Patent ID: 11897384
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 13:
14. The system according to claim 8, further comprising:
an automatic dynamic lighting range regulating device, which includes a controller that determines an instantaneous pitch angle of the motor vehicle in response to received data of sensors and controls the vehicle headlamp system in such a way that a predetermined lighting direction angle with respect to a roadway plane is adjusted;
wherein the electronic control unit is further configured to:
when the roadway anomaly is detected, employ results of individual evaluation of the recorded camera data in relation to ranges and at least one quantity from among a magnitude of a vertical dimension (hi) of the roadway, a magnitude of a gradient (gradx;i) of the roadway in the forward driving direction, and an instantaneous speed (vmom) of the motor vehicle to calculate an expected time variation of a pitch movement of a body of the motor vehicle when driving over the roadway anomaly; and
control the lighting range regulating device in response to driving over the roadway anomaly by the motor vehicle, confirmed by signals of vehicle-based sensors, in order to compensate for a deviation of the lighting direction angle from the predetermined lighting direction angle with respect to a roadway plane during the pitch movement of the body of the motor vehicle generated by driving over the detected roadway anomaly.