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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2015
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Shigeyoshi Hiratsuka, Nagakute, JP;
Nobuyuki Shiraki, Nagakute, JP;
Keiichi Shimaoka, Nagakute, JP;
Kazunori Higuchi, Nagakute, JP;
Kazuya Asaoka, Seto, JP;
Sho Masuda, Toyota, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An irradiation system includes: a light position detection unit that detects a light position of an oncoming vehicle from a captured image; a driver position calculation unit that calculates a position upward and shifted in a first direction by a first distance from the light position detected by the light position detection unit, as a driver position; a shaded area generation unit that generates a first area having vertices respectively set at the light position, the driver position and a position shifted in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, by a distance between a pair of lights in the predetermined vehicle from the driver position, as a shaded area; and an irradiation unit that irradiates an area ahead of the host vehicle while shading the shaded area generated by the shaded area generation unit.