METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADAPTING A BRIGHTNESS OF A HEADLIGHT FOR A VEHICLE

• US 20160059768A1
• Filed: 09/01/2015
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: NIEMZ, Volker
• Application Number:
  US14/841,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20160059768A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/143 combined with another condition, e.g. using vehicle recognition from camera images or activation of wipers
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 2300/054 Variable non-standard intensity, i.e. emission of various beam intensities different from standard intensities, e.g. continuous or stepped transitions of intensity
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 2300/45 Special conditions, e.g. pedestrians, road signs or potential dangers

Abstract

A method is provided for adapting a brightness of a headlight for a vehicle, the method including a step of determining a headlight control signal for adapting the brightness using a piece of distance information, the piece of distance information representing a distance between the vehicle and an object illuminated or illuminatable by the at least one headlight.

Claims

1. A method for adapting a brightness of a headlight for a vehicle, comprising:

determining a headlight control signal for adapting the brightness of the headlight using a piece of distance information that represents a distance between the vehicle and an object one of illuminated and illuminatable by the headlight.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the piece of distance information represents a signal from one of an ultrasonic detection system, a video sensor system, a laser sensor, a LIDAR sensor, and a radar sensor system.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising reading in the piece of distance information.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising providing the headlight control signal to an interface to the headlight.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the determining of the headlight control signal includes determining the headlight control signal using at least one of a position signal representing a position of the object and an angle signal representing a direction with respect to the object.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the determining of the headlight control signal includes determining a further headlight control signal for adapting the brightness of a further headlight, the determining of the further headlight control signal includes using a further piece of distance information that represents a distance between the vehicle and the object one of illuminated and illuminatable by the further headlight.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the headlight control signal is provided using a piece of brightness information, the piece of brightness information representing a brightness of the object.

8. A device for adapting a brightness of a headlight for a vehicle, comprising:

a determining unit for determining a headlight control signal for adapting the brightness of the headlight using a piece of distance information which represents a distance between the vehicle and an object one of illuminated and illuminatable by the headlight.

9. A computer program, which is configured to carry out a method for adapting a brightness of a headlight for a vehicle, comprising:

determining a headlight control signal for adapting the brightness of the headlight using a piece of distance information that represents a distance between the vehicle and an object one of illuminated and illuminatable by the headlight.

10. A machine-readable storage medium having a computer program, which is configured to carry out a method for adapting a brightness of a headlight for a vehicle, comprising:

determining a headlight control signal for adapting the brightness of the headlight using a piece of distance information that represents a distance between the vehicle and an object one of illuminated and illuminatable by the headlight.