Patent Document ID: 20030117522
Application ID: 10309197
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A vehicle vicinity-monitoring apparatus comprising: a casing having a vicinity-monitoring window portion and a night-vision window portion; a single image pickup device which is contained within said casing, and has an image pickup surface which is divided into a vicinity-monitoring image pickup region and a night-vision image pickup region; an optical system which is contained within said casing so as to cause incident light, passing through said vicinity-monitoring window portion, to be focused on the vicinity-monitoring image pickup region of said image pickup device, and also causes incident light, passing through said night-vision window portion, to be focused on the night-vision image pickup region of said image pickup device; and an infrared absorption filter provided on an optical path of travel of the incident light which passes through said vicinity-monitoring window portion in said casing, and is focused on the vicinity-monitoring image pickup region of said image pickup device through said optical system.