Mercedes digital light: high-beam projector

With Mercedes, digital light are the headlights to high beam projectors in HD-quality. Two million pixels open completely new possibilities to developers.

A light goes on Mercedes drivers soon. Not one, but strictly speaking over two million. Because while the Swabia for the near future prepare just LED headlight with over 8,000 pixels per vehicle, they in their light laboratories are already working on next headlights generation which should offer almost endless possibilities as "Mercedes Digital Light". New chips to enable an unprecedented precision in the distribution of light with over one million micro mirrors that of high power light emitting diodes are stimulated and controlled by the camera or radar sensors of the assistance systems. "The spotlight will be on the beamer", says Gunter Fischer, who as head of exterior body development and vehicle operating systems at Daimler is responsible for the lighting. The gain to GDP to view with the new technology while, especially since Mercedes not want to engage in a light wide competition. But as you would switch from the CRT TVs on a 4K-Flatscreen, the picture WINS tremendously in sharpness, because can be more accurately tailored to the light cone and more precisely hide for example the oncoming traffic.

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