Abstract: A vehicle lamp system is used with a visible light camera. The vehicle lamp system has a white low-beam lamp, a white high-beam lamp, and a white imaging lamp. The visible light camera has an imaging range wider than an illumination range of the low-beam lamp. The imaging lamp has an illumination range wider than the imaging range of the visible light camera.

Abstract: A HUD includes an image generation unit and a controller. The image generation unit emits first light for generating a first virtual image object to be displayed at a position apart from a vehicle by a first distance, and second light for generating a second virtual image object to be displayed at a position apart from the vehicle by a second distance longer than the first distance. The controller controls the image generation unit. The controller causes information being displayed on at least one of the first virtual image object and the second virtual image object to be displayed on the other of the first virtual image object and the second virtual image object, based on information related to traveling of the vehicle and an instruction from an occupant of the vehicle.

Abstract: A gated camera divides a depth direction into a plurality of ranges and generates a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges. An illumination device radiates probe light. A controller controls a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of an image sensor. An image processing device generates a slice image based on a sensor image transmitted from the image sensor. The image processing device selects M (M?2) pixel values in ascending order of pixel values for each line of the sensor image, calculates an average value of the M pixel values, and subtracts the average value from each pixel value of the corresponding line.

Abstract: Provided is a LiDAR sensor unit in which even when a lens element is provided, measurement data is less likely to be affected by the lens element. A LiDAR sensor unit has: a LiDAR sensor; a lens element that is provided on an optical path of light emitted from the LiDAR sensor; and a processing unit that outputs measurement data which has been measured by the LiDAR sensor and which includes the orientation and the distance of a measurement subject. The processing unit is configured to not output measurement data of a specific orientation which is the same but the distance corresponding thereto differs before and after attachment of the lens element under the same environment.

Abstract: A vehicle cleaner system includes a cleaner unit discharges a cleaning fluid toward a cleaning target mounted on a vehicle; a motor pump supplies the cleaning fluid to the cleaner unit; a normally closed type solenoid valve provided between the cleaner unit and the motor pump and switches between permission and non-permission of movement of the cleaning fluid from the motor pump to the cleaner unit; and a cleaner control unit controls the motor pump and the solenoid valve. The cleaner control unit sets an operation stop time period for stopping an operation of at least one of the motor pump and the solenoid valve, and after the cleaning fluid is discharged to the cleaning target, stops the operation of at least one of the motor pump and the solenoid valve during the operation stop time period based on a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A vehicle cleaner unit is configured to clean a cleaning object mounted near a bumper or a grille of a vehicle. The vehicle cleaner unit includes a blower configured to be attached to a rear surface of the bumper or the grille. The bumper or the grille is provided with an air outlet for jetting air blown from the blower toward the cleaning object.

Abstract: A sensing system includes an image sensor and an arithmetic processing device. The arithmetic processing device processes image data generate by the image sensor. When the arithmetic processing device detects a decrease in contrast in the same determination region of two consecutive frames of an image, the arithmetic processing device determines that a water droplet has adhered.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular lamp having a millimeter wave radar (30) disposed in a recessed section (14a1) formed in an outer surface (14a) of an outer lens (14) covering a lamp chamber (16). The vehicular lamp comprises: a holding bracket (40) for holding the millimeter wave radar (30); and a radar cover (50) for covering the millimeter wave radar (30). The holding bracket (40): is fixed to the outer lens (14) in a state in which the holding bracket (40) holds the millimeter wave radar (30); and is fixed to the holding bracket (40) in a state in which the radar cover (50) covers the millimeter wave radar (30).

Abstract: In a vehicle lamp configured to emit light from a plurality of light emitting elements to a lamp front via a projection lens, a horizontally-long light distribution pattern can be formed as a clear light distribution pattern even in a case where a substrate is inclined in a left-right direction with respect to a vertical plane perpendicular to a lamp front-back direction. A projection lens is divided into a first lens region for controlling direct light from six first light emitting elements located closer to a front end portion of a substrate and a second lens region for controlling direct light from six second light emitting elements located closer to a back end portion of the substrate, and a focal length of the second lens region is set to a value greater than a focal length of the first lens region.

Abstract: A measurement device includes: a light emitting unit configured to emit pulsed light; an imaging sensor configured to output a signal value corresponding to an exposure amount for each pixel; a timing control unit configured to expose the pixel of the imaging sensor to reflected light in an exposure period that is set according to a measurement target region and has an exposure width shorter than a pulse width of the pulsed light; and a calculation unit configured to calculate an arrival time of the reflected light based on signal values corresponding to three or more consecutive exposure periods that can include the pulse width.

Abstract: A lighting circuit applied to a vehicle lighting tool includes: a power supply line to which power supply voltage is supplied in a first period of time out of a predetermined cycle including the first period of time and a second period of time, the supply of the power supply voltage being stopped in the second period of time; a regulator that supplies driving current to a light source based on the power supply voltage across the power supply line; a detection circuit that detects whether there is an abnormality in the light source; a signal output circuit that operates based on the power supply voltage across the power supply line and outputs a signal according to a detection result of the detection circuit; and a control circuit that stops an operation of the regulator when the signal indicating that there is an abnormality in the light source is output.

Abstract: A right-side vehicle lamp (2R) comprises: a lamp housing (14); a lamp cover (12) that covers an opening in the lamp housing (14); a low-beam illumination unit (3) positioned inside a lamp chamber (S) formed from the lamp housing (14) and the lamp cover (12); radar (5) configured so as to emit radio waves outside the vehicle, thereby acquiring radar data; and a shielding part (6) positioned so as to face the radar (5) so as to shield the radar (5) from the outside of the vehicle, the shielding part (6) being configured so as to transmit the radio waves emitted from the radar (5). The shielding part (6) is formed integrally with the lamp cover (12). The boundary (B) between the shielding part (6) and the lamp cover (12) is positioned outside the field of view (Fv) of the radar (5).

Abstract: A vehicle light fixture system includes: a low-beam unit adapted to form a low-beam light distribution pattern having a cutoff line and to independently adjust illuminance in a plurality of subareas in the low-beam light distribution pattern arranged below and along the cutoff line; and a light distribution control device that controls the low-beam unit to form a first reduced illuminance portion in, of the plurality of subareas, the subarea having a position in a vehicle width direction overlapping a position of a vehicle in front in the vehicle width direction.

Abstract: A composite vehicle lamp includes: a lamp unit; and a lamp housing configured to house a plurality of the lamp units. Each of the plurality of the lamp units has: a light source; and an optical system configured to emit light from the light source in a desired light distribution. The plurality of the lamp units includes: one light-guide-type lamp unit having a light guide; and another light-guide-type lamp unit having another light guide whose form is different from that of the one light-guide-type lamp unit. The one light-guide-type lamp unit and the another light-guide-type lamp unit are turned on as lamps having the same function.

Abstract: A high-definition lamp unit includes a plurality of individually controllable pixels, and emits lamp light having a light distribution corresponding to states of the plurality of pixels. A leveling actuator can control a mechanical position of the high-definition lamp unit. A controller controls the leveling actuator and the high-definition lamp unit according to a pitch angle of a vehicle body.

Abstract: A vehicular headlight (20) includes a first light source unit (41), a second light source unit (61), a temperature sensor (47), and a control unit (110). When the temperature derating is performed on the first light source unit (41) based on the temperature in a state where the light distribution pattern (910) of a low-beam is formed, the control unit (110) controls the power to be supplied to each of a plurality of light-emitting elements (43) so that the light amount of at least a part of the first light with which at least a region (911) of a first light distribution pattern (400) is irradiated decreases as compared with that before the temperature derating.

Abstract: A sensor unit is disposed outside a lamp housing of a vehicle to detect information in an outside area of the vehicle. An actuator is configured to be able to change at least one of a position and a posture of the sensor unit with respect to the lamp housing. A processor is configured to control an operation of the actuator.

Abstract: A control unit (CO) in a vehicle headlight (1) controls a light emitting unit (10) such that, when a signal indicating another vehicle (80, 90) is input, a region including a first region (211, 311) in a light distribution pattern (200, 300) becomes a light reduction region (210, 310) in which a total light flux amount of light from the light emitting unit (10) decreases as compared with that before the signal indicating the other vehicle (80, 90) is input, and controls the light emitting unit (10) such that, when a signal indicating a turn sign of the other vehicle (80, 90) is input, at least the first region (211, 311) in the light reduction region (210, 310) expands to a turning direction side indicated by the turn sign as compared with that before the signal indicating the turn sign of the other vehicle (80, 90) is input.

Abstract: A light distribution controller controls a light distribution variable lamp including a plurality of pixels arranged in an array. The processor executes the software program to generate at least one image defining the light distribution of the light distribution variable lamp, and writes the image in the volatile memory. A monitoring microcontroller detects an abnormality of the processor. A hardware logic circuit (i) generates a light distribution image data to be output to the light distribution variable lamp on the basis of at least one image written in the volatile memory in a normal state of the processor, and (ii) generates a light distribution image data on the basis of the generated auxiliary image without depending on the processor in an abnormal state of the processor.

Abstract: A substrate sheet (20) for a card-type lamp unit (5) includes the card-type lamp unit (5) which has a polygonal substrate body (10) having an outer peripheral side (10b to 10d) and a connector forming side (12), an external connector insertion portion (11) formed on the connector forming side (12), a heat dissipation member (16) integrated with the substrate body (10) and having a linear expansion coefficient different from that of the substrate body (10), and a light emitting element light source (6) connected to a control circuit (13) for light ON/OFF and a frame body (23) integrated with the card-type lamp unit (5) via a coupling end portion (10e) formed on the outer peripheral side of the substrate body (10), in which a coupling end portion (21, 22) for the frame body (23) is provided on the connector forming side (12).