Automotive Camera Sensors Market to Boom: Parking Sensors to Dominate

IntroductionGrowing customer preferences for in-vehicle comfort and ease of driving is leading to digitalization of passenger cars. Features such as touch screen infotainment and reverse parking cameras, which were once installed only in premium cars are being widely adopted in mass produced cars. The deployment of vision based ADAS systems is also showing us that passenger cars are heading towards an evolutionary path to autonomous vehicles.

LiDAR, RADAR and camera sensors are three important sensors currently being used for object detection in ADAS equipped vehicles. This blog will discuss types of automotive camera sensors, their applications, growth drivers, competitive scenario in the automotive camera sensor market.TypesIn general, based on the technology of camera sensing, camera systems either can be classified as having a single source of vision, i.

e. , mono-vision or a combination of at least two mono-vision systems to form a stereo vision. Monovision system uses a single sensor to capture length and breath of the image, and is popular and inexpensive way to capture two-dimensional images like traffic signals.

Stereo vision system uses two sensors, one for capturing the image (like mono-vision) and the other for capturing the depth information. Stereo vision camera systems are used to capture 3D images and distance information (like RADAR and LIDAR systems).Traditional camera sensors are suitable for working in visible light, but provides a challenge to see an object at night.

To address this issue, automakers are integrating far-infrared sensors in camera systems to provide heat maps of images, by detecting the temperature differences between the object (for example an individual) and its ambient surroundings. These camera systems are generally employed inRead more RELATED QUESTION I didn't get Google Glass Explorer Edition. Is trying to learn Glass dev without the hardware a futile effort?

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