An illumination system for a vehicle includes a headlight configured to emit a light beam along an optical path and into an environment. The illumination system includes an optical element having a body comprising four sides. The optical element is positioned along the optical path and configured to redirect the light beam. The illumination system includes a front lens positioned along the optical path and configured to receive the light beam from the optical element and collimate the light beam as the light beam passes into the environment. The optical element is configured to move around an optical element axis to translate the light beam relative to an azimuth plane of the environment.

An automatic light system is provided for automatically turning on and off vehicle lights in accordance with the surrounding environment. The system includes an imaging device that images an area in front of the vehicle and generates image data; an image processing unit that generates light mode information on the basis of the brightness in an upper region and lower region of the image data; and a light control unit that controls the lights on the basis of the light mode information. The image processing unit sets a higher weight to a measurement region in the movement direction of the vehicle from among a plurality of measurement regions set in the upper region and a lower weight to the other measurement regions to calculate the brightness in the upper region and generates the light mode information on the basis of the brightness in the upper region.

The present invention relates to a headlamp control system. The front headlamp control system and a control method thereof according to the present invention are highly applicable to existing vehicles and are capable of efficiently controlling light of a front headlamp by adjusting a light quantity of the front headlamp based on a combination of navigation information and camera information in addition to a steering angle of a steering wheel, and are capable of increasing visibility of an area in front of a driver by calculating a light-off section in a case where there is a preceding vehicle and increasing, in a case where a changed position of a high luminance region overlaps the light-off section, a range of a central luminance region in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction to maintain the high luminance region.

The present disclosure relates to a dynamic bending ADB head lamp system and a method for controlling the same that, in an ADB or a high beam operation of a vehicle equipped with a head lamp of a matrix type having an ADB function, may move a central region of a high beam in a direction of a movement of the vehicle in response to a change in a steering angle of the vehicle to improve visibility of a driver, and move the central region of the high beam by changing only a current value without a separate driving motor to reduce a manufacturing cost.

A vehicular forward viewing image capture system includes an accessory module configured for attachment at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle. While the vehicle is traveling along a road, multiple frames of captured image data are processed at a data processor to determine movement of an object of interest present in a field of view of the CMOS image sensor. The vehicular forward viewing image capture system is provided with vehicle data via a vehicle communication bus. With the accessory module attached at the in-cabin side of the windshield of the vehicle, image data captured by the CMOS image sensor and vehicle data provided via the vehicle communication bus are processed. With the accessory module attached at the in-cabin side of the windshield of the vehicle, captured image data is processed to determine a road condition of the road ahead of the equipped vehicle.

A system for controlling a headlamp for a vehicle is provided. The system includes a lamp unit comprising a plurality of light sources and configured to form a shadow zone in a light emission area by adjusting a position to which light is emitted and an amount of light for each light source; an information collector configured to acquire an image of a forward side based on a travel direction; and a controller configured to receive information on a forward vehicle acquired through the information collector and information on the shadow zone, and control the lamp unit to perform aiming correction of the shadow zone to position the forward vehicle at a central side of the shadow zone when the forward vehicle is not positioned at the central side of the shadow zone within the shadow zone.

A method for controlling a lighting device of a host motor vehicle in order to emit a beam for lighting the road that is non-dazzling to a target object on this road. The method includes acquiring, with a sensor system of the host motor vehicle, the position (x.sub.target_t0, y.sub.target_t0) of the target object on the road at a given time (t0), and predicting, with a predicting unit, the position (xtarget_t1, ytarget_t1) of the target object on the road at a time (t1) that is in the future with respect to the given time. Also included is correcting, with the predicting unit, the acquired position of the target object at a given time depending on the predicted position at the future time, and generating, with the lighting device, a non-dazzling zone (Z) in a beam for lighting the road, which beam the device emits depending on the corrected position (P.sub.G,P.sub.D) of the target object.

A lamp control device includes: at least two lamps; a lamp ECU provided in each of the at least two lamps and configured to perform a lamp control on the each of the at least two lamps; and a vehicle ECU configured to communicate a control signal to the lamp ECU. The vehicle ECU is connected to the lamp ECU via a first high-speed communications line. The lamp ECU is configured to independently perform a lamp control by communication through the first high-speed communications line.

Information related to a vehicle can be displayed by projecting an image based on the information on a road surface or the like. An image projection apparatus that projects an image includes: a sensor unit that acquires information related to a vehicle; and an image projection unit that projects the image based on the information acquired by the sensor unit.

An image projection apparatus that can be attached to a vehicle and can be effectively utilized for acquisition of road surface condition information, detection of a hidden vehicle, and the like is provided. The image projection apparatus that projects an image includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information related to a vehicle; an image projection unit that projects an image based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit; and imaging means that acquires an image outside the vehicle, the image projection unit projects light in a wavelength band centered on a wavelength of 1.4 μm and the imaging means provides the information related to the vehicle by imaging an image projected based on the light in the wavelength band centered on the wavelength of 1.4 μm.