The present disclosure relates to a vehicle, comprising: a steering assembly, including: a hub; at least one spoke extending radially outward from the hub; a housing at least partially covering the hub and spoke; a rim attached to the spoke; a lighting element in light communication with the rim; and a biosensor coupled to any one of the housing and rim; and a vehicle control module linked to the steering assembly. The rim is at least partially transparent.

An input keypad assembly on a vehicle is provided and includes a keypad located on a vehicle body member and configured to receive a user input on an exterior of the vehicle, and a lamp configured to illuminate light in an interior of the vehicle.

A luminous automotive-vehicle glazing unit includes a first glazing pane, made of organic or mineral glass, of refractive index n1 of at least 1.4 with first and second main faces; a light source coupled to the first glazing pane; and a light-extracting system including a scattering layer of width of at least 1 cm including scattering dielectric particles bound by a transparent matrix of refractive index n2. The scattering particles are mainly microparticles that are spaced apart from one another and that include a shell made of a transparent dielectric material and making contact with the transparent matrix, the shell surrounding a core of refractive index n3 of at most 1.15 and of largest dimension called D3 in a range extending from 5 m to 200 m, the microparticles having a largest dimension D smaller than 2D.sub.3.

The color separation/light combining element included in an illuminator has at least one first region and at least one second region. The light ray flux contains a first light ray flux outputted from the first light emission unit and a second light ray flux outputted from the second light emission unit. a wavelength conversion element, a diffusive reflection element, and the color separation/light combining element are so disposed that part of the first light ray flux is incident on the diffusive reflection element via the first region, the other part of the first light ray flux is incident on the wavelength conversion element via the first region, a part of the second light ray flux is incident on the wavelength conversion element via the second region, and the second region combines the converted light with a part of light reflected off the diffusive reflection element to produce illumination light.

A dome light assembly is provided for a motor vehicle. That dome light assembly includes a housing having a receiver. A removable lamp unit is releasably held in the receiver. The removable lamp unit includes an indicator for signaling an incoming telephone call.

An image pickup device includes a first emission unit that emits a near infrared light toward a face of a driver from a front lower side of the driver, and a second emission unit that emits a near infrared light from an upper side of the driver. When a sunvisor is present at a storage position in which sunlight is not shielded, the second emission unit is disposed at a position to be covered with the sunvisor. A portion where the sunvisor present at a storage position covers the second emission unit is made of a material that shields a visible light contained in the sunlight and transmits the near infrared light.

An embodiment of the present invention relates to a lighting device comprising: a light source unit comprising a plurality of light emitting elements; a conversion unit for converting light emitted from the light source unit; a reflection unit for reflecting light which has passed through the conversion unit; and a half mirror member, which is disposed on the top of the reflection unit, for transmitting a portion of incident light and reflecting a portion of the incident light. The conversion unit includes an optical pattern for selectively transmitting light emitted from the light source unit, the light source unit is disposed on a periphery portion of the reflection unit, and the height of the center portion of the reflection unit is greater than the height of the periphery portion thereof.

A motor vehicle lamp is presented, having an elongated waveguide, which is configured to conduct light in its interior, via total internal reflection occurring on border surfaces of the waveguide, along a guidance line of the waveguide, predefined by the external shape of the waveguide and running inside the waveguide, wherein the waveguide has a light exit surface. The lamp is distinguished in that it has a focusing element, which lies in the light path of the light emitted via the light exit surface, and extends thereby over the entire length of the light exit surface, and is configured to reduce the beam width of the light bundle in which the light emitted from the light exit surface is propagated.

An illuminable seat cover assembly for emitting various visual lighting effects including lights with various colors. The illuminable seat cover assembly includes a seat cover including a backrest portion and a seat portion; and a lighting assembly in communication with the seat cover for displaying steady, flashing and pulsating light of various colors with varying degrees of brightness and intensity.

An imaging system and method are provided herein. A first light source is configured to project a first illumination onto a vehicle occupant. A second light source is configured to project a second illumination onto the vehicle occupant. An imager is configured to acquire one or more images of a biometric feature of the vehicle occupant and generate image data corresponding to the one or more acquired images. The imager is further configured with a variable field of view based on which of the first and second light sources is activated.