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Headlight control device and headlight

  • US 9,815,400 B2
  • Filed: 01/26/2015
  • Issued: 11/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A headlight control device provided in a vehicle to perform headlight control and to control a distribution of light irradiated from a light source, the headlight control device comprising:

  • a controller, the controller is configured todetermine, in a determination unit, a presence and an absence of an obstacle in front of the vehicle and determine a position of the obstacle;

    set up, in a setting unit, an area covering the obstacle as an intensified illumination area when the determination unit determines the presence of the obstacle, wherein the intensified illumination area is smaller than each of a high beam area and a low beam area and is an area to which the light from the light source is irradiated in a manner different than a peripheral area of the intensified illumination area; and

    control, by the controller, the distribution of the light irradiated from the light source so that the intensified illumination area, which is smaller than each of the high beam area and the low beam area and is set up by the setting unit, has an illuminated zone and a non-illuminated zone.

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