Automatic lighting system and method for vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorHyelim Baek
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Abstract
An automatic lighting system and method for a vehicle are provided and the automatic lighting system includes a sun visor switch operated by a controller and configured to be turned on when a sun visor is lowered and turned off when the sun visor is raised. A mirror cover sensor detects an opened state or a closed state of a mirror cover while the sun visor is lowered, and the mirror cover covers a mirror attached to the sun visor. In addition, an interior lamp that includes at least one light-emitting diode (LED) is operated by the controller to be turned off when a vehicle runs and turned on when the vehicle stops while the mirror cover is opened.
Claims14
An automatic lighting system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a sun visor switch executed by a controller and configured to be turned on when a sun visor is lowered and turned off when the sun visor is raised;
- a mirror cover sensor operated by the controller and configured to detect an opened state or a closed state of a mirror cover while the sun visor is lowered, wherein the mirror cover covers a mirror attached to the sun visor;
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- an interior lamp that includes at least one light-emitting diode (LED) and is operated by the controlled to be turned off when a vehicle runs and turned on when the vehicle stops while the mirror cover is opened.
An automatic lighting method executed by an automatic lighting system for a vehicle, comprising:
- turning on, by a controller, a sun visor switch when a sun visor is lowered;
- detecting, by the controller, an opened state of a mirror cover of the sun visor while the sun visor switch is turned on;
- determining, by the controller, whether the vehicle is stopped when an automatic turn-on mode is set, wherein the automatic turn-on mode is a mode in which an interior lamp is turned on while stopping;
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- turning off, by the controller, the interior lamp when the vehicle runs and turning on the interior lamp when the vehicle stops.
A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions executed by a controller, the computer readable medium comprising:
- program instructions that turn on a sun visor switch when a sun visor is lowered;
- program instructions that detect an opened state of a mirror cover of the sun visor while the sun visor switch is turned on;
- program instructions that determine whether the vehicle is stopped when an automatic turn-on mode is set, wherein the automatic turn-on mode is a mode in which an interior lamp is turned on while stopping;
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- program instructions that turn off the interior lamp when the vehicle runs and turning on the interior lamp when the vehicle stops.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.