Vehicular illuminating device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsuya Takagaki
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Abstract
A vehicular illuminating device includes a first illuminating part configured to illuminate in a traveling direction of a vehicle, a second illuminating part configured to be able to emit light by using an illumination pattern different from that of the first illuminating part, and a control part configured to control the second illuminating part so that the second illuminating part can illuminate in a direction of a recommended route by using the illumination pattern different from that of the first illuminating part if a route guiding part is guiding the vehicle to a destination along the recommended route.
Claims4
A vehicular illuminating device, comprising:
- a first illuminating part configured to illuminate in a traveling direction of a vehicle;
- a second illuminating part configured to be able to change at least one of color, luminance, and blinking/always-on state;
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- a control part configured to control the second illuminating part so that the second illuminating part can illuminate, before the vehicle passes through a bifurcation point, in a direction of a recommended route at the bifurcation point which is different from the traveling direction while differentiating the at least one of color, luminance, and blinking/always-on state from that of the first illuminating part, if the direction of the recommended route provided by a route guiding part is different from the traveling direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.