IP Library Granted Patent US 9,884,586
Granted Patent B2
US 9,884,586 · App. 15/129,293 · Granted Feb 6, 2018

Vehicle lighting device

Inventors: Makoto Abe (Yamagata, JP); Satoshi Suzuki (Yamagata, JP); Kenji Kawamura (Yamagata, JP); Shingo Tsuji (Yamagata, JP)
Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION; TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
B60Q3/001B60Q3/0293G06F3/0485G06F3/04883
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Patent No.
US 9,884,586
App. No.
15/129,293
Granted
Feb 6, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a vehicle lighting device intended to improve convenience and safety. A vehicle lighting device includes a light disposed in a vehicle interior, a controller controlling the light, and a detecting unit detecting position or motion of a detecting object by detecting a detection object at a plurality of positions, and the controller controls the light when the position or motion of the detection object is detected by the detecting unit.

Claims (11)

1. A vehicle lighting device, comprising:

a light arranged in a vehicle interior;

a controller controlling the light;

a detector including a touch panel, and detecting a position or a motion of a detection object by detecting the detection object at a plurality of positions of the touch panel,

wherein the controller controls the light to change an emission direction of the light and not to irradiate a predetermined area in accordance with a detected result when the position or the motion of the detection object in the touch panel is detected by the detector.

2. The vehicle lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein the detector detects the motion of the detection object by detecting the detection object at the plurality of positions at different times from each other.

3. The vehicle lighting device according to claim 2 , wherein the detector object is a person's finger.

4. The vehicle lighting device according to claim 3 , wherein the touch panel includes a guide part guiding upward or downward motion of the person's finger.

5. The vehicle lighting device according to claim 3 , wherein the motion of the person's finger is a swipe motion tracing the tough panel with the person's finger touching the panel, or a flick motion.

6. The vehicle lighting device according to claim 3 , wherein the emission direction of the light moves in a same direction as a direction in which the person's finger moves by the swipe motion or the flick motion.

7. The vehicle lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined area includes one of a driver's face and a rear window or both the driver's face and the rear window.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 26, 2016
From: ABE, MAKOTO; SUZUKI, SATOSHI; KAWAMURA, KENJI; TSUJI, SHINGO
To: PIONEER CORPORATION; TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
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