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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2015
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
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;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
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.