Patent ID: 8830317

Claim:
A rear camera system for a vehicle with a rear-lift door, the system comprising: a camera unit mounted on the rear-lift door, the rear-lift door having an open position and a closed position; the camera unit having a first field of view when the rear-lift door is in the open position and a second field of view when the rear-lift door is in the closed position; wherein the first field of view and the second field of view overlap in a shared field of view, wherein the shared field of view corresponds to a top portion of the first field of view and a bottom portion of the second field of view, and wherein the shared field of view comprises a region behind the vehicle; a sensor configured to indicate when the rear-lift door is in the open position or the closed position; and a controller configured to receive image data from the camera unit, determine whether the rear-lift door is in the open position or the closed position based on a signal received from the sensor, crop the image data to primarily include the shared field of view and to remove a bottom portion of the first field of view or a top portion of the second field of view based on whether the rear-lift door is in the open position or the closed position, respectively, and display the cropped image data on a display unit.