US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Jan. 20 for "Lighting control device, lighting control method, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,403, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lighting control device, lighting control method, and vehicle" was invented by Arinobu Ueda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a lighting control device that enables effective use of a roof light disposed along the outer periphery of a roof window of the vehicle, a lighting control method, and a vehicle. A lighting control device includes a light control unit that controls a roof light disposed along the outer periphery of a roof window of a vehicle, on the basis of at least one of a state of the vehicle, a situation around the veh...