441 results about "Headed light" patented technology

The present invention relates to a headlamp for vehicles with a plurality of LED light sources combined into a single light-emitting surface, where an optical unit is allocated to at least one LED light source to generate some of a specified light distribution, where one or several LED light sources can be turned on or off such that the light distribution can be modified, where a first optical unit with first projection characteristics is placed before a first group of LED light sources and a second optical unit with second projection characteristics is placed before a second group of LED light sources such that a number of differently sized light spots can be generated in the traffic space by optionally turning on or off or dimming the LED light sources of the first group of LED light sources or the second group of LED light sources.

A light assembly with a mounting member includes a shell therein a plurality of lighting emitting diodes are located. An opening is located on the front part of the shell where an optical lens set with a protective ring is fitted. A caved-in battery container with a battery cover is located on the top portion of the shell. A power-input terminate socket is located on the back part of the shell. A removable rod is located on the bottom of the shell and is fordable into a rod containing concave portion. The removable rod is inserted into a holder connected with a sucker base, a secure ring, magnetic base, or a head-strap assembly. So, the light assembly serves as a wall light, a desk light, a head light or a warning light of a bicycle.

A compact work light that generates a light beam having high brightness and high illumination uniformity is disclosed. The work light includes a housing that houses a light source, a light homogenizer and an imaging lens in an operational relationship. The housing is attached to an adjustable mount, which can be attached to a fixed region such as wall, or to a movable support member such as a lamp base. The light source generates light that is uniformized by the light homogenizer. The homogenized light is then imaged by the imaging lens as a highly uniform, bright beam spot having a sharp boundary. The beam spot is formed at a selectable distance from the work light by varying the imaging lens and / or the adjustable mount. The work light is useful for a variety of industrial, professional and personal applications, including but not limited to a reading light, a dentist light, a head lamp, a head light and an optical projector.

A compact work light that generates a light beam having high brightness and high illumination uniformity is disclosed. The work light includes a housing that houses a light source, a light homogenizer and an imaging lens in an operational relationship. The housing is attached to an adjustable mount, which can be attached to a fixed region such as wall, or to a movable support member such as a lamp base. The light source generates light that is uniformized by the light homogenizer. The homogenized light is then imaged by the imaging lens as a highly uniform, bright beam spot having a sharp boundary. The beam spot is formed at a selectable distance from the work light by varying the imaging lens and / or the adjustable mount. The work light is useful for a variety of industrial, professional and personal applications, including but not limited to a reading light, a dentist light, a head lamp, a head light and an optical projector.

The present invention relates to an automatic calibrating and tracking system of driver sight line capable of combining a driver head position with a vehicle key part information and automatically calibrating the driver sight line. The driver sight line calibrating process of the system not has the calibrating point setting and sight line justifying process and the automatic calibrating and tracking system automatically calibrates the driver sight line according to the driver head position information and the relative position of the correlative components such as a vehicle rearview mirror and an instrument panel during the driving process. In order to increase the identification effect of the head feature, a light source system is automatically controlled according to the variance in the outside light intensity, namely when in the daytime and the light ray is relatively good, the visible light is used to identify and when in the night and the light ray is relatively weak, an infrared light source is used. The influence on identifying the head feature by vehicle head lights is avoided by the infrared light source in the night. The automatic calibrating and tracking system has important value on aspects such as driver attention research and fatigue drive based on sight line.

An adaptive regulator for the headlight of car is composed of a central control unit with MCU chip, a drive executing unit with step motor, a LIN bus transceiver between said central control unit and drive executing unit, and a position feedback module between said MCU chip and step motor. A method for setting up the initial position of headlight and an algorithm for the lighting on curved road are also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a moving head light fixture, which moving head light fixture comprises a light generating head, which head is carried in a yoke, which head is rotatable to the yoke, which yoke is rotatable to a base, which head comprises at least one electronic circuit for LED control, where the moving head comprises a first cooling plate comprising a number of LEDs; a second cooling plate comprising said at least one electronic circuit for LED control; and an air flow passage running from at least one end of said moving head, through at least said first cooling plate and / or said second cooling plate and between said first cooling plate and said second cooling plate. The present invention relates also to a cooling module for a moving head.

An illumination device with a number of light sources arranged in at least two groups of light sources that are individually controllable. The first group of light sources (203) have light collectors (209) such as internal reflection (TIR) lenses, mixers or other lenses placed over them to collect and convert light of the light sources into a number of light source beams. The second group of light sources (205) pass light through diffusing areas (215) of a diffuser (213) in the form of a diffusion cover included in the lamp housing to diffuse the light and create a background light for the first group of light sources. The light from the first group of light sources pass through non diffusing regions (211) of the diffuser cover without the light being diffused. The second group of light sources are interleaved with the first group by the diffuser having one or several diffusion areas between non diffusion areas. By controlling both groups of light sources based on the same target color the dotted look of led light sources can be removed or by controlling the two groups of light sources based on two different colors light effects can be obtained. The illumination device can be included in a moving head light source with a base, a yoke connected rotatably to the base and the head connected rotatably to the head.

The present invention discloses an illumination device comprising a base, a yoke connected to and rotatable relative to the base and a head connected to and rotatable relative to the yoke. The head comprises at least one light source generating light a light beam and wherein the light sources are arranged in a bucket shaped outer shell. The present invention relates also to a method of manufacturing such moving head light fixture. Further the present invention relates to a moving head light fixture where the head comprises a number of light sources generating a light beam; means for receiving user input from a user; and means for providing visual feedback to the user.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and device for counting vehicles, relating to the field of intelligent traffic monitoring and overcoming the problem of inaccurate vehicle counting. The method comprises the following steps of: determining a counting mode of the vehicles according to correlation coefficients corresponding to a gray scale histogram of a video image; in the daytime mode, carrying out motion detection and / or edge detection by utilizing a preset first virtual coil and vehicle head detection by utilizing a preset second virtual coil, and further identifying the vehicles in the video image and counting the vehicles; and in the night mode, carrying out head light detection and head light matching by utilizing a preset third virtual coil, and further identifying the vehicles in the video image and counting the vehicles. According to the embodiment of the invention, the counting modes of vehicle counting are determined according to the correlation coefficients corresponding to the gray scale histogram of the video image, the counting modes comprise the daytime mode and the night mode, and the corresponding method for counting the vehicles is called according to the determined counting mode, therefore, the accuracy rate of the vehicle counting is improved.

The invention provides a car head light based on the biconvex lens, characterized in that the main light source is the discharge lamp or the halogen lamp, and the car head light is composed of a free-form surface reflector, a light screen, a biconvex lens, a lens holder and the like. The car head light based on the biconvex lens of the invention adopts the free-form surface reflector, to make the light source emergence flock. The focus of the biconvex lens is set near the dead line of the light screen to make the dead line distinct. The biconvex lens design can avoid the damage of the car lighting circle, the matched mirror or the other parts on the car caused by the light focus of the sunshine. The invention reduces the risk of the light design, advances the safety, the stability and the service life, has strong universality, which is suitable for a plurality of models of cars.

The present invention relates to a inclement weather safety system where the purpose of the system is to allow other drivers in your vicinity to see your vehicle at a further distance away, when there is very severe weather conditions by strobing the head lights or fog lights or strobe lights at microsecond speed and / or increasing the illumination of various secondary lights of the motor vehicle.

A detector for checking the grading performance of motor vehicle headlight consists of two reference columns for positioning, three digital cameras, detection screen, driving mechanism of screen and computer. It features setting screen driving mechanism in front of motor vehicle, two digital cameras on top of screen with shooting range to cover planar width defined by two positioning reference column, another digital camera on one of two said columns or near center of line connected on the ground between said two columns. The detecting method is also disclosed.

A communication system for a vehicle comprises a mechanism for sensing a change in speed of the vehicle and a control device for sending a signal to a headlight activation circuit to modulate the vehicle's headlights based upon the change in speed. In particular, a headlight of the vehicle is able to be modulated as the vehicle reduces speed and / or is decelerating as it approaches an intersection. Additionally, the headlight of the vehicle is able to be modulated as the vehicle accelerates from a stopped position or reaches a certain traveling speed. The headlight activation circuit is able to modulate the headlight between an on position and an off position or modulate the headlight between a high beam position and a low beam position. Consequently, the vehicle is better seen as it approaches likely congestion areas such as intersections and slowing or stopped traffic and attempts to enter traffic.

Disclosed herein is an adaptive head light assembly, comprising a parabolic reflector for housing a filament assembly; a lever arm having one end pivotably affixed to a bearing point of the parabolic reflector; an actuator in operative communication with the other end of the lever arm to actuate motion of the lever arm, wherein the actuator comprises a shape memory material adapted to change a shape orientation or modulus property upon receipt of an activation signal; and a spring in operative communication with the other end of the lever arm and adapted to provide a restoring force.

A portable apparatus having a source, a detector and a filtering element placed a known distance from the source and / or the detector. One embodiment of the apparatus is a headlamp having an illumination source, a camera, and two eye pieces. The headlamp has an adjustable headband for positioning the headlamp on the head of the user and a protective cover for interacting with the camera, eye pieces, and / or illumination source. The protective cover preferably includes multiple sets of filtering elements such that motion about or along an axis changes the filtering elements interacting with the camera, eye pieces, and / or the illumination source.

A headlamp comprising at least one array of illumination light sources, the light sources positioned substantially corresponding to a desired illumination beam pattern for the headlight, the light from the light source of the array being provided to a lens which projects the light in the illumination beam pattern. Preferably, the light is provided from LED light sources which are coupled to fiber optic cables to form the array of illumination source. Also preferably, the light sources can be illuminated in different patterns, to provide different illumination beam patterns.

A communication system for a vehicle comprises a mechanism for sensing a braking of the vehicle and a control device for sending a signal to a headlight activation circuit to modulate the vehicle's headlights based upon the braking of the vehicle. In particular, a headlight of the vehicle is able to be modulated based upon an application of one or both of a front brake and a rear brake. The headlight activation circuit is able to modulate the headlight between an on position and an off position or modulate the headlight between a high beam position and a low beam position. Consequently, the vehicle is better seen as it approaches likely congestion areas such as intersections and slowing or stopped traffic and attempts to enter traffic.

The invention provides a method for automatically segmenting consistent damage areas for buddha figure Thangkas. The method includes the steps of conducting vertical projection for a head light area of a Thangka image, obtaining an image symmetric axis by using a one-dimensional function symmetry detection method, obtaining an initial segmentation result by employing a partitioning segmentation method based on the symmetric axis, obtaining the image covered by the damage areas, extracting texture characteristics by using Gabor transformation, constructing a multi-scale and multi-characteristic set in combination with Lab space color characteristics, employing KNN classification to obtain a secondary segmentation result, further refining the damage areas by using morphological operation, and removing small damage areas to finally obtain a template of consistent damage areas. Through the method, various large-scale linear and block falling areas in the buddha figure Thangkas can be automatically segmented, the segmentation speed is fast, the efficiency and accuracy are high, and rapid automatic segmentation of the damage areas of buddha figure Thangkas can be realized.

The present invention relates to an automobile function control device and method, capable of controlling a plurality of functions of an automobile without carrying of the automobile key or a keyless entry system or a remote initiator. The present invention provides an automobile function control device and method using a touch pad component, according to the invention, ciphers are set respectively to correspond to the automobile functions, after inputting a cipher through the touch pad component, the inputted cipher is judged whether it is one of the setting ciphers or not. according to the judged result, if the inputted cipher is determined to be one of the setting ciphers, a corresponding function of the automobile is implemented based on the inputted cipher. in such a case, the functions of the automobile includes authentication, automobile door open and close, engine start, compartment open, head light coruscation and the like.

The present invention relates to entertainments systems comprising a light controller connected to at least one moving head light fixture through a communication channel and to moving head light fixtures, where a moving head comprises switching means for switching said moving head between a normal mode of operation and a follow spot mode of operation, said follow spot mode of operation being characterized in that at least said first rotating means or said second rotating means being deactivated. In is thus possible to use the moving head as both an automatic moving head an as a manual moved follow spot. The moving head comprises also position encoding means determining to position of the moving head and other moving heads in the entertainment system thus be controlled based on the position of the first moving head.

The invention relates to an adaptive head light for automobile. To an integrated head light for automobile that assembles both a high beam light and a low beam light with a reflector inside a single outer housing, a rotational axis on upper side and lower side of an auxiliary lamp reflector is formed separately as a whole; mount the rotational axis in an axle seat formed inside the outer housing as a whole to make the auxiliary lamp rotatory right and left; on the side of the rotational axis, an integrated rotating gear is formed; a driving shaft of a motor inside the outer housing that can rotate in positive and negative direction is provided with a drive gear; the drive gear is engaged with the rotating gear to make the auxiliary lamp reflector rotatable; an encoder is mounted on a direction spiral shaft to sense rotate angle of a steering wheel; signal of the encoder is input into a main control apparatus; the motor control the positive and negative rotation based on control signal output by the main control apparatus. Effect of the invention lies in enhancing judgment by means of automobile steering lighting while expanding scope of the head light irradiation, and enhancing security while drive at night.

A method for adapting an upper headlight beam boundary of a light cone of at least one headlight of a vehicle. The method includes detecting a time curve of a pitch rate of the vehicle or a value that is dependent on the pitch rate and / or of a roll rate of the vehicle or a value that is dependent on the roll rate. The method also includes ascertaining an envelope curve and / or an amplitude of the time curve and / or an average value of the time curve. The method also includes providing a control signal for adapting the upper headlight beam boundary of the headlight beam.

The present invention presents a method and system for an autonomous mower attached with a camera, wherein the control of the parameters of the camera and the control of the mower movement and grass detection are optimized holistically during operation. The present invention mitigates the camera sensing limits by adapting the movement speed of the mower. Furthermore, the camera control optimizes the visibility of grass by using the grass mask of a grass segmentation to calculate updated exposure, gain and aperture values only from grass pixels. The grass segmentation tracks changes in the grass color that are caused by illumination differences. Optionally, the system is equipped with a head light used to further improve the camera signal quality in conjunction with the control of the camera parameters and the movement speed of the mower.

An apparatus and a method for removing blooming of a camera image are provided. When a lane marking is not normally detected from an image obtained by photographing a front view or a rear view of a car, it is determined whether the blooming is generated in the image. When it is determined that the blooming is generated, a mask for removing the blooming is generated and superposed on the image. Accordingly, a situation that the lane marking is not normally detected due to the blooming caused by a head light of a car can be reduced or prevented in advance.

A portable apparatus having a source, a detector and a filtering element placed a known distance from the source and / or the detector. One embodiment of the apparatus is a headlamp having an illumination source, a camera, and two eye pieces. The headlamp has an adjustable headband for positioning the headlamp on the head of the user and a protective cover for interacting with the camera, eye pieces, and / or illumination source. The protective cover preferably includes multiple sets of filtering elements such that motion about or along an axis changes the filtering elements interacting with the camera, eye pieces, and / or the illumination source.

The present invention relates to a moving head light fixture comprising a base; a yoke connected rotatable to the base and a head connected rotatable to the yoke. The head comprises a number of light sources and a number of light collecting means arranged in the head, where the number of light collecting means collect and convert light from at least one of the light sources into a number of source light beams which are emitted from said head. The head comprises a diffuser cover, which comprises at least one diffuser region. The diffuser region receives and diffuses at least a part of the light and at least a part of the diffuser cover protrudes from the head. The invention relates to a illumination system comprising such a moving head and a diffuser cover protruding from the head of for a moving head light fixture.