Patent ID: 8134295

Claim:
A control system for a lamp of a vehicle, the control system comprising: a target irradiating direction setting unit configured to set, in accordance with an operating condition of the vehicle, a target irradiating direction of the lamp; and an actuator configured to control, based on a reference direction, an irradiating direction of the lamp to be directed in the target irradiating direction, wherein the actuator comprises a reference setting section arranged to execute a reference setting operation to set the irradiating direction of the lamp to be directed in the reference direction, and wherein the target irradiating direction setting unit comprises: a condition determining section arranged to determine whether the reference setting section has executed the reference setting operation based on information stored in memory indicating that the reference setting section has executed the reference setting operation; and a reference setting command section arranged so that, when the condition determining section determines that the reference setting section has not yet executed the reference setting operation, the reference setting command section instructs the reference setting section to execute the reference setting operation.