A vehicular control system includes a control and a plurality of sensors that include at least a camera and a 3D point-cloud LIDAR sensor. The control is operable to process captured image data to determine presence of another vehicle and to process captured 3D point-cloud LIDAR data to determine presence of the other vehicle. The control, responsive at least in part to processing of captured image data and captured 3D point-cloud LIDAR data, determines presence of the other vehicle when the other vehicle is (i) in the field of view of the camera and/or (ii) in the field of sensing of the 3D point-cloud LIDAR sensor, and responsive to determination of the other vehicle, the control at least in part controls at least one vehicle function of the equipped vehicle.

A motor vehicle has a headlight, a first position sensor for outputting first position information, a second position sensor for outputting second position information, and an actuating system which is configured to adjust a light distribution generated by the headlight as a function of the first and second position information.

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.

There is provided a lighting device capable of forming a line beam having a sufficiently long length in an irradiation direction. A distance between a light source end close to irradiation surface and irradiation surface is greater than a distance between lens center and irradiation surface by using light source in which a plurality of light emitters is arranged in a straight line and lens of which an emission surface having a constant curvature is corrected by an odd function. Accordingly, a shape of light source is formed on irradiation surface, and thus, it is possible to form line beam having the sufficiently long length in the irradiation direction.

A method and apparatus provide a light module that includes a plurality of optical functions supported by a single housing. The method and apparatus further adjusts aiming of all optical functions of the light module in multiple directions when needed.

The present application relates to a method for controlling a controllable headlight of a motor vehicle, in which the headlight is controlled in such a way that a predefinable light distribution is made available on a traffic route on which the motor vehicle is guided, wherein a profile of the traffic route is determined, and a light output of the headlight is set as a function of the determined profile of the traffic route in order to make available the predefinable light distribution, wherein the light distribution is made available by means of a multiplicity of pixels of a pixel headlight as a controllable headlight, for which purpose the lighting elements which form the pixels are controlled individually with respect to their light output, a region of the traffic route is determined in the direction of travel in front of the motor vehicle, which region is determined to be travelled on by the motor vehicle and is correspondingly bounded laterally, and the lighting elements are controlled in such a way that exclusively the region is illuminated with the predefinable light distribution.

A control unit of an optical axis control device for a headlight calculates a first vehicle angle () and a second vehicle angle () at different timings in traveling of a vehicle, and calculates a third vehicle angle (s) at which a difference between acceleration signals in a front-rear direction (X) is zero. The control unit calculates a representative value (S) based on a distribution of a plurality of third vehicle angles (s), and generates a signal for operating an optical axis of the headlight based on the representative value (S).

A vehicle lighting-based roadway obstacle notification for a motor vehicle has a vehicle headlamp system with a controllable light distribution. A camera is aligned parallel to a forward driving direction records a part of the roadway surface lying in front of the motor vehicle which includes a multiplicity of roadway detection paths. Camera data are individually evaluated in relation to ranges and at least one quantity from among a magnitude of a vertical dimension h.sub.i of the roadway, a magnitude of a gradient grad.sub.x;i of the roadway, and an instantaneous speed v.sub.mom of the motor vehicle, with respect to the roadway detection paths. When at least one predetermined condition in respect of at least one of these quantities is complied with, the vehicle headlamp system is controlled in order to illuminate a part of the width of the roadway in which a roadway anomaly has been detected.

A vehicle lamp tool providing a controller which calculates the luminance distribution of light distribution pattern, an optical device which generates light distribution pattern in an illuminatable area D and a first driving circuit which drives the optical device. The controller transmits a first light distribution correction signal for correcting the inclination of a current light distribution pattern to the first driving circuit if the inclination angle of a vehicle with respect to vertical direction indicated by a detection signal received from a vehicle height sensor is equal to or less than a threshold value. The first driving circuit transmits a first correction driving signal based on the first light distribution correction signal to the optical device. The optical device drives an LD and a light deflector to correct the current light distribution pattern.

A vehicular control system includes a control and a plurality of sensors that include at least a camera and a 3D point-cloud LIDAR sensor. The control is operable to process captured image data to determine presence of another vehicle and to process captured 3D point-cloud LIDAR data to determine presence of another vehicle. A receiver at the equipped vehicle is operable to receive a wireless communication of information pertaining to other traffic participants in the vicinity of the equipped vehicle. The control is operable to process wirelessly-communicated information pertaining to other traffic participants in the vicinity of the equipped vehicle. The control, responsive at least in part to processing of at least one of (i) received image data, (ii) received 3D point-cloud LIDAR data and (iii) received information pertaining to other traffic participants in the vicinity of the equipped vehicle, controls at least one vehicle function of the equipped vehicle.