INTEGRATED CAMERA, AMBIENT LIGHT DETECTION, AND RAIN SENSOR ASSEMBLY

摘要

An integrated camera, ambient light (54) detection, and rain sensor assembly (20) suitable for installation behind a windshield (12) of a driver operated vehicle (10) or an automated vehicle (10) includes an imager-device (26). The imager-device (26) is formed of an array (28) of pixels configured to define a central-portion (32) and a periphery-portion (34) of the imager-device (26). Each pixel (30) of the array (28) of pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels. Each pixel (30) in the central-portion (32) is equipped with a red/visible/visible/visible filter (RVVV filter (38)) arranged such that each pixel (30) in the central-portion (32) includes a red sub-pixel (30A) and three visible-light sub-pixels (30B). Each pixel (30) in the periphery-portion (34) is equipped with a red/green/blue/near-infrared filter (RGBN filter (40)) arranged such that each pixel (30) in the periphery-portion (34) includes a red sub-pixel (30A), a green sub-pixel (36B), a blue sub-pixel (36C), and a near-infrared sub-pixel (36D).