Abstract: A method for classifying objects on a roadway in surroundings of a vehicle. The method includes: reading in image data from a vehicle camera of the vehicle. The image data represent an area of the surroundings which includes the roadway; evaluating the image data including generating a model of a surface of the roadway using identified roadway markings, and an object on the roadway being identified; ascertaining first distance values between the vehicle camera and object image points of the object represented by the image data, and second distance values between the vehicle camera and roadway image points, defined by the model, of the surface of the roadway in surroundings of the object; and comparing the distance values to at least one continuity criterion for distinguishing raised objects from flat objects to classify the object as a raised or flat object as a function of a result of the comparison.

Abstract: A sensor device, including a sensor having a sound transducer to emit sonic waves and convert received sonic waves to electrical signals. A sensor evaluation unit carries out surrounding-area monitoring during a normal operation of the sensor, by evaluating electrical signals of the sound transducer. During a monitoring mode of the sensor, a monitoring unit of the sensor device measures an impedance of the sound transducer for different excitation frequencies of excitation signals produced with a signal generator of the sensor device. The sensor device includes a first and a second signal path, which are each connected to the sound transducer and are connectable to the signal generator. To reset the sensor from normal operation to the monitoring mode, a first control unit of the sensor device is configured to decouple the signal generator from the first signal path and to connect it to the second signal path.

Abstract: A method for classifying objects on a roadway in surroundings of a vehicle. The method includes: reading in image data from a vehicle camera of the vehicle. The image data represent an area of the surroundings which includes the roadway; evaluating the image data including generating a model of a surface of the roadway using identified roadway markings, and an object on the roadway being identified; ascertaining first distance values between the vehicle camera and object image points of the object represented by the image data, and second distance values between the vehicle camera and roadway image points, defined by the model, of the surface of the roadway in surroundings of the object; and comparing the distance values to at least one continuity criterion for distinguishing raised objects from flat objects to classify the object as a raised or flat object as a function of a result of the comparison.

Abstract: A sensor device, including a sensor having a sound transducer to emit sonic waves and convert received sonic waves to electrical signals. A sensor evaluation unit carries out surrounding-area monitoring during a normal operation of the sensor, by evaluating electrical signals of the sound transducer. During a monitoring mode of the sensor, a monitoring unit of the sensor device measures an impedance of the sound transducer for different excitation frequencies of excitation signals produced with a signal generator of the sensor device. The sensor device includes a first and a second signal path, which are each connected to the sound transducer and are connectable to the signal generator. To reset the sensor from normal operation to the monitoring mode, a first control unit of the sensor device is configured to decouple the signal generator from the first signal path and to connect it to the second signal path.

Abstract: An image-sensor module includes an image sensor and a protective layer that covers a subregion of an image-sensor surface of the image sensor, where at least two edge regions of the image-sensor surface, for example, edge regions situated at opposite edges of the image sensor, are not covered by the protective layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a camera. The method includes providing and connecting. In the providing, a wafer element, which includes a microlens unit and an image sensor, and a barrel element, which includes a lens system for concentrating light, are provided. In the connecting, the wafer element is connected to the barrel element to manufacture the camera.

Abstract: An image-sensor module includes an image sensor and a protective layer that covers a subregion of an image-sensor surface of the image sensor, where at least two edge regions of the image-sensor surface, for example, edge regions situated at opposite edges of the image sensor, are not covered by the protective layer.

Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes: a diaphragm pot that has a surrounding wall; a transducer element mounted in a diaphragm pot on a transducer section on an inner side of the diaphragm for generating the ultrasonic vibrations; a first damping element situated in the diaphragm pot on transducer element for damping the diaphragm; and a second damping element situated within the diaphragm pot in an edge section of the diaphragm around the transducer element for damping vibrations of the wall; the second damping element being connected with force locking, at least section by section, both to the edge section and to the inner side of the wall.

Abstract: A method for producing a camera includes: mounting an image sensor on a circuit carrier and contacting with a power device for recording image signals of the image sensor; measuring an objective while ascertaining a tilting angle of its optical axis in terms of an amount and azimuth; providing an objective holder having a tube and locating pins; placing the objective holder with its locating pins on at least one of the circuit carrier and the image sensor; inserting the objective in a specified rotational position or at an azimuth angle into the tube as a function of the ascertained tilting angle; and adjusting the focus. An axis of symmetry of the tube of the objective holder has a counter-tilting angle with respect to a surface normal of the image sensor, which is the opposite of the ascertained tilting angle or the image shell tilting of the objective.

Abstract: An imager module for a vehicle camera, the imager module having at least: a lens holder, a lens accommodated in the lens holder, a flexible conductor device having leads, and an image sensor contacted by the leads of the flexible conductor device that has a front side having a sensitive surface; the image sensor being contacted by the leads using flip-chip technology via stud bumps provided at the front side thereof. The lens holder has a plastic part, in particular an injection-molded part, having a tubular region for accommodating the lens and a fastening region having a bottom side; and the flexible conductor device being integrally attached to the bottom side of the fastening region, and a non-conductive adhesive region being formed between the front side of the image sensor and the flexible conductor device around the stud bumps, preferably to produce a tensile stress. An insertion part is preferably received in the plastic body.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an imager module, includes: applying a flexible, in particular elastic, receiving area to a carrier device, for example, a metal plate, and applying an image sensor to the flexible receiving area, the image sensor being tiltable and/or pivotable with the flexible receiving area, attaching a lens, in particular including a guide device, on the image sensor so that the lens aligns the image sensor so that an axis, in particular an optical axis of the lens, extends essentially in parallel to a normal of the image sensor, and fixing the lens on the image sensor and/or the carrier device. The guide device may be formed by three guide pins here, whose lower pin ends define a support plane, which is placed on a sensor surface. In addition, an imager module manufactured in this way is created.

Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes: a diaphragm pot that has a surrounding wall; a transducer element mounted in a diaphragm pot on a transducer section on an inner side of the diaphragm for generating the ultrasonic vibrations; a first damping element situated in the diaphragm pot on transducer element for damping the diaphragm; and a second damping element situated within the diaphragm pot in an edge section of the diaphragm around the transducer element for damping vibrations of the wall; the second damping element being connected with force locking, at least section by section, both to the edge section and to the inner side of the wall.

Abstract: Proposed is a camera system and a method for distance determination of objects from a vehicle using two cameras, which capture different and yet at least partially overlapping fields of view, wherein the cameras have differently configured optics and the images of the cameras are used to carry out a distance determination of an object in the overlap region of the cameras.

Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes: a diaphragm pot that has a surrounding wall; a transducer element mounted in a diaphragm pot on a transducer section on an inner side of the diaphragm for generating the ultrasonic vibrations; a first damping element situated in the diaphragm pot on transducer element for damping the diaphragm; and a second damping element situated within the diaphragm pot in an edge section of the diaphragm around the transducer element for damping vibrations of the wall; the second damping element being connected with force locking, at least section by section, both to the edge section and to the inner side of the wall.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an imager module, includes: applying a flexible, in particular elastic, receiving area to a carrier device, for example, a metal plate, and applying an image sensor to the flexible receiving area, the image sensor being tiltable and/or pivotable with the flexible receiving area, attaching a lens, in particular including a guide device, on the image sensor so that the lens aligns the image sensor so that an axis, in particular an optical axis of the lens, extends essentially in parallel to a normal of the image sensor, and fixing the lens on the image sensor and/or the carrier device. The guide device may be formed by three guide pins here, whose lower pin ends define a support plane, which is placed on a sensor surface. In addition, an imager module manufactured in this way is created.

Abstract: A method for producing a camera includes: mounting an image sensor on a circuit carrier and contacting with a power device for recording image signals of the image sensor; measuring an objective while ascertaining a tilting angle of its optical axis in terms of an amount and azimuth; providing an objective holder having a tube and locating pins; placing the objective holder with its locating pins on at least one of the circuit carrier and the image sensor; inserting the objective in a specified rotational position or at an azimuth angle into the tube as a function of the ascertained tilting angle; and adjusting the focus. An axis of symmetry of the tube of the objective holder has a counter-tilting angle with respect to a surface normal of the image sensor, which is the opposite of the ascertained tilting angle or the image shell tilting of the objective.

Abstract: A sensor device described having a sensor, in particular an ultrasound sensor, having a generating and detecting arrangement to generate and detect waves, in particular sound waves, the detection arrangement converting received waves into electric signals, and the electric signals being evaluable by an evaluation unit. A function-monitoring device is configured to determine an impedance characteristic curve of the sensor as a function of an excitation frequency is provided. Also described is a method for operating the sensor device.

Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor is described having a housing which has a circumferential side wall and a base surface. A transducer element for generating ultrasonic vibrations is mounted on the base surface. The side wall includes a lower side wall section, in which the side wall has an essentially rotationally asymmetrical profile in a plane parallel to the base surface, and an upper side wall section in which the side wall changes to an essentially rotationally symmetrical profile toward an upper edge of the side wall. In other respects, the present system provides a parking assistance system for a vehicle, having a control unit and such an ultrasonic sensor, as well as a method for manufacturing an ultrasonic sensor.

Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes: a diaphragm pot that has a surrounding wall; a transducer element mounted in a diaphragm pot on a transducer section on an inner side of the diaphragm for generating the ultrasonic vibrations; a first damping element situated in the diaphragm pot on transducer element for damping the diaphragm; and a second damping element situated within the diaphragm pot in an edge section of the diaphragm around the transducer element for damping vibrations of the wall; the second damping element being connected with force locking, at least section by section, both to the edge section and to the inner side of the wall.

Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes: a diaphragm pot that has a surrounding wall; a transducer element mounted in a diaphragm pot on a transducer section on an inner side of the diaphragm for generating the ultrasonic vibrations; a first damping element situated in the diaphragm pot on transducer element for damping the diaphragm; and a second damping element situated within the diaphragm pot in an edge section of the diaphragm around the transducer element for damping vibrations of the wall; the second damping element being connected with force locking, at least section by section, both to the edge section and to the inner side of the wall.