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Title:
ROAD SURFACE IMAGE RENDERING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2021/100712
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A road surface image rendering device (50F) is mountable in a car (1), and comprises: an image rendering lens (52) having an entry surface (54), from which light enters, and an emitting surface (55), from which the light that has entered from the entry surface (54) is emitted, the image rendering lens including a rendering contribution region on the entry surface (54) and/or the emitting surface (55), the rendering contribution region being configured to deflect light emitted onto the entry surface (54) such that a unit rendering image indicating a prescribed character is projected onto a road surface by the light emitted from the emitting surface (55); and a plurality of light sources (111a, 111b, 111c) that are disposed at mutually different positions and that emit light onto the entry surface (54). Using the light from the respective light sources (111a, 111b, 111c), the image rendering lens (52) projects unit rendering images that correspond to the respective light sources (111a, 111b, 111c) onto the road surface.

Inventors:
KITO MASANORI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2020/042840
Publication Date:
May 27, 2021
Filing Date:
November 17, 2020
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Assignee:
KOITO MFG CO LTD (JP)
International Classes:
B60Q1/34; B60Q1/38; B60Q1/44; B60Q1/50; B60Q1/52; F21S43/15; F21S43/20; F21W103/00; F21W103/20; F21W103/30; F21W103/45; F21W103/60; F21Y115/10
Domestic Patent References:
WO2017164328A12017-09-28
Foreign References:
JP2015168290A2015-09-28
US20140328071A12014-11-06
JP2018192837A2018-12-06
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
MORIMURA Yasuo (JP)
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