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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2022
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Fujimoto, Tokyo, JP;
STANLEY ELECTRIC CO. , LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To perform optical axis adjustment according to the state of a vehicle. A vehicle headlight control apparatus which controls an optical axis of irradiation light emitted by a headlight of a vehicle including: a specification unit that specifies a vehicle state; and an optical axis adjustment unit that receives results from the specification unit and adjusts the optical axis; where the specification unit: sets a reference value which pertains to an acceleration to a first value when the vehicle is an engine vehicle; sets the reference value to a second value which is smaller than the first value when the vehicle is not an engine vehicle; then specifies the vehicle state to be a stopping state when the acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor is smaller than the reference value; and specifies the vehicle state to be a non-stopping state when the acceleration is greater than the reference value.