Patent ID: 8480270

Claim:
A headlamp aiming system comprising: a lamp unit configured to emit light in front of a vehicle; a light axis displacement unit configured to displace the light axis of the lamp unit in at least one of the vehicle vertical direction and the vehicle horizontal direction; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a deviation between an attention area in a light distribution pattern emitted on an aiming screen by the lamp unit and a reference area in front of the vehicle that is to be matched to the attention area; and a displacement control unit configured to displace the light axis of the lamp unit by driving the light axis displacement unit such that the attention area is matched to the reference area using the deviation acquired by the information acquisition unit, wherein the attention area is an attention point defined on a cut-off line of a light distribution pattern for aiming of which part of a contour is made to have a right angle, and the reference area is a reference point projected in front of a vehicle that is to be matched to the attention point.