Patent attributes
Camera for a motor vehicle configured to communicate with an electronic control unit of the motor vehicle comprises an imager integrated circuit configured to capture images from the motor vehicle; an illumination unit; a first mixer/splitter interface unit in electrical communication with the imager integrated circuit; a camera bidirectional signal port in electrical communication with the first mixer/splitter interface unit, said camera bidirectional signal port being configured to be electrically connected with an external power supply signal carrying data control signal for the imager integrated circuit; said first mixer/splitter interface unit being configured to split the data control signal from the external power supply signal; to provide the split data control signal to the imager integrated circuit, to provide a first input voltage from the split external power supply signal to the imager integrated circuit; to provide images data from the imager integrated circuit mixed with the external power supply signal to the camera bidirectional signal port; to provide a second input voltage from the split external power supply signal to the illumination unit.
