METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING HIGH CONTRAST IMAGES

The invention relates to a method for increasing the contrast range of an ambient image. The method comprises the following steps: a) providing a lighting device, a processing unit and an image capture system with at least one photosensitive image sensor, wherein the lighting device has at least one first and one second state, each of which has a different photocurrent, b) creating an image capture by means of an image capture system, wherein the at least one image sensor is exposed with a predeterminable exposure period, at least one first and one second image recording each having a specifiable exposure time is created in the exposure cycle, the lighting device is brought into the first state and then into the second state in a predeterminable lighting cycle, and the illumination periodof the lighting device is longer than or shorter than the exposure period of the image capture system, and c) creating at least one composite image by means of the processing unit, the at least one composite image having a gr