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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2020
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Markus Klug, Ingolstadt, DE;
Tobias Moll, Ingolstadt, DE;
Johannes Scheuchenpflug, Baar-Ebenhausen, DE;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
A design screen and at least one detection device with an image capturing device and a carrier medium are provided in an external lighting device for a motor vehicle. The carrier medium is a flat waveguide on which a coupling region and a decoupling region are provided. The carrier medium is adapted to the surface shape of the design screen. The coupling region and the decoupling region are each a holographic element. Light incident on the external lighting device from the surroundings is coupled into the carrier medium via the coupling region, is transported to the decoupling region by internal reflection in the waveguide, and is decoupled at the decoupling region. The image capturing device detects the decoupled light and provides image data which correlates to the detected light.