Patent ID: 8410703

Claim:
A procedure of controls of the supply of a vehicle headlamp suitable to supply lighting in high beam function and/or low beam function, wherein said procedure comprises the following stages for at least one among the low high beam function and the high beam function: determining at least one driving parameter pertinent to the lighting of the vehicle; defining a plurality of lighting modes characterized by the value of at least one parameter; attributing a supply mode of the headlamp to each lighting mode: storing in memory the supply mode associated with each of the lighting modes; wherein the supply modes are defined by carrying out the following stages: defining a desired life duration for the headlamp and/or desired maximum energy consumption of the headlamp for a given duration of use of the headlamp; defining a previously determined driving profile characterizing a relative duration of use of the headlamp in each of the lighting modes; and calculating a supply mode for each lighting mode, so that with this supply mode the headlamp provides lighting satisfactory for this lighting mode while presenting a life duration close to the desired life duration and/or while inducing an energy consumption close to the maximum energy consumption desired for a use corresponding to the previously determined driving profile.