Patent ID: 9630568
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: B60R,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A camera system for acquiring a stereo image of the surroundings of a motor vehicle comprising two cameras and a control device arranged on the inside of a motor vehicle window, wherein the two cameras look outward through the motor vehicle window to observe the motor vehicle surroundings, each camera having a camera-specific camera viewing cone which forms a penetrating cut surface with the window surface, wherein the camera viewing cone of each camera is delimited by a physically masked out portion of the penetrating cut surface of the motor vehicle window, the physically masked out portions of the two penetrating cut surfaces are symmetric relative to the vertical plane of symmetry of the two cameras, and erroneous information caused by the physically masked out portion, in an image of one camera viewing cone is compensated for in the control device by image information, symmetrical thereto, of the other camera viewing cone, wherein the physically masked out portion of a penetrating cut surface is formed by a cutting curve, which runs in an interior of the penetrating cut surface and forms two intersection points with a contour of the penetrating cut surface.