Abstract: An apparatus for object and state recognition in a vehicle front area, including a headlamp for emitting light into the vehicle front area according to a predefined light distribution, including a camera for recording an image of the vehicle front area, including an image evaluation device for evaluating the image recorded by the camera. The image evaluation device having a smoothing routine, with the aid of which the captured image is smoothed as a raw image for the purpose of forming an intermediate image. A normalization routine with which the raw image and the intermediate image are normalized to a target image with the aid of a mathematical operation, so that the target image has normalized light intensity values, An image evaluation routine evaluates light intensity values of the target image for the purpose of recognizing a structuring and/or objects in the vehicle front area.

Abstract: An apparatus for capturing surroundings of a vehicle, which includes an illumination unit for emitting light pulses into surroundings, an optical capture unit for detecting the surroundings, an evaluation unit for evaluating a detection signal recorded by the optical capture unit. The illumination unit is designed such that at least two light pulses are periodically emitted, luminous areas of the light pulses having light patterns designed to be complementary to each other. The optical capture unit being controlled such that it captures an illumination area illuminated by the light pulses as a detection image synchronously with the emission of the light pulses.

Abstract: An apparatus for identifying a weather condition in surroundings of a vehicle, which includes an illuminating unit for illuminating the surroundings, a control unit for controlling the illuminating unit, an image capturing unit for capturing image information of the surroundings, an evaluation unit for evaluating the image information, image data provided by the image capturing unit being compared with predefined reference image data, each characterizing different weather conditions, and a weather condition signal being generated, depending on a match of the comparison, the control unit including a pulse modulation device, with the aid of which the illuminating unit is controlled in such a way that the illuminating unit emits pulsed light signals