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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2014
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Akiko Imaishi, Tokyo, JP;
Masami Aikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masato Hirai, Tokyo, JP;
Reiko Sakata, Tokyo, JP;
Hidebumi Arai, Tokyo, JP;
Kei Kasuga, Tokyo, JP;
Yumiko Ochiai, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A rear-road surface illumination apparatus is provided which includes: an avoidance determinerto determine whether to provide a display to induce a following vehicle to avoid a vehicle, on the basis of vehicle information; and a controllerto cause an illumination lightto illuminate a rear road surface with light having illumination information that induces the following vehicle to avoid the vehicle when the avoidance determinerdetermines to provide a display to induce the following vehicle to avoid the vehicle. Therefore, the rear-road surface illumination apparatus can indicate the existence of the vehicle to the following vehicle, to give the existence of the vehicle prominence, and can also make it easy to notify the driver of the following vehicle about what the driver of the vehicle desires the driver of the following vehicle to do.