Patents by Inventor Charles Brunault

Charles Brunault has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180284953
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for controlling a remotely programmable light fixture using a mobile computing device in communication with the light fixture via a network. The device is configured to receive an image of an environment that includes the light fixture. Using the received image, the device is configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) based on the image. The GUI is configured to define an area of the image for selecting the light fixture. The defined area is associated with the light fixture and is configured to select the light fixture in response to a user input. The GUI is further configured to receive a selection of a light setting for the selected light fixture and transmit an adjustment of the light setting to the selected light fixture via the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Brunault, Alan Sarkisian
  • Patent number: 10056018
    Abstract: Lighting methods and systems to enhance the browsing behaviors of shoppers in a manner intended to be primarily subconscious include illumination of a targeted area, such as a typical retail display, with a tunable spectrum lamp that slowly cycles through different illumination spectra such that color rendering of illuminated target is deliberately varied for subtle arousal of the visual senses. The illumination spectra, and the rates at which spectral conditions are changed, are both chosen as such that multi-colored objects in the targeted area change in appearance in a barely noticeable way, such that shoppers may find their visual attention redirected, seemingly at random, to a wider variety of products on display. Color spectrum changes also may be controlled in coordination with predefined packaging colors to create quasi-animation effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Laski, Charles Brunault, Seung Cheol Ryu, Rebecca Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9485838
    Abstract: Techniques and architecture are disclosed for a lighting system for contained environments, such as elevators or other such environments. The lighting system can include one or more luminaires and/or one or more display devices that include tunable output controlled to automatically change the ambient lighting and/or presentable content (e.g., imagery, video, audio) based on one or more conditions related to the contained environment. Conditions that can be used in controlling the lighting system output within the contained environment can include, for example, the position or operation of the contained environment, the control of the contained environment, the occupancy within the contained environment, the time of day at the location of the contained environment, and the calendar date at the location of the contained environment. In some cases, the lighting system may constitute the general illumination within the contained environment, but may be supplemental as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: Mervyn Anthony, Jeremy Spaulding, Charles Brunault
  • Publication number: 20160174334
    Abstract: Techniques and architecture are disclosed for a lighting system for contained environments, such as elevators or other such environments. The lighting system can include one or more luminaires and/or one or more display devices that include tunable output controlled to automatically change the ambient lighting and/or presentable content (e.g., imagery, video, audio) based on one or more conditions related to the contained environment. Conditions that can be used in controlling the lighting system output within the contained environment can include, for example, the position or operation of the contained environment, the control of the contained environment, the occupancy within the contained environment, the time of day at the location of the contained environment, and the calendar date at the location of the contained environment. In some cases, the lighting system may constitute the general illumination within the contained environment, but may be supplemental as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.
    Inventors: Mervyn Anthony, Jeremy Spaulding, Charles Brunault
  • Patent number: 9125274
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for manipulating both colored and tunable white lighting systems in order to enhance visual comfort and allow an observer's eyes to recover from exposure to colored light. A lighting system may gradually adjust the color, color temperature, and intensity of various multi-chip LED panels in order to provide pleasant and acceptable changes in light settings. Instead of abruptly switching from one light setting to another, a lighting system may fade to an intermediate transition setting and subsequently fade to the final light setting, allowing an observer's eyes time to adapt to the new light settings. In one example, switching from blue light to a neutral white light may involve a gradual fading from blue light, to a cool white light, and then to a neutral white light, thus allowing the end user's eyes to adapt to the new light settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Brunault, Nancy Chen, Maria Thompson, Julie Pereyra
  • Patent number: 8896460
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lighting fixture including a light source, a light source controller, and an external controller plug. The light source controller controls power to the light source. The external controller plug allows an external controller to selectively engage a power source to the light source controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Alexandrovich, Charles A. Brunault
  • Publication number: 20130076270
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lighting fixture including a light source, a light source controller, and an external controller plug. The light source controller controls power to the light source. The external controller plug allows an external controller to selectively engage a power source to the light source controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Alexandrovich, Charles A. Brunault
  • Patent number: D724773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Osram Sylvania Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Cheol Ryu, Jeremy Spaulding, Charles Brunault, Ernest Davey, Jr., Jeffrey Holt, Karlin Jessen