Patent ID: 8581982

Claim:
A lighting component for a vehicle, the lighting component comprising: a housing; a thermal infrared camera disposed within the housing; a light source, disposed within the housing and disposed at least partially around the thermal infrared camera, to provide visible light; and a lens coupled to the housing and adapted to allow external thermal infrared radiation to pass through and be received by the thermal infrared camera and to allow the visible light provided by the light source to be transmitted through the lens; wherein the thermal infrared camera has a first field of view and is adapted to provide thermal image data, and wherein the thermal infrared camera comprises a focal plane array having uncooled microbolometers that are sensitive to infrared radiation in approximately 7.5 to 13.5 micrometer wavelengths, the focal plane array having a different number of pixels in a horizontal direction relative to a vertical direction to provide the thermal image data for the desired first field of view.