A lighting device for a vehicle including a high-resolution headlamp, which has a light influencer for the targeted influencing of individual pixels or groups of pixels of the light emanating from at least one light source and/or a plurality of light sources arranged in a matrix for the targeted generation of individual pixels or groups of pixels of the light emanating from the headlamp during operation, as well as an adjuster for adjusting the beam range of the headlamp which can control the light influencer and/or the light sources for purposes of changing the beam range, wherein the adjuster for adjusting the beam range additionally includes a mechanical adjuster.

Provided is a lighting control device capable of reducing the lighting delay when a light source is turned on/off in accordance with the bank angle of a vehicle. The lighting control device which controls the lighting state of the light source sets the time period required for turning on the light source to be shorter as the vehicle speed is higher when the inclination angle of a vehicle body in the vehicle width direction is larger than a reference value, and causes the light source to be fully turned on over the set time period. The lighting control device also sets the time period required for turning off the light source to be shorter as the vehicle speed is higher when the inclination angle of a vehicle body is smaller than a reference value, and causes the light source to be dimmed and turned off over the set time period.

Provided are: an inclination angle calculating unit for calculating, when having determined that a vehicle is stationary by referring to vehicle information indicating a traveling state of the vehicle, an inclination angle of the vehicle during a stationary period using inclination angle information indicating an inclination angle of the vehicle and determining a vehicle inclination angle during the stationary period from the calculated inclination angle of the vehicle; and a correction determination processing unit for determining whether an absolute value of a difference between the determined vehicle inclination angle and a reference angle determined previously by the inclination angle calculating unit is less than a first threshold value (threshold value ) and, if the absolute value of the difference is less than the first threshold value (threshold value ), performing a correction to rewrite the vehicle inclination angle to the reference angle.

A luminous device for a motor vehicle, said device including a pixelized light source and an optical system that is arranged to project a pixelized light beam emitted by the pixelized light source, the optical system comprising a first mirror arranged to collect and reflect rays of the pixelized light beam emitted by the pixelized light source, a second mirror arranged to reflect the rays reflected by the first mirror, and a third mirror arranged to receive the rays reflected by the second mirror and to reflect these received rays so as to correct field aberrations. The invention enables improved projection of a pixelized light beam by a luminous motor-vehicle device.

A method for adjusting a distribution of light from a headlight of a first motor vehicle in order to avoid the headlight blinding of dazzling a driver of a leading vehicle travelling ahead of and in the same direction as the first vehicle. The method includes: detecting a following distance between the vehicle and the leading vehicle on an initial road section; operating the headlight at a first illumination range less than or equal to the following distance; detecting a directionally-deviating road section ahead of and having a direction different from the initial road section; detecting that the leading vehicle has moved beyond a transition between the initial road section and the directionally-deviating road section; operating the headlight at a second illumination range not extending beyond the transition; and operating the headlight at the first illumination range after the vehicle reaches the transition.

A control device for a vehicle lamp including an ECU configured to: i) receive a sensor signal and derive a total angle; ii) retain an initial set value of the vehicle posture angle, the initial set value being acquired in an initialization process; iii) retain a reference value of the vehicle posture angle, adjust an optical axis angle of the vehicle lamp in response to a change amount of a total angle during a stop of the vehicle, and retain a sum of the change amount of the total angle and the reference value of the vehicle posture angle as a new reference value; iv) not adjust the optical axis angle in response to a change amount of a total angle during traveling of the vehicle; and v) perform a predetermined reset process when a reset signal is received.

To provide a technique capable of accurately obtaining the attitude of a vehicle in the pitch direction. A device controls the optical axis of a vehicular lamp in accordance with an attitude change in pitch direction of the vehicle having (a) an angle calculation part which obtains acceleration associated with the vertical and the horizontal direction at a predetermined time interval, obtains a first and a second acceleration related to the vertical and the horizontal direction by eliminating the gravitational acceleration component from each acceleration, calculates a vehicle traveling direction acceleration based on the two accelerations, and obtains a vehicle attitude angle based on a correlation between the acceleration and the vehicle traveling direction acceleration, and (b) an optical axis setting part which generates a control signal for controlling the optical axis of the lamp based on the vehicle attitude angle, and provides the control signal to the lamp.

A single-track motor vehicle or a multi-track motor vehicle with tilt technology, includes one or more environment sensors that are installed in the front of the motor vehicle and that are arranged for detecting an area in front of the motor vehicle, and a control unit. The control unit controls an actuator while the motor vehicle is travelling depending on the position of the motor vehicle that is detected by the position sensor system in such a way that when the motor vehicle is tilted along a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis thereof, the movable element is moved by means of the actuator so that the position of a respective environment sensor is not rotated relative to the longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is tilted compared to the position of the respective environment sensor when the motor vehicle is not tilted.

A method of compensating for a level of a headlamp using a lane departure warning system is provided. The method adjusts a level of a headlamp using a camera of a lane departure warning system. In particular, the method includes calculating, by an LDWS camera, a predetermined irradiation angle of a headlamp and calculating, by the LDWS camera, a cut-off inclination of a low beam in a predetermined distance. Additionally, the method includes driving a lamp actuator when the cut-off inclination is less than a predetermined threshold inclination and re-adjusting the cut-off inclination.

To provide a technique capable of accurately obtaining the attitude of a vehicle in the pitch direction. A control device for a vehicular lamp which controls the optical axis of a vehicular lamp in accordance with an attitude change in pitch direction of the vehicle is disclosed. The device includes an angle calculation part which obtains a first and a second acceleration by eliminating the gravitational acceleration component from each acceleration in the vertical and the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, calculates a vehicle traveling direction acceleration based on the accelerations, and obtains a vehicle attitude angle based on the correlation between the vehicle traveling direction acceleration and the first and the second accelerations. The angle calculation part obtains the attitude angle of the vehicle when it determines that the vehicle is accelerating or decelerating based on the determination on the basis of each acceleration difference at the predetermined time.