Abstract: A vehicular object ranging system having a long-range sensor having a long-range field of view and a short-range sensor having a short-range field of view overlapping and exceeding said long-range field of view and having an angular resolution capability. The sampling rate of one of the long-range sensor and short-range sensor can be varied depending of the signal provided by the other.

Abstract: A vehicular object ranging system having a long-range sensor having a long-range field of view and a short-range sensor having a short-range field of view overlapping and exceeding said long-range field of view and having an angular resolution capability. The sampling rate of one of the long-range sensor and short-range sensor can be varied depending of the signal provided by the other.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a housing for preventing impurities such as dust from adhering to a lens of an imaging device such as a video camera and a UV or laser emitter/detector mounted to an exterior of a vehicle, and more particularly, to a housing for an exterior imaging device of a vehicle, which may prevents impurities such as dust, water drops and frost from adhering to a lens of an imaging device by using an air flow which is naturally supplied while the vehicle is driving, and which may remove impurities adhered to the lens so that the imaging device may give a clear image quality.

Abstract: Video arrayed data acquired via at least one video camera, can be co-registered with lidar arrayed data acquired from a lidar receiver data into a combined arrayed data. The co-registration and data acquisition can be done within a common housing having an combined arrayed data output which can be connected to a control module. The control module can have a video signal acquirer, a video processor for processing the acquired video signal, a threat analyzer capable of detecting a threat from the processed video signal or from another source, and a memory storage device.