted at a mounting structure that is disposed at a windshield of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular vision system, the camera module viewing through a light transmitting portion of the mounting structure and forward of the vehicle;
wherein, with the windshield mounted at the vehicle, an exterior facing surface of the windshield is coplanar with an exterior facing surface of the light transmitting portion of the mounting structure;
wherein the camera module comprises a camera and circuitry including an image processor, and wherein the image processor processes image data captured by the camera; and
wherein, with the windshield mounted at the vehicle and the camera module mounted at the mounting structure, the windshield is separable from the mounting structure so that the windshield is removable from the vehicle without removing the mounting structure from the vehicle and without affecting mounting of the camera module at the mounting structure.