Patents Examined by Haissa Philogene
  • Patent number: 11412602
    Abstract: An electronic device (1) is configured to obtain at least one image (81) captured with a camera. The at least one image captures one or more light effects (91,92). The electronic device is further configured to perform image analysis on the at least one image to identify one or more lighting devices (25,26) rendering the one or more light effects, receive one or more input signals comprising one or more current light settings of the identified one or more lighting devices, and output the one or more current light settings and an association between the one or more current light settings and the at least one image. A user of another device may be able to activate these one or more light settings on one or more of his own lighting devices by selecting the at least one image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Marius Leendert Trouwborst
  • Patent number: 11412601
    Abstract: A method comprises detecting that a light device (61) which has not been commissioned into a lighting system has been added to the lighting system. The method further comprises determining whether the entertainment mode is active, adding the light device to the entertainment group (51,52,53) upon detecting that the light device has been added to the lighting system in dependence on the entertainment mode being active, and controlling the light device to render one or more light effects synchronized to the media content in the entertainment mode after the light device has been added to the entertainment group. The method further comprises detecting that the light device is unavailable and removing the light device from the entertainment group upon detecting that the light device is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Jonathan David Mason
  • Patent number: 11405999
    Abstract: A system (1) is configured to obtain a target light level, determine a first set of light settings for one or more lights (13,14,24,25) and/or a first set of daylight blocker settings for one or more daylight blockers (21,22) based on the target light level, control these devices based on the first set(s) of settings, and receive from a user device (31) information indicating a quality of a light-modulated data signal received by the user device from the one or more lights, as determined by the user device. The system is further configured to determine a second set of light settings based on the first set of light settings and the determined signal quality and/or a second set of daylight blocker settings based on the first set of daylight blocker settings and the determined signal quality and control these devices based on the second set(s) of settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Mustafa Tolga Eren, Dirk Valentinus René Engelen
  • Patent number: 11399420
    Abstract: Lighting systems combine UV-A and white light with an adjustable CCT value so that any adverse effects from the UV-A radiation are mitigated—that is, tunable adjustments to the output of the non-UV LEDs, or to all of the LEDs, result in an overall mixed output conforming to a target CCT value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: JUGANU LTD.
    Inventors: Noam Meir, Eran Ben-Shmuel, Ada Lotan, Alexander Bilchinsky, Eran Efrati, Jonathan Stok, Yossi Bechor, Yoav Bar
  • Patent number: 11395393
    Abstract: A chained flashlight system includes: plural flashlights; plural lighting control devices that control lighting of the plural flashlights, respectively; a communication wire; and a traffic control device. The plural lighting control devices include receiving units, controlling units, activating units, and power supply units, respectively and are coupled to the traffic control device by the communication wire. The traffic control device simultaneously sends an activating signal to the plural lighting control devices via the communication wire. The receiving units receive the activating signal. The controlling units activate the activating units based on a time from reception of the activating signal to activation of the activating units, set for the flashlights, respectively. When the power supply units are turned ON in an activated state of the activating units, respectively, the flashlights are lit by a lighting signal from the traffic control device, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HotaluX, Ltd.
    Inventor: Norimasa Mizobe
  • Patent number: 11395383
    Abstract: A lighting control system, including a TRIAC dimmer, a wireless control apparatus, and a lighting apparatus. The lighting apparatus includes a rectifier circuit, a TRIAC dimming detection circuit, a dimming constant-current circuit, and a controller connected to the TRIAC dimming detection circuit and the dimming constant-current circuit. The controller is configured to, control the dimming constant-current circuit to perform dimming on the lighting load based on a brightness control signal, in response to receiving the brightness control signal sent by the wireless control apparatus, and control the dimming constant-current circuit to restore a default state to stop the wireless control apparatus from limiting the dimming constant-current circuit, in response to the TRIAC dimming detection circuit determining that a first preset operation is performed on the TRIAC dimmer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG YANKON MEGA LIGHTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Li, Lingxiang Zhong, Qi Jiang, Bin Shen
  • Patent number: 11395396
    Abstract: A system and method for providing high power factor wired lamp control that include receiving a lighting control input though a switch that is associated with at least one of: an operation and a function of at least one lamp. The system and method also include determining if an environment of the at least one lamp includes a connection between a neutral wire and the switch. The system and method additionally include communicating at least one electronic data command associated with the lighting control input to the at least one lamp through an AC power cycle. The system and method further include controlling the at least one lamp to operate based on the lighting control input based on the receipt of the at least one electronic data command communicated through the AC power cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ENERGY FOCUS, INC.
    Inventors: Laszlo A. Takacs, Attila Tomasovics, Greg Flies, David Nicolay, John M. Davenport, Zhang Liang
  • Patent number: 11391439
    Abstract: Lighting systems combine UV-A and white light with an adjustable CCT value so that any adverse effects from the UV-A radiation are mitigated—that is, tunable adjustments to the output of the non-UV LEDs, or to all of the LEDs, result in an overall mixed output conforming to a target CCT value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: JUGANU LTD.
    Inventors: Eran Ben-Shmuel, Ada Lotan, Alexander Bilchinsky, Eran Efrati, Jonathan Stok, Yossi Bechor, Yoav Bar, Noam Meir
  • 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: 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: 11388797
    Abstract: A lighting system (1) is disclosed, comprising at least one first light source (L1; 3; 4) and at least one second light source (L2; 3; 4) and at least one control unit (2). The at least one control unit (2) is configured to control the at least one first light source (L1; 3; 4) and the at least one second light source (L2; 3; 4), respectively, by changing at least the luminous flux of the emitted light, between at least a first state and a second state of the at least one first light source (L1; 3; 4) and the at least one second light source (L2; 3; 4), respectively, such that, for each of the at least one first light source (L1; 3; 4) and the at least one second light source (L2; 3; 4), the luminous flux of light emitted by the light source when in the second state is lower than the luminous flux of light emitted by the light source when in the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ties Van Bommel, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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