Method for controlling a headlamp system for a vehicle, and headlamp system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8768008
APP PUB NO 20130177202A1
SERIAL NO

13511121

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In a method for controlling a headlamp system for a vehicle, the headlamp system having two headlamps, set apart from each other, road users are detected in front of the vehicle in the driving direction, and a first total light pattern is able to be produced, in which the illumination range on a first side of a center axis is greater than on the other, second side of this center axis, and a second total light pattern is able to be produced, in which the total light pattern is controllable such that it has an illumination range in the direction of at least one detected road user that is less than the distance to the detected road user, and which has an illumination range in another direction that is greater than the distance to the detected road user. During the switch from the first total light pattern to the second total light pattern, the illumination range of at least one headlamp on the first side of the center axis is first reduced to at least such an extent that it is less than the distance to the detected road user, the second total light pattern being produced subsequently.

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  • VOLKSWAGEN AG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dierks, Karsten Kloetze, DE 7 42
Freese, Martin Wendeburg, DE 4 38
Jahrsau, Bernd Sassenburg, DE 4 38

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