The invention relates to a system for cleaning an optical surface of an optical device. The cleaning system includes a wiper blade for a window, the wiper blade being arranged to wipe a wiping zone of the window that is separate from an optical surface. The blade bearing a nozzle for spraying…
A method for processing vehicle camera lens obstructions including obtaining an image from a vehicle camera, generating a first camera lens dirt map according to pixel texture richness and color spectrum levels extracted from the image, obtaining a sequential feed of multiple frames from the…
A wiper is controlled to sweep a surface area, e.g., a portion of a windshield, in front of a camera, e.g., a camera mounted inside a vehicle. An image captured from the camera after the wiper completes, e.g., immediately completes, the sweep of the surface area in front of the camera is used in…
A vehicle monitoring apparatus including: a camera disposed in a vehicle lamp; a guide duct configured to guide outside air introduced into the vehicle; and a nozzle connected to the guide duct and configured to discharge the air to a front side of the camera, thereby improving stability and…
An imaging device images rearward of a vehicle through a windshield from inside a cabin of the vehicle, and a vehicle washing device includes a wiping device and a controller. The wiping device is capable of reciprocatingly wiping a predetermined range of the windshield. The predetermined range of…
Described herein are sensor assembly cleaning systems and apparatuses that are adapted to rotate a transparent surface of a sensor assembly independently of a housing of the sensor assembly in order to disperse water, moisture, debris, or the like from the surface. The transparent surface may be a…
This technology relates to system for clearing a sensor cover. The system may include a sprayer, a support, and a positioning device. The sprayer may be mounted to the support and direct a flow of fluid to the sensor cover. The positioning device may be configured to adjust the position of the…
A vehicle camera washing system includes a controller configured to control a pump and valve according to a selected mode of operation and a detected blockage of the lens. The selected mode of operation tailors operation of the camera washing system to current vehicle operating conditions to…
In order to reduce a driving frequency of a wiper configured to wipe a surface of an optical member on a front surface of a photographing lens, an imaging device includes: a lens; an optical member provided on a front surface side of the lens; a wiper configured to wipe a surface of the optical…
A wiper is controlled to sweep a surface area, e.g., a portion of a windshield, in front of a camera, e.g., a camera mounted inside a vehicle. An image captured from the camera after the wiper completes, e.g., immediately completes, the sweep of the surface area in front of the camera is used in…
The present invention provides a vehicle-mounted imaging device that can notify a user of contamination, at a facility, a home or the vicinity thereof in which the user tends to easily eliminate the contamination on a lens or a protective glass of the lens of a camera. The vehicle-mounted imaging…
A first aspect of the invention refers to a cleaning device (10) for cleaning a vehicle-mounted optic surface (2), comprising a housing (11), the housing (11) comprising an opening (12) adapted to fit an optic surface (2), a fluid inlet (13) arranged to take in washer fluid, an at least one fluid…
To clean stain on a lens caused by white turbidity. A turbidity degree calculating unit (40) calculates a degree of the white turbidity U on a surface of the lens (12) based on a brightness gradient g of an image I (x, y), and a lens cleaning control unit (60) sets a lens cleaning mode for spraying…
A vehicle-mounted camera device that is mounted on a vehicle and captures a surrounding image from which lights are collected by a lens (1a), in which the lens (1a) is set so as to have the surface having a contact angle less than or equal to 100, preferably less than or equal to 60 so that water…
An on-board device, that outputs a control signal to a cleaning control unit that controls accumulation removing units used to remove accumulations settled on a photographic lens in an on-board camera by adopting a plurality of methods, includes: an accumulation detection unit that detects an…
A pop-up external lens washing system has an extendable aiming fixture configured to aim a lens cleaning spray at an external lens which is exposed to the elements and apt to become soiled with debris. The extendable nozzle assembly is configured to be aimed toward the external lens by the extended…
A diagnosis device (1, 1a, 1b) of a dirt removal device for removing dirt of a vehicle mounted camera, including a characteristic quantity extraction part (4, 4a) that extracts a characteristic quantity of the image of a particular area photographed by the vehicle mounted camera (10), a change…
A vehicle includes a vehicle frame and an optical device mounted on the vehicle frame. A first temperature sensor senses ambient air temperature surrounding the vehicle frame, a second temperature sensor senses a temperature of a lens of the optical device, and a humidity sensor senses moisture…