Patent ID: 8498779
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: B60Q

Abstract:
1. A vehicle headlight control device that detects a vehicle present in a preceding area of an own vehicle at prescribed intervals through a recognition camera and that controls a light distribution of a vehicle headlight in accordance with a detection result, the vehicle headlight control device comprising: a vehicle identification unit that identifies, upon detection of a vehicle ahead, the vehicle ahead that has been detected; a turning detection unit that detects a turning motion of each said identified vehicle ahead; and a light distribution control unit that generates a light distribution control signal for controlling the light distribution of the vehicle headlight, wherein the light distribution control unit generates the light distribution control signal for controlling the vehicle headlight such that the vehicle headlight is instructed to perform a low-beam illumination to an area where the vehicle ahead is detected and perform a high-beam illumination to a non-detection area, and such that the low-beam illumination is maintained for a prescribed delay time with respect to a non-detection area where an vehicle ahead was determined to be making a turn immediately before turning into a non-detected state.