Headlight control apparatus

A headlight control apparatus configured to be applied to a vehicle, the headlight control apparatus comprising:

• a frontal imager configured to monitor a pedestrian and a structure present in a frontal area ahead of the vehicle;
• a driver imager configured to recognize a line of sight of a driver who drives the vehicle;
• one or more headlights configured to irradiate the frontal area by emitting irradiation beams irradiating different directions at a same time, the irradiation beams being switchable between a high beam and a low beam;
• a notifier configured to notify the driver that the pedestrian has been detected in the frontal area;
• and
• a headlight controller configured to control the one or more headlights and the notifier, based on data acquired from the frontal imager and data acquired from the driver imager, wherein
• the headlight controller comprises one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors,
• the one or more memories comprise a storage configured to store the data acquired from the frontal imager and the data acquired from the driver imager, and
• the one or more processors are configured to,
• when the headlight controller determines that the line of sight of the driver is directed toward the pedestrian, based on the data acquired from the driver imager, and that the pedestrian has recognized the vehicle, based on the data acquired from the frontal imager, or
• when the headlight controller determines that the line of sight of the driver has shifted from the notifier to the frontal area, based on the data acquired from the driver imager, and that the pedestrian has recognized the vehicle, based on the data acquired from the frontal imager,
• set an irradiation beam of any headlight directed toward the pedestrian out of the one or more headlights to the low beam.