Patent ID: 8154207

Claim:
A light apparatus control system for a vehicle, comprising: a light apparatus that illuminates a space outside of the vehicle upon turning on thereof; a drive means for driving the light apparatus to turn on or off the light apparatus; a lighting control means for controlling the drive means to turn on or off the light apparatus based on a light intensity of ambient light applied from outside of the vehicle; an upper light intensity sensing means for measuring an upper light intensity of the ambient light that is applied from an upper side of the vehicle; a front light intensity sensing means for measuring a front light intensity of the ambient light that is applied from a front side of the vehicle; and an entry determining means for determining whether the vehicle has entered an area under a covering object that covers the upper side of the vehicle, wherein in the case where the entry determining means determines that the vehicle has entered the area under the covering object, the lighting control means turns on the light apparatus by controlling the drive means when both of a measurement of the upper light intensity, which is measured with the upper light intensity sensing means, and a measurement of the front light intensity, which is measured with the front light intensity sensing means, require the turning on of the light apparatus.