Patent ID: 9704048
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G02B,G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. An imaging system for imaging an area of an environment outside of a motor vehicle, comprising a camera arrangement that comprises an imaging sensor having photosensitive pixels arranged in plural pixel rows that extend in a row direction and plural pixel columns that extend in a column direction, wherein said photosensitive pixels include color-coded pixels and non-color-coded pixels arranged in 2×2 pixel groups that each respectively consist of four said photosensitive pixels including at least one said color-coded pixel and at least two said non-color-coded pixels configured in two said pixel rows and two said pixel columns, wherein said 2×2 pixel groups are arranged adjacent one another in said row direction and in said column direction to form a repeating pattern of said 2×2 pixel groups repeating in said row direction and in said column direction to cover an area of said imaging sensor with plural rows and plural columns of said 2×2 pixel groups in said repeating pattern, and wherein said color-coded pixels alternate with said non-color-coded pixels in said row direction and/or in said column direction, in said repeating pattern over said area of said imaging sensor.