Patent ID: 8659406
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: B60Q,B60W,G06K,G08G

Abstract:
1. A vehicle imaging system comprising: an imaging device that images at least a part of an area around a vehicle through a front windshield; a head light assembly including: a low beam head lamp which emits a visible light to a region ahead of the vehicle, and an infrared ray projection device that projects an infrared ray to a region ahead of the vehicle, the region to which the infrared ray is projected by the infrared ray projection device being farther from the vehicle than the region to which the visible light is emitted by the low beam head lamp; and a visible light attenuation device which is directly joined to the front windshield, and which attenuates part of visible light that enters the imaging device, wherein: the imaging device includes an imaging element that converts both of the visible light and the infrared ray to electric signals, the imaging device outputs both of image data produced based on the electric signal to which the visible light, which has entered the imaging device without passing through the visible light attenuation device, has been converted, and image data produced based on the electric signal to which the infrared ray, which has passed through the visible light attenuation device, has been converted, and wherein the visible light attenuation device, which is directly joined to the front windshield and attenuates part of the visible light that enters the imaging element, is disposed such that the infrared ray, which is projected by a high beam head lamp including the infrared ray projection device and is received by the imaging element, passes through the visible light attenuation device, and wherein the infrared ray projection device is positioned closer to a front end of the vehicle than the front windshield and the imaging device.