Lighting apparatus for vehicle and control method the same
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyoung Jin CHOI, Seung Woo BAEK, Ban Suk CHOI, Jun Hyuk CHA
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Abstract
A lighting apparatus for a vehicle may include: a first body mounted on a vehicle body, a second body rotatably installed in the first body, a driving unit configured to rotate the second body, a lighting unit rotated along with the second body and configured to radiate a lighting signal to an outside of the vehicle, a speaker unit rotated along with the second body and configured to output an acoustic signal to the outside of the vehicle.
Claims18
A lighting apparatus for a vehicle comprising:
- a first body mounted on a vehicle body;
- a second body rotatably installed in the first body;
- a driving unit configured to rotate the second body;
- a lighting unit rotatable along with the second body and configured to radiate a lighting signal to an outside of the vehicle;
- and
- a speaker unit rotatable along with the second body and configured to output an acoustic signal to the outside of the vehicle.
A method of controlling a lighting apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- detecting a pedestrian located in front of the vehicle;
- determining a walking path of the pedestrian based on the detected information;
- and
- outputting a lighting signal and an acoustic signal to the walking path of the pedestrian.
A method of controlling a lighting apparatus for a vehicle, the method comprising:
- detecting a driving state of a vehicle and a moving object around the vehicle;
- determining a collision possibility between the vehicle and the moving object based on the driving state of the vehicle and a location of the moving object;
- and
- outputting a lighting signal and an acoustic signal toward the moving object when determining that the collision possibility between the vehicle and the moving object is present.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.