Glare-Free High-Beam Control for Oncoming Vehicle Safety in Nighttime
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Chengming Luo; Han Xu; Gaifang Xin; Wen Tang
- Source
- IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. 10:8-15
- Subject
- 050210 logistics & transportation
Computer science
business.industry
Image processor
Controller (computing)
05 social sciences
Glare (vision)
02 engineering and technology
Luminous intensity
Computer Science Applications
law.invention
Human-Computer Interaction
Optics
Interference (communication)
Hardware and Architecture
law
Control system
0502 economics and business
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Particle
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
Light-emitting diode
- Language
- ISSN
- 2162-2256
2162-2248
Improper use of high beams can cause glare interference to oncoming drivers or pedestrian. In this article, an adaptive high-beam controlling system is designed to avoid glare interference. The adaptive high beams are illuminated by group light-emitting diode (LED) particles as the light source. The luminous intensity distribution of single LED particle is determined along with the lighting zones of group LED particles. The oncoming and same direction vehicles are detected by positioning their headlights and tail lights via the received images from the on-board camera. The detected vehicles are mapped to the corresponding LED illumination zones. The adaptive high-beam controlling system turns OFF the LED particles in corresponding with vehicle areas and keeps the remaining LED particles ON. The novelty of our work is that an adaptive high-beam controlling system is developed under the integration of controlled LED particles, an image processor, and a lamp controller. The benefit of proposed adaptive high beams is to avoid glare interference for improving night driving safety.