At Continental, we’re preparing for yet another camera technology milestone. Our first 8MP far-looking satellite cameras for automated driving are coming to new vehicles from a premium European OEM soon. Over the last decades Continental has made mobility safer for millions of drivers and passengers on roads around the world. Our camera technology has and will continue to contribute to the future of mobility. Want to know how?
Our teams at Continental have been in the business of engineering and building automotive cameras for driver assistance system for over 20 years. These camera technologies have offered state-of-the-art performance through several generations, each iteration building on the foundations of the last. The team’s evolutionary approach to development has allowed us to continuously improve upon existing solutions, reducing manufacturing complexity while increasing performance. Constantly growing through previous generations, our teams have created uniquely reliable and robust cameras with a keen focus on cost.
There are more than price benefits to reducing the number of parts that make up a camera. First, having fewer parts in the sensor simply means fewer things can break. It’s the simplicity of our designs that make Continental cameras so reliable for automotive applications.
Second, reducing complexity also ensures a fully automated manufacturing process. When it comes to micron-level calibration and adjustments, an automated manufacturing line is simply better at reproducing the same sensor again and again. As Continental often supplies millions of cameras to a vehicle platform, automated manufacturing ensures the same high quality parts reach drivers around the world.
Our approach to creating Continental’s version of the best automotive cameras has been reinforced time and time again by our Partners and Customers worldwide. Our cameras can be found in tens of millions of vehicles already on the road.
Human Vision and Computer Vision
Our teams work in two product engineering streams geared towards supporting human drivers and computer vision-based automated driving. As a result, we enable countless driver comfort systems with our range of camera products. For example, a 3D surround view of the vehicle to assist parking. Our algorithms can even make the vehicle transparent, homing in on high curbs and easing maneuvering in tight spaces. Commercial drivers love our transparent trailer technology – a Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovation Award winner – which uses well-placed cameras to render the trailer almost invisible to the human driver.
From traffic sign recognition (TSR) and blind spot monitoring (BSM), all the way to traffic jam assists (TJA) and lane change assists (LCA), our computer vision enabled ADAS technologies have been saving lives for decades. But there’s even more to come. A premium European OEM is now launching a new vehicle model outfitted with Continental’s top-of-the-line 8 MP far-looking satellite camera and L2++ ADAS technologies. This proves that Continental’s cameras can support the most advanced driving functions.
