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Title:
LIGHTING CONTROL DEVICE OF VEHICLE HEADLIGHT, VEHICLE HEADLIGHT SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2012166652
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To evade giving the glare to road users such as occupants of preceding vehicles and oncoming vehicles and pedestrians etc. and to improve recognition accuracy of the object of these preceding vehicles etc.

A device to control a lighting condition of a vehicle headlight that can emit the infrared light and the visible light includes: an image recognition part that detects the objects that exist forward of the vehicle by image recognition processing based on the image obtained by taking a picture forward of the vehicle with a camera; an irradiation region calculating part that allocates a part of the irradiation region by the headlamp corresponding to the positions where the objects exist to a first region, and allocates the remaining part of the irradiation region to the second region; and a headlamp control part that drives the headlight to irradiate the first region with the infrared light and to irradiate the second region with the visible light.


Inventors:
MINODA TOSHIHIKO
Application Number:
JP2011028348A
Publication Date:
September 06, 2012
Filing Date:
February 14, 2011
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
STANLEY ELECTRIC CO LTD
International Classes:
B60Q1/04; B60Q1/14; F21S8/12; F21W101/10; F21Y101/02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Patent business corporation Mutsuki Partners