WO2022239151A1 - 前照灯装置 - Google Patents
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- the present disclosure relates to a vehicle headlight device.
- LEDs Light Emitting Diodes
- white light when white light is emitted from the headlight device, the white light is generated by combining a blue LED and a yellow phosphor. This produces white light with an inexpensive configuration and high efficiency.
- the configuration for generating white light is not limited to the combination of a blue LED and a yellow phosphor, and other configurations are also known. See, for example, US Pat. There is also known a technique for improving the driver's visibility by controlling the spectral distribution of light of a color other than white light in a vehicle headlight device.
- the headlight device of Patent Document 1 includes a first LED unit configured by covering a blue LED with a phosphor, and a second LED unit configured by combining LEDs of three colors (red, green, and blue). and an LED unit.
- the headlight device of Patent Document 1 changes at least one of the brightness and color temperature of each of the first LED unit and the second LED unit according to the surrounding environment of the lighting environment of the headlight device. It has a controller that controls one.
- each of the first and second LED units is provided with a blue LED, so the generated white light contains many blue components with short wavelengths.
- the white light emitted from the headlight device contains many short-wavelength blue components
- the white light is scattered by raindrops or the like in bad weather such as rain or fog, and operates as return light. incident on a person's eyes. If there is a lot of returned light, there is a risk that the driver will be dazzled (hereinafter also referred to as "glare") and visibility will be reduced.
- An object of the present disclosure is to provide a headlamp device that improves visibility for a driver.
- a headlight device is a vehicle headlight device including a plurality of light emitting units that emit light with spectral distributions different from each other, wherein each of the plurality of light emitting units A light source unit that emits illumination light with a combined spectral distribution obtained by synthesizing spectral distributions; an acquisition unit that acquires environment information indicating a surrounding environment of an area illuminated by the headlight device; and the environment information acquired by the acquisition unit. and a control unit for controlling the spectral distribution of each of the plurality of light emitting units based on the above.
- FIG. 2A is a side view showing the configuration of the light source section shown in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 2B is a plan view showing the configuration of the light source unit shown in FIG. 1;
- FIG. (A) is a diagram schematically showing an example of a hardware configuration of a control unit of the headlamp device according to the embodiment.
- (B) is a diagram schematically showing another example of the hardware configuration of the control unit of the headlamp device according to the embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is a graph showing a relative luminosity curve for a photopic environment and a relative luminosity curve for a scotopic environment; 5 is a graph obtained by adding a relative luminosity curve for a mesopic environment to the graph shown in FIG. 4; It is a flow chart which shows operation of a headlamp device concerning an embodiment.
- (A) to (D) are graphs showing spectral distributions of light emitted from each of the plurality of LEDs shown in FIGS. 1 and 2(A).
- 4 is a graph showing an example of a spectral distribution of illumination light before being controlled by a control unit; It is a graph which shows an example of the spectral distribution of the illumination light after control by a control part.
- the X-axis is a coordinate axis parallel to the left-right direction of the vehicle.
- the right direction is the +X-axis direction and the left direction is the -X-axis direction.
- "forward” is the traveling direction of the vehicle.
- “forward” is the direction in which the headlamp device emits light (hereinafter also referred to as “illumination light L1”).
- the Y-axis is a coordinate axis parallel to the vertical direction of the vehicle.
- the upward direction of the vehicle is the +Y-axis direction
- the downward direction of the vehicle is the -Y-axis direction. That is, the +Y axis side of the vehicle is the sky side, and the -Y axis side is the ground (ie road) side.
- the +Z-axis direction is the traveling direction of the vehicle, and the -Z-axis direction is the direction opposite to the traveling direction. In the following description, the "+Z-axis direction" is called “forward” and the -Z-axis direction is called “backward.”
- the +Z-axis direction is the direction in which the headlight device emits light.
- the ZX plane is a plane parallel to the road surface. This is because the road surface is generally considered to be a "horizontal plane”. Therefore, the ZX plane is considered as the "horizontal plane”.
- a “horizontal plane” is a plane perpendicular to the direction of gravity. However, the road surface may incline with respect to the traveling direction of the vehicle. That is, this is the case when the road surface is uphill or downhill. In these cases, the "horizontal plane” is considered as a plane parallel to the road surface. That is, the "horizontal plane” is not a plane perpendicular to the direction of gravity.
- the “left-right direction” is the width direction of the road (that is, the road surface).
- the “horizontal plane” is considered as the plane perpendicular to the direction of gravity. For example, even if the road surface is tilted in the left-right direction and the vehicle is perpendicular to the road surface in the left-right direction, it is considered equivalent to the state in which the vehicle is tilted in the left-right direction with respect to the "horizontal plane".
- the "horizontal plane” will be explained as a plane perpendicular to the direction of gravity. That is, the ZX plane will be described as a plane perpendicular to the direction of gravity.
- a tube light source such as an incandescent lamp, a halogen lamp, or a fluorescent lamp, for example, may be used as the light source of the present disclosure (hereinafter also referred to as a "light emitting unit").
- a semiconductor light source such as an LED or a laser diode may be used. That is, the light source of the present disclosure is not particularly limited, and any light source may be used.
- the spectral distribution of light emitted from the light source it is desirable to employ a semiconductor light source as the light source of the headlamp device of the present disclosure.
- the spectral distribution is easier to adjust when a semiconductor light source is used than when a conventional halogen bulb (lamp light source) is used.
- the light source is an LED, which is one of semiconductor light sources.
- the present disclosure applies to low beams or high beams of headlight devices. Also, the present disclosure is applied to low beams or high beams of headlight devices for motorcycles. The present disclosure also applies to other headlight devices such as three-wheeled vehicles or four-wheeled vehicles.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a headlight device 100 according to an embodiment.
- the headlight device 100 has a light source section 10 as a headlight optical system, a surrounding environment information acquisition section 20 as an acquisition section, and a control section 30 .
- the light source unit 10 has first, second, third and fourth LEDs 11, 12, 13 and 14 as a plurality of light emitting units.
- the first, second, third and fourth LEDs 11, 12, 13, 14 emit light with different spectral distributions.
- the light source unit 10 has two or more light emitting surfaces that emit light with different spectral distributions.
- the light source unit 10 generates a synthetic spectral distribution obtained by synthesizing the spectral distributions of the first, second, third, and fourth LEDs 11, 12, 13, and 14 (for example, synthetic spectral distributions shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 to be described later).
- S1, S2) illumination light is emitted.
- the light source unit 10 emits, for example, white light as illumination light.
- the output of each of the first, second, third, and fourth LEDs 11, 12, 13, and 14 is controlled by the control unit 30, which will be described later, so that the light source unit 10 maintains the same color temperature before and after control. Or it can produce white light that is considered to be of the same chromaticity.
- FIG. 2(A) is a side view showing the configuration of the light source section 10.
- FIG. 2B is a plan view showing the configuration of the light source section 10.
- the light source section 10 further has a light guide 15 .
- the light guide 15 uniformly mixes the lights emitted from the first, second, third and fourth LEDs 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 .
- each of the first, second, third and fourth LEDs 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 is totally reflected inside the light guide 15 after entering the incident surface 15 a of the light guide 15 . is repeated to produce uniform white light.
- the white light is emitted from the exit surface 15b.
- the illumination light L1 emitted from the headlight device 100 can be emitted forward as uniform white light without color unevenness.
- the headlamp device 100 can be made smaller.
- the light guide 15 is made of, for example, transparent resin, glass, or silicone material.
- the light guide 15 may be made of any material as long as it has transparency, such as a transparent resin. However, from the viewpoint of light utilization efficiency, a highly transparent material is suitable for the material of the light guide 15 .
- the material of the light guide 15 is a material having excellent heat resistance. is preferred.
- the light source section 10 can be realized without the light guide 15 .
- the light source unit 10 may generate white light with a uniform light color by using another optical member different from the light guide 15, for example.
- the surrounding environment information acquisition unit 20 acquires environment information indicating the surrounding environment of the area illuminated by the headlight device 100 (hereinafter also referred to as “surrounding environment information”).
- the surrounding environment information acquisition unit 20 quantitatively evaluates the amount of glare indicating the degree of glare given to the driver of the vehicle equipped with the headlight device 100 when the illumination light L1 is emitted from the headlight device 100. Acquire the information for doing so as the surrounding environment information.
- the surrounding environment information has, for example, weather information indicating the weather. Weather information includes at least one of rain, snow and fog.
- the surrounding environment information is not limited to weather information, and may include brightness information indicating the brightness of the surrounding environment of the area illuminated by the headlight device 100 .
- the surrounding environment information may also include traffic information indicating the traffic volume of other vehicles.
- the ambient environment information may include ambient environment light information indicating information about return light reflected or scattered by the illumination area of the illumination light L1 emitted from the headlight device 100. .
- the surrounding environment information acquisition unit 20 is an information input unit to which sensor information such as weather information, brightness information, traffic information, and surrounding environment light information is input.
- the surrounding environment information acquisition unit 20 may acquire the sensor information from a sensor attached to the vehicle, or may acquire the information by communicating with an information source outside the vehicle.
- control unit 30 Based on the surrounding environment information acquired by the surrounding environment information acquiring unit 20, the control unit 30 determines the spectral distributions (for example, after-mentioned The spectral distributions S11, S12, S13, S14 shown in FIG.
- the controller 30 has a headlight control module 31 and a light source controller 32 .
- the headlight control module 31 calculates a glare amount for evaluating the glare given to the driver when the illumination light L1 is irradiated, and the calculated glare amount satisfies a predetermined condition. Determine whether or not The headlight control module 31, for example, determines whether or not the calculated amount of glare is greater than or equal to a predetermined glare threshold.
- the headlight control module 31 outputs light L11, L12, L13, and L14 emitted from each of the first, second, third, and fourth LEDs 11, 12, 13, and 14 based on the determination result. generate a control signal to control (i.e., intensity);
- the headlight control module 31 outputs the generated control signal to the light source control section 32 .
- the headlight control module 31 is a control signal generator that generates control signals.
- the light source control section 32 is a light source driving section that drives the light source section 10 .
- the light source controller 32 drives each of the first, second, third and fourth LEDs 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 based on the control signal generated by the headlight control module 31 .
- the light source control section 32 and the light source section 10 are provided in the headlight module 50 of the headlight device 100 .
- FIG. 3A is a diagram schematically showing the hardware configuration of the control unit 30.
- the control unit 30 includes, for example, a memory 30a as a storage device that stores a program as software, and a processor 30b as an information processing unit that implements the program stored in the memory 30a. and (eg, by a computer).
- a part of the control unit 30, that is, a part of the headlight control module 31 and the light source control unit 32 is realized by a memory 30a shown in FIG. 3A and a processor 30b that executes a program. good too.
- the control unit 30 may be realized by an electric circuit.
- FIG. 3B is a diagram schematically showing another example of the hardware configuration of the control unit 30.
- the control unit 30 may be implemented using a processing circuit 30c as dedicated hardware such as a single circuit or a composite circuit. In this case, the functions of the control unit 30 are realized by the processing circuit 30c.
- the Purkinje phenomenon is known as a cause of giving glare to the driver of a vehicle equipped with a headlight device.
- the Purkinje phenomenon is the shift of the peak of the spectral luminosity curve to the shorter wavelength side in scotopic environments with respect to photopic environments.
- FIG. 4 is a graph showing a relative luminosity curve V1 for a photopic environment and a relative luminosity curve V2 for a scotopic environment.
- the horizontal axis is the wavelength ⁇ (nm) and the vertical axis is the relative luminous efficiency.
- the solid line is the relative luminosity curve V1 for the photopic environment, and the dashed line is the relative luminosity curve V2 for the scotopic environment.
- the wavelength at the peak of the relative luminosity curve V2 is shifted to the short wavelength side (that is, the direction of the arrow shown in FIG . 4 ) from the wavelength at the peak of the relative luminosity curve V1.
- the human eye perceives light with a wavelength of approximately 555 nm to be the brightest.
- a scotopic environment the human eye perceives light with a wavelength of approximately 507 nm to be the brightest.
- the lighting environment by the headlight device at nighttime is a brightness environment called a "mesopic environment" between the photopic environment and the scotopic environment.
- FIG. 5 is a graph obtained by adding a relative luminosity curve V3 for a mesopic environment to the graph shown in FIG.
- the wavelength at the peak of the relative luminosity curve V3 is between 507 nm and 555 nm. Therefore, when illumination light with a wavelength between 507 nm and 555 nm is emitted from the headlight device, the driver's eyes can feel the illumination light brightest. On the other hand, if the amount of illumination light with a wavelength between 507 nm and 555 nm increases more than necessary, the driver is likely to feel glare.
- the illumination light when illumination light is emitted from the headlight device during bad weather such as rain or snow, the illumination light may be scattered by raindrops or snow and enter the driver's eyes as return light. In this case, the driver perceives glare. Further, as described above, the more short wavelength components of 555 nm or less in the illumination light, the stronger the glare the driver feels.
- FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing the operation of the headlamp device 100. As shown in FIG.
- step ST1 the control unit 30 starts loop processing that repeats the processing of steps ST2 to ST6 after startup.
- step ST2 the headlight control module 31 of the control unit 30 receives a signal indicating the surrounding environment information acquired by the surrounding environment information acquisition unit 20.
- step ST3 the headlight control module 31 determines whether or not the surrounding environment information satisfies a condition for increasing the glare given to the driver (hereinafter also referred to as "condition for increasing glare"), and determines whether or not the surrounding environment information If the information satisfies the glare increase condition (that is, if the determination is Yes in step ST3), the process proceeds to step ST4. For example, the headlight control module 31 advances the process to step ST4 when the weather is rain, snow or fog.
- condition for increasing glare a condition for increasing the glare given to the driver
- step ST3 when the headlight control module 31 determines that the surrounding environment information does not satisfy the glare increase condition (that is, when the determination is NO in step ST3), the process proceeds to step ST5.
- step ST4 the headlight control module 31 generates a control signal that relatively reduces short wavelength components, which are shorter wavelength components than the wavelength at the representative point, in the spectral distribution of the illumination light L1.
- the light source control unit 32 shown in FIG. 1 controls the light L11, L12, L13, and The intensity of light with a short center wavelength in L14 is weakened. This suppresses the glare given to the driver. Therefore, the headlight device 100 can improve the driver's visibility.
- step ST5 the headlight control module 31 determines whether or not the surrounding environment information satisfies a condition for reducing the glare given to the driver (hereinafter also referred to as a "condition for reducing glare"), and determines whether or not the surrounding environment information If the information satisfies the glare reduction condition (that is, if the determination is Yes in step ST5), the process proceeds to step ST6.
- a condition for reducing glare a condition for reducing the glare given to the driver
- step ST6 the headlight control module 31 generates a control signal that relatively increases short wavelength components in the spectral distribution of the illumination light L1.
- the light source control unit 32 shown in FIG. 1 controls the light L11, L12, L13, and The intensity of light with a short center wavelength in L14 is increased.
- illumination light L1 having a spectral distribution in which short wavelength components are increased is emitted from the headlight device 100 in a mesopic environment, so that the driver can feel the illumination light L1 bright. Therefore, the headlight device 100 can improve the driver's visibility.
- step ST5 If the determination in step ST5 is No, or after the processing in step ST6 is completed, steps ST2 to ST6 are repeated until the conditions for terminating the loop processing are satisfied.
- the center wavelengths of the first LED 11 and the second LED 12 are shorter than the center wavelengths of the third LED 13 and the fourth LED 14 .
- the third and fourth LEDs 13 and 14 are also called “first light emitting units”, and the first and second LEDs 11 and 12 are also called “second light emitting units”.
- the second light emitting unit emits light having a center wavelength shorter than that of the first light emitted from the first light emitting unit (that is, the light L13 and L14 shown in FIG. 2A) (that is, light of FIG. 2 ( A) emits light L11, L12) shown in FIG.
- FIGS. 7A to 7D show light L11 emitted from each of the first, second, third and fourth LEDs 11, 12, 13, and 14 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2A. It is a graph which shows spectral distribution S11, S12, S13, and S14 of L12, L13, and L14.
- the horizontal axis is wavelength ⁇ (nm) and the vertical axis is specific energy (au).
- each of the spectral distributions S11, S12, S13, and S14 has a peak at the center wavelength shown in Table 1.
- the synthetic spectral distribution that is the spectral distribution of the illumination light L1 before control is S1
- the synthetic spectral distribution that is the spectral distribution of the illumination light L1 after control is S2.
- the headlight control module 31 controls the short wavelength component of the spectral distribution of the illumination light L1 (for example, the wavelength is 450 nm in the spectral distribution). 550 nm) is controlled to relatively decrease. That is, the headlight control module 31 generates a control signal such that the synthetic spectral distribution S1 and the synthetic spectral distribution S2 satisfy the following formula (1).
- the headlight control module 31 adjusts the intensity of the second light emitted by the second light emitting unit (that is, at least one of the first and second LEDs 11 and 12) to satisfy the formula (1). Weaken.
- the synthetic spectral distribution S1 and the synthetic spectral distribution S2 satisfy the formula (1), the components with wavelengths of 550 nm or less in the spectral distribution of the illumination light L1 emitted from the light source unit 10 are reduced. That is, the spectral distribution of the illumination light L1 is suppressed from having a peak at a wavelength of 550 nm or less. This can suppress an increase in glare due to the Purkinje phenomenon.
- FIG. 8 is a graph showing an example of the synthetic spectral distribution S1 of the illumination light L1 before control.
- FIG. 9 is a graph showing an example of the synthesized spectral distribution S2 of the illumination light L1 after control.
- the horizontal axis is the wavelength ⁇ (nm) and the vertical axis is the specific energy (au).
- the composite spectral distribution S1 shown in FIG. 8 is a spectral distribution obtained by controlling the outputs of the first LED 11, the second LED 12, and the fourth LED 14 shown in FIGS. be.
- the composite spectral distribution S2 shown in FIG. 9 is a spectral distribution obtained by controlling the outputs of the first LED 11, the third LED 13, and the fourth LED 14 shown in FIGS. be.
- Equation (1) The value of the left side of Equation (1) is 0.467, and the value of the right side of Equation (1) is 0.377. In this case, since the formula (1) is satisfied, the glare given to the driver can be suppressed.
- the color of the illumination light L1 of the synthetic spectral distribution S1 and the color of the illumination light L1 of the synthetic spectral distribution S2 are the same.
- the control unit 30 controls the spectral distributions S11, S12, S13, and S14 so that the color temperature of the illumination light L1 of the combined spectral distribution S2 is within a predetermined range.
- the color of the illumination light L1 emitted from the headlamp device 100 it is possible to prevent the driver from erroneously recognizing the sense of distance.
- the color of illumination light L1 is white.
- the color temperature of the illumination light L1 of the synthetic spectral distribution S1 is K1 (unit: K) and the color temperature of the illumination light L1 of the synthetic spectral distribution S2 is K2 (unit: K)
- the color temperature K1 and the color temperature K2 preferably satisfies the following formula (2). K1-500 ⁇ K2 ⁇ K1+500 (2)
- the color temperature K1 is 5579K and the color temperature K2 is 5511K.
- the color temperature K1 and the color temperature K2 satisfy Expression (2), the color of the illumination light L1 of the combined spectral distribution S1 can be regarded as the same color as the color of the illumination light L2 of the combined spectral distribution S2.
- the driver since the color of the illumination light L1 emitted from the light source unit 10 does not change before and after the control unit 30 controls the spectral distributions S11, S12, S13, and S14, the driver may misunderstand the sense of distance. can be prevented, and glare can be suppressed.
- the control unit 30 controls the first, second, third and fourth LEDs 11, 12, 13 based on the surrounding environment information acquired by the surrounding environment information acquiring unit 20. , 14 are controlled.
- the spectral distribution of the illumination light L1 emitted from the headlamp device 100 is appropriately adjusted according to the surrounding environment information, so that the glare given to the driver can be suppressed. Therefore, the driver's visibility can be improved.
- the control unit 30 controls the spectral distributions S11, S12, S13, and S14 of the first, second, third, and fourth LEDs 11, 12, 13, and 14, respectively, before and after controlling the , the spectral distributions S11, S12, S13, and S14 are controlled so that the color temperature of the illumination light L1 is within a predetermined range.
- the color of the illumination light L1 emitted from the light source unit 10 does not change before and after the spectral distributions S11, S12, S13, and S14 are controlled by the control unit 30, thereby preventing the driver from misrecognising the sense of distance. .
- FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a headlamp device 100A according to a modification of the embodiment. 10, the same or corresponding components as those shown in FIG. 1 are given the same reference numerals as those shown in FIG.
- a headlight device 100A according to a modification of the embodiment differs from the headlight device 100 according to the embodiment in that a light receiving unit 21 is provided in a surrounding environment information acquisition unit 20A. Except for this point, the headlight device 100A according to the modification of the embodiment is the same as the headlight device 100 according to the embodiment. Therefore, FIG. 2A will be referred to in the following description.
- the headlight device 100A has a light source section 10, a surrounding environment information acquisition section 20A, and a control section 30.
- the surrounding environment information acquisition unit 20A has a light receiving unit 21.
- the light receiving unit 21 receives return light when the illumination light L1 (see FIG. 2A) emitted from the headlight device 100A is reflected or scattered in the illumination area.
- the returned light is, for example, reflected light, scattered light, or the like.
- the returned light is ambient ambient light generated in the ambient environment of the illumination area of the headlamp device 100A.
- the headlight control module 31 of the control section 30 generates a control signal to be output to the light source control section 32 based on the detection signal corresponding to the return light received by the light receiving section 21 .
- the detection signal output from the light receiving section 21 is, for example, a signal corresponding to the amount of received return light detected by the light receiving section 21 .
- the headlight control module 31 generates a control signal for reducing the glare given to the driver when the illumination light L1 is irradiated, for example, based on a signal corresponding to the amount of received return light. Accordingly, glare given to the driver when the illumination light L1 is emitted from the headlight device 100A can be suppressed.
- FIG. 11 is a flow chart showing the operation of the headlamp device 100A according to the modification of the embodiment.
- step ST11 the control unit 30 starts loop processing that repeats the processing from steps ST12 to ST16 after startup.
- step ST12 the headlight control module 31 of the control section 30 receives a signal corresponding to the amount of received return light acquired by the surrounding environment information acquisition section 20A.
- step ST13 the headlight control module 31 determines whether or not the received light amount of the returned light satisfies the glare increase condition. If yes), the process proceeds to step ST14. Specifically, in step ST13, the headlight control module 31 determines whether or not the amount of received return light is greater than or equal to a predetermined first threshold value Th1. Proceed to ST14.
- step ST13 the headlight control module 31 determines that the received light amount of the returned light does not satisfy the glare increase condition (that is, in step ST13, the received light amount is smaller than the first threshold value Th1, so the determination is NO). case), the process proceeds to step ST15.
- step ST14 the headlight control module 31 performs control to relatively reduce short wavelength components in the spectral distribution of the illumination light L1 emitted from the light source section 10.
- Step ST14 is the same as step ST4 shown in FIG.
- the headlight control module 31 generates a control signal that makes the value t shown in Equation (3) below less than a predetermined threshold.
- step ST15 the headlight control module 31 determines whether or not the amount of received light of the returned light satisfies the conditions for reducing glare. If Yes), the process proceeds to step ST16. Specifically, in step ST15, the headlight control module 31 determines whether or not the amount of received return light is smaller than the second threshold Th2, which is smaller than the first threshold Th1. to step ST14.
- Step ST16 is the same as step ST6 shown in FIG.
- the headlight control module 31 generates a control signal that makes the value t shown in equation (3) above greater than the threshold.
- step ST15 If the determination in step ST15 is No, or after the process in step ST16 ends, steps ST12 to ST16 are repeated until the condition for ending the loop process is satisfied.
- the surrounding environment information acquisition unit 20A has the light receiving unit 21 that receives the return light that is the light reflected or scattered in the illumination area from the illumination light L1. Control to weaken the intensity of light emitted from a second light emitting unit (for example, a second LED 12) having a short center wavelength when it is determined that the amount of light received is equal to or greater than a predetermined first threshold value Th1. I do. As a result, illumination light L1 having an appropriate spectral distribution corresponding to the amount of received return light is emitted. Therefore, since the glare given to the driver is suppressed, the headlight device 100A can improve the visibility of the driver.
- a second light emitting unit for example, a second LED 12
- 10 light source unit 11 first LED, 12 second LED, 13 third LED, 14 fourth LED, 15 light guide, 20, 20A surrounding environment information acquisition unit, 21 light receiving unit, 30 control unit, 30a memory, 30b processor, 30c processing circuit, 31 headlight control module, 32 light source control unit, 50 headlight module, 100, 100A headlight device, L1 illumination light, L11, L12, L13, L14 light, S1, S2 Combined spectral distribution, S11, S12, S13, S14 spectral distribution, Th1 first threshold, Th2 second threshold.
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図1は、実施の形態に係る前照灯装置100の構成を示すブロック図である。図1に示されるように、前照灯装置100は、前照灯光学系としての光源部10と、取得部としての周辺環境情報取得部20と、制御部30とを有する。
光源部10は、複数の発光部としての第1、第2、第3及び第4のLED11、12、13、14を有する。第1、第2、第3及び第4のLED11、12、13、14は、互いに異なる分光分布の光を発する。このように、光源部10は、互いに異なる分光分布の光を発する2つ以上の発光面を有する。
図1に戻って、周辺環境情報取得部20及び制御部30について説明する。周辺環境情報取得部20は、前照灯装置100による照明領域の周辺環境を示す環境情報(以下、「周辺環境情報」とも呼ぶ。)を取得する。周辺環境情報取得部20は、前照灯装置100から照明光L1が照射されたときに、当該前照灯装置100を備える車両の運転者に与えるグレアの程度を示すグレア量を定量的に評価するための情報を周辺環境情報として取得する。周辺環境情報は、例えば、天候を示す天候情報を有する。天候情報は、雨、雪及び霧のうち少なくとも1つを含む。なお、周辺環境情報は、天候情報に限らず、前照灯装置100による照明領域の周辺環境の明るさを示す明るさ情報を有していてもよい。また、周辺環境情報は、他の車両の交通量を示す交通情報を有していてもよい。更に、後述するように、周辺環境情報は、前照灯装置100から照射された照明光L1が照明領域で反射又は散乱した戻り光についての情報を示す周囲環境光情報を有していてもよい。
制御部30は、周辺環境情報取得部20によって取得された周辺環境情報に基づいて、第1、第2、第3及び第4のLED11、12、13、14の各々の分光分布(例えば、後述する図7に示される分光分布S11、S12、S13、S14)を制御する。制御部30は、ヘッドライトコントロールモジュール31と、光源制御部32とを有する。
ここで、前照灯装置を備えた車両の運転者にグレアを与える原因として、プルキンエ現象が知られている。プルキンエ現象とは、暗所視環境では、比視感度曲線のピークが明所視環境に対して短波長側にシフトすることである。
実施の形態に係る前照灯装置100では、周辺環境情報取得部20によって取得された周辺環境情報に基づいて光源部10から出射される照明光L1の分光分布が調整されることで、運転者に与えるグレアを抑制することができる。図6は、前照灯装置100の動作を示すフローチャートである。
次に、具体的な数値例を用いた場合の照明光L1の分光分布の設計例について説明する。以下では、図1及び図2(A)に示される第1、第2、第3及び第4のLED11、12、13、14の各々の中心波長(「主波長」とも呼ぶ。)が、表1に示される値である場合を例にして説明する。表1に示す例では、第3のLED13及び第4のLED14の中心波長に比べて、第1のLED11及び第2のLED12の中心波長は短い。以下の説明では、第3及び第4のLED13、14を「第1の発光部」、第1及び第2のLED11、12を「第2の発光部」とも呼ぶ。第2の発光部は、第1の発光部が出射する第1の光(すなわち、図2(A)に示される光L13、L14)の中心波長より短い中心波長の光(すなわち、図2(A)に示される光L11、L12)を出射する。
K1-500≦K2≦K1+500 (2)
以上に説明した実施の形態によれば、制御部30は、周辺環境情報取得部20によって取得された周辺環境情報に基づいて、第1、第2、第3及び第4のLED11、12、13、14の各分光分布S11、S12、S13、S14を制御する。これにより、周辺環境情報に応じて、前照灯装置100から出射される照明光L1の分光分布が適切に調整されるため、運転者に与えるグレアを抑制することができる。よって、運転者の視認性を向上させることができる。
図10は、実施の形態の変形例に係る前照灯装置100Aの構成を示すブロック図である。図10において、図1に示される構成要素と同一又は対応する構成要素には、図1に示される符号と同じ符号が付される。実施の形態の変形例に係る前照灯装置100Aは、周辺環境情報取得部20Aに受光部21が備えられている点で、実施の形態に係る前照灯装置100と相違する。これ以外の点については、実施の形態の変形例に係る前照灯装置100Aは、実施の形態に係る前照灯装置100と同じである。そのため、以下の説明では、図2(A)を参照する。
次に、実施の形態の変形例に係る前照灯装置100Aの動作について説明する。図11は、実施の形態の変形例に係る前照灯装置100Aの動作を示すフローチャートである。
以上に説明した実施の形態の変形例によれば、周辺環境情報取得部20Aは、照明光L1が照明領域で反射又は散乱した光である戻り光を受光する受光部21を有し、当該戻り光の受光量が予め決められた第1の閾値Th1以上であると判定した場合に、中心波長の短い第2の発光部(例えば、第2のLED12)から出射される光の強度を弱める制御を行う。これにより、戻り光の受光量に応じた適切な分光分布の照明光L1が照射される。よって、運転者に与えるグレアが抑制されるため、前照灯装置100Aは、運転者の視認性を向上させることができる。
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- 車両用の前照灯装置であって、
互いに異なる分光分布の光を出射する複数の発光部を有し、前記複数の発光部の各々の前記分光分布を合成した合成分光分布の照明光を出射する光源部と、
前記前照灯装置による照明領域の周辺環境を示す環境情報を取得する取得部と、
前記取得部によって取得された前記環境情報に基づいて、前記複数の発光部の各々の前記分光分布を制御する制御部と
を有する、ことを特徴とする前照灯装置。 - 前記複数の発光部は、
第1の光を出射する第1の発光部と、
前記第1の光の中心波長より中心波長が短い第2の光を出射する第2の発光部と
を有し、
前記制御部は、前記環境情報に基づいて、前記第2の光の強度を制御する、
ことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の前照灯装置。 - 前記制御部は、
前記環境情報に基づいて、前記照明光が出射されたときに前記車両の運転者に与えるグレアを評価するグレア量を算出し、
前記グレア量が予め決められたグレア閾値以上であると判定した場合に、前記第2の光の強度を弱める、
ことを特徴とする請求項2に記載の前照灯装置。 - 前記取得部は、前記照明光が前記照明領域で反射又は散乱した光である戻り光を受光する受光部を有し、
前記制御部は、前記グレア量としての前記戻り光の受光量が予め決められた第1の閾値以上であると判定した場合に、前記第2の光の強度を弱める、
ことを特徴とする請求項3に記載の前照灯装置。 - 前記制御部は、前記戻り光の前記受光量が前記第1の閾値より小さい第2の閾値以下であると判定した場合に、前記第2の光の強度を強める、
ことを特徴とする請求項4に記載の前照灯装置。 - 前記制御部は、前記複数の発光部の各々の前記分光分布を制御する前後で、前記照明光の色温度が予め決められた範囲内の値になるように前記分光分布を制御する、
ことを特徴とする請求項1から5のいずれか1項に記載の前照灯装置。 - 前記環境情報は、天候を示す天候情報を有する、
ことを特徴とする請求項1から6のいずれか1項に記載の前照灯装置。
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