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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2021
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Christoph Arndt, Moerlen, DE;
Frederic Stefan, Aachen, DE;
Anke Dieckmann, Bad Marienberg / Eichenstruth, DE;
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A high-beam assistance system of a motor vehicle determines whether or not an unseen vehicle with headlamps switched on is approaching from the opposite direction before the unseen vehicle enters the field of view of a camera in the host vehicle. Wherein the registered images do not include any approaching vehicle on the roadway, the high-beam assistance system determines an expected illumination information item which is estimated to result from illumination by the host headlamps, determines an actual illumination information item contained in the registered images, and compares the expected illumination information item and the actual illumination information item. If the actual illumination information item deviates from the expected illumination information item, then the illumination provided by the host headlamps is adjusted from a high-beam state to a low-beam state.