Vehicular lamp
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorTatsuma KITAZAWA
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Abstract
Provided is a vehicular lamp capable of notifying, when a subject vehicle approaches a corner with a blind spot, a pedestrian or other vehicles in the blind spot at the corner of the subject vehicle approaching the corner. In a vehicular lamp which includes an adaptive lamp unit (4L, 4R), an object detection signal acquirer (5, 14) that acquires an object detection signal around a vehicle, and an adaptive controller (6L, 6R) that adjusts an irradiation area and an irradiation light amount of the adaptive lamp unit (4L, 4R) based on the acquired object detection signal, the adaptive lamp unit (4L, 4R) is configured to irradiate a curve mirror (CM, CM1, CM2) detected around the vehicle with light based on an object detection signal of the curve mirror (CM, CM1, CM2).
Claims6
A vehicular lamp comprising:
- an adaptive lamp unit;
- an object detection signal acquirer that acquires an object detection signal around a vehicle;
- and an adaptive controller that adjusts an irradiation area and an irradiation light amount of the adaptive lamp unit based on the acquired object detection signal, wherein
- the adaptive lamp unit is configured to irradiate a curve mirror detected around the vehicle with light based on an object detection signal of the curve mirror.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.