Idea for flashlight/headlight with multiple lights...increase coverage...improve safety...

How about a flashlight with multiple peripheral lights, in addition to a central light?  These peripheral lights would be aimed at different angles and would fire at intervals.  The human brain "persistence of vision" would piece these bits of visual information together to give a concept of what is going on in a large area, without having to wave a regular flashlight around.  Think of this device of particular help to nightwalkers, security guards, or the like.  The peripheral lights could instead be a strobe light.  The user could still use the central light of the flashlight in a normal manner to look at specific object.  To test this concept, maybe take a regular flashlight and tape onto it a slow strobing camera flash.
This concept could also be used in automobile and other vehicle headlight systems to illuminate the side of the road, as well as directly in front of the vehicle, as usual.  Think of driving down the road and getting a full picture of what is going around you, in addition to what is straight ahead.  It would be helpful to illuminate the side of the road, at least, looking for crossing animals or people.  Maybe this would be helpful especially now with the time change and joggers alongside the road.  Of course, safety prevails and the strobes would need to be turned off with oncoming traffic, similar to changing from high to low beams now.
Possible Start Building Blocks –

• Existing concepts for camera flash, flashlight, led lights, Christmas light sequencer, emergency vehicle strobe lights and headlight flashers, etc.


• USPTO Class/Subclasses for "How-To" ideas - 362/192, 362/191, 362/259, 362/184, 362/518  

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