摘要:
Continuously variable headlamps offer greater flexibility for roadway illumination but offer challenges in automatic control design. Each continuously variable headlamp has an effective illumination range varied by changing at least one parameter from a set including horizontal direction aimed, vertical direction aimed, and intensity emitted. A system for automatically controlling continuously variable headlamps on a controlled vehicle includes an imaging system capable of determining lateral and elevational locations of headlamps from oncoming vehicles and tail lamps from leading vehicles. The system also includes a control unit that can acquire an image from in front of the controlled vehicle. The image covers a glare area including points at which drivers of oncoming and leading vehicles would perceive the headlamps to cause excessive glare. The image is processed to determine if at least one oncoming or leading is within the glare area. If at least one vehicle is within the glare area, the headlamp illumination range is reduced. Otherwise, the headlamp illumination range is set to full illumination range.
摘要:
Continuously variable headlamps offer greater flexibility for roadway illumination but offer challenges in automatic control design. Each continuously variable headlamp has an effective illumination range varied by changing at least one parameter from a set including horizontal direction aimed, vertical direction aimed, and intensity emitted. A system for automatically controlling continuously variable headlamps on a controlled vehicle includes an imaging system capable of determining lateral and elevational locations of headlamps from oncoming vehicles and tail lamps from leading vehicles. The system also includes a control unit that can acquire an image from in front of the controlled vehicle. The image covers a glare area including points at which drivers of oncoming and leading vehicles would perceive the headlamps to cause excessive glare. The image is processed to determine if at least one oncoming or leading is within the glare area. If at least one vehicle is within the glare area, the headlamp illumination range is reduced. Otherwise, the headlamp illumination range is set to full illumination range.
摘要:
An improved automatic rearview mirror for automotive vehicles, the mirror incorporating a light pipe effective to direct light from a convenient location to a conveniently placed light sensor and effective to optimize the performance and economy of the mirror.
摘要:
An electronic control system for automatic rearview mirrors for automotive vehicles, the control system being effective to detect and compare the relative brightness of light forwardly and rearwardly of the vehicle and respond automatically to annoying glare from the rear of the vehicle and move a reflective element from a full reflective mode to a partial reflective mode and thereafter automatically return the reflective element to a full reflective mode after the source of the annoying glare is removed, the glare threshhold being determined as a function of the ambient light level, of a long, smoothed time average of the ambient light level, of a short smoothed time average of the glare producing light level, and of the recent activity of the mirror.
摘要:
An improved inside rearview mirror for automotive vehicles, the mirror including a reflective element having a full reflectance mode and a partial reflectance mode, and also incorporating improved means including a conveniently situated, manually actuatable electrical switch for indexing the reflective element successively between the full reflective and partial reflective modes each time the switch is actuated.
摘要:
An inventive rearview assembly (10) for a vehicle may comprise a mirror element (30) and a display (100) including a light management subassembly (101b). The subassembly may comprise an LCD placed behind a transflective layer of the mirror element. Despite a low transmittance through the transflective layer, the inventive display is capable of generating a viewable display image having an intensity of at least 250 cd/m2 and up to 6000 cd/m2. The rearview assembly may further comprise a trainable transmitter (910) and a graphical user interface (920) that includes at least one user actuated switch (902, 904, 906). The graphical user interface generates instructions for operation of the trainable transmitter. The video display selectively displays video images captured by a camera and the instructions supplied from the graphical user interface.
摘要翻译:用于车辆的本发明的后视组件(10)可以包括镜元件(30)和包括灯管理子组件(101b)的显示器(100)。 子组件可以包括放置在镜元件的半透反射层之后的LCD。 尽管通过透反射层具有低透射率,本发明的显示器能够产生具有至少250cd / m 2和高达6000cd / m 2的强度的可视显示图像。 后视组件还可以包括可训练的发射器(910)和包括至少一个用户致动的开关(902,904,906)的图形用户界面(920)。 图形用户界面产生用于可训练发射机的操作的指令。 视频显示器有选择地显示摄像机拍摄的视频图像和从图形用户界面提供的指令。
摘要:
A mirror includes a housing, a mirror subassembly including a reflector layer with a portion defining an opening, and an indicia panel covering the opening and configured to form a visual display. At least one light source is positioned in the housing to pass light through the indicia panel and the opening of the mirror subassembly to selectively illuminate the visual display. The at least one light source emits a light matched in color to the indicia panel so that a maximum of light from the at least one light source passes through the indicia panel and is visible to a vehicle driver. Optimally, the light sources emit an amber colored light, and the indicia panel includes a diffusing layer also having an amber color.
摘要:
A vehicle system is disclosed that includes a vehicle lamp assembly including a plurality of LEDs that emit white light so as to function as an illuminator light. The lamp assembly also may include a plurality of LEDs that emit colored light, such as red or red-orange, so as to function as a signal light. Alternatively or additionally, the lamp assembly may include a camera of a vehicle imaging system. The lamp assembly may serve as a center high mounted stop light or as a tail light. The system also includes a controller that rapidly pulses the LEDs on and off at a rate that is imperceivable by the human eye. The pulsing intervals of the LEDs may be related to the readout intervals of the camera sensor array. In this manner, the LEDs may be pulsed on during camera readout so as to increase their intensity while the camera is capturing an image, or may be pulsed off during camera readout to prevent feedback glare from interfering with image capture by a highly sensitive image sensor array of the camera.
摘要:
An electrochromic variable reflectance mirror for a vehicle includes a front element having a rear surface with a first layer of electrically conductive material disposed thereon, and a rear element having a front surface with a second layer of electrically conductive material disposed thereon. An electrical conductor may be provided to electrically couple a portion of the first conductive layer with a portion of the second conductive layer. At least one of the first and second conductive layers may be separated into a first portion and a second portion that is electrically isolated from the first portion and is in electrical contact with an electrochromic material disposed between the elements. A seal is provided to sealably bond the elements together in a spaced-apart relationship. The seal may have at least one electrically conductive region.
摘要:
A rearview mirror assembly of the present invention includes a circuit board disposed behind the mirror. The circuit board may be a flexible circuit board and may include an LED mounted to project light through a transparent window in the flexible circuit board and through the mirror. The flexible circuit board may function as a mirror heater and may include conductive paths for connection to the LED and/or electrodes of an electrochromic mirror. The LED may include an LED chip mounted directly on the circuit board and encapsulated thereon by an encapsulant.