Patent ID: 8817140

Claim:
A camera set-up, comprising: a camera having camera optics, an image sensor for recording an environment and for outputting first image signals, and a color mask applied in front of image sensor; and an evaluation device, which picks up the first image signals emitted by the image sensor, the image sensor having a plurality of sensor pixels and the color mask having a plurality of filter pixels which are each situated in front of the sensor pixels and include first colored filter pixels and transparent filter pixels; wherein some of the sensor pixels pick up light via the colored filter pixels and output first color values, and additional sensor pixels pick up light via the transparent filter pixels and emitting intensity values; wherein the evaluation device ascertains second color values from the intensity values and the first color values of various sensor pixels, and ascertains second image signals from the first color values and the second color values; wherein the evaluation device ascertains the second color value as a complementary value to the first color value, using at least one intensity value and a first color value, and an attenuation which is determined by a ratio of the first color value to the intensity value; wherein the second color is a mix of two other colors besides the first color; and wherein color in the second image signals is represented using the first color value and the second color value in proportion to each other.