Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Brightway Vision Ltd.

Potter Electric Signal Company, LLC

Yuichi Watano

Yuta Maruyama

Yoshihiro Katsurada

Osamu Kuboyama

Shigeyuki Watanabe

Takao Muramatsu

Kosei Kikuchi

Akihito Horikawa

Nobutaka Tezuka

Jun Kano

Takuya Kataoka

Yoshihisa Endo

Manabu Kato

Akinobu Kubota

Naohisa Tatara

Yoshiyuki Nakanishi

Yoshiaki Fushimi

Teppei Muramatsu

Takashi Terayama

Yukio Nomura

Hirohiko Oshio

Hikaru Nagai

Takehito Iriba

Takahisa Nakamura

Shunsuke Okamura

Daigo Yamamoto

Yichao Xie

Provided is a lamp mounted on a vehicle where a lamp housing of the lamp is equipped with a lamp camera that captures an image of an object existing outside the vehicle and a lamp unit of which light distribution of emitted light beams is controlled to change based on positional information of the object captured by the lamp camera, in which the lamp camera has an imaging optical axis directed in a predetermined direction with respect to the vehicle, and the lamp unit is configured such that an illumination optical axis is controlled to change in an up-down direction based on the positional information of the object.

Vehicle lamp, and control device and control method for same

An information displaying technology for a vehicle that makes it possible to protect the privacy and security of a user who is outside of the vehicle when information is displayed to the user. A vehicle information display system () is provided with a plurality of display units () comprised of a display (), drawing lights (), and a road surface (), and a control unit () for controlling the display units (), and the control unit () includes a display destination selection unit () that selects a display unit () according to the information to be displayed. Furthermore, a sensor () is provided that measures the environment on which information is displayed. The display destination selection unit () selects the drawing lights () or the display () as the display destination.

Vehicle information display system, vehicle information display device, and vehicle control system

A light distribution control device, if a first upper limit number N≥the number of near-distance targets T, controls a lamp to irradiate the near-distance targets with light having illuminance according to attributes of the near-distance targets; if a remaining number M≥the number of long-distance targets T, controls the lamp to irradiate the long-distance targets with light having illuminance according to attributes of the long-distance targets; if N<T, controls the lamp to form a light distribution pattern that does not depend on the near-distance targets and the long-distance targets; and, if M<T, controls the lamp to form a light distribution pattern that does not depend on the long-distance targets.

Light distribution control device, vehicle light system, and light distribution control method

A right-side vehicular lamp includes: a lamp housing; a lamp cover; an illumination unit disposed in a lamp chamber; a radar configured to acquire radar data representing the surrounding environment of a vehicle by emitting radio waves toward the outside of the vehicle; a concealment part that is disposed so as to face the radar so as to conceal the radar from the outside of the vehicle and that is configured to allow the radio waves emitted from the radar to pass through; a support member that is fixed to a vehicle body and that is configured to support and fix the radar; and a positioning part that is disposed between the concealment part and the support member and that is configured to determine a position of the radar with respect to the concealment part. The concealment part is formed integrally with the lamp cover. The positioning part is fixed to the concealment part and engages elastically with the support member.

Vehicle lamp and vehicle

A vehicle sensor device () includes an outer cover (), a sensor unit () that transmits and receives an electromagnetic wave through the outer cover () and outputs a signal related to the electromagnetic wave incident on an inner side of the outer cover (), a heater () that is provided in the outer cover () and heats a transmission region (AR) of the outer cover () through which the electromagnetic wave emitted from the sensor unit () passes, and a control unit (CO). The control unit (CO) outputs a detection signal of an object located outside the outer cover () based on the signal from the sensor unit () in at least a part of a period in which the heater () is OFF, and stops outputting of the detection signal in at least a part of a period in which the heater () is ON.

Vehicle sensor device

A gated camera for dividing a field of view into a plurality of ranges in a depth direction and generating a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges, the gated camera includes: an illumination device configured to irradiate the field of view with pulse illumination light; an image sensor; a camera controller configured to control a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of the image sensor; and an arithmetic processing device configured to process image data generated by the image sensor. The arithmetic processing device is configured to acquire information on weather based on the image data obtained for a predetermined range in a weather detection mode.

Vehicle-mounted sensing system and gated camera

A camera unit is configured to capture an image of an outside area of a vehicle. A translucent cover covers the camera unit. A first air cleaner is configured to jet gas toward an area on the translucent cover located within an angle of view of the camera unit. The first cleaner is located above the area in an up-down direction of the vehicle.

Image capturing device and lamp device

A gated camera for dividing a field of view into a plurality of ranges in a depth direction and generating a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges, the gated camera includes: an illumination device configured to irradiate the field of view with pulse illumination light; an image sensor; and a camera controller configured to control a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of the image sensor. The camera controller is configured to switch between a first imaging mode in which performance is relatively high and power consumption is relatively high, and a second imaging mode in which performance is relatively low and power consumption is relatively low.

A left vehicle lamp (L) includes a lamp housing (), a lamp cover () that covers an opening of the lamp housing (), an illumination unit () that is disposed inside a lamp chamber (S) formed by the lamp housing () and the lamp power bar (), a radar () configured to acquire a radar data indicating a surrounding environment of a vehicle by emitting radio waves toward the outside of the vehicle, and a light guide member () that is disposed in a manner of facing the radar () so as to hide at least a part of the radar () from the outside of the vehicle and is configured to transmit radio waves emitted from the radar (). The radar () is disposed outside the housing (S). The light guide member () is configured to emit light toward the outside of the vehicle.

Vehicle light fitting, radar module, radar, and vehicle

Provided is a LiDAR sensor unit in which even when a lens element is provided, measurement data is less likely to be affected by the lens element. A LiDAR sensor unit has: a LiDAR sensor; a lens element that is provided on an optical path of light emitted from the LiDAR sensor; and a processing unit that outputs measurement data which has been measured by the LiDAR sensor and which includes the orientation and the distance of a measurement subject. The processing unit is configured to not output measurement data of a specific orientation which is the same but the distance corresponding thereto differs before and after attachment of the lens element under the same environment.

LiDAR sensor unit and vehicle security system

A right-side vehicle lamp (R) comprises: a lamp housing (); a lamp cover () that covers an opening in the lamp housing (); a low-beam illumination unit () positioned inside a lamp chamber (S) formed from the lamp housing () and the lamp cover (); radar () configured so as to emit radio waves outside the vehicle, thereby acquiring radar data; and a shielding part () positioned so as to face the radar () so as to shield the radar () from the outside of the vehicle, the shielding part () being configured so as to transmit the radio waves emitted from the radar (). The shielding part () is formed integrally with the lamp cover (). The boundary (B) between the shielding part () and the lamp cover () is positioned outside the field of view (Fv) of the radar ().

Vehicle lamp having radar with concealing part and electromagnetic absorbing cover

A vehicle lamp system includes an illuminance variable lamp, a lamp-mounted camera, and a lamp control unit. After acquiring position information of a low accuracy region from a vehicle control unit, the lamp control unit acquires illuminance of the low accuracy region by referring to information acquired by the lamp-mounted camera, controls the illuminance variable lamp so as to increase the illuminance of the low accuracy region if the illuminance of the low accuracy region is less than a threshold, and/or controls the illuminance variable lamp so as to decrease the illuminance of the low accuracy region if the illuminance of the low accuracy region is equal to or greater than the threshold.

Vehicle lamp system

A vehicle lamp includes: a lamp housing; a lamp cover; an illumination unit disposed in a lamp chamber; a radar configured to acquire radar data indicating surroundings of a vehicle by emitting an electromagnetic wave outside the vehicle; a concealing part that faces the radar to conceal the radar from the outside of the vehicle and is configured to let the electromagnetic wave emitted from the radar through; a support member that is fixed to a vehicle body and is configured to support and fix the radar; and a positioning part that is disposed between the concealing part and the support member and is configured to position the radar to the concealing part. The concealing part is formed integrally with the lamp cover. The positioning part is fixed to the concealing part and is configured to engage with the support member elastically.

A vehicular lamp system includes a light distribution control device that controls a first lamp unit and a second lamp unit. The light distribution control device forms a combined high-illuminance pattern in a region where no target is present. Meanwhile, the light distribution control device forms a combined shading pattern in regard to a forward vehicle. Furthermore, in regard to a specific target, the light distribution control device controls the first lamp unit so as to form an illuminance fixed pattern, controls the second lamp unit so as to form an illuminance fixed pattern or to form an illuminance adjusted pattern, and forms a combined mid-illuminance pattern by superposing the light distribution patterns that the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit form.

Vehicular lamp system, light distribution control device, and light distribution control method

A left vehicle lamp includes a lamp housing, a lamp cover that covers an opening of the lamp housing, an illumination unit that is disposed inside a lamp chamber formed by the lamp housing and the lamp power bar, a radar) configured to acquire a radar data indicating a surrounding environment of a vehicle by emitting radio waves toward the outside of the vehicle, and a light guide member that is disposed in a manner of facing the radar so as to hide at least a part of the radar from the outside of the vehicle and is configured to transmit radio waves emitted from the radar. The radar is disposed outside the housing. The light guide member is configured to emit light toward the outside of the vehicle.

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