CAMERA APPARATUS AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING SURROUNDING OF VEHICLE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a camera apparatus capable of easily coping with separate magnification and reduction factors or the like in two different directions and setting them. SOLUTION: The camera apparatus includes: an imaging element 13; and a lens system 11 for forming rays from a prescribed visual field range onto the imaging element. The lens system 11 includes a cylindrical lens 26L wherein a first cylindrical and recessed lens face 26La is formed around a first axis along a horizontal direction in one area and a second cylindrical and recessed lens face 26Lb is formed around a second axis along a vertical direction in the other area. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI