Patent ID: 11933879
Assignee: KARMA AUTOMOTIVE LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 8:
9. A vehicle comprising:
a first sensor;
a lighting system configured to direct illumination toward a ground surface, the lighting system comprising a segmented lighting array having different segments, the different segments configured to direct light in different directions; and
data processing hardware in communication with the first sensor and the lighting system, the data processing hardware performing operations comprising:
receiving first data captured by the first sensor;
determining, based on the first data captured by the first sensor, a location of a person outside the vehicle as the person moves relative to the vehicle; and
instructing the lighting system of the vehicle to direct illumination toward the ground surface where the location of the person is determined outside the vehicle by instructing the segmented lighting array to illuminate different segments at different times based on the location of the person as the person outside the vehicle moves relative to the vehicle.