VEHICLE LAMP SYSTEM
    21.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220305980A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-29

    申请号:US17641952

    申请日:2020-08-12

    摘要: A vehicle lamp system mounted on a vehicle includes an in-vehicle sensor includes an IR light source, a scanning unit, an infrared camera, a region setting unit for comparing information acquired from the in-vehicle sensor and information acquired by the infrared camera and setting a dimming area and/or an emphasis area, and a lamp control unit for controlling an applied power amount and turning on and off of the IR light source such that a specific region is irradiated with the infrared rays emitted from the IR light source based on output of the region setting unit.

    Vehicle headlight control device, vehicle headlight control method, non-transitory storage medium

    公开(公告)号:US11440461B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-13

    申请号:US17097266

    申请日:2020-11-13

    IPC分类号: B60Q1/14

    摘要: A vehicle headlight control device includes: an indicator value acquiring unit configured to acquire an indicator value that represents a brightness of an object detected ahead of an own vehicle; a light distribution control unit configured to control a light distribution of a headlight such that a quantity of light irradiated to the irradiation region where a dimming target object is present is reduced when the dimming target object is detected, the dimming target object being an object of which the indicator value is greater than a reference value; a reference-value varying unit configured to set the reference value to a first reference value when the object is detected within the gaze area and set the reference value to a second reference value that is greater than the first reference value when the object is detected outside of the gaze area.

    Method for correcting a light pattern and automotive lighting device

    公开(公告)号:US11435052B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-06

    申请号:US17415086

    申请日:2019-12-05

    申请人: VALEO VISION

    发明人: Mickael Mimoun

    摘要: A method for correcting a light pattern provided by an automotive lighting device, wherein the light pattern is provided at least by a matrix arrangement of light sources. The method includes a first step of projecting a high beam pattern with a first zone where luminous intensity is lower, the first zone having a rectangular edge with four sides. The second step includes providing a number of pixels for each of the four sides of the edge of the first zone, thus creating an upper blur zone, a lower blur zone, a left blur zone and a right blur zone. A final step includes creating a blur pattern for the upper blur zone which extends along columns, a blur pattern for the lower blur zone which extends along columns, a blur pattern for the left blur zone which extends along rows and a blur pattern for the right blur zone which extend along rows, where the luminous intensity in each row or column adapts from the luminous intensity of the first zone to the luminous intensity of the high beam pattern. An automotive lighting device configured to perform these steps is also provided.

    METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTOMOTIVE ARRANGEMENT AND AUTOMOTIVE ARRANGEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220232678A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-21

    申请号:US17609554

    申请日:2020-05-27

    申请人: VALEO VISION

    IPC分类号: H05B45/18 B60Q1/14 G06N20/00

    摘要: This invention provides a method for operating an automotive lighting device comprising at least one solid-state light source. This method comprises the steps of providing a plurality of sensors, configured to provide some device data, provide a control unit configured to receive and process the device data, generate an estimated condition of the lighting device based on the device data and controlling an operation parameter of the automotive lighting device using the estimated condition. The invention also provides a data processing element and a computer program to carry out this method and an automotive lighting device comprising a control unit which carries out this method.

    Vehicle monitoring system
    27.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11375134B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US16813828

    申请日:2020-03-10

    发明人: Misako Kamiya

    IPC分类号: H04N5/235 B60Q1/14 B60R1/00

    摘要: A vehicle monitoring system includes a lamp unit that includes a first light source configured to emit light that forms a first light distribution area on a virtual vertical screen disposed at a predetermined distance from a vehicle, and a second light source configured to emit light that forms a second light distribution area having a luminance higher than that of the first light distribution area on the virtual vertical screen, and forms a predetermined light distribution pattern on the virtual vertical screen by the first light distribution area and the second light distribution area; a visible light camera that captures a periphery of the vehicle; and a controller configured to control at least one of an emission timing of the second light source or an image capturing timing of the visible light camera.

    HEADLIGHT CONTROL DEVICE, HEADLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM, AND HEADLIGHT CONTROL METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20220194291A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-23

    申请号:US17612480

    申请日:2020-06-02

    发明人: Nobuya ORIHARA

    摘要: A headlight control device which recognizes an oncoming vehicle using a camera without dazzling the driver of the oncoming vehicle includes a sequence control section that generates a headlight control signal from an image captured by the camera mounted on the vehicle, and a control value calculation section that calculates a control value for a light distribution pattern in the headlight control signal. An image recognition program includes a license plate recognition section that detects a license plate of the preceding vehicle from the image, and a cut-off line recognition section that detects a cut-off line of the headlight from the image. The control value calculation section calculates the control value for the light distribution pattern such that the cut-off line detected by the cut-off line recognition section is positioned higher by a predetermined height than an upper end of the license plate detected by the license plate recognition section.

    VEHICULAR LAMP
    29.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220176870A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17682541

    申请日:2022-02-28

    IPC分类号: B60Q1/08 B60Q1/14 F21S41/151

    摘要: An automotive lamp includes a variable light distribution lamp and a controller. When a first light distribution pattern is to be changed to a second light distribution pattern, and when a difference in the number of shaded portions between the first light distribution pattern and the second light distribution pattern is one, the controller switches a control method for gradually changing the light distribution pattern according to a position relation between the shaded portions included in the first light distribution pattern and the shaded portions included in the second light distribution pattern.