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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

Inventors:

Shigeyoshi Hiratsuka, Nagakute, JP;

Toshihiko Tsukada, Nagakute, JP;

Shin-ichi Kojima, Nagakute, JP;

Nobuyuki Shiraki, Nagakute, JP;

Keiichi Shimaoka, Nagakute, JP;

Kazuya Asaoka, Seto, JP;

Sho Masuda, Toyota, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/08 (2006.01); F21S 8/10 (2006.01); B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); G02B 26/08 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 48/1705 (2013.01); B60Q 1/085 (2013.01); B60Q 1/143 (2013.01); F21S 48/1388 (2013.01); F21S 48/1747 (2013.01); F21S 48/1757 (2013.01); G02B 26/0833 (2013.01); G02B 27/01 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); B60Q 2300/42 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/45 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0118 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01);
Abstract

An illumination system includes: a light irradiation unit that projects light toward a predetermined illumination area; an image acquisition unit that acquires an image of the illumination area; an object detecting unit that detects a shading object based on image information of the illumination area, acquired by the image acquisition unit; an information generating unit that generates the control information for setting each of the plurality of reflecting mirrors to an on state or an off state such that a plurality of irradiation patterns are alternately irradiated, each of the plurality of irradiation patterns having different arrangement of the dark pixels and the light pixels from each other; and an irradiation control unit that controls the light irradiation unit based on the generated control information.


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