公开(公告)号：US12149172B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-19

申请号：US17769242

申请日：2020-10-14

Applicant: VALEO VISION

Inventor： Sebastian Krick ,  Guillaume Zante ,  Thomas Giraud-Sauveur ,  Dominique Bodziany

IPC: H02M3/158 ,  H05B45/3725

Abstract: A motor vehicle lighting system includes a light source, a multi-phase interleaved power converter having a plurality of selectively activatable elementary converters, each of which is configured to generate an electrical signal having its own phase. The power converter is designed to supply electrical power to the light source, and controller is designed to selectively control each of the elementary converters of the power converter. The controller is designed to receive an emission command for the emission of a desired light beam by the light source and to activate a strictly necessary number of elementary converters of the power converter such that the power converter supplies, to the light source, an electrical power needed to emit the desired light beam.

公开(公告)号：US12140288B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-12

申请号：US18552728

申请日：2022-03-31

Applicant: VALEO VISION

Inventor： Lucia Puga Pedregosa ,  Maria Victoria Sanchez Martinez ,  Maria Del Carmen Montano Segura ,  Juan Manuel Martinez Spinola

IPC: F21S43/237 ,  F21S43/14 ,  F21S43/245

Abstract: A light guide designed to be mounted in a vehicle includes a coupling portion presenting an input face, a main portion adjacent to said coupling portion, and a light output surface extending at least along the main portion. The light guide is arranged in such a way that light rays that enter into the light guide through the input face are propagated by total internal reflection along the coupling portion and then along the main portion, before reaching out of the light guide trough the output surface. The light input face is flat and has a periphery that is formed by only five edges of substantially the same size, these edges joining together such that they form five angles with substantially the same value.

公开(公告)号：US20240360973A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-31

申请号：US18579898

申请日：2022-07-19

Applicant: VALEO VISION

Inventor： Yves GROMFELD

IPC: F21S41/67 ,  F21S41/148 ,  F21S41/26 ,  F21S41/33 ,  F21S41/36

CPC classification number: F21S41/67 ,  F21S41/148 ,  F21S41/26 ,  F21S41/336 ,  F21S41/337 ,  F21S41/36

Abstract: The invention relates to a light module for a lighting device of a motor vehicle, including a light source and an optical device, the optical device being arranged to receive light emitted by the light source and to form, from the light, a light beam having an upper cut-off including a first portion and a second portion which are substantially horizontal and separated by a third portion descending from the first portion and ascending towards the second portion, the third portion being such that the light beam has, when projected onto a screen, a light-free zone extending at least horizontally in a range from substantially 0° to −2.2° and vertically in a range from substantially 0° to −0.8°.

公开(公告)号：US20240344681A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-17

申请号：US18701401

申请日：2022-10-17

Applicant: VALEO VISION

Inventor： Eric MOISY ,  Marine COURCIER ,  Stefan NAMYSLO

IPC: F21S43/40 ,  F21S43/14 ,  F21S43/237 ,  F21W103/20 ,  F21W103/30 ,  F21W103/35 ,  F21W103/45 ,  F21W103/60

CPC classification number: F21S43/40 ,  F21S43/14 ,  F21S43/237 ,  F21S43/2621 ,  F21W2103/20 ,  F21W2103/30 ,  F21W2103/35 ,  F21W2103/45 ,  F21W2103/60

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for projecting light beams for a vehicle, including a first device configured to generate a first beam which performs a signaling function and a second device configured to generate at least a second beam for projecting a pattern, with the first device including at least one refractive optical member for shaping the first beam and in that the second device includes at least one optical element having a controlled pattern-generating surface to deflect light rays from a light source, this generating surface having local variations arranged so as to form a predetermined pattern in the second beam.

公开(公告)号：US12078316B1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-03

申请号：US18482054

申请日：2023-10-06

Applicant: Valeo Vision

Inventor： Cameron Foutch

IPC: F21S43/50 ,  F21S43/31

CPC classification number: F21S43/50 ,  F21S43/31

Abstract: A light system of a vehicle includes a first light housing including a first light source configured to emit first light from a face of the first light housing, a second light housing including a second light source configured to emit second light from a face of the second light housing, a gap located between the first light housing and the second light housing, and an aperture within the first light housing, wherein gap light travels from the aperture into the gap to illuminate the gap.

公开(公告)号：US20240288687A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-29

申请号：US18565375

申请日：2022-06-01

Applicant: VALEO VISION

Inventor： Christophe GRARD ,  Christian TEXIER ,  Gregory PLANCHE ,  Pierre RENAUD

IPC: G02B27/00 ,  G02B5/00

CPC classification number: G02B27/0018 ,  G02B5/003

Abstract: An optical module for a vehicle includes a camera including a set of optical lenses, a housing configured to receive the camera, and a glass pane arranged facing the camera and configured to conceal the camera from the outside of the vehicle. The optical module further includes an opaque element configured to absorb light from outside said vehicle so as to reduce stray reflections of the light on the set of optical lenses of the camera.

公开(公告)号：US20240284568A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-22

申请号：US18567865

申请日：2022-06-22

Applicant: VALEO VISION

Inventor： Rabih TALEB

IPC: H05B45/28 ,  F21S41/153 ,  F21S43/14 ,  H05B45/18 ,  H05B45/325 ,  H05B45/56

CPC classification number: H05B45/28 ,  F21S41/153 ,  F21S43/14 ,  H05B45/18 ,  H05B45/325 ,  H05B45/56

Abstract: A method for operating an automotive lighting device including at least one solid-state light source. The method includes defining a color allowance condition, feeding the light source with a current value which produces a luminous flux value higher than a minimum luminous flux threshold value, measuring the temperature in the light source, checking whether the output color satisfies the allowance condition and increasing or decreasing the current value, always keeping the current such as it produces an acceptable color. With the checking includes perform a pulse width modulation of the current value to keep an average value of the current which produces a luminous flux value higher than the minimum luminous flux threshold value. The invention also provides an automotive lighting device comprising a control element to carry out the steps of this method.

公开(公告)号：US20240283950A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-22

申请号：US18568990

申请日：2022-06-22

Applicant: VALEO VISION

Inventor： Yasser ALMEHIO

IPC: H04N19/182 ,  F21S41/141 ,  F21S41/50 ,  F21Y115/10 ,  H04N19/91

CPC classification number: H04N19/182 ,  F21S41/141 ,  F21S41/50 ,  H04N19/91 ,  F21Y2115/10

Abstract: A method for managing an image in an automotive lighting device. The method includes providing a first image pattern including a plurality of pixels, selecting a relevant portion of the value of each pixel and preparing compressed data related to the relevant values, together with data related to the position of the pixel with a value equal to zero.

公开(公告)号：US12067751B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-20

申请号：US17919699

申请日：2021-04-22

Applicant: VALEO VISION

Inventor： Yasser Almehio ,  Hafid El Idrissi ,  Constantin Prat

IPC: G06T9/00 ,  B60Q1/14 ,  F21S41/141 ,  F21S41/60 ,  F21W102/13

CPC classification number: G06T9/00 ,  F21S41/60 ,  B60Q1/143 ,  F21S41/141 ,  F21W2102/13

Abstract: The invention provides a method for managing image data in a motor vehicle lighting system, the lighting system including at least one lighting module intended to project light beams, the light beams being generated from data relating to the selection of at least one image, each image being respectively defined by a matrix including a plurality of horizontal or vertical rows of pixels, with each pixel having a numerical value related to a light intensity of the pixel. The method includes determining whether the pixel under analysis is considered to be a significant point of inflection of the image, so as to transmit it to at least one lighting module, so that it is able to project a resulting image.

公开(公告)号：US20240273916A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-15

申请号：US18567825

申请日：2022-06-20

Applicant: VALEO VISION

Inventor： Mickael MIMOUN

IPC: G06V20/58 ,  G01B11/25 ,  G06T7/521 ,  G06V10/145 ,  G06V10/20

CPC classification number: G06V20/58 ,  G01B11/254 ,  G06T7/521 ,  G06V10/145 ,  G06V10/20 ,  G06T2207/20081 ,  G06T2207/30261

Abstract: A method for detecting an object in a road surface. The method includes defining a light pattern including dark and lighted groups of square pixels, projecting the light pattern on a road surface, acquiring an image of the projected light pattern, comparing the shape and position of some groups of square pixels in the acquired image with respect of the defined light pattern, and using the comparison to infer features of an object. The invention also provides a method for autonomous driving using this object detection and an automotive lighting device.