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Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2022
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Tetsuya Ikuta, Nisshin, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/08 (2006.01); B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); F21S 41/663 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/085 (2013.01); B60Q 1/0023 (2013.01); F21S 41/663 (2018.01); B60Q 2300/322 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/45 (2013.01);
Abstract

A light distribution control device can perform diffused light distribution control designed to widen an irradiation range of a headlamp of an own vehicle. The light distribution control device is equipped with a recognition unit that recognizes a situation around the own vehicle, and a control unit that performs diffused light distribution control when a curve section in front of the own vehicle in a traveling direction thereof is detected, from a result of recognition by the recognition unit. The control unit controls the headlamp such that a non-required irradiation region where irradiation with light is not required is restrained from being irradiated with light and that a region other than the non-required irradiation region is irradiated with more light, when the non-required irradiation region is detected in the irradiation range of the headlamp in performing diffused light distribution control, from the result of recognition.


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