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Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021

Filed:

May. 08, 2020
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Tomonari Sawada, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/04 (2006.01); B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/0023 (2013.01); B60Q 1/04 (2013.01); B60W 60/0025 (2020.02); G06K 9/00201 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle head light control apparatus controls a lighting apparatus included in a headlight of a vehicle to avoid irradiating to an irradiation avoidance region which is a region overlaps with a detected object. The lighting apparatus can irradiate an irradiation region which is a set of irradiation sections. When the vehicle is in a manual driving state, irradiating to the irradiation sections included in an adjacent region which is a region adjacent to the irradiation avoidance region is reduced as a distance between the irradiation section and the irradiation avoidance region becomes shorter. When the vehicle is in an autonomous driving state, the adjacent region is not provided or the adjacent region becomes smaller as compared with a case where the vehicle is in the manual driving state.


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