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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
May. 18, 2021
Mitsubishi Electric Mobility Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Genki Yamashita, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Onodera, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Murakami, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Tsujita, Tokyo, JP;
Shotaro Miwa, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Harase, Tokyo, JP;
Ryotaro Ebara, Tokyo, JP;
Satoru Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC MOBILITY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A headlight control device includes a saliency map generating unit to generate a saliency map indicating a gaze region that is a region easily gazed by a driver of a vehicle on the basis of an imaging signal indicating ahead of the vehicle, a scene determining unit to determine a scene that is a situation in which the vehicle is traveling on the basis of the saliency map generated by the saliency map generating unit, and a light distribution control determining unit to determine a light distribution pattern of the headlight on the basis of the scene determined by the scene determining unit, and output a light distribution control signal for controlling the headlight to emit light in the determined light distribution pattern.