Patent ID: 11938858
Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 10:
11. A headlight control system comprising:
a camera mounted on a vehicle;
a camera ECU that controls the camera and generates a headlight control signal from an image captured by the camera;
a headlight;
a headlight ECU that controls the headlight based on the headlight control signal; and
a network that connects the camera ECU to the headlight ECU such that the camera ECU and the headlight ECU are able to communicate with each other, wherein
the camera ECU detects a license plate of a preceding vehicle and a cut-off line of the headlight from the image, calculates a control value for a light distribution pattern of the headlight such that the cut-off line is positioned higher by a predetermined height than an upper end of the license plate, and generates the headlight control signal including the control value for the light distribution pattern.