Monitoring Unit for a Motor Vehicle, Having Partial Color Encoding

摘要

A monitoring unit for monitoring an environment outside of a motor vehicle includes a camera with an imaging sensor that has both color pixels and monochrome pixels. Pixel groups each include one or two color pixels and respectively three or two monochrome pixels. The pixel groups are arranged in a repeating pattern of partial color encoding.

主权项

1. A monitoring unit for monitoring an exterior scene outside of a motor vehicle, comprising a camera system including an imaging sensor made up of photosensitive pixels including color pixels and monochrome pixels, and having a repeating pattern of 2×2 pixel groups that each include one said color pixel, and remaining pixels of said imaging sensor are said monochrome pixels.