ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,423, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Headlamp control apparatus and vehicle" was invented by Shunichi Nakamura (Tokyo) and Noriaki Asano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headlamp control apparatus for a vehicle includes a front vehicle detection unit, a speed determination unit, and a headlamp control unit. The headlamp control unit controls lighting of a headlamp, based on a detection by the front vehicle detection unit and a determination by the speed determination unit. The headlamp control unit has: a first mode of varying a region to be illuminated based on a position of a front vehicle when the fr...