Vehicle lamp system
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorJun Iwasaki
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Abstract
This vehicle lamp system, which is used together with a vehicle control unit that controls the travel state of a vehicle, comprises an ID lamp which is mounted on the vehicle and which lights up when the vehicle control unit controls the travel state of the vehicle, and a lamp control unit which controls the ID lamp. The vehicle control unit is configured to output to the lamp control unit an advance warning signal that indicates a travel state change prior to making said change, and the lamp control unit is configured to control the ID lamp to switch between a first mode carried out when the vehicle control unit maintains a prescribed travel state without changing the travel state, and a second mode carried out when an advance warning signal has been inputted from the vehicle control unit.
Claims5
A vehicle lamp system configured to be used together with a vehicle control unit configured to control a traveling state of a vehicle, the vehicle lamp system comprising:
- an automatic driving lamp mounted on the vehicle, the automatic driving lamp being turned on when the vehicle control unit controls the traveling state of the vehicle;
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- a lamp control unit configured to control the automatic driving lamp, wherein
- the vehicle control unit is configured to output an advance notice signal which notifies a change in advance to the lamp control unit before a traveling state is changed, and
- the lamp control unit is configured to control the automatic driving lamp by switching a mode between a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being executed when the vehicle control unit maintains a predetermined traveling state without changing the traveling state, the second mode being executed when the advance notice signal is received from the vehicle control unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.