Vehicle headlamp apparatus
First Claim
1. A vehicle headlamp apparatus comprising:
- map information acquiring means for acquiring positional information on one'"'"'s own vehicle on a map and the environmental information;
environmental condition detection means for detecting an environmental condition relating to a traveling road on which one'"'"'s own vehicle is driven according image information or the information acquired from a radar; and
light distribution control means for varying the light distribution of a headlamp attached to a vehicle in accordance with variation with the travel condition of one'"'"'s own vehicle and the environmental condition, wherein said light distribution control means performs light distribution control over the headlamp according to one of information adopted with the priority given thereto out of the information derived from said map information acquiring means and the information detected by said environmental condition detection means or according to information complemented with both kinds of information above.
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Abstract
In a vehicle headlamp apparatus 1, there are provided a map information acquiring means 2 for acquiring positional information on one'"'"'s own vehicle on a map and the environmental information, and an environmental condition detection means 3 for detecting an environmental condition relating to a traveling road on which one'"'"'s own vehicle is driven according image information or the information acquired from a radar. The light distribution control means 4 of a lighting device 5 performs light distribution control over the headlamp according to more reliable one of both kinds of information adopted with the priority given thereto out of the information derived from the map information acquiring means 2 and the information detected by the environmental condition detection means 3 or according to the information complemented with both kinds of information described above.
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13 Claims
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1. A vehicle headlamp apparatus comprising:
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map information acquiring means for acquiring positional information on one'"'"'s own vehicle on a map and the environmental information;
environmental condition detection means for detecting an environmental condition relating to a traveling road on which one'"'"'s own vehicle is driven according image information or the information acquired from a radar; and
light distribution control means for varying the light distribution of a headlamp attached to a vehicle in accordance with variation with the travel condition of one'"'"'s own vehicle and the environmental condition, wherein said light distribution control means performs light distribution control over the headlamp according to one of information adopted with the priority given thereto out of the information derived from said map information acquiring means and the information detected by said environmental condition detection means or according to information complemented with both kinds of information above. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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8. A vehicle headlamp apparatus as claimed in claim if further comprising steering information acquiring means for acquiring steering information to supply said light distribution control means.
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