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Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yoshinori Shibata, Shizuoka, JP;

Takao Muramatsu, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/143 (2013.01); G06K 9/00791 (2013.01); G06K 9/2027 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle lamp system includes an imaging unit that takes an image ahead of a host vehicle, a luminance analyzer that detects luminance of each of areas ahead of the host vehicle, a target analyzer that detects objects ahead of the host vehicle, a tracking unit that determines a specific object from the detected objects and detects displacement of the specific object based on a detection result of the luminance; a setting unit that sets, based on the detection result of the luminance and a detection result of the displacement, an illuminance value for each area, which includes a specific illuminance for a specific area determined according to a position where the specific target is present, and a controller that controls the light source the illuminance of the light to be radiated from a light source to each area based on the illuminance values set by the setting unit.


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