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

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method executed on data processing hardware of a vehicle that causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:
receiving first data captured by a 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 a lighting system of the vehicle to direct illumination toward a ground surface where the location of the person is determined outside the vehicle as the person moves relative to the vehicle, the lighting system comprising a segmented lighting array having different segments, the different segments configured to direct light in different directions,
wherein instructing the lighting system to direct illumination comprises 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.