An imaging apparatus installed in a vehicle includes a power source section that is supplied with electric power from an electrical storage device of the vehicle, and a power supplying section that is supplied with the electric power from the power source section and supplies the electric power to an external device, which is an electronic device located outside the imaging apparatus.

A CMS includes first and second cameras that respectively provide first and second fields of view. First and second displays depict at least portions of the first and second fields of view. The first and second displays respectively include a first and second brightness. First and second ambient light sensors are in proximity respectively to the first and second displays and provide a first and second light ambient signal indicative of an amount of ambient light respectively in a region of the first and second displays. A controller is in communication with the first and second displays and is in communication with the first and second ambient light sensors. The controller adjusts one of the first and second brightnesses of one of the first and second displays based upon at least the other of the first and second ambient light signals of the other of the first and second displays.

A control apparatus is to be moved with a moving apparatus and configured to control luminance of an image to be displayed on a display unit acquired by an imaging unit. The control apparatus comprising a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to obtain information about a position of a moving body in the image, and determine the luminance of the image based on the position of the moving body.

A camera module for a vehicular vision system includes a metal front housing, a lens holder and a metal rear housing. The front housing houses a printed circuit board having an imager disposed thereat. The lens holder is attached at a front portion of the housing so that a lens assembly is optically aligned with the imager. The rear housing attaches at a rear portion of the front housing and includes a connecting element for electrically connecting to circuitry at the printed circuit board when the rear housing is attached at the rear portion of the front housing. An outer portion of the connecting element is disposed in a connector portion of the rear housing so as to be electrically connectable to electrically conductive elements of a vehicle connector when the camera module is disposed at the vehicle and the vehicle connector is connected to the connector portion.

A rearview mirror assembly includes: a display for displaying a first image from a first on-vehicle camera that is installed on a hatch of a vehicle and images a rear viewing field of the vehicle; an opened or closed state determination unit for determining whether the hatch is opened or closed; and a display controller for controlling displaying and non-displaying of the first image on the display. When the opened or closed state determination unit determines that the hatch is closed, the display controller causes the display to display the first image. When the opened or closed state determination unit determines that the hatch is opened, the display controller causes the display not to display the first image.

An imaging connection device is provided for use with a vehicle and a trailer. The vehicle includes a hitch assembly, a wired vehicle interface, and a vehicle communications unit, and the trailer includes a tow assembly and a wire harness. The imaging connection device includes a housing defining a first connector configured to mate with the wired vehicle interface and a second connector configured to mate with the wire harness; a connector interface at least partially arranged within the housing and extending between the first connector and the second connector; a camera unit at least partially arranged within the housing and configured to capture image data representing a side view of the hitch assembly; and a wireless communications unit at least partially arranged within the housing and configured to transmit the image data captured by the camera unit to the vehicle communications unit for display on a display device.

A vehicle-mounted stereo camera device that achieves high-precision distance detection is provided. The provided vehicle-mounted stereo camera device includes a left camera and right camera disposed on a vehicle to cause a visual field of the left camera and a visual field of the right camera to overlap each other, a stereo processor that calculates a distance to a body outside the vehicle based on images captured by the left camera and right camera and on positions of the left camera and right camera on the vehicle, and sensors disposed near the left camera and right camera for detecting displacement amounts of the left camera and right camera. The stereo processor changes a cutout positions in the images captured by the left camera and right camera based on the displacement amounts.

A computer system comprising a processor device is provided. The processor device is configured to determine electronic communication with at least two trailers attached to a vehicle, the trailers and the vehicle each being equipped with a rear-view camera; determine a rearmost camera of the rear view cameras; and activate feed from the rearmost camera to a display of the vehicle.

An imaging apparatus state monitoring device monitors an imaging state of an imaging unit. The imaging apparatus state monitoring device has an image acquisition unit, a blinking determination unit, and an abnormality processor. The image acquisition unit acquires a captured image captured by the imaging unit of which an imaging range includes an image of a blinking and light-emitting unit repeatedly blinking The blinking determination unit determines whether a change corresponding to blinking is included in the captured image. When blinking determination unit determines that no change according to blinking is included in the captured image, the abnormality processor executes abort processing.

A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a rear of a trailer and having a field of view rearward of the trailer. A transmitting antenna is disposed at a front of the trailer and is electrically connected to the camera via an antenna cable. The transmitting antenna receives, via the antenna cable, image data captured by the camera, and the transmitting antenna wirelessly transmits the received captured image data. A receiving device is disposed at a vehicle towing the trailer, and a display device is disposed in the vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle. The receiving device receives the transmitted captured image data, and the display device displays images derived from the received captured image data.