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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1015847 · 9 Feb 2011
A light distribution control system (100) includes automotive headlamps (210) capable of controlling the range of illumination in a front area of a vehicle, a camera (306) for taking the images of the front area of the vehicle, and a vehicle control unit (...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1016341 · 19 Jan 2011
An automotive headlamp apparatus(200) comprises: a lamp unit(10,10a,10b,10c,10d,10e) configured to be capable of forming an additional light distribution pattern(Hi) that includes an upper area above the cut-off line of a light distribution pattern for low...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1072435 · 16 Nov 2005
The motor vehicle has a light sensor (1) to control a dipped light and is provided with a dimming element (2) operated by the user of the motor vehicle. The dimming element is a slide or a flap, or may have pivotable discs. The dimming element may be mecha...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1073656 · 28 Sep 2005
The method involves capturing an image of a scene of a road lit by a lighting device. Primary luminous spots corresponding to a light beam emitted by a headlight (5) are detected, in the image. Secondary luminous spots of intensity less than the primary sp...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1075720 · 20 Jul 2005
In a light control device (100) for a vehicle, a control portion (20) determines whether an illuminance detected by an illuminance sensor (11) reaches a first reference illuminance ( alpha 0), and performs a turning on or off control of a light of the vehi...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1076610 · 22 Jun 2005
A car sight improvement unit has an imaging unit with infrared source (2) illuminating the surroundings for viewing by a visible light filtered infrared camera (3), display (4), optical sensor (5) and processor (6) sensing oncoming traffic or dazzling so a...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1078200 · 4 May 2005
A control system to control the brightness of the headlamps of a vehicle comprising an image sensor including a matrix of pixels; and an imaging system configured to image the scene forward of the controlled vehicle onto the image array sensor, wherein the...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1079499 · 9 Mar 2005
The invention provides an image processing system capable of precisely locating the positions of the light spots covering near headlights through far tail lamps by using one camera (101). The invention, discriminating the headlights and tail lamps from noi...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1085885 · 30 Jun 2004
The device has a sensor(s) for detecting the light characteristics in the direction of travel, a global sensor(s) for ambient light, an evaluation device for determining switching conditions with a digitizing arrangement with a stored analogue to digital c...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1086904 · 2 Jun 2004
The sensor (4) has at least one transmitter (14) and receiver (16,20,22). A windscreen lies in the measurement path between them and influences the light propagation between them. A receiver output signal, which is used to drive the windscreen wipers, chan...