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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. 30, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Naoki Tatara, Shizuoka, JP;

Toshihiro Okamura, Shizuoka, JP;

Takeshi Masuda, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); B60Q 1/08 (2006.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/247 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2352 (2013.01); B60Q 1/08 (2013.01); B60R 11/04 (2013.01); H04N 5/247 (2013.01); G05D 1/0231 (2013.01); G05D 1/0257 (2013.01); G05D 1/0278 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle illumination system includes a light source unit capable of irradiating a front of a vehicle with light, a camera, an imaging control unit, and an image generation unit which performs computation for an image acquired by the camera, the imaging control unit enables the camera to capture the front of the vehicle and to output a first image to the image generation unit when the light source unit irradiates the front of the vehicle in the first mode, and enables the camera to capture the front of the vehicle and to output a second image to the image generation unit when the light source unit irradiates the front of the vehicle in a second mode in which light is irradiated with an illuminance higher than in the first mode, and the image generation unit generates a single output image by the first image and the second image.


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