VEHICLE CAMERA DEVICE, AND A METHOD FOR CHECKING A PROPER HEADLAMP STATE

The invention relates to a vehicle camera device (2) for capturing a surrounding area of a motor vehicle (1), with an image sensor device (5) for capturing images (3) of the preceding surrounding area of the motor vehicle (1), with an image evaluation device (6), wherein the image evaluation device (6) is designed to check a proper headlight condition by evaluating, from at least one image (3) captured by the image sensor device (5), at least one variable (9, 10, 11, 14) describing the headlight light (7) of at least one vehicle headlight of the own motor vehicle (1).