US 12,483,767 B2
Vehicle video record system, vehicle, and camera module for the same
Dong Hyuk Jeong, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Sung Hwan Jun, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Seok Ju Yeom, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Mun Jun Hur, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Kwan Ho Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Aug. 22, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/812,407.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2023-0110613 (KR), filed on Aug. 23, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0071399 A1, Feb. 27, 2025
Int. Cl. H04N 23/50 (2023.01); B60R 1/24 (2022.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 23/50 (2023.01) [B60R 1/24 (2022.01); H04N 7/183 (2013.01); B60R 2300/30 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle video record system comprising:
a camera module configured to monitor an area around a vehicle;
a first memory configured to store a video transmitted from the camera module; and
a controller including a second memory configured to store a computer program for controlling storage of the video, and a processor configured to execute the computer program,
wherein the camera module includes at least one camera fixed inside of a window shield of the vehicle facing an outside of the vehicle and comprising a view guide extending ahead of the at least one camera to block reflected light coming into a lens of the at least one camera from inside the vehicle,
wherein a vertical field of view of the field of view increases from a center toward both ends along a horizontal expansion of the field of view, and the view guide includes a base view guide comprising a distal end shaped such that the distal end drops downward from a center toward both ends correspondingly to a lower boundary of the field of view.