Patent ID: 11970113
Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 25:
26. A vehicular vision system, said vehicular vision system comprising:
a plurality of vehicular cameras located at respective portions of a vehicle equipped with said vehicular vision system;
said plurality of vehicular cameras comprising a forward-viewing camera located at the equipped vehicle, said forward-viewing camera having a field of view at least forward of the equipped vehicle, said forward-viewing camera operable to capture first image data when the equipped vehicle travels forward;
wherein said forward-viewing camera is located within an interior cabin of the equipped vehicle and is disposed behind a windshield of the equipped vehicle at an in-cabin side of the windshield and views to the exterior of the equipped vehicle through the windshield;
said plurality of vehicular cameras further comprising a rearward-viewing camera located at the equipped vehicle, said rearward-viewing camera having a field of view at least rearward of the equipped vehicle, said rearward-viewing camera operable to capture second image data;
a common image processor for processing first image data captured by said forward-viewing camera and second image data captured by said rearward-viewing camera;
wherein said common image processor processes first image data captured by said forward-viewing camera to detect at least one vehicle present exterior the equipped vehicle;
a video display screen of a video display device located within the interior cabin of the equipped vehicle, wherein said video display screen is viewable by a driver of the equipped vehicle when operating the equipped vehicle;
wherein said video display screen comprises a pixelated video display screen;
wherein said video display device comprises a polarizer and a diffuser;
wherein said video display device comprises at least one brightness enhancement film;
wherein backlighting for said video display screen is provided by a plurality of white light emitting light-emitting diodes;
wherein said video display device comprises a metallic reflector that reflects light toward said video display screen to enhance backlighting of said video display screen when said plurality of white light emitting light-emitting diodes is powered;
wherein light emanating from said video display screen when displaying video images to be viewed by the driver of the equipped vehicle comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) circularly polarized light and (ii) elliptically polarized light;
wherein a thermally conductive element is in thermal contact with an element of said video display device;
wherein, responsive to the equipped vehicle being shifted into a reverse gear and while the driver of the equipped vehicle is executing a reversing maneuver, video images derived from second image data captured by said rearward-viewing camera are displayed by said video display screen; and
wherein, responsive at least in part to processing of second image data captured by said rearward-viewing camera by said common image processor, the driver of the equipped vehicle is alerted to presence of an object present exterior the equipped vehicle.