Provided are a variable lamp system for moving vehicles capable of controlling lighting brightness and irradiation angle by using speed information of the moving vehicle and surrounding road information of the moving vehicle, and a moving vehicle including the same.

A vehicle lighting fixture device configured to: at a time of forward travel of a vehicle, except during deceleration of the vehicle, control a lighting fixture of the vehicle so as to change, at a predetermined speed in a direction of travel of the vehicle, an illumination range on a road surface of light emitted from the lighting fixture, at a time of deceleration of the vehicle, control the lighting fixture so as to change, at a lower speed than the predetermined speed in the direction of travel of the vehicle, the illumination range on a road surface of the light emitted from the lighting fixture, and at a time of reversing of the vehicle, control the lighting fixture so as to change, in a direction of reversing of the vehicle, the illumination range on a road surface of the light emitted from the lighting fixture.

A vehicle lamp controller, a vehicle lamp system, and a vehicle lamp control method are provided. The vehicle lamp system includes an acceleration sensor, a vehicle lamp, and the vehicle controller. The controller includes a receiver configured to receive an acceleration information detected by the acceleration sensor, a control unit configured to derive a vehicle longitudinal direction acceleration and a vehicle vertical direction acceleration from the acceleration information, and to generate a control signal for instructing an adjustment of an optical axis of the vehicle lamp, based on a variation in a ratio between a temporal change amount of the vehicle longitudinal direction acceleration and a temporal change amount of the vehicle vertical direction acceleration during at least one of an acceleration and a deceleration of a vehicle, and a transmitter configured to transmit the control signal to an optical axis adjusting portion of the vehicle lamp.

To perform optical axis adjustment according to the state of a vehicle. A vehicle headlight control apparatus which controls an optical axis of irradiation light emitted by a headlight of a vehicle including: a specification unit that specifies a vehicle state; and an optical axis adjustment unit that receives results from the specification unit and adjusts the optical axis; where the specification unit: sets a reference value which pertains to an acceleration to a first value when the vehicle is an engine vehicle; sets the reference value to a second value which is smaller than the first value when the vehicle is not an engine vehicle; then specifies the vehicle state to be a stopping state when the acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor is smaller than the reference value; and specifies the vehicle state to be a non-stopping state when the acceleration is greater than the reference value.

A lighting module for use in a lighting device for a vehicle includes at least one projection module for generating a light distribution in the vehicle's environment. At least one light source module is also provided. The projection module contains numerous projection units. The light source module contains numerous light source units. Each projection unit contains at least one projection lens. Each projection unit is dedicated to at least one light source unit. At least two projection lenses from at least two different projection units have different focal lengths.

A system for controlling a lamp, a method therefor, and a vehicle therefor are provided. The system includes: a pair of lamps to irradiate beams forward based on respective beam patterns thereof; a sensing module to sense an object in front of a subject vehicle in motion; and a processor to receive information on the sensed object, and control the beam pattern of at least one of the pair of lamps such that a shadow area is formed in an area including the object based on the input object information. The shadow area includes a main shadow area corresponding to a width of the object, and a shadow margin area having a predetermined width from each of both sides of the main shadow area. The processor controls the width of the shadow margin area based on at least one of internal factors, external factors, or any combination thereof.

Methods and apparatus to determine a vehicle pitch angle for luminous range control are disclosed. An example method to determine a pitch angle of a vehicle relative to a surface on which the vehicle stands for luminous range control of a headlight of the vehicle includes determining, at a standstill of the vehicle, a change of a load pitch angle of the vehicle based on output from a gravitation sensor, determining, as the vehicle is driven, an average value of the pitch angle of the vehicle and an average value of a dynamic pitch angle of the vehicle, the average value of the dynamic pitch angle determined via output from an acceleration sensor, determining a current value of the dynamic pitch angle via the output from the acceleration sensor, determining a current value of the load pitch angle of the vehicle based on the average value of the pitch angle and the average value of the dynamic pitch angle, determining, based on the current value of the load pitch angle and the current value of the dynamic pitch angle, the pitch angle of the vehicle relative to the surface, and controlling an orientation of the headlight of the vehicle based on the pitch angle of the vehicle relative to the surface.

A headlamp is disclosed, including a light source (231), a power module (210) for generating a current supply for said light source (231), and a control module (220) for adjusting the light intensity generated by said light source, where the control module (220) controls the brightness of the headlamp based on the information generated by the light sensor (120). The headlamp includes an accelerometer (110) configured to provide, at regular intervals, data representative of an acceleration of the headlamp transmitted to the control module configured to process this data along at least one horizontal axis, with high-pass filtering in order to detect a double peak occurring within a predefined time, allowing the triggering of a temporary increase in brightness.

This cornering light structure for a saddle-ride type vehicle which is provided in the saddle-ride type vehicle that performs cornering by a vehicle body being banked laterally and which widens an illumination range in a direction in which the vehicle body is banked during the cornering, the cornering light structure includes a bank angle detection means for detecting a bank angle of the vehicle body, and a light body that illuminates a range in the direction in which the vehicle body is banked according to the bank angle detected by the bank angle detection means, in which the light body and the bank angle detection means constitute an integrated light unit.

A high-definition lamp unit includes a plurality of individually controllable pixels, and emits lamp light having a light distribution corresponding to states of the plurality of pixels. A leveling actuator can control a mechanical position of the high-definition lamp unit. A controller controls the leveling actuator and the high-definition lamp unit according to a pitch angle of a vehicle body.