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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
May. 03, 2016
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Brian L. Lindsay, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
Side marker lighting systems, methods of providing side marker lighting, and vehicles including the same are disclosed. A side marker lighting system includes a light emitting module having a plurality of light emitting diodes, a sensor module, and a master controller having instructions to receive data from the sensor module, where the data is indicative of a vehicle located in the vicinity of the side marker lighting system, determine that the vehicle is moving toward the system at an angle, determine location coordinates of the vehicle with respect to the system, determine a direction of light based on the location coordinates of the vehicle such that the direction of light is aimed at the vehicle, and direct the light emitting module to selectively activate the light emitting diodes such that the light emitting diodes produce a collective beam that corresponds to the first direction.