EP3390155A1 - System and method for object-based control of a high-resolution headlight for a motor vehicle - Google Patents
System and method for object-based control of a high-resolution headlight for a motor vehicleInfo
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- the present invention relates to a system and method for object-based control of a high-resolution headlamp for a motor vehicle.
- motor vehicles For illuminating a motor vehicle mainly in the direction of travel ahead lying area motor vehicles are known to a vehicle lighting system (headlamp, headlamp device) with a driving light through which at least the light functions parking light, low beam and high beam can be realized.
- the dipped beam is asymmetrical and, in the case of right-hand traffic, it is cut vertically by 1% on the left-hand side, which avoids dazzling oncoming traffic and oncoming road users.
- the high beam provides illumination beyond the low beam range. Since the high beam (eg. According to the German StVO) may only be turned on when no driver of a preceding or oncoming motor vehicle can be dazzled, in contrast to the low beam no exact cut-off for high beam is prescribed.
- Another, younger embodiment of these systems includes a headlamp device in which the radiated light for individual illumination
- each comparatively small segments is suitable, wherein the size and position of each illuminable segment by a predetermined horizontal and vertical angle range, with which the light for the respective segment of the headlight device is radiated, and the distance to Headlamp device is defined.
- the light-generating devices used in such headlamp devices are generally referred to as pixel light systems, where the term "pixel” here is not tied to a pixel-like arrangement of light-emitting elements in the light system, but more generally a pixel-like, ie definable Segments subdivided illumination of an environment of the headlamp device is meant.
- a headlamp device is, for example, a full-LED matrix headlamp, which may have a number of up to about 180 LEDs in currently commercially available models.
- Each of the LEDs emits light with a predetermined horizontal and vertical angle range, so that one of the number of LEDs corresponding number of segments can be illuminated in the vicinity of the motor vehicle. If several LEDs emit light with the same given horizontal and vertical angle range, then the number of illuminable segments corresponds to the number of LED groups thus formed. If, for example, another road user is detected by an environment detection device / object recognition device in one of the illuminated segments, the corresponding LEDs can be switched off or dimmed and glare of the detected road user can thereby be avoided.
- a bus eg CAN bus system
- the bus load due to the small number of segments within the given data rates for the used bus remains.
- a system for controlling a light distribution of a headlamp device for a motor vehicle comprising
- a headlamp device having a pixel light system
- a surrounding detection device arranged in a predeterminable position relative to the headlight device, with which an environment of the motor vehicle can be detected
- an evaluation device with which data from the surroundings detection device can be evaluated at least at which position relative to the environment detection device or the headlight device objects are in the detected environment of the motor vehicle, which contour the objects have and to which class the objects belong, and
- control device which is communicatively connected to the evaluation device and which is set up to control the brightness distribution in the pixel light system on the basis of data which are transmitted from the evaluation device to the control device.
- the evaluation device is set up for each relevant object detected in the detection environment of the motor vehicle, with respect to which deblading or marking by means of light is required or desired, data concerning the contour of the object, the position of the object relative to the environment detection device or To transmit headlight device and a dimming value for the object to the control device.
- object information about the objects to be bleached and / or marked is transmitted from the evaluation device to the control device of the headlight device (and no longer control data relating to each segment), as compared to the previously known Prior art, a significantly reduced data load, which must be transmitted from the evaluation device to the controller.
- the system further comprises a data bus system (such as, for example, a CAN bus system), by means of which the data from the evaluation device to the control device can be transferred ,
- a data bus system such as, for example, a CAN bus system
- the control device has a memory device or the control device has access to a memory device, wherein the basically possible light distribution of the headlight device is stored in the memory device, and the control device is further configured to control data for controlling the brightness distribution in the pixel light system on the basis of the fundamentally possible light distribution stored in the memory device and the data received by the evaluation device to calculate and to control the brightness distribution in the pixel light system according to the control data.
- the control device in the event that data relating to the position of the relevant object (s) relative to the environmental detection device are transmitted to it by the evaluation device, the control device is set up to position the object (s) Calculate objects relative to the headlamp device.
- the evaluation device is further configured to determine based on the data of the environment detection device, the movement of the relevant object / the relevant objects relative to the motor vehicle and also data relating to the movement of the object / objects relative to the motor vehicle to the control device to transmit.
- the control device can be advantageously configured to calculate control data for the brightness distribution in the pixel light system, taking into account the movement of the relevant object (s) relative to the motor vehicle, such that a prognosis with respect to the position and size of the object / the objects is made relative to the motor vehicle within a predefinable period of time from the time of the detection of the data of the object / objects by the environment detection device.
- control device is set up to have a larger area around the object (s) for a relevant object (s) that have / has a relative movement on the motor vehicle to detect the fading or marking, as in an object / objects, the / a relative movement away from the motor vehicle or a constant distance to the motor vehicle / have.
- the evaluation device in the system, can be set up to evaluate the current data of the surroundings detection device within a predeterminable cycle time in the range from 10 ms to 30 ms and to transmit correspondingly prepared data to the control device.
- the light can radiate individually controlled in a large number of defined or definable segments in the apron of the motor vehicle, each segment is defined by a horizontal and vertical angle range with which the respective light for the respective segment of the headlamp device is radiated into the environment of the motor vehicle.
- pixel light systems are those which comprise a matrix-type, area-modulated and / or beam-guided pixel light system.Also preferred, the present invention is applicable to pixel light systems with which 500 or more segments, more preferably 1000 or more segments, most preferably 2000 or more segments individually illuminable (as well as not and / or only weaker than maximally possible to be illuminated).
- the present invention also encompasses a method for driving a light distribution of a headlight device for a motor vehicle, comprising the steps
- Fig. 1 is a schematic and exemplary illustration of a system according to the present invention
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic and exemplary example of a fundamentally possible light distribution by a pixel light system.
- the system 1 comprises a headlamp device 2 comprising a pixel light system 3, 3 '.
- FIG. 1 shows two pixel light systems 3. 3 ', but the system 1 according to the present invention is not limited to such a headlight device 2.
- the headlight device 2 may also have only one pixel light system 3, 3 'or three or more pixel light systems 3, 3'.
- the headlamp device 2 may be provided in the front of a motor vehicle, the headlamp device 2 and the / the pixel lighting system (s) 3, 3 ', however, can also be arranged at any other suitable and / or approved location of the motor vehicle, eg. in the roof area and / or in the side area of the motor vehicle.
- the individual pixel light systems 3, 3' can also be arranged at different locations of the motor vehicle.
- Pixel light systems 3, 3 have long been known per se and, in the recent past, have already found their way into the field of vehicle headlight devices.
- FIG. 2 shows an example of a fundamentally possible light distribution of a pixel light system 3, 3 '.
- Each of the illustrated rectangular surface elements represents a segment that can be illuminated individually with the aid of the pixel light system 3, 3 '.
- the surface elements need not have a substantially square shape, as exemplified in FIG. 2, but may also have another shape, such as rectangular or other polygonal shape.
- the basically possible light distribution can also be configured differently in the vertical as well as in the horizontal direction (for example non-angular, different aspect ratio, etc.).
- 3 ' can already be currently a resolution in the horizontal and / or vertical direction of up to 0.3 ° or smaller (eg. 0.29 °, 0.28 °, 0.27 °, 0.26 ° , 0.25 °, 0.24 °, 0.23 °, 0.22 °, 0.21 °, 0.20 °, 0.19 °, 0.18 °, 0.17 °, 0.16 ° , 0.15 °, 0.14 °, 0.13 °, 0.12 °, 0.1 1 °, 0.10 °, or even smaller).
- 0.29 °, 0.28 °, 0.27 °, 0.26 ° , 0.25 °, 0.24 °, 0.23 °, 0.22 °, 0.21 °, 0.20 °, 0.19 °, 0.18 °, 0.17 °, 0.16 ° , 0.15 °, 0.14 °, 0.13 °, 0.12 °, 0.1 1 °, 0.10 °, or even smaller eg. 0.29
- a first possible embodiment of a pixel light system comprises an arrangement of LEDs which - as already mentioned above - currently have a maximum of about 180 LEDs and with which different areas of the low beam and high beam can be illuminated and which can be controlled individually.
- a further possibility of realizing a headlamp device 2 with a pixel light system represents a laser-based pixel light system 3, 3 '.
- blue laser light is generated by means of one or more laser diodes, which is converted by means of a converter into the white light source required for a car headlight Light is converted.
- An area-modulated, laser-based pixel light system 3, 3 ' can also be realized with the aid of a "Digital Micromirror Device” (DMD), ie with the aid of a mirror array in which several hundred thousand to several million (currently up to about 8
- DMD Digital Micromirror Device
- Each of the micromirrors can be turned on and off tens of thousands of times per second. If a micromirror turns on more frequently than it is off, it represents a gray dot. A mirror that is even more frequently turned off produces a dot with even darker gray. In this way, the micromirrors can produce several hundred (currently already more than 1000) different brightness levels.
- a laser-based pixel light system 3, 3 'using a DMD it is thus possible to produce areas illuminated in very different ways in advance of a motor vehicle.
- laser-based pixel light systems 3, 3 ', spray-guided, laser-based pixel light systems 3, 3' are also known and can be used for the present invention.
- An example of a beam-guided, laser-based pixel light system 3, 3 ' is one in which laser light is deflected by means of at least one optical system or at least one micromirror 1-axis or 2-axis, the brightness of each segment being determined by the laser power and residence time is determined.
- the headlamp device 2 may be one which is intended exclusively for the production of high beam, but may also be one which is suitable and intended both for the production of high beam and for the generation of low beam.
- Laser-based pixel light systems 3, 3 ' are currently only intended for the production of high beam, and future developments here also do not preclude their use in the region of the low beam.
- the headlamp device 2 can of course have one or more further, light-generating / radiating devices, such as a conventional halogen lamp headlamp device and / or a xenon headlamp device.
- the system 1 further comprises an environment detection device 4, which has a presettable position relative to the headlight device 2.
- the system 1 it is possible to use all known and future available environment detection devices 4 from whose data the position of objects relative to the environment detection device 4 can be determined.
- environment detection devices 4 and the sensors used therein are already known in large numbers and embodiments and forms and already for various driver assistance systems, such as.
- a distance control device Adaptive Cruise Control, ACC
- a device for automatic collision avoidance emergency brake
- a lane keeping assistance system e.g., a blind spot assist system (lane change assistant), a traffic sign recognition system, a parking aid, etc.
- These devices / systems have in common that a kind of two-dimensional or three-dimensional "image" of the environment of the motor vehicle is detected by means of the environment detection devices 4, wherein the detection at suitable time intervals (eg 10x, 1 1x, 12x, 13x, 14x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 30x, 35x, 40x, 45x, 50x or more often per second) is repeated.
- suitable time intervals eg 10x, 1 1x, 12x, 13x, 14x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 30x, 35x, 40x, 45x, 50x or more often per second
- the system 1 it is possible to use all known 2D and 3D environment detection devices 4 with which data of an environment of the motor vehicle can be detected, for example those environment detection devices 4 which comprise at least one visible light camera device, Camera device for infrared light (night vision camera), radar device, lidar device, a laser scanner, an ultrasound device and / or a time-of-flight device have.
- environment detection devices 4 which comprise at least one visible light camera device, Camera device for infrared light (night vision camera), radar device, lidar device, a laser scanner, an ultrasound device and / or a time-of-flight device have.
- spatially-detecting or spatially-measuring 3D environment detection devices for example, at least one stereo camera device, a time-of-flight camera device (eg, photonic mixer camera device, PMD), a laser scanner device , a radar device and / or a lidar device.
- a stereo camera device for example, at least one stereo camera device, a time-of-flight camera device (eg, photonic mixer camera device, PMD), a laser scanner device , a radar device and / or a lidar device.
- environment detection devices 4 with which only a 2D environment can be detected.
- image analysis software
- the construction and operation of 2D and SD environment detection devices 4 are known in the art, so that need not be discussed here in detail.
- any suitable combination of 2D and SD environment detectors 4 may be used.
- two PMD camera devices operating with different wavelengths of light can be used to obtain a larger uniqueness range than would be possible with only one PMD.
- Camera device would be possible.
- any suitable or advantageous combination of at least one (stereo) camera device, a PMD camera device, a radar device, a lidar device and / or a laser scanner device can be used or be present.
- the respective devices can be used either individually or in combination.
- the data acquired by the sensors of the respective surroundings detection device 4 can be compared with one another in the evaluation device 5 in order, for example, to recognize erroneous data from a sensor system or to obtain an even more precise result.
- the environment detection device 4 is an "active" environment detection device 4, ie a device which itself (a) signal (s) (such as radar waves, laser light, infrared light, ultrasound).
- a signal such as radar waves, laser light, infrared light, ultrasound
- the performance of the surroundings detection device 4 can be independent of the ambient brightness / visibility conditions just given, as in the case of "passive" camera devices, for example for visible light is the case.
- the present invention is used in particular at night, in darkness or in poor visibility conditions (i.e. in situations where the driving lights of a motor vehicle are switched on).
- the detection area is Environment detection device 4 advantageously aligned such that it includes an area in front of and laterally in front of the motor vehicle.
- the system 1 also comprises an evaluation device 5.
- the evaluation device 5 is set up to allow data of the environment detection device 4 to be evaluated at least at what position relative to the environment detection device 4 or to the headlight device 2 are objects in the detected environment of the motor vehicle, which contour the objects have (creating a "bounding box") and which class the objects belong.
- any known and future available evaluation device 5 can be used.
- evaluation device 5 is in particular a digital computing device (computer) into consideration, on which a corresponding evaluation software is installed executable.
- the digital computing device usually has a main memory, via corresponding data inputs and outputs as well as all other required for their functioning modules and components.
- the evaluation device 5 may be one which is assigned to the environment detection device 4 or one which is divided into a plurality of evaluation modules, of which, for example, one of the environment detection device 4 is assigned and another evaluation module is a separate one, independent evaluation module is.
- an independent evaluation device 5 can also be used for the system 1 according to the invention. If sufficient computing power is available and available, one can be used as the evaluation device 5 used for the system 1, which is already present for other tasks in a motor vehicle.
- a first evaluation is carried out by the environment detection device 4 or the evaluation module provided for this purpose, which class, position and extent the detected objects have and the further processing of the corresponding, of the environment.
- Detection device 4 processed data by another, separate evaluation module is performed.
- the evaluation device 5 may have, for example, special devices with regard to their hardware and software in order to be able to carry out the tasks according to the invention in a particularly advantageous manner. Since, in accordance with the present invention, objects must be detected in advance of a motor vehicle, object recognition and tracking is advantageously implemented in the evaluation device 5. Corresponding devices and methods are known to those skilled in the art, so that they need not be discussed further here.
- an object detection can be detected both at which position relative to the environment detection device 4 or the headlamp device 2 (calculation readily due to the predetermined positioning of environment detection device 4 and headlamp device 2 to each other possible) are objects in the detected environment of the motor vehicle and which Contour the objects have.
- an oncoming motor vehicle a traffic sign and several trees can be recognized as objects. Due to the contour of the detected objects, each object can be assigned to a class.
- the type and number of object classes is not particularly limited and it may, for example, the classes people, animals, trees, buildings, (traffic) signs, one-lane vehicles, two-lane vehicles and undefined objects are provided.
- the area of the object is not illuminated or illuminated only at reduced levels of light, such as vehicles in front or oncoming vehicles (to avoid dazzling the vehicle therein)
- the object may also be necessary or desirable for the object to be "marked” by light (possibly periodically repeated), such as people or people Animals on the roadside or people or animals approaching the edge of the road and who are not or only poorly lit by the 'normal' headlamp, all of which are referred to in the present application as 'relevant' objects.
- the evaluation device 5 is set up for each relevant object detected in the detection environment of the motor vehicle, with respect to which a fade-out ("dark gap", ie no or weaker illumination than the surroundings of the object, a dark gap in a simple Case may comprise a rectangular area whose dimension is defined by the maximum width and height of an object) or marking by means of light (ie brighter than the surroundings of the object, again the "brighter spot” may in a simple case comprise a rectangular area whose dimension is defined by the maximum width and height of an object) is required or desired, Data concerning the contour of the object, the position of the object relative to the environment detection device 4 or the headlamp device 2 as well as a dimming value for the object to be transmitted to the control device 6.
- a fade-out ie no or weaker illumination than the surroundings of the object
- a dark gap in a simple Case may comprise a rectangular area whose dimension is defined by the maximum width and height of an object
- marking by means of light ie brighter than the surroundings of the object,
- a “dimming value” may be a value indicating with what percentage of the maximum possible brightness or power the area of an object is to be illuminated by the pixel light system 3, 3 '; in a simple case, a dimming value may only be a first value (eg 0, no illumination of the object) or a second value (eg 1, illumination of the object).
- control device 6 in communicative communication with the evaluation device 5 is set up to control the brightness distribution in the pixel light system on the basis of data transmitted from the evaluation device 5 to the control device 6.
- the present invention is particularly advantageous if the system 1 comprises a data bus system 7, in particular a CAN bus system 7, by means of which the data of the evaluation device 5 can be transmitted to the control device 6.
- the object-based drive concept according to the present invention solves this problem. If, for example, in an environment of a motor vehicle, for example, 15 relevant objects are detected, then according to the present invention, only each of the identified relevant objects is respectively assigned a dimming value.
- the transmission of the corresponding object data, which also includes information regarding the contour and position relative to the "ego motor vehicle" and optionally the relative movement with respect to the ego motor vehicle, from the evaluation device 5 to the control device 6 also requires cycle times of 20 ms or shorter only data rates that are readily feasible with conventional bus systems.
- the control device 6 can determine the position (position and distance) of the relevant object (s) relative to the headlight device 2 or to the pixel light system (s) 3, 3 ', so that these objects can be displayed correctly from "headlight view” for glare control or marking.
- the object areas thus defined can then be superimposed by the control device 6 with a fundamentally possible light distribution stored in a memory device (see, for example, FIG. 2) of the headlamp device 2, the interior of the object regions can be specified on the basis of the dimming values, and the pixel light system 3, 3 'correspondingly be controlled.
- the present invention also includes a method having the features as recited in claim 10.
- the present invention also encompasses such refinements and developments of the method which are obvious to a person skilled in the art from the description of the system according to the invention as well as its advantageous refinements and developments, claims 1 to 9, FIGS the corresponding description.
- Also encompassed by the present invention is a motor vehicle having a system according to the invention or one of its advantageous refinements and developments.
- glare-free headlamps for motor vehicles for example in the form of glare-free high-beam systems currently comprise a comparatively small number of LEDs, for example up to 180 LEDs. These LEDs can illuminate different areas (segments) in advance of the motor vehicle, in particular different areas of the high beam, and are individually controllable.
- the dimming values of the individual LEDs are transmitted via a bus system (eg CAN bus system) to the headlight or a control device provided in the headlight. Due to the small number of segments, the bus load remains within the specified data rates for the bus system used.
- a bus system eg CAN bus system
- object information about the objects to be glazed / marked are transmitted to the headlamp or the control device of the headlamp in order to control high-resolution headlamps.
- the control device then superimposes, for example, a basic light distribution stored in a memory device for the high-resolution module with the object data, in order to ensure the blinding / marking of the objects.
- the object-based control concept according to the invention thus makes it possible to control even high-resolution headlight systems via conventional bus systems.
- a vehicle sensor system preferably a camera system
- detects an environment of a motor vehicle in particular during darkness (night), twilight or other poor visibility conditions.
- an evaluation device which may be part or all of the vehicle sensor system
- the class, position and extent of relevant objects, such as. Road users is determined, and the corresponding object data for the control of the headlights processed by the actual object area on a certain ( predefinable) number of object points and together with a dimming value and the actual chen distance of the object / objects for transmission to the control device (headlight electronics) is summarized.
- the transmission can take place via a currently common bus system, for example the CAN bus system.
- the data is received by the control device (headlight electronics).
- a memory of the control device (headlight electronics) is a basic light distribution for the high-resolution headlight device or the / the high-resolution module (s) 3, 3 'deposited.
- the received data are processed on the basis of the different positions of the sensor of the surrounding detection device 4 and the headlight device 2 and their distance, so that they can be displayed correctly from "headlight view" for glare or marking
- the areas thus defined are superimposed on the light distribution and the interior of the ranges is specified by the dimming values.
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