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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2021
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Watano, Shizuoka, JP;
Yuta Maruyama, Shizuoka, JP;
Yoshihiro Katsurada, Shizuoka, JP;
Takuya Kataoka, Shizuoka, JP;
KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a lamp mounted on a vehicle where a lamp housing of the lamp is equipped with a lamp camera that captures an image of an object existing outside the vehicle and a lamp unit of which light distribution of emitted light beams is controlled to change based on positional information of the object captured by the lamp camera, in which the lamp camera has an imaging optical axis directed in a predetermined direction with respect to the vehicle, and the lamp unit is configured such that an illumination optical axis is controlled to change in an up-down direction based on the positional information of the object.