| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a headlight control device capable of properly detecting a front vehicle of appearing from the front of a curve road without making an arithmetic load excessive.SOLUTION: The headlight control device 1 for automatically switching a light distribution pattern, comprises imaging means 40 for successively imaging an image of the own vehicle front, the other vehicle recognition means for recognizing a light source of the other vehicle from the image successively imaged by the imaging means. light distribution control means 30 for switching the light distribution pattern in response to a recognition result of the other vehicle recognition means and a traffic lane shape recognition means for recognizing a traffic lane shape of the own vehicle front, and the other vehicle recognition means sets an important area A estimated as being high in the appearance possibility of a vehicle in a part of the image based on a recognition result of the traffic lane shape, and is constituted for executing image processing specialized for detecting a front vehicle more than image processing executed to an external part of the important area with the inside of the important area as an object. |
