EP3991520A1 - Dispositif et procede de controle d'un ensemble de sources lumineuses pour ensemble lumineux de vehicule automobile - Google Patents
Dispositif et procede de controle d'un ensemble de sources lumineuses pour ensemble lumineux de vehicule automobileInfo
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F21—LIGHTING
- F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
- F21S43/00—Signalling devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. brake lamps, direction indicator lights or reversing lights
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- the invention relates to the field of lighting and signaling for motor vehicles. It finds a privileged application in light assemblies implementing light-emitting diodes for such lighting.
- light-emitting diodes also referred to by the abbreviation LED in what follows
- LED light-emitting diodes
- the abbreviation LED is more and more widespread in the field of lighting and signaling of motor vehicles, both due to the low consumption and the long lifespan of these sources only by their ease and flexibility of implementation.
- such light sources can be combined in number to form a complex lighting surface, opening up new lighting and signaling possibilities for vehicles. It is thus possible to combine a plurality of light-emitting diodes to form a predefined light pattern, or light image, each of the LEDs making up such a pattern can be controlled independently in order to form a complex light image comprising, for example, regions of different light intensities. .
- Such sets of LEDs are also called pixelated light-emitting diode, each LED in the set, or elementary diode, forming, for example, a pixel of the aforementioned complex light image.
- Such elementary diodes can be placed on a support and controlled by an associated electronic device. For example, a chip carries out a pulse width modulation control of a common direct current supply to generate, for each of the elementary diodes, an individual signal for controlling the emission of a light flux. The set of individual light fluxes emitted by the elementary diodes then forms the light image projected by the pixelated light-emitting diode that these elementary diodes together form.
- the projected image can be a regulated light beam, the shape and intensity of which allows optimum illumination of the road ahead of the vehicle.
- the ease and flexibility of use of light-emitting diodes also makes it possible to produce any other form of light image which can, for example, provide assistance in driving the vehicle (warning light, etc.).
- the elementary diodes When the elementary diodes are in operation, their activation generates an increase in temperature, which has the effect of increasing the intensity of the light flux at the output of these diodes and therefore of further increasing the temperature, which may result in a modification of the image projected by the pixelated light-emitting diode, as well as, in addition, a reduction in the life of the elementary diodes.
- the overall light intensity of the image projected by the pixelated light-emitting diode may increase, leading to a risk of dazzling the driver of an oncoming vehicle on the roadway.
- a deformation of the image projected by the pixelated light-emitting diode as defined above may occur.
- a temperature sensor can be installed and configured to measure a temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode and to transmit this information to a control unit of the latter.
- the temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode is transmitted to such a drive unit, which is configured to modify the common DC supply current mentioned above as a function of this temperature.
- control is relatively imprecise and has reduced sensitivity.
- the technical problem to which the present invention proposes to provide a solution is that of the management, as a function of the temperature, of the evolution of the light fluxes emitted by pixelated diodes as they have just been defined, and
- the object of the invention is to provide a lighting assembly for a motor vehicle comprising a device and a method for controlling such an assembly of light sources with light-emitting diodes as a function of temperature.
- the invention relates, according to a first aspect, to a motor vehicle light assembly comprising a pixelated light-emitting diode intended to project, from the motor vehicle, a predefined image, and a device for controlling said diode.
- the pixelated light emitting diode comprising a plurality of elementary diodes supplied by a common direct current and respectively driven by a pulse width modulation signal of the common direct current, the pixelated light emitting diode comprising a temperature sensor, and the device control being configured to modify the width modulation signal pulse as a function of a temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode and / or of one or more elementary diodes.
- pixelated light-emitting diode is understood here to mean a light emitting assembly formed from a plurality of elementary light sources of LED type, also designated as elementary diodes or elementary LEDs in what follows, supplied by the same direct electric current, and configured to project. together, from the motor vehicle which is equipped with it, a complex light pattern.
- the light flux emitted by each elementary diode of the pixelated light-emitting diode is controlled individually from the aforementioned common supply current and from a pulse width modulation signal, the invention providing for the modification of such a signal, or primary signal, as a function of a measurement of the operating temperature of one or more of the elementary diodes, or even of the pixelated diode as a whole, to obtain a secondary pulse width modulation signal taking into account account of this temperature to optimize the general emission flow at the output of the device for emitting the predefined image.
- the secondary signals are configured, like the primary signals, to chop the common direct current supply so as to drive the supply voltage at the terminals of the elementary diodes of the pixelated light-emitting diode, the secondary signals consisting of the signals primaries modified by taking into account a coefficient corresponding to the modification of a temperature compared to a standard temperature.
- Such control is carried out within a device for controlling the pixelated light-emitting diode such as that proposed by the invention.
- a variation in the supply intensity of an elementary diode implies a corresponding variation in the intensity of the luminous flux emitted by this elementary diode.
- each elementary diode behaves like a pixel of the complex light pattern, or image, that the pixelated light-emitting diode, formed by all of the aforementioned elementary diodes, participates in projecting.
- the image projected by the pixelated light-emitting diode is therefore created by all of the light fluxes emitted by each elementary diode of the pixelized light-emitting diode.
- the pixelated light-emitting diode comprises a temperature sensor.
- a temperature sensor is installed on at at least one support on which elementary diodes of the pixelated light-emitting diode are arranged. It thus advantageously measures an average temperature of such a support and of the elementary diodes which are placed on it.
- a temperature sensor can be associated with each elementary diode, by being integrated into the elementary diode or by being stuck on the support as close as possible to the elementary diode in question, thus providing specific temperature information. of the elementary diode considered, and not an average temperature of the pixelated diode.
- the device for controlling such a pixelated light-emitting diode is configured to control the drive by pulse-width modulation signal as a function of a temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode or, more precisely, as a function of a temperature measured by one or more temperature sensors as mentioned above.
- the invention therefore provides that it is a variation of the pulse width modulation signal, and not that of the intensity of the common direct current, which is implemented to vary the intensity of the light flux emitted individually by each elementary diode as a function of a temperature, measured by the temperature sensor defined above, of the whole of the pixelated light-emitting diode.
- the adjustment of the intensity of the luminous flux emitted which results from the above, namely via an adjustment via a modification of the pulse width modulation setpoint, is finer than that which would result from a modification of the voltage of the direct current supply.
- the fineness of an adjustment of a voltage of the order of 3 to 4 volts of a direct supply current is of the order of 4 millivolts
- a variation of the signal pulse width modulation can have a step of 1 in 2 16 , for a resolution of 16 bits.
- the control device is configured to apply a predefined multiplying coefficient to the pulse width modulation signals individually controlling the emission of light flux by each elementary diode.
- the same multiplying coefficient is applied to the pulse width modulation signals individually controlling the emission of light flux by each elementary diode of the pixelated light-emitting diode.
- different multiplying coefficients can be applied to different groups of elementary diodes, for example, to elementary diodes located in different regions of the pixelated light-emitting diode.
- different multiplying coefficients can be applied to the pulse width modulation signals controlling the emission of the light fluxes emitted by different elementary diodes depending on whether they are intended to emit very high light fluxes or , conversely, very low, in order to adjust a contrast of the projected image as a function of the temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode.
- the control device comprises a module for storing a database of light flux emitted by the elementary diodes of the light-emitting diode pixelated at different temperatures, for different multiplying coefficients.
- a database is established by calibrating the luminous flux emitted individually, for a predefined, fixed common supply current, by each elementary diode at different temperatures, for a predefined set of multiplying coefficients.
- the aforementioned luminous flux can be considered in absolute value, or it can be normalized, for example relative to a maximum value defined beforehand.
- the aforementioned database comprises a set of charts of luminous flux emitted at different temperatures of the pixelated light-emitting diode and for different predefined multiplier coefficients.
- Such a database therefore makes it possible, for a measured temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode, on the one hand, to know, for a given multiplying coefficient, the luminous flux emitted by a given elementary diode, or, on the other hand, to know defining the multiplying coefficient to be applied to the pulse width modulation signal controlling the emission of light flux by the elementary diode considered so that the latter, by means of a secondary signal thus obtained, emits a predefined light flux.
- This last point is of particular interest, for example, for increasing the life of the elementary diodes by setting a maximum authorized emission flux of the latter with regard to a maximum flux that they can emit.
- control device is configured to choose a multiplying coefficient in the database previously defined as a function of a temperature measured by a temperature sensor previously defined, and as a function of a predefined luminous flux to be emitted by the elementary diodes of the pixelated light-emitting diode.
- the multiplying coefficient to be applied to the signals controlling the emission of light flux by the elementary diodes can be chosen, for a temperature measured by the temperature sensor previously mentioned, in relation to a maximum flux predefined emission to optimize the life of the elementary diodes of the pixelated light-emitting diode.
- this multiplying coefficient is that which is applied, by the control device according to the invention, to the signals controlling the emission of light flux by each elementary diode of the pixelated light-emitting diode.
- this multiplying coefficient can be applied to the pulse width modulation signals controlling the emission of light flux by one or more predefined groups of elementary diodes, and it can be weighted by one or more predefined factors to be applied to the pulse width modulation signals controlling the emission of luminous flux by other groups of elementary diodes.
- the invention thus achieves the aim it had set itself, by offering the possibility of regulating a light flux emitted by a pixelated light-emitting diode as a function of the temperature thereof.
- the invention extends to a method of monitoring a pixelated light-emitting diode intended to project, from a motor vehicle, a predefined image, the method of monitoring according to the invention comprising at least:
- the invention therefore provides that the value of the multiplying coefficient is a function of the measured value of the temperature, obtained during the first step of the method according to the invention.
- the aforementioned pulse width modulation signals consist of a control signal by pulse width modulation of a common direct current.
- supplying the pixelized light-emitting diode that is to say a common direct current supplying all of the elementary diodes which constitute the latter.
- the same multiplying coefficient is applied to the pulse width modulation signals controlling the emission of the light fluxes individually by each elementary diode of the pixelated light-emitting diode.
- the step of defining the aforementioned multiplying coefficient is preceded by a prior operation of establishing a database of light flux emitted by the elementary diodes of the pixelated light-emitting diode, for different temperatures of the latter, measured by a temperature sensor as previously mentioned, and for different predefined multiplier coefficients.
- the invention provides that, for each elementary diode, and for a common predefined supply direct current, a curve of the luminous flux emitted by the elementary diode considered is established as a function of the temperature, and that such a curve is also established for different multiplier coefficients applied to the pulse width modulation signal controlling the emission of light flux by the elementary diode considered.
- the different light flux curves established for different multiplying coefficients are derived directly from the curve initially established in the absence of a multiplying coefficient, or, according to another point of view, for a multiplying coefficient equal to 1.
- the aforementioned database comprises, in addition to an initial curve established for a given primary signal, the curves established for a set of secondary signals obtained for different multiplying coefficients.
- the elementary diodes making up the pixelated light-emitting diode are all identical, and the database is established for only one of them.
- the pixelated light-emitting diode is formed from several groups of different elementary diodes, such a database can be established for one elementary diode of each group.
- the step of defining the multiplying coefficient mentioned above comprises a preliminary step of defining a light flux to be emitted by the elementary diodes of the pixelated light-emitting diode.
- the method according to the invention provides that, from a temperature measured by the aforementioned temperature sensor, the multiplying coefficient is chosen as a function of a desired luminous flux, defined beforehand.
- This desired luminous flux can be, according to various examples, defined in absolute value by a number of lumens emitted by one or more elementary diodes of the pixelated light-emitting diode, or it can be defined in relative value, with respect, for example, to a maximum authorized emission flux for each elementary diode or for the pixelated light emitting diode as a whole.
- This maximum authorized emission flux can, for example, be defined to limit any risk of dazzling other road users on which a vehicle equipped with a lighting assembly implementing a control device and a method according to The invention is circulating, or it can be defined to optimize the lifetime of the elementary diodes of the pixelated light-emitting diode.
- the method according to the invention can also comprise, according to an advantageous embodiment, an additional step of modifying a common direct current supplying the pixelated light-emitting diode as a function of a temperature of the latter.
- an additional step of modifying a common direct current supplying the pixelated light-emitting diode as a function of a temperature of the latter is of particular interest in the case where the chosen multiplying coefficient takes extreme, low or high values.
- a very high multiplying coefficient it may be advantageous to reduce the common direct current supplying the elementary diodes or a group of these in order to avoid any light saturation of the latter, saturation. which, on the one hand, could lead to dazzling of a road user looking at the image projected by the pixelated light-emitting diode, and which, on the other hand, could lead to premature damage to the
- the invention does indeed achieve the goal it had set itself, by proposing a control and control of a light-emitting diode pixelated as a function of the temperature.
- the device and the control method according to the invention uses simple and inexpensive means for a low additional cost in a motor vehicle.
- the invention finally extends to a light assembly for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one pixelated light-emitting diode intended to project, from the motor vehicle, a predefined image, and comprising a control device as previously defined and described, configured. to implement the method according to the invention as it has just been defined and described.
- FIG. 1 schematically shows the operation of a device for controlling a pixelated light-emitting diode, as known from the state of the art
- FIG. 2 schematically shows the operation of a device for controlling a pixelated light-emitting diode, according to a first embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 3 diagrammatically illustrates the course of 'an example of implementation of a method according to the invention
- FIGS. 4a and 4b schematically illustrate the operation of establishing a light flux database as described above
- FIGS. 5a and 5b diagrammatically illustrate the step of choosing a multiplying coefficient in a database such as the one whose creation is illustrated by FIGS. 4a and 4b
- FIG. 6 schematically shows the e operation of a device for controlling a pixelated light-emitting diode, according to a second embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 1 schematically illustrates the operation of a pixelated light-emitting diode and of its control device as known from the state of the art.
- This figure shows a pixelated light-emitting diode 1 consisting of a plurality of elementary light-emitting diodes 10a, 10b,. . . law, . . . 10h, supplied by a common direct current 20.
- the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h are advantageously placed on a support 11 and they are controlled by an associated electronic module.
- the electronic control module 12 carries out a control by pulse width modulation of the common direct current supply 20 to generate, intended for each of the elementary diodes 10a,. . . law, . . . 10h, an individual signal 30a,. . . 30i,. . .
- the set of individual luminous fluxes Fa,. . . Fn emitted by the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h of the pixelated light emitting diode 1 forms a light image projected by the pixelated light emitting diode 1.
- the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 also includes a temperature sensor 13 configured to measure a temperature T of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 and to transmit this information to a control unit 14 of the latter.
- a temperature sensor 13 configured to measure a temperature T of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 and to transmit this information to a control unit 14 of the latter.
- the temperature T of the pixelated light emitting diode 1 is transmitted to the aforementioned control unit 14, which is configured to modify the common direct current of supply 20 to function of this temperature.
- control is relatively imprecise and has reduced sensitivity.
- FIG. 2 schematically shows the operation of a pixelated light-emitting diode 1 and of its control device according to a first embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 2 shown schematically, the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 and the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h which constitute it, supplied by a common direct current supply 20.
- FIG. 2 also shows the support 11 of the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h, and the electronic control module 12 thereof, configured to individually generate a primary signal 30a,. . . 30n for driving each elementary diode 10a,. . . 10h of the pixelated light emitting diode 1, the primary signals 30a,. . . 30n consisting of a pulse width modulation of the common direct current supply 20.
- each primary signal 30i is a pulse width modulation instruction, which combined with the setpoint of direct current voltage, aims to give an appropriate supply current of the elementary diodes.
- the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 as illustrated by FIG. 2 also comprises a temperature sensor 13.
- the temperature sensor 13 is configured to measure an average temperature of the elementary diodes. 10a,. . . 10h, or to measure an average temperature of the support 11 previously defined.
- each elementary diode 10a,. . . 10h is associated with a temperature sensor, respectively 13a,. . . 13n: by placing a temperature sensor as close as possible to each elementary diode 10a,. . . 10h, more precise information is thus obtained on the temperature at each point of the pixelated diode 1.
- a temperature sensor can be associated with each group of elementary diodes.
- the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 also comprises a control device 15 configured in particular to receive the temperature information T measured by a temperature sensor 13, 13a,. . . 13n, supra.
- the control device 15 is also configured to apply, to the primary pulse width modulation signals 30a,. . . 30n, a multiplying coefficient K previously defined as a function of the aforementioned temperature T.
- the secondary signals 35a,. . . 35n which then individually control the emission of luminous flux F'a,. . . F'n, by the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h, are therefore, for each of the elementary diodes 10a,. . .
- the same multiplying coefficient K is applied to all the primary pulse width modulation signals 30a,. . . 30n which are defined to control the emission of respective luminous flux by the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h.
- different multiplying coefficients K ′, K ′′ can be defined beforehand as a function of the temperature T and applied to different groups of elementary diodes of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1.
- FIG. 3 diagrammatically illustrates an example of implementation of the control method according to the invention.
- a temperature T of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 is measured by a temperature sensor 13, 13a,. . . 13n as previously defined and transmitted to the control device 15.
- the measured temperature T is transmitted to a database 60 of light flux Fa i. . . Fn, emitted by the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 at different temperatures and for different values of the multiplying coefficient K, the database 60 being stored in a storage module 150 of the control device 15, schematically mentioned in FIG. 2.
- a multiplying coefficient K is chosen, in the database 60, for the measured temperature T, as a function of a previously determined value of light flux Fl to be emitted by the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h.
- the luminous flux to be emitted F1 can be chosen with reference to a maximum luminous flux Fmax of emission from the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h.
- the chosen multiplying coefficient K is applied to the primary signals 30a,. . . 30n, for controlling by pulse width modulation of the emission of light flows by the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1.
- FIGS. 4a, 4b, 5a and 5b illustrate more precisely the steps of defining the previously defined database 60 and of choosing the multiplying coefficient K.
- FIGS. 4a and 4b more particularly illustrate the operation of defining the database 60.
- the temperature T for example a temperature T measured by a temperature sensor 13, 13a,. . . 13n, as before defined, and, on the ordinate, the luminous flux F emitted by an elementary diode 10a, 10b,. . . 10h of a pixelated light-emitting diode 1.
- the curves (Cl), (C2), (C3), (C4) shown in this figure illustrate the variation of the luminous flux F emitted by such an elementary diode as a function of the temperature T, for different values of the multiplying coefficient K previously defined, respectively Kl, K2, K3, K4.
- the luminous flux F plotted on the ordinate of the curves illustrated in FIG. 4 is measured in absolute value and expressed in lumens.
- the luminous flux F shown on the ordinate of the curves illustrated in FIG. 4a is standardized, that is to say that it is a relative luminous flux, or, in other words , a value of the luminous flux emitted by the elementary diode considered, reduced, for example, to a maximum flux emitted by this elementary diode.
- FIG. 4b brings together, in a single three-dimensional diagram, all of the curves illustrated by FIG. 4a. In this figure 4b are thus shown, respectively:
- the luminous flux F emitted by the elementary diode 10a,. . . 10h considered.
- the set of curves obtained in FIG. 4a and shown here on a three-dimensional representation participate in forming an emission surface 500 of the elementary diode considered as a function, on the one hand, of a temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 of which it is part and, on the other hand, of different values of the multiplying coefficient K previously defined.
- a graph can be established for each elementary diode 10a,. . . 10h of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1.
- a graph such as that illustrated by FIG. 4b can be established in a manner common to each of these elementary diodes.
- FIGS. 5a and 5b illustrate the process of choosing the multiplying coefficient K to be applied as a function of the temperature value measured at a given instant.
- the multiplying coefficient K is chosen, for a given temperature T of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1, as a function of a light flux Fl to be emitted by the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h which compose it.
- the coefficient multiplier K is therefore chosen in the intersection of the emission surface 500 previously defined with a plane 600 parallel to the plane (XY) of the previously defined orthonormal coordinate system (X, Y, Z), with ordinate Fl along the Z axis of this same benchmark.
- the luminous flux F1 is preferably, but not exclusively, defined in relative value, with respect, for example, to a maximum flux emitted by the elementary diode considered. As mentioned above, this makes it possible, in particular, to increase the life of the elementary diodes, by choosing, for example, to fix the luminous flux Fl at a predefined percentage of the maximum luminous flux that they can emit, for example 60%. .
- FIG. 5b shows the intersection curve 700 of the aforementioned plane 600 and of the surface 500.
- the temperature T of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 is plotted, on the abscissa, the temperature T of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1, and, on the ordinate, the multiplying coefficient K.
- the multiplying coefficient K decreases when the temperature T increases.
- the multiplying coefficient K can be less than or greater than 1. More precisely, a value less than 1 of the multiplying coefficient K is representative of a situation in which, for a given temperature, the emission of the luminous flux Fl by the elementary diode 10a,. . . 10h considered requires the application, to the elementary diode considered, of a secondary signal by pulse width modulation 35a,. . . 35n lower than that of the primary signal by pulse width modulation 30a,. . . 30n applied to this same diode at a standard temperature to obtain the same luminous flux Fl.
- This is particularly the case when the temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 increases, as shown by the curve 700 in FIG. 5b, the rise in temperature of the light-emitting diodes increasing the intensity value of the luminous flux emitted by these diodes.
- a value greater than 1 of the multiplying coefficient K is representative of a situation in which, for a given temperature, the emission of the luminous flux Fl by the elementary diode 10a,. . . 10h considered requires the application, to the latter, of a secondary signal 35a,. . . 35n greater than that of the primary signal 30a,. . . 30n applied to this same diode at a standard temperature in order to obtain the same luminous flux F1.
- This is in particular the case when the temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 decreases, as shown by curve 700 in FIG. 5b.
- the invention regulates the light flux emitted by the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 by applying the multiplier coefficient K previously defined to at least one of the primary signals 30a,. . . 30n, so as to transform this or these primary signals into secondary signals 35a,. . .35n which modulate the intensity of the common direct current supply 20 to appropriately control the emission of luminous flux by the elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1, all other operating parameters of the pixelized light-emitting diode 1 remaining, moreover, identical.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a second embodiment of the invention, in which the method of regulating the luminous flux emitted by the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 as a function of the temperature comprises an additional step of modifying the common direct current of supply 20 of this one. This is of particular interest in particular in cases where the multiplying coefficient K is very low or, conversely, in cases where the multiplying coefficient K is greater than 1.
- the coefficient K is much greater than 1, that is to say, with reference to the above, when the temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 is low, it may be advantageous to reduce the DC supply current 20 : this makes it possible to limit the risks of saturation resulting from obtaining a very high secondary signal by applying the very high coefficient K.
- the multiplying coefficient K is high, it may be advantageous to increase the direct current supply 20, in particular in the case where the image projected by the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 has regions of strong contrast.
- the multiplying coefficient K has a value much less than 1, that is to say, with reference to the above, in a case where the temperature of the pixelated light-emitting diode 1 is high, it may be advantageous to increase the voltage of the common direct current of supply 20 previously defined in order to avoid the appearance of too dark areas in the projected image, too dark areas resulting from the application of a secondary signal that is too weak due to the low value of the multiplying coefficient K.
- the invention makes it possible, by simple means, to achieve simple and inexpensive regulation of the light flux emitted by a pixelated light-emitting diode 1 as a function of the temperature of the latter.
- the invention cannot however be limited to the means and configurations described and illustrated, and it also applies to all equivalent means or configurations and to any combination of such means.
- the invention applies regardless of the type of elementary diodes 10a,. . . 10h constituting the pixelated light-emitting diode 1, whether they are all identical or whether they are distributed into several groups of elementary diodes of different types.
- multiplying coefficients K ', K ",..., could be defined for each group of elementary diodes.
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