Television – Special applications – Observation of or from a specific location
Reexamination Certificate
1998-05-12
2001-11-20
Diep, Nhon T. (Department: 2613)
Television
Special applications
Observation of or from a specific location
Reexamination Certificate
active
06320612
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to front and rear view vehicular cameras and more particularly pertains to a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives for providing a plurality of vehicle mounted cameras for safety and monitoring purposes.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of front and rear view vehicular cameras is known in the prior art. More specifically, front and rear view vehicular cameras heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art front and rear view vehicular cameras include U.S. Pat. No. 4,910,591; U.S. Pat. No. 5,648,835; U.S. Pat. No. 5,289,321; U.S. Pat. No. 5,027,200; U.S. Pat. No. 3,689,695; and U.S. Pat. No. 4,277,804.
In these respects, the vehicular camera system with plural perspectives according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for providing a plurality of vehicle mounted cameras for safety and monitoring purposes.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of front and rear view vehicular cameras now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing a plurality of vehicle mounted cameras for safety and monitoring purposes.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the front and rear view vehicular cameras mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art front and rear view vehicular cameras, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a vehicle having a pair of side rear view mirrors. Such side rear view mirrors are mounted to opposite doors of the vehicle. The vehicle further includes a dash, a turn signal level and a gear shift stick. Next provided is a pair of side front view cameras each mounted within one of the pair of side rear view mirrors of the vehicle. The side front view cameras serve to generate video signals of a perspective which faces forwardly and outwardly from the vehicle. Associated therewith is a central rear view camera mounted on a rear of the vehicle. The central rear view camera is adapted to generate video signals of a perspective which faces directly rearwardly from the vehicle. Mounted on the dash of the vehicle is a display for displaying video images upon the receipt of corresponding video signals. A transmitter is situated within the vehicle for transmitting the video signals via free space upon the receipt thereof. Also included is a processor connected between the turn signal levers, gear shift stick, cameras, transmitter and display. In operation, the processor functions to transmit the video signals of a right and left one of the side front view cameras to the display and transmitter upon the biasing of the turn signal lever in a right and left direction, respectively. Further, the processor is adapted to transmit the video signals of the central rear view camera to the display and transmitter upon the gear shift stick being situated in reverse. As an option, a manual override switch panel may be included for unconditionally transmitting the video signals from a user selected camera to the display.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the front and rear view vehicular cameras mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art front and rear view vehicular cameras, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such vehicular camera system with plural perspectives economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives for providing a plurality of vehicle mounted cameras for safety and monitoring purposes.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicular camera system with plural perspectives that includes a vehicle having a plurality of controls including a turn lever. Also included is at least one camera adapted to generate video signals of a perspective which faces forwardly from either side of the vehicle. Next provided is a display mounted within the vehicle for displaying video images upon the re
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