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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2020
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Akihisa Kumakura, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Kita, Tokyo, JP;
Takako Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Nakashima, Tokyo, JP;
Shuto Oyama, Tokyo, JP;
Kouki Kudo, Tokyo, JP;
Hidetaka Okada, Tokyo, JP;
STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lighting control device is capable of further enhancing the impression of direction indication due to the movement of light when performing sequential winker control. The lighting control device performs lighting control of a vehicular lamp including a plurality of light-emitting parts, and includes processor circuitry configured to perform controls to repeat a lighting cycle including turning on the plurality of light-emitting parts that have been turned off and maintaining a lighting state of all the light emitting parts, then sequentially dimming at least two or more of the light-emitting parts in a predetermined direction with a time difference, and thereafter turning off the plurality of light-emitting parts and maintaining a lights-out state of all the light-emitting parts.