An apparatus includes a sensor assembly and a stray light baffle, and is to be mounted behind a pane, e.g. a windshield, inside a vehicle. The sensor assembly includes a first sensor and a second sensor. The stray light baffle is arranged substantially in front of the first sensor, in the capture direction of the sensors. The stray light baffle includes first and second side walls. The second side wall is a frame with a fabric covering, and is arranged in front of the second sensor with the sensing axis of the second sensor passing through the fabric.

A collision avoidance and/or pedestrian detection system for a large passenger vehicle such as commuter bus, which includes one or more exterior and/or interior sensing devices positioned strategically around the exterior and interior of the vehicle for recording data, method for avoiding collisions and/or detecting pedestrians, and features/articles of manufacture for improving same, is described herein in various embodiments. The sensing devices may be responsive to one or more situational sensors, and may be connected to one or more interior and/or exterior warning systems configured to alert a driver inside the vehicle and/or a pedestrian outside the vehicle that a collision may be possible and/or imminent based on a path of the vehicle and/or a position of the pedestrian as detected by one or more sensing devices and/or situational sensors.

A vehicular camera system includes a black-out layer disposed at an upper central region of a windshield as installed in a vehicle, an attachment member configured for attachment at the upper central region of the windshield where the black-out layer is disposed, and an accessory module including a camera. The accessory module is configured to detachably mount at the attachment member at the windshield such that the lens of the camera is spaced from the windshield, and such that the camera views forward of the vehicle through an aperture in the black-out layer via a tapered structure that is widest at the windshield and that tapers from the windshield towards where the lens of the camera is located. The tapered structure is at an acute angle relative to the vehicle windshield. The camera captures image data for a driver assistance system of the equipped vehicle.

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 gating camera divides a field of view in a depth direction into multiple ranges, and generates multiple slice images that correspond to the multiple ranges. A controller is configured to generate an emission control signal and an exposure control signal. An illumination apparatus emits probe light according to the emission control signal during normal imaging. An image sensor performs exposure according to the exposure control signal. A calibration light source emits calibration light to the image sensor according to the emission control signal during calibration. The controller sweeps a time difference between the emission control signal and the exposure control signal, and monitors a change in a pixel value of the image sensor during the calibration.

A system to assess a lawn slope to control water runoff and chemical concentrations at a location can include a tangibly embodied computer processor (CP) and a tangibly embodied database. The CP can implement instructions on a non-transitory computer medium disposed in the database. The database can be in communication with the CP. The system can include a grade measurement device including a device controller and a sensor. The CP can be configured to: receive grade profile data, map the grade profile data, compare the grade profile data an anchor point grade profile, calculate a grade score, determine whether to add or remove material to the grid area when the grade score for the grid area exceeds a predetermined grade threshold, and output a ground slope plan.

A camera system for a vehicle comprising a capturing unit which comprises an optical element and image sensor with surface, to capture a section of a vehicle environment. The optical element has a distortion curve r=f(), wherein r is the distance between an object point displayed on the image sensor surface and the intersection point of the optical axis with the image sensor surface, and is the angle between the optical axis of the optical element and the beam incident on the optical element from the object point. The distortion curve r=f() has, for r.sub.w=f (.sub.w) within 0<r<r.sub.max, a turning point .sub.w; r.sub.w, for which r=f(.sub.w)=d.sup.2r/d.sup.2 (.sub.w)=0 applies, wherein r.sub.max is the distance r=f(.sub.max) on the image sensor surface from the optical axis to the most distant edge of the image sensor.

A camera module, which is mounted on an inside of a front windshield of a vehicle and configured to image an external environment of the vehicle, includes multiple lens units on which an optical image of the external environment is incident, individually, and an imaging system to generate an outside image of the external environment by imaging through each of the lens units, individually.

A vehicular vision system includes a camera configured to be disposed behind a windshield of a vehicle so as to have a field of view exterior of the vehicle through the windshield. The camera includes a primary lens, a secondary lens, and an imager, which includes a primary sensing area and a secondary sensing area. The primary sensing area captures image data representative of images focused at the imager by the primary lens and the secondary sensing area captures image data representative of images focused at the imager by the secondary lens. The secondary lens is between the primary lens and the imager. A control includes a processor that processes image data captured by the imager at the primary sensing area and at the secondary sensing area. The control, responsive to processing of image data captured at the secondary sensing area, determines presence of water droplets at the windshield.

Imaging system (70) disposed at a rear part of moving body (100) includes imaging device (10) and image processing device (20). Imaging device (10) includes an imaging element and an optical system. The imaging element has a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional manner and generates image data. The optical system forms a subject image on an imaging surface of the imaging element. Image processing device (20) generates a captured image based on the image data. The imaging surface includes a first region corresponding to a first view angle and a second region corresponding to a second view angle that is larger than the first view angle. The optical system is configured so that resolution of the first region is higher than resolution of the second region excluding the first region. A center of the first region is disposed at a position deviated from a center of the imaging surface.