US 12,485,816 B2
System for controlling a light assembly of a vehicle
Fabio Danna, Monastero di Vasco (IT); Domenico Pignatale, Turin (IT); and Mirko Ballarini, Turin (IT)
Assigned to ITALDESIGN-GIUGIARO S.P.A., Turin (IT)
Appl. No. 18/257,875
Filed by ITALDESIGN-GIUGIARO S.P.A., Turin (IT)
PCT Filed Dec. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IT2020/000081
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 15, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/130418, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0092254 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/26 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 1/2607 (2013.01) [B60Q 2900/30 (2013.01); B60Q 2900/50 (2022.05)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for controlling a light assembly of a vehicle, the system comprising a light assembly including an array of light sources adapted to perform at least one lighting or light-signaling function of the vehicle, said array of light sources comprising sub-arrays of light sources for respective lighting or light-signaling functions, the system further comprising:
light configuration means of the light assembly, configured to acquire from a user a lighting shape of said array of light sources, associated with a predetermined lighting or light-signaling function of the light assembly;
processing and control means residing on board the vehicle and coupled to said light assembly, adapted to receive data indicative of said lighting shape and to select a plurality of light sources of said array, lighting of which implements or approximates an implementation of said lighting shape; and
drive means for controlling said array of light sources, adapted to control activation of the plurality of light sources selected to perform said predetermined lighting or light-signaling function,
wherein said light configuration means include a user interface computer environment arranged for setting said lighting shape of said array of light sources within a programmable area defined in an overall area of the light assembly and for remotely sending said data indicative of said lighting shape to said processing and control means,
wherein said user interface computer environment is arranged for comparing the acquired lighting shape in the programmable area defined in the overall area of the light assembly with predetermined size, shape and light intensity constraints and with an available lighting area of the sub-arrays intended for the lighting or light-signaling function associated with said lighting shape, and for rejection of said lighting shape if the lighting shape is not entirely comprised within said available lighting area,
wherein said user interface computer environment is arranged for comparing the acquired lighting shape of said array of light sources with a collection of inadmissible lighting shapes including lighting shapes not conforming to predetermined standardized shape homologation features for the related lighting or light-signaling function, the processing means being configured to reject said acquired lighting shape if the acquired lighting shape corresponds to an inadmissible lighting shape.