An illumination system for a vehicular tailgate includes a tailgate bracket at the tailgate of the vehicle, an illumination device pivotally mounted at the tailgate bracket, and a weighted arm pivotally mounted at the tailgate bracket. The weighted arm has a pivot end and a weighted end opposite the pivot end. Pivotal movement of the weighted arm about the pivot end imparts pivotal movement of the illumination device. As the tailgate of the vehicle pivots between its raised position and its lowered position, the weighted arm imparts pivotal movement of the illumination device due to gravitational force at the weighted end of the weighted arm, such that light emitted by the illumination device illuminates the same ground region. The illumination device may project an icon and part of a light-transmitting element through which the emitted light passes may magnify the projected icon when the tailgate is in the lowered position.

A vehicle light system. The vehicle light system includes a front assembly having a plurality of lights and a first camera that is securable to a front end of a vehicle, and a rear assembly having a plurality of lights and a second camera that is securable to the rear end of the vehicle. A display operatively connected to the first camera and second camera is disposed within the vehicle interior. A control also disposed within the interior is operatively connected to the front assembly lights, the rear assembly lights, the first camera, the second camera, and the display. The lights improve the lighting of the surrounding area, thus decreasing the number of roadside incidents and increase the public awareness of the police vehicle, while the camera provides additional visibility to the vehicle operator.

An illumination system for a vehicular tailgate includes a tailgate bracket at the tailgate of the vehicle, an illumination device pivotally mounted at the tailgate bracket, and a weighted arm pivotally mounted at the tailgate bracket. The weighted arm has a pivot end and a weighted end opposite the pivot end. Pivotal movement of the weighted arm about the pivot end imparts pivotal movement of the illumination device. As the tailgate of the vehicle pivots between its raised position and its lowered position, the weighted arm imparts pivotal movement of the illumination device due to gravitational force at the weighted end of the weighted arm, such that light emitted by the illumination device illuminates the same ground region. The illumination device may project an icon and part of a light-transmitting element through which the emitted light passes may magnify the projected icon when the tailgate is in the lowered position.

A vehicular lighting system includes a light projecting device disposed at each headlight of a vehicle. The light projecting device is part of the respective headlight. The light projecting device, when operated, projects an animated sequence of visual images or a sequence of visual light patterns on a wall in front of the vehicle. The projected animated sequence of visual images or projected sequence of visual light patterns is viewable at the wall by a driver of the vehicle. The light projecting device may include a matrix of light emitting diodes. The visual images or visual light pattern projected by the light projecting device, when operated, may change as distance between the vehicle and the wall decreases.

A vehicle vision system comprises first and second vehicle headlights configured to project first and second light structures into a travel path of the vehicle to illuminate an object in the travel path. The system includes a camera disposed in the vehicle between the first and second headlights to capture images of the object in response to capture signals. The first and second vehicle headlights alternately project the first and second light structures. A system controller synchronizes the capture signals so that images of the object captured by the camera include reflections of the first and second light structures. An image processor can reconstruct a surface geometry of the object based on the reflected first and second light structures.

An anti-glare type vehicle road signboard and a road lane identification device is provided. The anti-glare type vehicle road signboard and road lane identification device includes: a light-irradiating unit provided in a vehicle for irradiating a non-visible light beam to the front of the vehicle while traveling; an image photographing unit for photographing an image reflected onto the road signboard and the road lane from the light irradiated by the light irradiating unit; and a shape projecting unit for transmitting an image signal photographed by the image photographing unit while traveling and projecting a high luminance light in a state wherein the shapes of the road lane and the road signboard overlap each other to thereby have the road signboard and the road lane clearly seen.

This disclosure relates to a vehicle camera system. In some examples, the vehicle camera system includes one or more camera components, heat generating electronic components, and a shroud. The shroud is configured to provide structural support for the one or more camera components and configured to facilitate dissipation of heat generated by the heat generating electronic components. In some examples, the shroud includes boundaries at least partially surrounding the heat generating electronic components and defining a heat dissipation path for air flow from at least one air inlet to an air outlet of the shroud, and mounting features for mounting the one or more camera components, in which at least one of the mounting features is defined within a portion of the boundaries defining the heat dissipation path.

A system may have a support structure that separates an exterior region from an interior region. The system may include a lighting system with interior and/or exterior lights with adjustable diffusers. An interior light may be used as a task light, a cabin light, a sensor indicator light, or a trim light. Adjustments to the adjustable diffusers can be used to adjust the angular spread of emitted light for operation in different lighting modes.

To make it possible to grasp the road surface condition more reliably when the road surface on which the irradiation pattern is formed is captured by a camera. A controller for lighting control installed in a vehicle that is equipped with a camera that captures the surroundings of the vehicle, a monitor that displays images captured by the camera, and an irradiation unit capable of irradiating light on a road surface within a range that can be captured by the camera, and in which the controller performs operation control of the irradiation unit, where the controller performs operation control of the irradiation unit so that it prevents the irradiation unit from performing light irradiation during each intermittently occurring capturing period of the camera, and causes the irradiation unit to irradiate light during a non-capturing period between the capturing periods.

The present invention provides a vehicle system in which an IR lamp operates even when the vehicle is in a parking mode, but relates to a more efficient vehicle system by minimizing power consumption of a battery. The vehicle system includes an IR lamp including a plurality of LEDs and irradiating light of infrared wavelengths, and a control unit connecting the IR lamp to a main battery of a vehicle when the vehicle is in a driving mode and connecting the IR lamp to an auxiliary battery of the vehicle when the vehicle is in a parking mode to operate the IR lamp.