Patents Examined by Haissa Philogene
  • Patent number: 11386661
    Abstract: A method of creating a light script for a video is disclosed. The light script comprises lighting control instructions for controlling one or more light sources when the video is being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Anthonie Hendrik Bergman, Simon Rycroft, Jonathan David Mason, Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Jacobus Dingenis Machiel Van Boven
  • Patent number: 11388803
    Abstract: A triac dimming system for lighting dimming function includes a triac dimming circuit and a zero-cross test unit. The zero-cross test unit connect with triac dimming circuit and pass the zero-cross signal to triac dimming circuit, then the main control center of triac dimming circuit will adjust the ON/OFF timing of triac dimming unit according to the zero-cross signal and the reserved amount to make the conduction angle of triac dimming circuit stable. After precisely controlling the brightness of the AC lamps, it can keep the AC load (AC lamps) flicker within the acceptable level of the user (no flicker feeling by the naked eye).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventor: Maoyin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11376482
    Abstract: The invention discloses a golf ball hitting system for training assistance in the technical field of golf. A main control chip is controlled by a remote control server module so as to control a light-guiding line module and a laser light generator to display on the ground: a target point; a linear motion trajectory of a putter to stabilize the direction; the back swing length and the follow-through length to operate the swing amplitude of the putter; and a laser light point to guide the swing speed of a club head and stabilize the rhythm. With the assistance of the invention, the putting performance of a golfer can be effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventor: Jingwen Jiang
  • Patent number: 11380527
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a substrate support having a substrate supporting portion on which a substrate is placed and a peripheral portion surrounding the substrate supporting portion, a conductive focus ring placed on the peripheral portion of the substrate support, a cover ring surrounding an outer periphery of the substrate support and formed of a dielectric material, a conductive ring placed on the cover ring, and a radio frequency power supply electrically coupled to the substrate support. A first surface on an outer peripheral portion of the focus ring and a second surface on an inner peripheral portion of the conductive ring are spaced apart from each other while facing each other. Further, the cover ring has a spacing portion that separates the focus ring from the conductive ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Ryo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11382203
    Abstract: The described embodiments relate to systems, methods, and apparatus for employing a network (410) of smart luminaires (402, 440) to perform tasks typically reserved for remote servers. The network of smart luminaires can include lighting elements for illuminating an area, as well as a computer system for processing and transmitting data. Various computational tasks can be parsed and delegated to certain smart luminaires in the network (410) in order to optimize the use of each smart luminaire in the network. Computational tasks can originate at the smart luminaires or be delegated to the smart luminaires by another device. Additionally, data that is processed by the smart luminaires can be transmitted to other devices, thereby allowing other devices to leverage the computing power of a nearby network of smart luminaires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Olaitan Philip Olaleye, Abhishek Murthy
  • Patent number: 11380994
    Abstract: A coil device comprising a coil, and a ferrite core arranged in a hollow portion of the coil, and a resin covering them; the ferrite core being a Ni ferrite core having initial permeability ?i of 450 or more at a frequency of 100 kHz and a temperature of 20° C., and an average crystal grain size of 5-9 ?m, both of temperature-dependent inductance change ratios TLa and TLb and stress-dependent inductance change ratios PLa and PLb being ?0.6% to +0.6%, and both of the sum of TLa and PLa and the sum of TLb and PLb being more than ?1.0% and less than +1.0%; and an antenna comprising it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Tada, Satoru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11380526
    Abstract: A stage on which a substrate is disposed includes: a base embedded with an adsorption electrode therein; a focus ring provided above the adsorption electrode and adsorbed and held on the base; and a deposit control ring provided radially inside the focus ring on the base. A gap is formed between the focus ring and the deposit control ring in a radial direction to separate the focus ring and the deposit control ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Daisuke Hayashi, Tomoyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11369286
    Abstract: A lighting device, comprises a light source configured to provide a low Cyanosis Observation Index (COI) white light having a total flux, the light source comprising a first group of LEDs configured to provide a wide blue light, a second group of LEDs configured to provide a wide green light, and a third group of LEDs configured to provide a wide red light, wherein the low COI white light is a combination of at least the wide blue light, the wide green light, and the wide red light, wherein a current provided to the light source is distributed among the first group of LEDs, the second group of LEDs, and the third group of LEDs such that the wide blue light contributes 7 percent to 9 percent of the total flux, the wide green light contributes 62 percent to 76 percent of the total flux, and the wide red light contributes 20 percent to 26 percent of the total flux, and wherein a COI of the low COI white light is less than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Raymond George Janik, Russell Scott Trask
  • Patent number: 11369017
    Abstract: The disclosure provides systems and methods for detecting and responding to a power outage. The methods use sensors of vehicles to detect an indication of a power outage. Once the power outage is validated, the lighting systems of the vehicles are used to illuminate locations so that pedestrians can walk along sidewalks or through parking garages. For example, the vehicles can be arranged to provide lighting at selected locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Aed M. Dudar
  • Patent number: 11369016
    Abstract: The system comprises a sound receiving module for receiving an incoming sound signal, a sound processing module for processing the incoming sound signal to generate a set of a plurality of sound channels and a color processing module for associating subsets of the set of sound channels with respective ones of a plurality of color units, and subsequently, converting the plurality of color units into a light signal of one or more colors. The number of the plurality of color units is equal to or less than the number of the subsets of the set of sound channels. The one or more colors of the light signal vary in a response to variations of the incoming sound signal to thereby produce the sound-responsive lightning effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: INVENTORS WORKSHOP LIMITED
    Inventors: Graham Warburton, Sze Sun Lo
  • Patent number: 11363697
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a plurality of lighting modules and a plurality of control devices. The lighting modules each includes a plurality of light emitting devices aligned in an array form or a staggered form. The control devices are configured to adjust light quantities of the light emitting devices of each of the lighting modules so that, when light is irradiated on a first target surface separated by a prescribed distance from the lighting modules, a sum of light quantities per unit area of a part for which light from the lighting modules overlaps in the first target surface is within ±20% with respect to a light quantity per unit area of a part for which light does not overlap in the first target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Nakamura, Kosuke Gomi
  • Patent number: 11362415
    Abstract: The described features include a scalable waveguide architecture for a waveguide device. The waveguide device may be split into one or more waveguide blocks instead of manufacturing increasingly larger single-piece waveguide devices. Described techniques provide for a radio-frequency (RF) seal between such waveguide blocks that may facilitate greater manufacturing tolerances while maintaining an effective RF seal at the junction of the waveguide blocks. The described techniques include channels within one or more waveguide blocks opening to the dielectric gap between the waveguide blocks. The channels may, for each of multiple waveguides joined at the interface between waveguide blocks, be included in one or both waveguide blocks and may be in a single waveguide dimension relative to the multiple waveguides, or extend for more than one waveguide dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Viasat, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederic Bongard, Xavier Aubry, Martin Gimersky
  • Patent number: 11357089
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sequential lighting system and a control method thereof in which an aesthetic appearance is improved by implementing sequential lighting when a lighting unit for applying light to the outside of a vehicle is turned on, constituent parts implementing the sequential lighting are simplified, and costs are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Byoung Suk Ahn, Seung Sik Han, Sung Ho Park, Ki Hong Lee, Jung Wook Lim
  • Patent number: 11343897
    Abstract: The invention provides a controller, system, method, and computer program product for controlling a wireless network to perform radiofrequency-based motion detection. Thereto, the invention provides a controller for controlling a wireless network comprising a plurality of nodes to perform radiofrequency-based motion detection, wherein each unique pair of the plurality of nodes forms a respective node pair and collectively results in a plurality of node pairs, wherein the controller is configured to: select a reference node pair from the plurality of node pairs; obtain at least one reference characteristic of the reference node pair; select a subset of node pairs from the plurality of node pairs, wherein each respective node pair in the subset of node pairs comprises a respective characteristic matching the at least one reference characteristic; perform the radiofrequency-based motion detection with said subset of node pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Peter Deixler, Hugo Jose Krajnc
  • Patent number: 11342159
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a radio frequency (RF) waveform are described. The method includes defining a train of on-off pulses separated by an off state having no on-off pulses. The method further includes applying a multi-level pulse waveform that adjusts a magnitude of each of the on-off pulses to generate an RF waveform. The method includes sending the RF waveform to an electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Maolin Long, Yuhou Wang, Ying Wu, Alex Paterson
  • Patent number: 11334041
    Abstract: Control-source devices may be associated with control-target devices of a load control system during a configuration procedure, such that the control-target devices are responsive to the associated control-source devices during normal operation. The configuration procedure may be executed using a network device having a visual display for associating the control-source devices and control-target devices. The control-source devices may be associated with the control-target devices on an area-by-area basis using an area configuration procedure. The control-target devices may be configured to flash a controlled lighting load according to a flashing profile during the configuration procedure. The flashing profile may be characterized by at least one abrupt transition between off and on, and at least one gradual transition between off and on, where the abrupt and gradual transitions are repeated on a periodic basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Arya Abraham, Nicholas J. Braskey, Brian M. Courtney, William H. Howe
  • Patent number: 11330686
    Abstract: The invention provides a light generating device (100) configured to generate in a first control mode device light (101), wherein the light generating device (100) comprises (i) a first source (210) of first light (211), and (ii) a second source (220) of second light (221), different from the first light (211), wherein the second light (221) comprises cyan-like light having a wavelength selected from the range of 470-520 nm, wherein the device light (101) comprises the first light (211) and the second light (221), and wherein in the first control mode the first light (211) is white light and the device light (101) is white light enriched with cyan-like light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Petrus Joseph Peeters, Rene Theodorus Wegh, Remy Cyrille Broersma
  • Patent number: 11324093
    Abstract: Adjusting underlighting of a keyboard input device, including identifying execution of a computer-implemented application on an IHS, and in response: accessing a database storing lighting profiles for the keyboard input device: determining whether a personalized lighting profile for the computer-implemented application is stored by the database; determining that the personalized lighting profile for the computer-implemented application is not stored by the database, and in response, determining whether an application-specific lighting profile for the computer-implemented application is stored by the database; determining that the application-specific lighting profile for the computer-implemented application is stored by the database, and in response, applying the application-specific lighting profile to the keyboard input device, including: adjusting a power state of a first subset of lights of the keyboard input device to an off power state while retaining an on-power state of a second subset of lights of th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John S. Pruitt, Erik Summa, Tyler Ryan Cox
  • Patent number: 11320115
    Abstract: A lighting device producing white light having a target color correlated temperature (CCT) value includes an LED array having one or more red LEDs, one or more warm white LEDs, and one or more cool white LED; one or more photo-luminescent materials for shifting the CCT value of the light emitted from the cool white LED toward a green CCT value and/or the CCT value of the light emitted from the warm white LED toward a yellow CCT value; and a waveguide material having a mixing region for mixing the shifted and unshifted light so as to generate white light having the target CCT value and an output region for outputting the white light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: JUGANU LTD.
    Inventor: Noam Meir
  • Patent number: 11309298
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode device with a driving mechanism is provided. A first light-emitting diode chip, a second light-emitting diode chip and a third light-emitting diode chip are arranged on a driver circuit chip, and respectively configured to emit red light, green light and blue light. A first contact of the light-emitting diode chip, a first contact of the second light-emitting diode chip and a first contact of the third light-emitting diode chip are respectively in direct electrical contact with a first output contact, a second output contact and a third output contact of the driver circuit chip in a flip-chip manner. A second contact of the first light-emitting diode chip, a second contact of the second light-emitting diode chip and a second contact of the third light-emitting diode chip are in direct electrical contact with a common contact of the driver circuit chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: MY-SEMI INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Han Hsieh, Kuo-Lun Huang, Chun-Ting Kuo