Patent ID: 8525881

Claim:
An exterior rearview mirror assembly comprising a mirror head and an imaging system, wherein said imaging system includes at least two sensors surveying one or more fields of vision, a single imaging sensor chip having an array of light-sensitive elements, wherein image information provided by the at least two sensors are projected on the single imaging sensor chip, wherein the single imaging sensor chip provides dedicated sensor areas, wherein each of the dedicated sensor areas is assigned to one of the at least two sensors, wherein each of the at least two sensors includes a dedicated optical path assigned to each of the dedicated sensor areas of the sensor chip and are arranged in the mirror head such that each of the dedicated sensor areas overlap each other by an amount greater than zero, whereby image information projected on the array of light-sensitive elements is timed and subsequently projected and analyzed with a time delay to each other, such that a multitude of different fields of vision captured by the sensors is focused to the dedicated sensor areas of the sensor chip and are discernible even if the image information from the at least two sensors is projected onto portions of the dedicated sensor areas that overlap.