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Motor vehicle having at least one headlight with separately actuated light segments

US11590881B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

AUDI AG · DE

Inventors

Christian Funk · Beilngries, DE
Florenz Barmeyer · Ingolstadt, DE
Tilman ARMBRUSTER · Ingolstadt, DE
Carsten Gut · Ingolstadt, DE
Said Omerbegovic · Frankfurt, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 15, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 15, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF21Y2115/10
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle having at least one headlight for illuminating the surroundings of the motor vehicle and a control device for controlling the headlight, wherein the headlight comprises a plurality of lighting segments that are arranged in the manner of a matrix and that can be actuated separately by the control device for providing a lighting brightness that can be predefined separately for the individual lighting segments, wherein the control parameter predefining the specific lighting brightness for each of the lighting segments can be calculated by the control device in at least one computing step as a function of input parameters that can be provided by at least one vehicle device, wherein the computing step or at least one of the computing steps may be executed in parallel by the control device for a plurality of the lighting segments.

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