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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2021
Illumination control device, biometric information acquiring device, and illumination control method
Applicant:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shuhei Ota, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/01 (2006.01); B60Q 3/70 (2017.01); B60R 21/015 (2006.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/01538 (2014.10); B60Q 3/70 (2017.02); G06V 40/103 (2022.01); G06V 40/15 (2022.01); B60Q 2500/30 (2022.05); B60R 2021/01006 (2013.01); B60R 2021/01013 (2013.01);
Abstract
An illumination control device includes: an accident detection unit to detect an accident of a vehicle using a signal output from a sensor mounted on the vehicle; a lamp body control unit to command a lamp body that illuminates a vehicle interior using visible light to turn on when an accident is detected by the accident detection unit; and a lamp color changing unit to change a lamp color of the lamp body when the accident is detected by the accident detection unit.