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Method for controlling a headlamp system for a vehicle, and headlamp system

  • US 9,371,031 B2
  • Filed: 09/22/2015
  • Issued: 06/21/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented method for controlling a headlamp system for a vehicle, the headlamp system having two headlamps set apart from each other, comprising:

  • detecting, by a sensor, road users in front of the vehicle in a driving direction;

    producing, by at least one of the two headlamps, a first total light pattern having an illumination range on a first side of a center axis is greater than on a second side of this center axis, a second total light pattern having an illumination range in a direction of at least one detected road user that is less than a distance to the detected road user and anillumination range in another direction that is greater than the distance to the detected road user, and a third total light pattern having an illumination range in the direction of at least one detected road user that is less than the distance to the detected road user and greater than, or equal to, the illumination range in other directions; and

    during a switch from the first total light pattern to the second total light pattern, reducing the illumination range of at least one headlamp on the first side of the center axis to at least such an extent that it is less than the distance to the detected road user, the second total light pattern being produced subsequently.

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