Patent ID: 8847492
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: B60Q

Abstract:
1. A lighting control device for a headlamp of a vehicle, the lighting control device comprising: a light-blocking range setting unit that sets a light-blocking range in a light distribution pattern in accordance with a position of a target vehicle that is present ahead of the vehicle, based on an image acquired by capturing a front view from the vehicle by a camera; a moving direction detection unit that detects a moving direction of the target vehicle in a horizontal direction based on the image; a light-blocking range correction unit that corrects the light-blocking range based on the moving direction detected by the moving direction detection unit, wherein the light-blocking range correction unit corrects the light-blocking range so that at least a moving direction side of the light-blocking range is expanded; and a headlamp control unit that drives the headlamp based on the light-blocking range corrected by the light-blocking range correction unit.