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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2016
Zkw Group Gmbh, Wieselburg, AT;
Bettina Reisinger, Amstetten, AT;
Thomas Mitterlehner, Mank, AT;
ZKW GROUP GMBH, Wieselburg, AT;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for controlling a light scanner () in a headlight for vehicles, wherein the laser beam of at least one modulated laser light source () is directed in a scanning manner, by way of the light scanner, onto a light conversion means () so as to generate a light image () thereon, which is projected via an imaging system () as a light image (') onto the roadway, a micromirror () of the light scanner is pivoted according to defined characteristic control curves in at least one coordinate direction, the desired light image () is divided into a pixel set having n rows and/or m columns, the horizontal and/or vertical characteristic control curves for the micromirror () are adapted to at least one selected row and/or column in terms of the required optical power of the pixels, and the adapted horizontal and/or vertical characteristic control curves are used to control the micromirror.