EP4037938A1 - Procede d'adaptation de consignes pour une unite d'eclairage numerique d'un vehicule automobile - Google Patents
Procede d'adaptation de consignes pour une unite d'eclairage numerique d'un vehicule automobileInfo
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Definitions
- the invention relates to lighting modules for motor vehicles.
- the invention relates to control methods for such modules involving matrix light sources.
- a light-emitting diode is a semiconductor electronic component capable of emitting light when it is traversed by an electric current having at least a threshold intensity.
- LED technology is increasingly being used for various light signaling solutions.
- LED arrays are of particular interest in the field of automotive lighting.
- Matrix light sources can be used for “leveling” type functions, ie, adjustment of the height of the light beam emitted, according to the attitude of the vehicle and the profile of the road.
- DBL Digital Bending Light
- ADB Adaptive Driving Beam
- the contours of the shadows must be well defined and reproducible by a lighting device in order to comply with the strict regulations.
- Micro-mirrors the position of which is controlled by means of piezoelectric elements, are oriented so as to selectively reflect an incident light beam, so that each micro-mirror corresponds to an elementary source of the matrix of pixels thus generated. .
- the light coming from a source is directed onto the array of micro-mirrors by an optic.
- the light emitted by a matrix light source also generally passes through an optic comprising at least one optical lens, in order to project the desired contour in front of the motor vehicle.
- an optic comprising at least one optical lens
- the response of the elementary light sources of the matrix through the optical system is not homogeneous.
- a central zone is suitable for projecting at a high resolution, while the resolution gradually decreases near the field of view of the light source, which can all the more have a large aperture of the order of 35 °.
- the projection of precise contours in zones of lower resolution ie at the edges of the field of view
- the result of projecting a precise outline or pattern in such an area is usually a blurred outline or pattern.
- the object of the invention is to overcome at least one of the problems posed by the prior art.
- the object of the invention is to propose a method which can increase the precision of patterns or contours projected by means of a matrix light source.
- a method of adapting a digital lighting setpoint is proposed.
- the digital lighting setpoint is intended to be projected by a digital lighting unit of a motor vehicle comprising a matrix light source and an optical system.
- the digital lighting setpoint includes an elementary light intensity setpoint for each elementary light source of the matrix light source. The process is remarkable in that it includes:
- the digital filtering of a given parameter takes into account the light response of the corresponding elementary light source, this response comprising the contribution of the light beam generated by said light source on the light intensity of the corresponding projected pixel and on the light intensity of the projected pixels which are part of a predetermined spatial neighborhood of said projected pixel.
- the method can comprise a control step, by means of a control unit of said light source using electrical signals parameterized by said filtered parameters.
- Said digital lighting setpoint may preferably include a desired photometry or digital image.
- the method can comprise a preliminary step of receiving a digital image of the desired pixelated light beam, a step of splitting said digital image into a plurality of regions, each region being associated with one of the elementary light sources of the matrix light source, and a step of calculating a set value of elementary light intensity for each of the elementary light sources from the region associated with this elementary light source .
- the digital image is divided into as many regions as the matrix light source comprises elementary light sources, each region corresponding to the pixel being able to be emitted by one of these elementary light sources.
- the elementary light intensity setpoint value assigned to each of the elementary light sources can preferably correspond to the average light intensity in the region associated with this light source.
- the electrical signal may be an electrical signal modulated in pulse width, said parameter being the duty cycle of this electrical signal.
- the neighborhood of a pixel can for example cover a predetermined number of pixels surrounding this pixel. Alternatively, it can cover all the pixels in a circle having said pixel as its center.
- the method can preferably comprise a preliminary step of measuring, for each elementary light source, the light response projected by the corresponding elementary light source.
- the light responses are obtained by numerical simulation using a calculation unit and a modeling of the matrix light source, as well as of its emission properties.
- the light response for each elementary light source can preferably be stored in a memory element in the form of a distribution matrix, the distribution matrix comprising the digitized contribution of the light beam generated by said elementary light source on the luminous intensity of the corresponding projected pixel as the central element.
- the distribution matrix can further comprise the digitized contribution of the light beam generated by said elementary light source on the intensity of the projected pixels which form part of a predetermined spatial neighborhood of said projected pixel as peripheral elements.
- Each element of the matrix P (112) thus corresponding to a projected pixel.
- the step of applying digital filtering can comprise the following steps:
- the conversion step may preferably include the application of a conversion function defined beforehand for each elementary light source.
- Said filtering may preferably include the application of a dedicated digital filter for each of the elementary light instructions.
- said filtering can include the application of a dedicated digital filter for each column or row of elementary light instructions.
- the lighting setpoint may preferably correspond to a digital image having a resolution at least equal to the projection resolution of the lighting device.
- a lighting device for a motor vehicle comprises a digital lighting unit having a matrix light source composed of elementary light sources as well as an optical system.
- the device further comprises a data reception unit intended to receive a lighting instruction.
- the lighting device is remarkable in that it comprises a calculation unit configured to adapt a lighting instruction received in accordance with the method according to one aspect of the present invention.
- the device further comprises a unit control unit intended to control the lighting unit by means of electrical signals parameterized by the filtered parameters.
- a computer program comprising a series of instructions which, when they are executed by a processor, cause the processor to implement a method according to one aspect of the present invention.
- a non-transient computer readable storage medium is provided, said medium storing a computer program according to one aspect of the present invention.
- control unit and / or the computing unit can comprise a microcontroller element or a data processor programmed by means of an appropriate computer program to carry out said method.
- the arrangement of the optical system may preferably be such that the light emitted by the elementary light sources of the lighting unit passes through it.
- the optical system can preferably include at least one optical lens.
- the data reception unit may preferably include a network interface capable of receiving / sending data on a data bus internal to the motor vehicle.
- the bus can be a “Controller Area Network”, CAN, Ethernet bus, a Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link, GMSL bus, or a Low Voltage Differential Signaling, LVDS technology bus, such as an FPD-Link bus. III.
- the matrix light source may preferably comprise a monolithic source, comprising elementary electroluminescent light sources with semiconductor elements etched in a common substrate and which can be activated independently of each other.
- the matrix light source may preferably comprise a micro LED type matrix, comprising a matrix of elementary sources produced by light emitting diodes, LEDs, of small dimensions, typically less than 150 ⁇ m.
- the matrix light source may preferably comprise a micro-mirror device, DMD, ("Digital Micromirror Device"), in which an elementary source comprises a micro-mirror of a matrix, which reflects selectively as a function of from its position an incident light beam.
- the method makes it possible to produce the desired brightness contours or gradients in the setpoint image overall more clearly, by taking into account the light interference which appears during the realization of the target image.
- FIG 1 is an illustration of a method according to a preferred embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 1 is an illustration of a matrix comprising the light distribution produced by an elementary light source, in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention
- FIG 3 is an illustration of a standardized version of the matrix illustrated by [Fig. 2]; [0039] [Fig 4] illustrates an example of digital filtering in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 5 illustrates an example of digital filtering in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention
- FIG 6 is a schematic illustration of a lighting device according to a preferred embodiment of the invention.
- the efficiency of a light source of the light-emitting diode type can in a known manner be influenced by controlling its electric current supply by means of a signal of the pulse width modulation type ("pulse width modulation", PWM), which is characterized by a duty cycle representative of the desired yield.
- PWM pulse width modulation
- the invention uses this principle for the implementation of a method which makes it possible to achieve desired light instructions with a high degree of optical prediction.
- FIG 1 shows the provision of a digital lighting instruction 10 intended to be projected by a digital lighting unit 100.
- the digital instruction comprises for example an image of which each pixel 12 comprises a light intensity value, which should ideally be reproduced by a corresponding elementary light source 112 of a matrix light source 110 of the digital lighting unit 100.
- the elementary digital setpoint 12 can correspond to a region. pixels of a target digital image having a resolution higher than the resolution of projection of the matrix source 110.
- the matrix source 110 may comprise a monolithic source, a digital micromirror device or other matrix light sources known in the art.
- the digital lighting unit 100 also comprises an optical system comprising at least one optical lens 120, arranged downstream of the matrix light source, according to the direction of the emitted light.
- a calculation unit 130 such as a processor or a microcontroller element programmed for this purpose, first converts each elementary light intensity setpoint 12, corresponding to an element of the setpoint 10, into a parameter 12 'of a electrical signal intended to control a corresponding elementary light source 112, so that the latter achieves the elementary light intensity setpoint 12.
- the parameter 12 ′ is a duty cycle of a control signal of PWM type, applied to a converter of electric current. This corresponds to step a) of the proposed process.
- the calculation unit applies a digital filtering F to the matrix 10 ’which groups together the parameters resulting from the conversion of the previous step. All the filtered parameters F (10 ′) are then relayed to the lighting unit 110 in order to control the matrix light source 110 in accordance with the filtered parameters. The result is a projection R (10) which approaches the desired setpoint 10.
- the digital filtering takes into account the light response of the corresponding elementary light source 112.
- This light response comprises contribution of the light beam generated by the corresponding elementary light source 112 on the light intensity of the corresponding projected pixel R (112), which is previously measured or simulated.
- the light response also comprises the contribution of the light beam generated by the elementary light source 12 on the light intensity of the projected pixels which form part of a predetermined spatial neighborhood V (112) of said projected pixel R (112).
- this neighborhood comprises the seven pixels immediately adjacent to the projected pixel R (112).
- the neighborhood of the projected pixel R (112) can be determined as comprising all the pixels which have a brightness greater than a predetermined threshold value, when only the elementary light source 112 is on.
- the neighborhood V (112) preferably comprises the pixels for which the spatial light distribution projected by the corresponding elementary source 112 is perceptible.
- the digital values of this light response or light distribution for the neighborhood of projected pixels V (112) thus determined are preferably recorded beforehand in a memory element in matrix form: each element of the matrix corresponds to a physical location of a pixel projected, so that the P array (112) is a sampled version of the light response, or equivalent spatial light distribution, generated by the elemental light source 112.
- the conversion of step a) can include the following substeps.
- a first sub-step for example carried out at the end of the production of the lighting device in question or before the first start-up of the motor vehicle carrying the lighting device, a function of conversion of the light module between the values will be defined.
- duty cycle defined by a controller and the light intensity of the elementary light beams emitted by the elementary light sources 112 of the matrix light source 110.
- the controller will sequentially transmit a plurality of predetermined duty cycle values to an integrated controller of the pixelated light source so that the pixelated light source 110 emits several complete pixelated light beams having different intensities.
- the predetermined values are increasing duty cycle values at regular intervals, from 0 to 100%. All the elementary light sources are thus controlled in the same way, all the pixels being thus lit for each occurrence of the duty cycle, each light beam thus forming a "blank page" of increasing intensity.
- the maximum intensity Imax of the pixelated light beam emitted by the light module is measured.
- the various measured light intensity values are extrapolated to define a conversion function between duty cycle and light intensity actually emitted.
- step a) The complementary conversion function is then applied during step a) to transform each elementary light intensity setpoint into a corresponding duty cycle and adapted to the elementary light source which will have to achieve the setpoint in question.
- FIG 2 shows an example of a P matrix (112) as described in the description in connection with [Fig 1], for a given elementary light source 112.
- the light intensity generated by the light source 112 is recorded in the central element denoted P13, while the intensities close to the corresponding spatial light distribution are recorded in the other elements of the matrix.
- This is a representation of the spatial sampling of the light distribution generated by the elemental light source 112.
- FIG 3 shows a standardized version of the P matrix (112).
- a standardized version K is used in a preferred embodiment of the digital filtering F proposed.
- the elements of the illustrated normalized K matrix are generated by the calculation unit 130 according to the following formulas for a neighborhood of 24 pixels. It goes without saying that the formulas can be adapted to neighborhoods of different sizes without departing from the scope of the invention:
- FIG 4 shows an example of digital filtering F in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention.
- the normalized version K of a spatial distribution matrix P (112) relating to a given elementary light source 112 of a matrix light source is shown at the top left.
- the converted version 10 'of a set of light instructions 10 to be produced by the matrix source is shown.
- the inputs of matrix 10 ′ correspond to parameters and more precisely to duty cycles of a PWM type signal, as previously explained.
- the result F (12 ') of filtering the value 12' is shown.
- the calculating unit (130) multiplies the elements of the one-to-one matrix K with this neighborhood V (12 ').
- the arithmetic mean of the results of these multiplications gives the filtered value F (12 ') of the parameter, which will be used to control the corresponding elementary light source.
- the method described is applied to each elementary setpoint using the data P, K relating thereto. It can be seen that in this example, where the setpoint or converted photometry P (112) comprises homogeneous values, there is hardly any need to correct.
- FIG. 5 shows a second example of calculation for a set of converted elementary light setpoints P (112) comprising heterogeneous values, corresponding in particular to a clear cut in the corresponding digital setpoint image.
- the filtering gives rise to a large correction of the PWM control parameter.
- a matrix light source can generate a large number of elementary light sources, for example several thousand light emitting light sources with semiconductor element, of the LED type. Such a light source can cover a large field of view, of the order of 35 °.
- an optical system comprising at least one optical lens is typically associated with such a matrix light source.
- the central portion of a projected image exhibits high resolution, while the edge regions of the image exhibit degraded resolution. It has been observed that in a central high definition area (corresponding to approximately -11 ° to 11 ° aperture), the light emitted by an elementary source produces one projected pixel, and also contributes to the brightness of approximately two pixels. neighbors.
- Light emitted by an elementary source in a medium area produces one projected pixel, and also contributes to the brightness of about four neighboring pixels.
- a low-resolution border area light emitted from a single elementary source produces one projected pixel, and at the same time contributes to the brightness of about eight pixels in its vicinity.
- the spatial distribution of the light emitted by an elementary source of the matrix light source is therefore not homogeneous for all the elementary sources that make up the matrix light source, but it depends on the location of the elementary source relative to the optical system, even if the characteristics of the elementary sources are otherwise equivalent . As the optical behavior of such sources is similar along the vertical axis, one filtering kernel K per column of the image to be filtered may be sufficient, thus reducing the computational task.
- FIG 6 schematically shows a lighting device 20 according to a preferred embodiment of the invention. It comprises a digital lighting unit 100 having a matrix light source composed of elementary light sources as well as an optical system.
- a data reception unit 140 is able to receive a lighting instruction 10, for example in the form of a digital image on a data bus of a motor vehicle. Typically the instruction comes from a central control module of the vehicle.
- the device comprises a microcontroller element 130 configured to adapt each received lighting setpoint 10 in accordance with the method which has just been described.
- the device further comprises a control unit 150 for controlling the lighting unit 100 in accordance with the filtered parameters F (10 ’). To do this, the duty cycle of a pulse width modulated control signal is preferably adapted to reflect the filtered parameter values F (10 ′).
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