Vehicle light control apparatus, system and method
First Claim
1. A vehicle light control apparatus comprising:
- an illumination control unit for executing illumination control on a mode of illumination of a headlight of a subject vehicle based on signal transmission of a subject identification signal unique to the subject vehicle and signal reception of the subject identification signal; and
an illumination adjustment requesting unit for identifying another vehicle having an illumination adjustment failure and returning another identification signal transmitted from the another vehicle and unique to the another vehicle, so that the another vehicle adjusts a mode of illumination thereof in response to the returned another identification signal.
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Abstract
A vehicle light control apparatus includes an illumination control unit for executing illumination control on the mode of illumination of a subject vehicle based on signal transmission of a vehicle ID signal unique to the subject vehicle and signal reception of the vehicle ID signal unique to the subject vehicle. The control unit identifies a vehicle having brightness exceeding a predetermined threshold from an image of other vehicles acquired through an image recognition MPU as a vehicle having an illumination adjustment failure, and returns the same vehicle identification signal transmitted from the other vehicle thus identified to vehicles other than the subject vehicle.
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15 Claims
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1. A vehicle light control apparatus comprising:
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an illumination control unit for executing illumination control on a mode of illumination of a headlight of a subject vehicle based on signal transmission of a subject identification signal unique to the subject vehicle and signal reception of the subject identification signal; and an illumination adjustment requesting unit for identifying another vehicle having an illumination adjustment failure and returning another identification signal transmitted from the another vehicle and unique to the another vehicle, so that the another vehicle adjusts a mode of illumination thereof in response to the returned another identification signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A vehicle light control method comprising:
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taking an image of other vehicles around a subject vehicle; receiving, from the other vehicles, identification signals unique to the other vehicles, respectively; detecting, in the other vehicles, another vehicle that has brightness exceeding a predetermined threshold in the image; transmitting, from the subject vehicle, a return signal identifying the another vehicle; and reducing intensity of illumination of a headlight of the another vehicle in response to the return signal transmitted from the subject vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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