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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2016
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Atsushi Uesugi, Shizuoka, JP;
Hideki Uchida, Shizuoka, JP;
Tatsuya Takagaki, Nisshin, JP;
Takuya Murakami, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle lamp system includes a lamp unit, a control unit that controls a change in luminance of LEDs of the lamp unit, and a storage unit that stores information indicating a priority of an event. In a case in which a second event occurs while the luminance of the LEDs is being gradually changed to reach first luminance in a first period, the control unit gradually changes the luminance of the LEDs to reach second luminance in a second period if the priority of the second event is higher than the priority of the first event, and gradually changes the luminance of the LEDs to reach the second luminance irrespective of the second period if the priority of the second event is lower than the priority of the first event.