Abstract:
A vehicle headlamp apparatus is provided. The vehicle headlamp apparatus includes a lamp unit, a first additional lamp unit which forms a first light distribution pattern, a second additional lamp unit which forms a second light distribution pattern overlapping with the first light distribution pattern, and a controller. The first light distribution pattern includes at least one first partial region, and the first additional lamp unit adjusts a luminous intensity of a light to be irradiated toward the first partial region. The second light distribution pattern includes at least one second partial region which partially overlaps with the first partial region, and the second additional lamp unit adjusts a luminous intensity of a light to be irradiated toward the second partial region. The controller controls the first additional lamp unit and the second additional lamp unit to adjust the luminous intensity of the partial regions.
Abstract:
A vehicle lighting apparatus (10) that emits light diagonally toward a road surface (57) from a vehicle includes: a light source (21); an image generation part (31) that modulates light emitted from the light source (21) and that generates an image; a light-focusing optical system (42) that focuses light having the image generated by the image generation part (31); and a reflection part (45) that reflects light focused by the light-focusing optical system (42) toward the road surface (57), wherein the reflection part (45) has a reflection surface having a curvature that is gradually increased from a projection direction rearward side toward a projection direction frontward side.
Abstract:
The present apparatus relates to an apparatus (10) for automatically dealing with a glare situation caused by oncoming traffic. It is described to provide (210) a processing unit (30) with at least one image, the at least one image relating to a scene external to a vehicle. The processing unit determines (220) that a glare situation exists, comprising a determination that at least one intensity level within the at least one image exceeds a threshold intensity level. Information indicating that the glare situation exists is output (230). The output information is used (240) to activate a high beam mode of at least one headlamp of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A headlamp for a vehicle includes a light source (15, 15R, 15G, 15B) adapted to emit a spotlight (S), a lens (16, 16R, 16G, 16B) adapted to receive and transmit the spotlight, a lens actuator (17, 17R, 17G, 17B) adapted to adjust a size (D) of the spotlight transmitted through the lens, a two-dimensional optical deflector (18) adapted to deflect the spotlight from the lens to an illumination area ahead of the vehicle, and a control circuit (19) configured to control the lens actuator in such a way that irregularity of illumination in the illumination area is avoided.
Abstract:
There is provided a lamp system (100) for a vehile. The lamp system (100) includes: a vehicle lamp (70) configured to selectively irradiate one of a plurality of high beam light distribution patterns (PHI, PH2, PH3,AH) toward a front area of the vehicle, wherein the front area is partitioned into a plurality of irradiation areas (A1, A2, A3) in a vehicle width direction; a controller (100) configured to control the vehicle lamp so as to select one of the plurality of high beam light distribution patterns (PH1, PH2, PH3,AH) in response to position information of an object (C) in front of the vehicle. When the controller selects one of the high beam ligh distribution patterns so as to increase an irradiation area of the selected high beam light distribution pattern, the vehicle lamp irradiates the selected high beam light distribution pattern toward the front area of the vehicle after a certain lighting delay time has elapsed.
Abstract:
A vehicle headlamp (10, 210) includes a first lamp unit (20, 220L, 220R) having a first irradiation range (170, 350L, 350R), the first lamp unit (20, 220L, 220R) being configured such that the first irradiation range (170, 350L, 350R) is adjustable in a horizontal direction, and a second lamp unit (30, 230L, 230R) having a second irradiation range (130A-130D, 330L, 330R), the second lamp unit (30, 230L, 230R) being configured such that the second irradiation range (130A-130D, 330L, 330R) is adjustable in a vertical direction. A resolution of the second lamp unit (30, 230L, 230R) with respect to the second irradiation range (130A-130D, 330L, 330R) is higher than a resolution of the first lamp unit (20, 220L, 220R) with respect to the first irradiation range (170, 350L, 350R).
Abstract:
An illumination system includes: a light irradiation unit (16) that projects light toward a predetermined illumination area; an image acquisition unit (26) that acquires an image of the illumination area; an object detecting unit (28) that detects a shading object based on image information of the illumination area, acquired by the image acquisition unit; an information generating unit (34) that generates the control information for setting each of the plurality of reflecting mirrors to an on state or an off state such that a plurality of irradiation patterns are alternately irradiated, each of the plurality of irradiation patterns being a pattern in which a shaded area and dark pixels and light pixels around the shaded area are arranged, the shaded area comprising a plurality of dark pixels that shade the shading object, each of the plurality of irradiation patterns having different arrangement of the dark pixels and the light pixels from each other; and an irradiation control unit (36) that controls the light irradiation unit based on the generated control information.