Patent ID: 11938870
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle compound-eye camera that picks up an image of a world outside of a vehicle, the vehicle compound-eye camera comprising:
a plurality of cameras arranged to be spaced apart from each other in a predetermined direction and disposed such that respective maximum image-pickup ranges of the plurality of cameras are partially shifted from each other in the predetermined direction and the maximum image-pickup ranges of each of the plurality of cameras partially overlap with each other and a portion of the maximum image-pickup ranges of each of the plurality of cameras do not overlap with each other, wherein the plurality of cameras have the same angle of view; and
a processor configured to set an overlapping image-pickup range in which each of the plurality of cameras picks up an image of a same target object from a different viewpoint, wherein:
the processor is configured to set an image-pickup range of a first camera of the plurality of cameras disposed on one end in the predetermined direction to have a first angle;
the processor is configured to set an image-pickup range of a second camera of the plurality of cameras disposed on another end in the predetermined direction to have a second angle, the second angle being narrower than the first angle, wherein
the processor sets the image-pickup range of the second camera to be within an overlapping range in which a maximum image-pickup range of the first camera and a maximum image-pickup range of the second camera overlap each other, and
an entirety of the image-pickup range of the second camera is set to be within the overlapping range.