18916107. VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL METHOD, AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL PROGRAM (DENSO CORPORATION)

VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL METHOD, AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL PROGRAM

Organization Name

DENSO CORPORATION

Inventor(s)

Yukimi Murase of Okazaki-shi JP

Takuya Nomura of Chita-gun JP

Tetsuya Ikuta of Miyoshi-shi JP

VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL METHOD, AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL PROGRAM

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18916107 titled 'VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL METHOD, AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT CONTROL PROGRAM

Original Abstract Submitted

A vehicle headlight control apparatus controls a headlamp capable of adjusting the amount of light for each of a plurality of light distribution areas. The vehicle headlight control apparatus includes: a high-luminance target detection unit that detects a high-luminance target ahead of a vehicle based on a camera image of a camera; a dimming control unit that performs dimming control to reduce the amount of light in the light distribution area including the high-luminance target based on a detection result of the high-luminance target detection unit; and a dimming control determination unit that determines whether the brightness of a surrounding environment is a threshold or higher based on the camera image. The dimming control unit does not perform the dimming control when the dimming control determination unit determines that the brightness of the surrounding environment is the threshold or higher.