Texas Instruments Introduces Intelligent Headlamp Management Technology at CES. With its help, the headlights can automatically "muffle" when another car is going to meet, point lightly any surface, control the brightness to a pixel and even show holograms to drivers and pedestrians on the road, writes Wired.. In the era when digital technologies make unnecessary different mechanisms (ICE, CD-ROM, DSLR), the oldest company in the Silicon Valley, Texas Instruments, on the contrary, relies on millions of "devices". At CES, the company introduced its own smart headlamp technology based on the DLP5531-Q1 chip. It is arranged like this: more than a million micromirrors that can turn up to 10,000 times per second, either reflect light through the lens, get a white pixel, or absorb light with a black surface, generating a black pixel. Thus, it is possible to control the degree of illumination to the smallest detail. The system has been used, for the most part, in film and projectors, but now TI wants to sell it to automakers. The technology itself is not new - it is already being promoted, for example, Audi, but TI was able to achieve a higher resolution and does not require the installation of LED-lamps. The most obvious application of the technology is the preservation of the driving light, even if another car is going to meet. The system will be able to track the oncoming light with cameras and muffle its own headlights, but not entirely, but only the part that is directly aimed at the other driver. It can also work together with sensors and illuminate dangerous or important objects requiring attention of the driver - animals running out of the woods, pedestrians, road signs. In the end, smart headlights can become an integral part of the robot car. "The system is designed to control the headlights, but nothing prevents it from designing information on the road," says project head Brian Ballard. The drone does not yet have the means to communicate with pedestrians, for example, to blink the main beam, showing that he misses it. Instead, the headlights will be able to transmit the message "You can go! "Or design a virtual" zebra "directly on the asphalt.

Original article: Smart headlights do not blind drivers and show holograms.