US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Light distribution control apparatus that irradiates different regions with a different illuminances" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,069, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Light distribution control apparatus that irradiates different regions with a different illuminances" was invented by Tetsuya Ikuta (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light distribution control apparatus includes an imaging device capable of capturing an image of a front vehicle existing in front of an own vehicle, a headlight capable of irradiating a front region of the own vehicle, and a control unit capable of executing light distribution control for controlling light distribution of the headlight so that a predetermined first region incl...