Patent ID: 8476834

Claim:
An automatic lighting control system for predicting a movement route and showing the movement route through control of lamps, comprising: a camera section which is disposed on the movement route to pick up an image; a lamp control section which controls luminance and/or turning-on/off of each of a plurality of lamps; a DB section which stores resident information including address information and vehicle information, and route-related information; an image recognition section which recognizes vehicle parking spot information and the vehicle information based on the image provided by the camera section and checks an actual movement route of a vehicle passenger through the image; and a controller which determines a predicted movement route between a parking spot and a residence based on the address information extracted by matching the vehicle information provided by the image recognition section with the DB section, the parking spot information, and the route-related information, generates control information for lamps located on the predicted movement route, provides the generated control information to the lamp control section, shows the predicted movement route of the passenger through lamp control by the lamp control section, and, if the actual movement route provided by the image recognition section is different from the predicted movement route, generates control information for a different movement route according to a movement direction and replaces the generated control information for the existing control information by providing the generated control information to the lamp control section.