Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Toshihiro Okamura

Naoki Tatara

Takeshi Masuda

Naoki Takii

Akinobu Kubota

Masashi Yamazaki

Hiroya Koizumi

Osamu Endo

Kenji Nobuhara

Kazuyuki Ishikawa

A camera module shoots a satisfactory image by suppressing the adherence of water droplets to a part in a light transmitting cover through which imaging light is transmitted. Provided are an outer casing comprising a housing having an opening and a light transmitting cover for closing the opening; and a camera module arranged inside the outer casing. A part of the light transmitting cover is provided as a transmission window through which imaging light incident on the camera module is transmitted and a restriction part for restricting the inflow of water droplets toward the transmission window is provided to the light transmitting cover.

Imaging device for vehicle, lighting device for vehicle and foreign substance removal system for vehicle

The present invention is provided with: an outer housing configured from a housing having an opening, and a translucent cover closing the opening; a substrate disposed inside of the outer hosing; a camera module, which has an image pickup element, and is disposed on the substrate; and a light emitting element, which is provided as a light source, and is disposed on the substrate. Consequently, since the camera module and the light emitting element are disposed on the substrate that is disposed inside of the outer housing, the number of configuration components is small, thereby achieving reduction of the number of components, and size reduction.

Image pickup device for vehicle, vehicle lamp and electronic control unit

Provided is a lighting device capable of forming an optimal light distribution pattern in a situation in which vehicle travel is being automatically controlled. Provided is a lighting device () in which a region having the highest luminous intensity on a virtual projection plane (VP) when the virtual projection plane (VP) is divided into three equal parts from lowest to highest luminous intensity is isolated in the left and right directions by a V line, and at least a portion of the region having the highest luminous intensity is located in a first central portion (M) of the virtual projection plane (VP).

Lighting device

There is provided a vehicular component which include an illumination device capable of favorably illuminating the periphery of a host vehicle. There is provided a vehicular component that includes an illumination device () installed on a roof part () and configured to cover a vehicle interior space from above. The illumination device () includes a light source unit () and a light emitting unit (). The light emitting unit () configured to emit light by light emitted from the light source unit () is provided along an outer peripheral edge () of the roof part () in a top view of the vehicle ().

Vehicle component, and vehicle

An illumination system includes an illumination control unit which is configured to change the illumination state of each of a left-side illumination unit (L), a left-side auxiliary illumination unit (L), a right-side illumination unit (R), and a right-side auxiliary illumination unit (R). The illumination control unit is configured to change the illumination state of the left-side illumination unit (L) when a vehicle () has detected a pedestrian (P). The illumination control unit is configured to change the illumination state of the left-side auxiliary illumination unit (L) according to the speed of the vehicle (). The illumination control unit is configured to change the illumination state of each of light emission segments (L) of the left-side illumination unit (L) and each of light emission segments (L) of the left-side auxiliary illumination unit (L).

Vehicular illumination system, vehicular system, vehicle, and data communication system

A vehicle illumination device which is provided in a vehicle capable of travelling in an automatic driving mode includes an illumination unit configured to display stop warning information forewarning stop of the vehicle toward a front of the vehicle, and an illumination controller configured to control the illumination unit such that the stop warning information is displayed toward the front of the vehicle.

Vehicular illumination device, vehicle system, and vehicle

A vehicular illumination device provided to a vehicle capable of travelling in an automatic driving mode includes an illumination unit configured to display advance-notice information for giving advance-notice of automatic traveling control of the vehicle so that a passenger in the vehicle can visually recognize the advance-notice information, and an illumination controller configured to control the illumination unit so that the passenger in the vehicle can visually recognize the advance-notice information before the automatic traveling control of the vehicle is executed.

Vehicular illumination device, vehicle system and vehicle

A vehicle illumination system includes a light source unit capable of irradiating a front of a vehicle with light, a camera, an imaging control unit, and an image generation unit which performs computation for an image acquired by the camera, the imaging control unit enables the camera to capture the front of the vehicle and to output a first image to the image generation unit when the light source unit irradiates the front of the vehicle in the first mode, and enables the camera to capture the front of the vehicle and to output a second image to the image generation unit when the light source unit irradiates the front of the vehicle in a second mode in which light is irradiated with an illuminance higher than in the first mode, and the image generation unit generates a single output image by the first image and the second image.

Vehicle illumination system and vehicle

A vehicular detection device configured to be mounted to at least one of a right or a left side of a vehicle body includes a detection unit configured to detect an object. An outermost part of the vehicular detection device in a right and left direction is flush with or more inward than an outer surface of a side surface part of the vehicle body in the right and left direction.

Vehicular detection device and vehicular lamp

Problem: To provide a vehicle monitoring system capable of checking a wide range of area at the rear of a vehicle to afford a high level of safety, without increasing an amount of protrusion from the side surface of the vehicle body. Solution: A vehicle monitoring systemis provided with a first camerathat shoots a first area at the rear side of a vehicle; a second camerathat shoots a second area further toward the inside in the width direction of the vehicle compared with the first area; an ECUthat combines videos captured by the two cameras; and a monitorthat displays the combined image. The first camerais contained in an STSLon a vehicle body side surface, and the second camerais installed in an RCLor a high mounted stop lamp at the rear of the vehicle body. A video processing circuitperforms correction to improve the visibility of the videos of an overlapping section captured by the camerasand. The first cameramay be equipped with a wide-angle lens having a field of view angle greater than 90&#xb0;.

Vehicle monitoring system using a plurality of cameras

An illumination apparatus has a light source unit that can form a light distribution pattern by applying light into a virtual region, and an illuminance controller that can change the illuminance of at least a part of the light distribution pattern. The illuminance controller reduces the illuminance of the light distribution pattern in a region positioned in a first center in the vertical direction and a second center in a lateral direction, depending on a signal transmitted from an oncoming vehicle detector that transmits a signal according to the presence of an oncoming vehicle.

A vehicle illumination system for a vehicle capable of traveling in an automatic driving mode includes a left-side communication support lamp and a right-side communication support lamp configured to lit light toward an outside of the vehicle and arranged to be visually recognized from the front of the vehicle, and an illumination controller configured to, when the vehicle detects a target object, change an illumination state of at least one of the left-side communication support lamp and the right-side communication support lamp. Each of the left-side communication support lamp and the right-side communication support lamp includes a plurality of light-emitting segments arranged side by side in a right and left direction of the vehicle. The illumination controller is configured to change an illumination state of each of the plurality of light-emitting segments.

Vehicle lighting system, vehicle system, and vehicle

An illumination device provided in a vehicle capable of traveling in an automatic driving mode is provided with: an illumination unit configured so that light is emitted toward the outside of the vehicle; and an illumination control unit configured so that, on the basis of an illumination control signal transmitted from another vehicle capable of traveling in an automatic driving mode and provided with an illumination unit, the illumination state of the illumination unit corresponds to the illumination state of the illumination unit.

Vehicle illumination device, vehicle and illumination control system

An illumination device installed in a vehicle capable of traveling in an automatic driving mode is provided with an illumination unit configured so as to radiate light outward from the vehicle, and an illumination control unit configured so as to control the illumination unit, on the basis of an illumination control signal sent from transportation infrastructure, which is provided with a light-emitting body for radiating light outward, in order to make the illumination state of the illumination unit correspond to the illumination state of the light-emitting body.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Toshihiro Okamura