Dynamic forward lighting

Intelligent dynamic forward lighting elevates car safety to another level. More and more multifunctional intelligent headlamp systems will illuminate the road and communicate with the surrounding environment at the same time using dynamic or moving light. This enhances driver visibility while simultaneously reducing glare for other road users. As soon as oncoming traffic is detected the appropriate pixels are automatically switched off.

Drivers can always drive with high-beam light distribution, while other road users experience this light as low-beam illumination. This is because vehicles equipped with an adaptive driving beam (ADB / AFS) system use an integrated camera to identify and screen other vehicles to prevent glare. The same technique can also spot obstacles, pedestrians, or animals on the road and selectively illuminate them, further boosting safety. These ADB systems or multi-pixelated single LEDs not only eliminate dazzling oncoming traffic, but also enable car-2-x communication by projecting e.g. warning symbols on the road. Higher resolutions / pixelations, also called ‘digital light’, can also be used for projection purposes with decorative functions. For example, before the driver enters the vehicle the headlight displays a personalized welcome message in front of the car.

Those applications ranging from HD adaptive driving beam solutions with permanent glare-fee high beam to driver lane assistance projections can even be realized by a single LED matrix component today.