Light illumination control device, light illumination control method, and program

A light illumination control method that controls light emission of front lamps, which illuminate light toward a front side of an own vehicle, based on results of sensing an object present at the front side of the own vehicle, and in which a computer executes processing comprising:

• in a case in which the object is an object that is a target of light adjustment, computing a light adjustment area that is an area including the object that is a target of light adjustment and in which an amount of light that is illuminated is made to be different than that of illuminated regions other than the light adjustment area;
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• in a case in which the object that is a target of light adjustment is an approaching object that advances in a direction of approaching the own vehicle, and a distance between the own vehicle and the approaching object is less than or equal to a predetermined value, enlarging a range of the computed light adjustment area, and
• wherein the processor controls the front lamps so as to make an amount of light illuminated toward the light adjustment area less than an amount of light illuminated toward regions other than the light adjustment area, the amount of light illumination amount of light illuminated toward the light adjustment area being greater than zero.

A non-transitory recording medium on which is recorded a program that controls light emission of front lamps, which illuminate light toward a front side of an own vehicle, based on results of sensing an object present at the front side of the own vehicle, and that is executable by a computer to perform processing comprising:

• in a case in which the object is an object that is a target of light adjustment, computing a light adjustment area that is an area including the object that is a target of light adjustment and in which an amount of light that is illuminated is made to be different than that of illuminated regions other than the light adjustment area;
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• in a case in which the object that is a target of light adjustment is an approaching object that advances in a direction of approaching the own vehicle, and a distance between the own vehicle and the approaching object is less than or equal to a predetermined value, enlarging a range of the computed light adjustment area, and
• wherein the processor controls the front lamps so as to make an amount of light illuminated toward the light adjustment area less than an amount of light illuminated toward regions other than the light adjustment area, the amount of light illumination amount of light illuminated toward the light adjustment area being greater than zero.