Interior lighting device for a motor vehicle
AssigneeValeo Vision
InventorsThibaud Barillot, Romain Bel
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for controlling interior lighting of a motor vehicle interior including at least one light source, a projection support and a control module. The control module is capable of configuring the projection support so that it can receive at least one image emitted by the light source. The invention also relates to a method for lighting at least a part of an interior space of a motor vehicle by such an interior lighting device.
Claims20
An interior lighting device for a motor vehicle, the interior lighting device comprising:
- at least one light source configured to emit at least one light beam;
- at least one projection support;
- a sensor configured to detect a condition outside the motor vehicle;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to control the light source,
- control the at least one projection support to be in a passive mode or in an active mode in which the light beam forms an image on said projection support, according to a manual or automatic driving mode of the motor vehicle, and
- project the image based on the detected condition outside the motor vehicle.
A method for lighting at least a part of an interior space of a motor vehicle by an interior lighting device, said method comprising at least:
- detecting, by a sensor, a condition outside the motor vehicle;
- configuring at least one projection support of the motor vehicle by attenuation of light transmission;
- configuring at least one light source of the interior space of the motor vehicle to direct a light beam from said at least one light source onto the configured projection support;
- and
- projecting an image based on the detected condition outside the motor vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.