Patents by Inventor Salvador Expedito Boleko
Salvador Expedito Boleko 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).
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Patent number: 11022284Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-controlled lighting system which comprises an interface for defining a work surface within the lighting system and a desired illumination of the work surface, at least one luminaire for illuminating the work surface and a processing unit for automatically computing configuration parameters which allow configuring the at least one luminaire such that the desired illumination of the work surface is achievable.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas, Matthias Wendt, Volkmar Schulz, Dirk Valentinus René Engelen
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Patent number: 10028358Abstract: The invention relates to the integration of an energy function into a light management system, particularly for saving energy and monitoring energy consumption. According to an embodiment of the invention, a light management system (10) with an integrated energy function is provided, wherein the system is adapted to receiving energy information about light fixtures (12-16) of a lighting system (18), and to processing the received energy information with regard to energy consumption of the lighting system (18). The energy function may be for example used to automatically configure a lighting system to low energy consumption, to allow further configurations of the lighting system with regard to lowering energy consumption, or to provide a user with a sensible set of lights that can be turned off and will amount to significant energy savings when turned off.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Matthias Wendt, Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas, Volkmar Schulz, Felix Henric Govert Ogg
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Publication number: 20170153012Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-controlled lighting system which comprises an interface for defining a work surface within the lighting system and a desired illumination of the work surface, at least one luminaire for illuminating the work surface and a processing unit for automatically computing configuration parameters which allow configuring the at least one luminaire such that the desired illumination of the work surface is achievable.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Salvador Expedito BOLEKO RIBAS, Matthias WENDT, Volkmar SCHULZ
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Patent number: 9420673Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically facilitating rendition of a lighting atmosphere by a lighting control system are disclosed. The lighting control system comprises a decomposition unit for decomposing the lighting atmosphere into elementary light effects by analyzing a data file, a classification unit for classifying the elementary light effects into a set of light effects, and a coordination unit for coordinating implementation of the sets of light effects by determining and refining configuration settings of the lighting system.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventor: Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas
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Publication number: 20130261768Abstract: The invention relates to the automatic rendering of a lighting scene with a lighting system, particularly the control of the rendering. A basic idea of the invention is to perform rendering of a lighting scene by decomposing a lighting atmosphere to be rendered in elementary light effects, to classify the elementary light effects, and to coordinate the realisation of the classified light effects with the lighting system. An embodiment of the invention provides a light control system (10) for automatically rendering a lighting atmosphere with a lighting system, wherein the light control system (10) is adapted for decomposing the lighting atmosphere to be rendered in elementary light effects (14; S10), classifying the elementary light effects into sets of light effects (16; S12), and coordinating the realisation of the sets of light effects with the lighting system (18; S14-S26).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: Koninklijke Phillips N.V.Inventor: Salvador Expedito BOLEKO RIBAS
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Patent number: 8463408Abstract: Automatic rendering of a lighting scene with a lighting system, particularly the control of the rendering. Rendering of the lighting scene by decomposing a lighting atmosphere to be rendered in elementary light effects, to classify the elementary light effects, and to coordinate the realization of the classified light effects with the lighting system. A light control system for automatically rendering the lighting atmosphere with the lighting system, wherein the light control system is adapted for decomposing the lighting atmosphere to be rendered in elementary light effects, classifying the elementary light effects into sets of light effects, and coordinating the realization of the sets of light effects with the lighting system. An automatic light control system to autonomously determining the lighting configuration settings needed by light modules of the lighting system to realize a desired lighting atmosphere while its elementary lighting effects are harmonically rendered.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas
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Patent number: 8412359Abstract: The invention relates to the automatic rendering of a lighting scene with a lighting system, particularly the control of the rendering. A basic idea of the invention is to improve rendering of a lighting scene by automatically compensating interference, such as an alien light source or a dynamic perturbing event of a rendered lighting scene. An embodiment of the invention provides a light control system (10) for automatically rendering a lighting scene with a lighting system, wherein the light control (10) system is adapted for monitoring the rendered lighting scene for the occurrence of interference (14, 20, 22, 24) and automatically reconfiguring the lighting system such that a monitored occurrence of an interference is compensated (16, 18, 12). As result, the invention allows to prevent dynamic disturbances or unforeseen events, for example caused by faulty or alien light sources, from distorting the rendering of an intended lighting scene.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2008Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas
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Patent number: 8324826Abstract: The invention relates to composing a lighting atmosphere from an abstract description for example a lighting atmosphere specified in XML, wherein the lighting atmosphere is generated by several lighting devices, by automatically rendering the desired lighting atmosphere from the abstract description. The abstract description describes the type of light with certain lighting parameters desired at certain semantic locations at certain semantic times. This abstract atmosphere description is automatically transferred to a specific instance of a lighting system (14, 16, 18). The invention has the main advantage that it allows to create light scenes and lighting atmospheres at a high level of abstraction without requiring the definition of a lighting atmosphere or scene by setting the intensity, color, etc. for single lighting units or devices which can be very time consuming and cumbersome, particularly with large and complex lighting systems comprising many lighting devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2007Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Mark Henricus Verberkt, Wolfgang Otto Budde, Matthias Wendt, Volkmar Schulz, Leon C. A. Van Stuivenberg, Dirk Valentinus René Engelen, Oliver Schreyer, Bozena Erdmann, Salvador Expedito Boleko, Armand Michel Marie Lelkens
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Patent number: 8183785Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling a lighting system with multiple controllable light sources 3a, 3b and a system therefor. According to a first aspect, influence data of the lighting system are obtained, which data represent the effect of one or more of the light sources 3a, 3b on the illumination of one or more sections of an illuminated environment. In an optimization method, sets of control commands are continuously determined, a predicted light distribution for these control commands is determined from the influence data, and a colorimetric difference between the predicted light distribution and a target light distribution is determined. A plurality of adjustment steps are performed to minimize the colorimetric difference. According to a second aspect, a neural network is trained with the influence data and a set of control commands for controlling the lighting system is determined with the use of the neural network.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2007Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas, Volkmar Schulz, Dirk Valentinus Rene Engelen
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Publication number: 20100283393Abstract: The invention relates to the automatic rendering of a lighting scene with a lighting system, particularly the control of the rendering. A basic idea of the invention is to perform rendering of a lighting scene by decomposing a lighting atmosphere to be rendered in elementary light effects, to classify the elementary light effects, and to coordinate the realisation of the classified light effects with the lighting system. An 5 embodiment of the invention provides a light control system (10) for automatically rendering a lighting atmosphere with a lighting system, wherein the light control system (10) is adapted for decomposing the lighting atmosphere to be rendered in elementary light-effects (14; S10), classifying the elementary light effects into sets of light effects (16; S12), and coordinating the realisation of the sets of light effects with the lighting 10 system (18; S14-S26).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventor: Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas
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Publication number: 20100259197Abstract: The invention relates to the automatic rendering of a lighting scene with a lighting system, particularly the control of the rendering. A basic idea of the invention is to improve rendering of a lighting scene by automatically compensating interference, such as an alien light source or a dynamic perturbing event of a rendered lighting scene. An embodiment of the invention provides a light control system (10) for automatically rendering a lighting scene with a lighting system, wherein the light control (10) system is adapted for monitoring the rendered lighting scene for the occurrence of interference (14, 20, 22, 24) and automatically reconfiguring the lighting system such that a monitored occurrence of an interference is compensated (16, 18, 12). As result, the invention allows to prevent dynamic disturbances or unforeseen events, for example caused by faulty or alien light sources, from distorting the rendering of an intended lighting scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2008Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventor: Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas
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Publication number: 20100251157Abstract: The invention relates to the integration of an energy function into a light management system, particularly for saving energy and monitoring energy consumption. According to an embodiment of the invention, a light management system (10) with an integrated energy function is provided, wherein the system is adapted to receiving energy information about light fixtures (12-16) of a lighting system (18), and to processing the received energy information with regard to energy consumption of the lighting system (18). The energy function may be for example used to automatically configure a lighting system to low energy consumption, to allow further configurations of the lighting system with regard to lowering energy consumption, or to provide a user with a sensible set of lights that can be turned off and will amount to significant energy savings when turned off.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Matthias Wendt, Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas, Volkmar Schulz, Felix Henric Govert Ogg
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Publication number: 20100235309Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling a lighting system with multiple controllable light sources 3a, 3b and a system therefor. According to a first aspect, influence data of the lighting system are obtained, which data represent the effect of one or more of the light sources 3a, 3b on the illumination of one or more sections of an illuminated environment. In an optimization method, sets of control commands are continuously determined, a predicted light distribution for these control commands is determined from the influence data, and a colorimetric difference between the predicted light distribution and a target light distribution is determined. A plurality of adjustment steps are performed to minimize the colorimetric difference. According to a second aspect, a neural network is trained with the influence data and a set of control commands for controlling the lighting system is determined with the use of the neural network.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas, Volkmar Schulz, Dirk Valentinus Rene Engelen
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Publication number: 20100191353Abstract: The invention relates in general to an apparatus and a method for modifying a light scene. According to an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus (204) for modifying a light scene composed from an abstract description is provided, wherein the apparatus comprises means (252) for selecting an area of the light scene, means (254) for modifying a light condition of the area, means (256) for recording at least one parameter referring to a modification of the light condition of the area and means (258) for adapting the abstract description based on the at least one parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas, Felix Henric Govert Ogg, Matthias Wendt, Dirk Valentinus Rene Engelen
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Publication number: 20100181938Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-controlled lighting system which comprises an interface (102) for defining a work surface (120) within the lighting system and a desired illumination of the work surface (120), at least one luminaire (104a, 104b) for illuminating the work surface (120) and a processing unit (106) for automatically computing configuration parameters which allow configuring the at least one luminaire (104a, 104b) such that the desired illumination of the work surface (120) is achievable.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas, Matthias Wendt, Volkmar Schulz
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Publication number: 20100090617Abstract: The invention relates to composing a lighting atmosphere from an abstract description for example a lighting atmosphere specified in XML, wherein the lighting atmosphere is generated by several lighting devices, by automatically rendering the desired lighting atmosphere from the abstract description. The abstract description describes the type of light with certain lighting parameters desired at certain semantic locations at certain semantic times. This abstract atmosphere description is automatically transferred to a specific instance of a lighting system (14, 16, 18). The invention has the main advantage that it allows to create light scenes and lighting atmospheres at a high level of abstraction without requiring the definition of a lighting atmosphere or scene by setting the intensity, color, etc. for single lighting units or devices which can be very time consuming and cumbersome, particularly with large and complex lighting systems comprising many lighting devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2007Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N VInventors: Mark Henricus Verberkt, Wolfgang Otto Budde, Matthias Wendt, Volkmar Schulz, Leon C.A. Van Stuivenberg, Dirk Valentinus René Engelen, Oliver Schreyer, Bozena Erdmann, Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas, Armand Michel Marie Lelkens
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Publication number: 20090247089Abstract: A method for delivering multicast communications over an IEEE 802.11 compliant network is provided. The method comprises transmitting a data stream to a plurality of receivers from a transmitter over respective network links as a multicast communication, selecting a receiver from the plurality of receivers; receiving a feedback signal from the selected receiver at a selected point in time; and adjusting transmission of the data stream in dependence upon the received feedback signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2005Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventors: Wolfgang O. Budde, Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas
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Publication number: 20080273478Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a terminal for wireless transmitting data using a contention-based protocol, wherein a plurality of communicating wireless terminals (1-9) transmit data using a common medium for transmitting, the method within a wireless terminal comprises the steps of: waiting for a back-off time to access the medium, observing whether the medium is idle, transmitting the data if the medium is idle, registering an amount of used transmit power and adjusting features of the wireless terminal to reward the wireless terminal in dependence of the used transmit power. The proposed method will reduce the overall emitted power and the risk of interferences and will thereby improve the quality of service. The back-off time of the wireless terminal and/or a priority of a data packet to be transmitted are determined in dependence of the amount of used transmit power.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2005Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventors: Wolfgang Budde, Salvador Expedito Boleko Ribas