The present invention relates to a vehicle LiDAR system interconnected with an LED headlamp, which can extend a measurement distance by using a light source of a vehicle LED headlamp capable of emitting high-brightness light also as an illumination light source of a LiDAR, and compensate for decrease in resolution using a separate distance calculation algorithm. The present invention implements a vehicle LiDAR system interconnected with an LED headlamp, the system comprising: a lighting device for controlling brightness of a headlight according to a headlight brightness control signal of a vehicle, and transmitting a high-frequency light source synchronized with an operating frequency and a phase of a LiDAR; a 3D image device for transferring a synchronization signal synchronized with the operating frequency and the phase of the LiDAR to the lighting device, measuring a phase delay by comparing a phase detected from light received from a subject and the phase provided to the lighting device, and outputting a distance measurement signal measuring the distance to the subject generated from the measured phase delay as a 3D image signal; and a distance calculation unit for performing a long distance and precise distance calculation by combining the 3D image signal output through the 3D image device.

A method includes: recognizing a signal candidate position around a vehicle by using a sensor mounted on the vehicle, the signal candidate position being a position a traffic light is possibly present, the vehicle including a light configured in such a manner that a light distribution state of the light changes; and performing a first light control process of controlling the light in response to recognition of the signal candidate position, the first light control process including at least one of: increasing an intensity of light emitted to the signal candidate position to a value higher than before the recognition of the signal candidate position; or making the intensity of the light emitted to the signal candidate position higher than an intensity of light emitted to an area other than the signal candidate position.

A vehicle lamp comprising a housing having a space opened in a forward direction, a bezel mounted on a front of the housing and having first and second through holes, a first optical module having a first light source device provided to irradiate light to a road surface through the first through hole, the first optical module is contained in the space, mounted in the housing, and installed to be inclined to allow an optical axis of the first light source device to be gradually inclined downward in the forward direction, and a second optical module including a second light source device provided to irradiate light forward through the second through hole, the second optical module being contained in the space and mounted on the bezel, an area in which the first optical module is positioned in the bezel is formed to gradually protrude upward in the forward direction.

The present disclosure relates an integrated module including a camera and a lamp, and may include a camera that acquires an image of a periphery of a vehicle and provide the image, at least one first lamp and at least one second lamp disposed at at least one location of an upper side and a lower side of the camera in a direction of a transverse axis of the camera, and a lamp controller that provides electrical energy for the first lamp to the first lamp and provides electrical energy for the second lamp to the second lamp according to daytime/nighttime determination information based on the image.

A light emitter emits detecting light to a detecting area located outside a monitoring device. A light receiver detects reflected light that is generated in accordance with reflection of the detecting light by an object located in the detecting area. A first processor is capable of executing first detecting processing that is a part of information detecting processing for detecting information of the object based on the reflected light. A second processor is capable of executing second detecting processing that is a part of the information detecting processing, and is at least partially different from the first detecting processing. A controller changes a ratio of each of the first detecting processing and the second detecting processing to the information detecting processing.

An illumination system configured to be attached to a rear of a vehicle with a tow hitch, and positioned to direct light towards the ground behind the vehicle and the tow hitch. The illumination system including a housing, a socket with differently shaped fingers for attachment to the housing in a proper orientation. An LED light is received in the socket for directing light rays in a first direction, and an inner lens is coupled to the LED, and configured to receive the light rays such that a flat portion of the lens directs some of the light rays substantially along the first direction and an angled portion of the lens directs some of the light rays in a second direction different from the first direction. A protective outer lens surrounds the inner lens, and includes transparent and opaque portions.

Described herein are high intensity illumination systems including lighting arrays of lights, such as light emitting diodes, configured to illuminate a surface. The lighting arrays are configured to illuminate the surface with illumination comparable to or multiple times brighter than the ambient illumination, such as sunlight. Also described herein are methods of using a high intensity illumination system to illuminate a surface for applications including imaging, object detection, and object localization. The systems and methods described herein may be applied to a range of industries including farming, agriculture, construction, and autonomous vehicles.

A puddle light system projects content-bearing images onto a ground surface adjacent a vehicle using a puddle light projector unit having a multicolor light source configured to project the content-bearing images using at least one selected color from a plurality of available colors. An image sensor directed at the ground surface and mounted on the vehicle is configured to capture colored images. A controller is configured to (A) construct one of the content-bearing images as an image representation with an illumination region to be projected onto the ground, (B) analyze a first colored image of the ground surface with the light source deactivated to identify a dominant surface color, (C) select a complementary color relative to the dominant surface color, (D) colorize the illumination region using the selected complementary color, and (E) command the puddle light projector unit to project the image representation using the colorized illumination region.

In an imaging apparatus, a distance measurement sensor detects the distance to a target TGT. An illumination apparatus sequentially irradiates reference light S1 having a spatially random intensity distribution. A photodetector measures reflected light S2 from an object OBJ. A calculation processing device applies a time window that corresponds to an output of the distance measurement sensor to an output of the photodetector, and calculates a correlation between the detection intensity based on the signal included in the time window and the intensity distribution of the reference light so as to reconstruct a reconstructed image of the target.

A raised pavement markers removal vehicle system and method for the removal of raised pavement markers from a roadway. As the vehicle is driven along a roadway, a grinder unit alongside the forward portion of the vehicle grinds away the raised pavement markers to be removed. A sensing unit senses the relative lateral positions of the grinder unit and the upcoming raised pavement markers to be removed. A controller receives position information from the sensing unit and sends appropriate commands to an alignment adjuster to match the lateral position of the grinder unit to the lateral position of the upcoming pavement markers to be removed. After removal by grinding, the debris from the removed raised pavement markers is swept from the roadway into a sweeper-hopper unit for transport to a suitable unloading place. A warning board mounted at the rear of the sweeper-hopper unit provides a visual warning to other users of the road.