Chromaticity variable type road projection lamp system for vehicle and method of controlling road projection
11959612 ยท 2024-04-16
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Cpc classification
F21W2102/155
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/125
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/148
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/143
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/25
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/255
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21W2102/13
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/675
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
International classification
F21S41/143
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/675
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/25
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Abstract
A chromaticity variable type road projection lamp system applied to a vehicle is composed of a chromaticity variable lamp that radiates a road surface radiation content, which is generated by reflecting the lights emitted from a first projection light-emitting diode (LED) of a warm white color and a second projection LED of a cool white color disposed in the direction symmetrical to a DMD at the tilting angle, with a projection beam from a chromaticity variable road projection, and radiates the low beam by comparing the warm white color of the first lamp LED and the cool white color of the second lamp LED with the road surface radiation content in chromaticity.
Claims
1. A road projection lamp system comprising: a chromaticity variable road projection having a first projection light-emitting diode (LED) of a warm white color and a second projection LED of a cool white color disposed in a direction symmetrical to a mirror of a digital micromirror display (DMD), the chromaticity variable road projection being configured to generate a road surface radiation content by the warm white color light and the cool white color light at a tilting angle of the mirror to radiate the road surface radiation content to an imaging lens by a projection beam; and a chromaticity variable lamp having a first lamp LED of a warm white color and a second lamp LED of a cool white color that are contrasted with road surface radiation content in chromaticity, and having the road surface radiation content added thereto.
2. The road projection lamp system of claim 1, wherein the direction symmetrical to the mirror of the DMD is formed at a first mirror tilting angle of the first projection LED and a second mirror tilting angle of the second projection LED with respect to a straight line on which the imaging lens and the DMD face each other.
3. The road projection lamp system of claim 2, wherein the first mirror tilting angle and the second mirror tilting angle have the same angle area.
4. The road projection lamp system of claim 1, wherein the chromaticity contrast increases visibility of the road surface radiation content in a chromaticity difference application method by maximally forming a relative chromaticity difference or a chromaticity difference non-application method of smoothly forming a relative base color with respect to the warm white color light and the cool white color light.
5. The road projection lamp system of claim 1, wherein the mirror sets an angle range of 0? to ??? as the tilting angle, and the tilting angle is formed as one or more of a mirror horizontal state alignment of 0?, a mirror left inclination state alignment of ??? facing the warm white color light, and a mirror right inclination state alignment of +?? facing the cool white color light.
6. The road projection lamp system of claim 5, wherein the mirror left inclination state alignment of ??? generates the road surface radiation content with the warm white color light, the mirror right inclination state alignment of +?? generates the road surface radiation content with the cool white color light, and a combination of the mirror left inclination state alignment of ??? and the mirror right inclination state alignment of +?? generates the road surface radiation content by performing an additive color mixture for the color temperature areas of the warm white color light and the cool white color light.
7. The road projection lamp system of claim 6, wherein the chromaticity variable road projection forms the road surface radiation content as a fixed symbol image pattern, and in the fixed symbol image pattern, the mirror maintains the tilting angle.
8. The road projection lamp system of claim 6, wherein the chromaticity variable road projection forms the road surface radiation content as a variable symbol image pattern, and in the variable symbol image pattern, the mirror varies the tilting angle for each time zone.
9. The road projection lamp system of claim 1, wherein the chromaticity variable lamp is provided with a reflector, and the reflector locates the first lamp LED and the second lamp LED.
10. The road projection lamp system of claim 9, wherein the first lamp LED and the second lamp LED are configured as a lamp light source, and the lamp light source is composed of a plurality of lamp light sources, and the lamp light source is provided on the reflector.
11. The road projection lamp system of claim 1, wherein the first projection LED, the second projection LED, the first lamp LED, and the second lamp LED are turned on and off, and lit by a lamp controller, and wherein the lamp controller controls the tilting angle.
12. A vehicle comprising: a road projection lamp system forming a predetermined tilting angle on a mirror of a digital micromirror display (DMD), radiating a road surface radiation content, which is generated by reflecting the lights emitted from a first projection light-emitting diode (LED) of a warm white color and a second projection LED of a cool white color disposed in a direction symmetrical to the DMD at the tilting angle, with a projection beam from a chromaticity variable road projection, and radiating a low beam in which the warm white color of the first lamp LED and the cool white color of the second lamp LED are contrasted with the road surface radiation content in chromaticity from a chromaticity variable lamp; and a lamp controller forming the road surface radiation content as a fixed symbol image pattern or a variable symbol image pattern by controlling the tilting angle.
13. A method of controlling a road projection, the method comprising: lighting a chromaticity variable road projection in a state in which a low beam by a warm white color and a cool white color of a chromaticity variable lamp is lit; controlling a DMD that controls a mirror of a digital micromirror display (DMD) at a predetermined tilting angle by a lamp controller so that the warm white color light and the cool white color light of the chromaticity variable road projection are generated as a road surface radiation content contrasted thereto in chromaticity at the titling angle; performing a content mode that radiates the road surface radiation content with a projection beam from the chromaticity variable road projection in a mirror fixing mode or a mirror conversion mode; and radiating the projection beam as the low beam from the chromaticity variable lamp.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the lamp controller changes a symbol image and a pattern image of the road surface radiation content by adjusting a number of mirrors driven.
15. The method of claim 13, wherein the mirror fixing mode maintains the tilting angle of the mirror to form the road surface radiation content as a fixed symbol image pattern.
16. The method of claim 13, wherein the mirror conversion mode varies the tilting angle of the mirror for each time zone to form the road surface radiation content as a variable symbol image pattern.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
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(14) Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying exemplary drawings, and these embodiments are examples, and may be implemented in various different forms by those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure pertains, and thus are not limited to the embodiments described herein.
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(16) Referring to
(17) For example, the chromaticity variable road projection 10 includes a road projection module 11 and a digital micromirror display (DMD) module 18, in which the road projection module 11 generates a road surface radiation light to first and second projection LEDs 16a and 16b (see
(18) Accordingly, the chromaticity variable road projection 10 serves to generate the road surface radiation light, generate the content, and generate the projection beam.
(19) For example, the chromaticity variable lamp 20 includes a light source unit 24 composed of a plurality of lamp light sources 25, and each of the lamp light sources 25 generates the low beam (see
(20) For example, the lamp controller 30 has a memory for storing a road projection control logic or a program (see
(21) To this end, the lamp controller 30 detects or checks a lamp drive signal (button or sensor) and a projection signal (button or CAN signal) as input data by an input unit, and outputs a lamp lighting (A), a light source chromaticity selection (a), a DMD mirror fixing mode (B), and a DMD mirror conversion mode (b) as road projection control logic or program processing results of an operation unit from an output unit.
(22) For example, the lamp lighting (A) is the high beam or the low beam of the chromaticity variable lamp 20, the light source chromaticity selection (a) is the chromaticity contrast combination through the matching of the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b to the first and second projection LEDs 16a and 16b, the DMD mirror fixing mode (B) is the generation of the fixed symbol image pattern (see
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(24) Meanwhile,
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(26) For example, the imaging lens 12 is composed of a lens group in which convex, concave, and spherical lenses are arranged in the straight line to receive the projection beams of the fixed/variable symbol image patterns reflected from the mirror 18b of the DMD module 18 to send the projection beams to the chromaticity variable lamp 20, and the first and second light source lenses 13 and 14 are classified into a first light source lens 13 inclined in a downward direction with respect to the mirror 18b of the DMD module 18 at a first mirror tilting angle (a) of an acute angle, and a second light source lens 14 inclined in an upward direction with respect to the mirror 18b of the DMD module 18 at a second mirror tilting angle (b) of the acute angle. In this case, the first mirror tilting angle (a) and the second mirror tilting angle (b) are set according to a rotation angle of the mirror 18b of a DMD 18a, and the first mirror tilting angle (a) and the second mirror tilting angle (b) have the same angle size.
(27) In particular, the first and second light source lenses 13 and 14 are composed of the first light source lens 13 and the second light source lens 14, which are equally composed of the projection light source 15 in which the projection light-emitting diode (LED) is built, and a condensing lens 17 facing the projection light source 15 to transmit the light of the projection LED to the mirror 18b of the DMD 18a. However, the name of the projection LED is distinguished as a first projection LED 16a built in the projection light source 15 of the first light source lens 13 and a second projection LED 16b built in the projection light source 15 of the second light source lens 14.
(28) Furthermore, the first projection LED 16a is applied as a warm white LED, and the second projection LED 16b is applied as a cool white LED. In addition, the first mirror tilting angle (a) of the first projection LED 16a and the second mirror tilting angle (b) of the second projection LED 16b have the same angle, so that when a, b are assumed as ?, a fine reflector rotation angle of the mirror 18b applied to the DMD 18a is ??, and thus the first projection LED 16a and the second projection LED 16b, which are the light source, are arranged to be located at a location away by 2? with respect to the emission direction of light by Snell's law.
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(30) In particular, the DMD module 18 is provided with a DMD controller communicating with the lamp controller 30 via CAN, and the DMD controller may control the mirror 18b of the DMD 18a with a fixed time or a variable time (see
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(32) For example, the DMD mirror non-operation state (A) is a state in which the fine reflector of the mirror 18b is horizontally aligned through a neutral state of the DMD 18a, which is a situation in which even when the warm white LED of the first projection LED 16a and the cool white LED of the second projection LED 16b are turned on, the light of the cool white LED is fully reflected toward the second light source lens 13 while the light of the warm white LED is fully reflected toward the second light source lens 14, so that there is no light sent toward the imaging lens 12. In this case, the first and second projection LEDs 16a and 16b may be set to OFF.
(33) For example, the DMD mirror left tilting operation state (B) is a state in which the fine reflector of the mirror 18b is tilted to the left and aligned through the OFF state after the DMD 18a is operated, which is a situation in which the warm white color is fully reflected by turning off the cool white LED of the second projection LED 16b while turning on the warm white LED of the first projection LED 16a, so that the projection beam of the warm white color temperature fully reflected from the mirror 18b is sent toward the imaging lens 12.
(34) On the other hand, the DMD mirror right tilting operation state (C) is the same as the DMD mirror left tilting operation state (B), but the cool white color is fully reflected by turning on the cool white LED of the second projection LED 16b from the OFF state of the first projection LED 16a while the fine reflector of the mirror 18b is tilted to the right and aligned, so that the projection beam of the cool white color temperature fully reflected from the mirror 18b is sent toward the imaging lens 12.
(35) Meanwhile,
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(37) In particular, the light source 25 is composed of the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b, in which the first lamp LED 26a is applied as the warm white LED and the second lamp LED 26b is applied as the cool white LED, so that each of the warm/cool white LED has a structure with different chromaticity distributions, and thus it is easy to convert the wavelength band through the output conversion for each lamp LED or move to the wavelength band of the long wavelength area by changing the phosphor composition. In this case, the light source 25 may be independently composed of the first lamp LED 26a of the warm white LED and the second lamp LED 26b of the cool white LED.
(38) Accordingly, the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b may use the characteristics of the lamp LED in which the wavelength band is changed through the output conversion for each LED by adjusting a current value of the brightness of the LED proportional to the amount of a current, and use the characteristics of light by an additive color mixture through adjustable color temperature and brightness according to a ratio of the current values of the cool white LED and the warm white LED. In this case, the additive color mixture is a method of obtaining colors output by overlapping three colors (red, blue, green).
(39) For example, the color temperature areas of the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b may be changed from a low color temperature of cool: warm=2: 8 into a high color temperature of cool: warm=9: 1 like cool: warm=2: 8, cool: warm=5: 5, cool : warm=7: 3, and cool: warm=9: 1.
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(41) As shown, the chromaticity contrast includes, for example, a chromaticity difference application method that is a visibility improvement state (A) through the maximization of the chromaticity difference between two light sources, and a chromaticity non-application method that is a visibility improvement state (B) through a change in the base colors of two light sources or a visibility improvement state (C) through the maintenance of the chromaticity difference between two light sources. In this case, in the road projection module 11, each of the first and second projection LEDs and the mirror 18b of the DMD 18a may be controlled by the lamp controller 30 or controlled by the road projection module 11 itself.
(42) For example, the visibility improvement state (A) through the maximization of the chromaticity difference between two light sources exemplifies that by implementing the warm/cool white chromaticity (color temperature) compared between the first and second projection LEDs 16a and 16b and the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b having the constant characteristics for each chromaticity conversion conditions within the available chromaticity (color temperature) range satisfying the regulations, the visibility suitable for satisfying the road display content display regulations is implemented through the maximization of the chromaticity difference between two light sources.
(43) In addition, each of the visibility improvement state (B) through the change in the base color between two light sources and the visibility improvement state (C) through the maintenance of the chromaticity difference between two light sources exemplifies that by implementing the warm/cool white chromaticity (color temperature) compared to each other through the linear characteristics between the first and second projection LEDs 16a and 16b and the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b within the available chromaticity (color temperature) satisfying the regulations, the base colors of two light sources are smoothly changed to reduce the sense of heterogeneity, thereby improving the visibility suitable for satisfying the road projection content display regulations.
(44) Accordingly, the warm white/cool white of the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b may increase the visibility and readability of the projection beam through four types of matching with the warm white/cool white LEDs of the first and second projection LEDs 16a and 16b. In this case, the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b are selected by signals of the lamp lighting (A) and the light source chromaticity selection (a) output from the lamp controller 30.
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(46) In particular, each of the two light source units 24 applies the plurality of light sources 25 to the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b, so that it is possible to very efficiently determine the optimal chromaticity contrast effect from the contact point of the matching according to the color temperature contrast between the warm white color and the cool white color as in the line view of the applied current-color temperature.
(47) Meanwhile,
(48) For example, the first lamp LED 26a of the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b of the chromaticity variable lamp 20 is applied as the warm white LED and the second lamp LED 26b thereof is applied as the cool white LED to have the chromaticity difference (i.e., temperature difference), and the low beam/high beam areas are fixed to the cool white color temperature.
(49) Then, when the large chromaticity variable state (B) is compared with the small chromaticity variable state (A), a cool white color that is the same as that of the high beam may be applied to an area of the road projection area (see
(50) As a result, it may be seen that a projection content 300 displayed with a low beam 200 has a very weak visibility and readability in the small chromaticity variable state (A) whereas the projection content 300 has a very highly improved visibility and readability in the large chromaticity variable state (B).
(51) As described above, the road projection lamp system 1 implements the chromaticity contrast combination through the matching between four LEDs 16a, 16b, 26a, 26b (see
(52) Accordingly, the road projection lamp system 1 is characterized as the chromaticity variable type road projection lamp system.
(53) Subsequently,
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(56) Accordingly, in the chromaticity variable projection 10, the first and second projection LEDs 16a and 16b of the projection light source 15 is in the lit state, and in the chromaticity variable lamp 20, the first and second lamp LEDs 26a and 26b of the lamp light source 25 is in the lit state.
(57) Specifically, the operation of controlling the DMD at S30 includes an operation of selecting a mirror tilting angle for converting the chromaticity between two light sources at S31, an operation of selecting the number of mirrors driven for each content at S32, and an operation of driving the mirror at a tilting angle at S33.
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(60) For example, with respect to the plurality of mirrors 18b configuring the DMD 18a, the operation of selecting the mirror tilting angle for converting the chromaticity between two light sources (S31) is classified into a mirror horizontal state alignment of 0? in which the lights of the first and second projection LEDs 16a and 16b are not sent toward the imaging lens 12, a mirror right inclination state alignment of +?? in which the light of the second projection LED 16b is sent toward the imaging lens 12, and a mirror right inclination state alignment of ??? in which the light of the first projection LED 16a is sent toward the imaging lens 12.
(61) Accordingly, with respect to the DMD mirror non-operation state (A) of 0?, ??? is the first mirror tilting angle (a) and the mirror 18b is selected as the DMD mirror left tilting operation state (B) in which the mirror 18b faces the first projection LED 16a, and +?? is the second mirror tilting angle (b) and the mirror 18b is selected as the DMD mirror right tilting operation state (C) in which the mirror 18b faces the second projection LED 16b.
(62) For example, the lamp controller 30 is configured so that the color temperature of the first projection LED 16a has the linear chromaticity conversion at about 3000 K using a lower-limit duty output as a fixed time at ???, configured so that the color temperature of the second projection LED 16b has the linear chromaticity conversion at about 6000 K using an upper-limit duty output as the fixed time at +??, and configured so that the combined color temperature of the first and second projection LEDs 16a and 16b has the linear chromaticity conversion at any one of about 3800 K, 4500 K, and 5200 K with a variable time that the lower-limit duty output and the upper-limit duty output alternate between ??? to +??.
(63) In particular, as the pulse interval of the duty output at the variable time in the lamp controller 30, a lower-limit extension interval with a lower-limit duty of two intervals and an upper-limit duty of one interval is applied at 3800 K, a uniform pulse interval with the lower-limit duty of one interval and the upper-limit duty of one interval is applied at 4500 K, and an upper-limit extension interval with the lower-limit duty of one interval and the upper-limit duty of two intervals is applied at 5200 K.
(64) For example, the operation of selecting the number of mirrors driven for each content (S32) is performed according to a fixed symbol image pattern (see
(65) Accordingly, the mirror 18b forms the angle ??? facing the first projection LED 16a forming the first mirror tilting angle (a), forms the angle +?? facing the second projection LED 16b forming the second mirror tilting angle (b), and forms the angles ??? to +?? alternately facing the first projection LED 16a and the second projection LED 16b for each time zone.
(66) Specifically, the operation of performing the content mode (S40 to S60) includes an operation of selecting the content mode at S40, an operation of applying the mirror fixing mode at S50 to S52, and an operation of applying the mirror conversion mode at S60 to S62.
(67) For example, the operation of selecting the content mode at S40 is performed in the DMD mirror fixing mode (B) or the DMD mirror conversion mode (b) output from the lamp controller 30. In this case, the operation of selecting the content mode at S40 may be determined in advance in the operation of driving the road projection (at S20 or the operation of controlling the DMD at S30, and may be omitted only when the pre-determination as described above is performed.
(68) For example, the operation of applying the mirror fixing mode at S50 to S52 includes an operation of entering the mirror fixing mode at S50 in which the DMD mirror fixing mode (B) is output as a signal in the lamp controller 30, an operation of fixing and maintaining the mirror tilting angle at S51 that maintains angles ??? of some mirrors and angles +?? of other mirrors of the mirror 18b by outputting the fixed time of the lamp controller 30, and an operation of generating the fixed symbol image pattern at S52.
(69) Referring to the fixed symbol image pattern 400 of
(70) Accordingly, the DMD 18a reflects the projection beam at the mirror tilting angles of the plurality of mirrors 18b arranged in the inner arrangement section to send the reflected projection beam toward the imaging lens 12.
(71) As a result, when the fixed symbol image pattern 400 as a symbol image is indicted as an arrow, the pattern of the arrow is expressed by combining the warm white color temperature of the first projection LED 16a reflected to the mirror 18b of the angle ??? (e.g., ?12?) and the cool white color temperature of the second projection LED 16b reflected to the mirror 18b of the angle +?? (e.g., +12?). In this case, the outer arrangement section is aligned with the mirror 18b of the angle 0?.
(72) Subsequently, the lamp controller 30 performs the operation of radiating the projection beam to the lamp from the road projection at S70, and the operation of radiating the fixed symbol image pattern 400 as the road surface content from the lamp (S80).
(73) Accordingly, when the fixed symbol image pattern 400 is radiated to the road surface through the chromaticity variable lamp 20 and displayed on the road surface along with the low beam, the displayed arrow symbol has the high chromaticity variable state (B) (see
(74) For example, the operation of performing the mirror conversion mode at S60 to S62 includes an operation of entering the mirror conversion mode at S60 in which the DMD mirror conversion mode (b) is output as the signal in the lamp controller 30, an operation of converting the tilting angle of the mirror for each time zone at S61 in which the angles ??? of some mirrors and the angles ??? of other mirrors of the mirror 18b alternate by outputting the variable time of the lamp controller 30, and an operation of generating a variable symbol image pattern at S62.
(75) Referring to a variable symbol image pattern 500 of
(76) Accordingly, the lamp controller 30 forms the mirror tilting angle state of the angle ??? of the mirror 18b facing the first projection LED 16a and the mirror tilting angle state of the angle +?? of the mirror 18b facing the second projection LED 16b in the inner arrangement section, and thus is equally driven as in the operation of applying the mirror fixing mode (S50 to S52). In this case, the outer arrangement section is aligned with the mirror 18b of the 0? angle.
(77) However, the lamp controller 30 applies the operation of converting the mirror tilting angle at S61 for each time zone, so that after a predetermined time elapses, operations of converting the angles ??? of some mirrors into the angles +?? and converting the angles +?? of some mirrors into the angles ??? are alternately performed.
(78) As a result, the variable symbol image pattern 500 is expressed by alternately combining the warm white color temperature of the first projection LED 16a reflected to the mirror 18b of the angle ??? (e.g., ?12?) and the cool white color temperature of the second projection LED 16b reflected to the mirror 18b of the angle +?? (e.g., +12?), and thus has the difference with the combined expression of the fixed symbol image pattern 400 of
(79) Subsequently, the lamp controller 30 performs the operation of radiating the projection beam to the lamp from the road projection at S70 and the operation of radiating the variable symbol image pattern 500 as the road surface content from the lamp at S80.
(80) Accordingly, the variable symbol image pattern 500 may have the high chromaticity variable state (B) (see
(81) As described above, the chromaticity variable type road projection lamp system 1 applied to the vehicle 100 according to the present embodiment is composed of the chromaticity variable lamp 20 that forms the predetermined tilting angle on the mirror 18b of the digital micromirror display (DMD) 18a, radiates the road surface radiation content, which is generated by reflecting the lights emitted from the first projection light-emitting diode (LED) 16a of the warm white color and the second projection LED 16b of the cool white color disposed in the direction symmetrical to the DMD 18a at the tilting angle, with the projection beam from the chromaticity variable road projection 10, and radiates the low beam by comparing the warm white color of the first lamp LED 16a and the cool white color of the second lamp LED 16b with the road surface radiation content in chromaticity.
(82) Accordingly, the chromaticity variable type road projection lamp system 1 clearly contrasts the symbol image and the pattern image of the projection with the low beam in chromaticity by controlling the tilting angle of the mirror 18b through the lamp controller 30, and in particular, improves the influence of the color temperatures of the light sources 15, 25 and the light scattering influence due to the moisture in the atmosphere among the weather conditions together with the clear chromaticity contrast effect, thereby greatly improving visibility or readability.
(83) While a number of exemplary aspects and embodiments have been discussed above, those of skill in the art will recognize that still further modifications, permutations, additions and sub-combinations thereof of the features of the disclosed embodiments are still possible. It is therefore intended that the following appended claims and claims hereafter introduced are interpreted to include all such modifications, permutations, additions and sub-combinations as are within their true spirit and scope.