Patent ID: 7690712
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: B60J

Abstract:
1. An antidazzle apparatus for a movable body, the apparatus comprising: a first dimmer portion, which is movable vertically and laterally relative to a user located in the movable body and is positioned on a straight line linking a user's right eye and a sun; a second dimmer portion, which is movable vertically and laterally relative to the user and is positioned on a straight line linking a user's left eye and the sun; a camera to take an image of a face of the user; a positions-of-shadows detecting unit configured to analyze an image taken by the camera to detect positions of shadows provided on the face by the first and second dimmer portions under sunlight; a pupillary positions determining unit configured to determine positions of user's right and left pupils; and a first positions-of dimmer portions control unit configured to control positions of the first and second dimmer portions so that the positions of the shadows are superimposed on the positions of the user's right and left pupils, wherein a size of the first dimmer portion and a size of the second dimmer portion are determined to allow the first dimmer portion and second dimmer portion to interpose a non-overlapped portion therebetween.