Apparatus, system and method to avoid glare while driving, using intermittent light pulse emission during night vision encounters

摘要

An Optoelectronic apparatus, systems and methods to avoid the night-time dazzling of a driver's vision produced by the glare from the headlights of other vehicles. The disclosed embodiments include:(a) Intermittent lighting to illuminate the road, at least at times when glare should be avoided, as a substitute for the conventional continuous illumination produced by vehicle headlamps;(b) Synchronization of such intermittent illumination so that vehicles traveling in the same direction exhibit the same intermittent illumination phase and vehicles in opposite directions exhibit opposite intermittent illumination phases;(c) Protection of the driver(s) vision by preventing or attenuating at regular intervals of time the arrival of light into their eyes, including intermittent light pulses received from the already synchronized incoming vehicles;(d) Protection of the driver(s) vision by preventing or attenuating, at regular intervals of time, the arrival of reflected light, via rear-view mirrors, to their eyes, such protection including intermittent light pulses received from the already synchronized vehicles circulating in the same direction and behind said vehicle.