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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 16, 2017
Applicant:

Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takenori Wama, Shizuoka, JP;

Mitsuharu Mano, Shizuoka, JP;

Takanori Namba, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 11/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/04 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); H04N 5/374 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 11/005 (2013.01); B60Q 1/04 (2013.01); G06K 9/00825 (2013.01); G07C 5/0825 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/146 (2013.01); H04N 5/374 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a vehicle lamp lighting control device which ensures proper lighting control of a lamp even when an abnormality occurs in the lamp or a camera. The vehicle lamp lighting control device includes a plurality of lamps (L-HL, R-HL) mounted on a vehicle, and each of the lamps includes a lamp unit () for illuminating a required region, an imaging unit () for imaging the required region, and a lamp control unit () for controlling lighting of the lamp unit () based on a captured image. When one lamp of the plurality of lamps is abnormal, the lamp control unit () of another lamp controls lighting of at least one normal lamp unit () of the plurality of lamps.


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