System and Method for Controlling Vehicle Headlights
First Claim
1. A control system for automatically controlling headlights of a vehicle, comprising:
- an optical system for imaging external sources of light within a predetermined field of view; and
an image processing system for processing images from said optical system and providing a control signal for controlling the headlights as a function of the processed images.
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Abstract
Control system and method for automatically controlling headlights of a vehicle includes an optical system for imaging external sources of light within a predetermined field of view and an image processing system for processing images from the optical system and providing a control signal for controlling the headlights as a function of the processed images. Processing the images may entail identifying a source of radiation in the images, the control signal being provided to dim the headlights when a source of radiation in the images is identified as a headlight or taillight of another vehicle. To this end, the image processing system may include a trained pattern recognition system for processing the images to identify the source of radiation, e.g., a pattern recognition algorithm generated from data of possible sources of radiation including headlights and taillights of vehicles and patterns of received radiation from the possible sources.
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20 Claims
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1. A control system for automatically controlling headlights of a vehicle, comprising:
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an optical system for imaging external sources of light within a predetermined field of view; and an image processing system for processing images from said optical system and providing a control signal for controlling the headlights as a function of the processed images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for automatically controlling headlights of a vehicle, comprising:
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imaging external sources of light within a predetermined field of view to obtain images of an environment outside of the vehicle; processing the obtained images from the optical system; and providing a control signal for controlling the headlights as a function of the processed images. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. In a vehicle including headlights and a rear view mirror situated inside a passenger compartment of the vehicle, a control system for automatically controlling the headlights of a vehicle, comprising:
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an optical system for imaging external sources of light, said optical system being arranged on said rear view mirror; an image processing system for receiving images from said optical system and identifying whether sources of light in the images originate from headlights or taillights of other vehicles, said image processing system being arranged to dim the headlights when it identifies that a source of light in an image originates from the headlights or taillights of another vehicle.
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