CAMERA MODULE

Japanese Patent JP2023165745

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To provide a camera module with a new structure that picks up an image of an external world while allowing image recognition of the external world.SOLUTION: A camera module comprises: a lens unit 33 on which an optical image from an external world is incident; an imager 34 on which the optical image is formed through the lens unit 33 and picks up the image of the external world; and a hood 9040 that regulates incidence of excess light on the lens unit 33 from the outside of an imaging target range in the external world. When defining virtual intersections I1 where lower beams L1 incident on the lens unit 33 at a tapered angle θ1 defining a horizontal angle of view range smaller than the lens unit 33 within the imaging target range intersect a windshield, the hood 9040 has a base wall part 9041 that is arranged opposite to the windshield with an imaging space 410 therebetween which introduces the optical image from within the imaging target range, and side wall parts 9043 that are erected from the base wall part 9041 on the lateral sides of the imaging space 410 and formed to spread from the periphery of the lens unit 33 toward the virtual intersections I1.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 24

FURUTAKE YASUKI
NISHIOKA TAKESHI
SHIMIZU NOBUTOSHI
KAJINO YOICHI
YAMAGUCHI KAZUMA
CHIKATA KENSUKE
KAZAMA TAKESHI
MASUI SOJI

JP2023144529A

November 17, 2023

September 06, 2023

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DENSO CORP

G03B30/00; G02B7/02; G03B11/04; G03B15/00; G03B17/02; G03B17/56; H04N23/55; H04N23/57

Kazuyuki Yahagi
Taihei Nonobe
Takanori Kubo

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