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Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masayasu Ito, Shizuoka, JP;

Takao Muramatsu, Shizuoka, JP;

Yuta Maruyama, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); B60Q 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/143 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle lamp system includes a camera which generates image information in a front region, a controller which generates a light distribution command for instructing a light distribution pattern based on the image information, a headlight which irradiates the front region such that the instructed light distribution pattern is obtained, and a position calibrator which detects a positional deviation between the camera and the headlight. The position calibrator detects a reference object based on the image information and measures a luminance of the reference object, and when there is a certain difference between a luminance of the reference object obtained from one light distribution pattern and a luminance of the reference object obtained from another light distribution pattern in which a light quantity of only a part is different from the one light distribution pattern, detects the positional deviation using a position of the part.


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