Patents by Inventor Alberto Alfier

Alberto Alfier 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).

  • Patent number: 11950339
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a light-radiation generator configured to project a lighting beam towards a lighting space including at least one undesired lighting zone; a motorization of the light-radiation generator configured to move the lighting beam, the motorization of the light-radiation generator being controllable as a function of scanning-control signals received at the lighting apparatus; driving circuitry of the light-radiation generator configured to control emission of the lighting beam; processing circuitry configured to detect scanning-control signals received at the lighting apparatus and a scanning position of the lighting beam of the light-radiation generator, the processing circuitry being configured to control the lighting beam to be brought into said at least one undesired lighting zone; and memory circuitry configured to store therein at least one pair of boundary values of said at least one undesired lighting zone of said lighting space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CLAY PAKY S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Andrea Laini
  • Publication number: 20240036453
    Abstract: A stage projector is described comprising a source device configured to emit at least one linearly polarized overall light beam and a manipulation device, which is arranged such to intercept at least a portion of the at least one overall light beam and is configured to generate a substantially non-linearly polarized overall light beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Alberto ALFIER, Aris QUADRI, Renato FRISON
  • Patent number: 11703207
    Abstract: A lighting device produces scenic effects including a light source group; a light guide extending along a longitudinal axis and coupled to the light source assembly defining an optical path; a primary mirror arranged along the longitudinal axis facing the light source assembly to reflect the light beam from the light guide; and a secondary mirror facing the primary mirror to reflect the light beam reflected by the primary mirror towards an emission area surrounding the primary mirror, wherein a primary reflecting surface of the primary mirror has at least one first portion having a first hyperbolic shape or a first aspherical shape of even order and degree equal to or greater than four and a secondary reflecting surface of the secondary mirror has at least one second portion having a second hyperbolic shape or a second aspherical shape of even order and degree equal to or greater than four.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CLAY PAKY S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Angelini, Aris Quadri, Alberto Alfier, Renato Frison, Davide Ferrati
  • Patent number: 11649946
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source configured to emit a light beam through an afocal projection optics along a propagation path of the light beam from a negative lens to a positive lens. The lighting device includes a further negative lens interposed and mobile along the propagation path of the light beam from the negative lens to the positive lens. The lighting device also includes an optical element interposed in the propagation path of the light beam between the negative lens and the further negative lens. The optical element includes a cylindrical lens, a prism or an axicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CLAY PAKY S.P.A.
    Inventors: Renato Frison, Alberto Alfier, Aris Quadri
  • Patent number: 11536430
    Abstract: A light fixture may include a casing and a support assembly configured to support and move the casing. The light fixture may include a light source assembly housed inside the casing and configured to generate visible light radiation of different colours. The light fixture may further include a control device configured to control the light source assembly based on the position or the movement of the casing or based on a parameter correlated to the position or the movement of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: OSRAM GMBH, CLAY PAKY S.P.A.
    Inventors: Aris Quadri, Andreas Huber, Alberto Alfier
  • Publication number: 20220357019
    Abstract: A computer-vision system is equipped with a first camera and a second camera spaced apart from each other and enables acquisition of a first image and a second image of a light beam that propagates from a light-beam source towards a target position of the light beam. The first image and the second image of the beam differ from each other as a result of the first camera and the second camera being spaced apart from each other. The system produces a disparity map of the first image and second image of the beam to be projected in a three-dimensional point cloud starting from the disparity map according to point-cloud-projection calibration data that set in relation disparity maps for reference images with respective three-dimensional point clouds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Massimo Callegari
  • Publication number: 20220357016
    Abstract: A lighting device produces scenic effects including a light source group; a light guide extending along a longitudinal axis and coupled to the light source assembly defining an optical path; a primary mirror arranged along the longitudinal axis facing the light source assembly to reflect the light beam from the light guide; and a secondary mirror facing the primary mirror to reflect the light beam reflected by the primary mirror towards an emission area surrounding the primary mirror, wherein a primary reflecting surface of the primary mirror has at least one first portion having a first hyperbolic shape or a first aspherical shape of even order and degree equal to or greater than four and a secondary reflecting surface of the secondary mirror has at least one second portion having a second hyperbolic shape or a second aspherical shape of even order and degree equal to or greater than four.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Marco Angelini, Aris Quadri, Alberto Alfier, Renato Frison, Davide Ferrati
  • Publication number: 20220346206
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a light-radiation generator configured to project a lighting beam towards a lighting space including at least one undesired lighting zone; a motorization of the light-radiation generator configured to move the lighting beam, the motorization of the light-radiation generator being controllable as a function of scanning-control signals received at the lighting apparatus; driving circuitry of the light-radiation generator configured to control emission of the lighting beam; processing circuitry configured to detect scanning-control signals received at the lighting apparatus and a scanning position of the lighting beam of the light-radiation generator, the processing circuitry being configured to control the lighting beam to be brought into said at least one undesired lighting zone; and memory circuitry configured to store therein at least one pair of boundary values of said at least one undesired lighting zone of said lighting space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Alberto ALFIER, Andrea LAINI
  • Publication number: 20220248512
    Abstract: A control device for lighting apparatus includes a plurality of electrically-powered light radiation sources activatable to emit light radiations of different colors and produce a combined light radiation. The luminous flux intensities of the light radiation sources are adjustable to vary the color and the intensity of the combined light radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Xiaolong Li
  • Publication number: 20220221128
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source configured to emit a light beam through an afocal projection optics along a propagation path of the light beam from a negative lens to a positive lens. The lighting device includes a further negative lens interposed and mobile along the propagation path of the light beam from the negative lens to the positive lens. The lighting device also includes an optical element interposed in the propagation path of the light beam between the negative lens and the further negative lens. The optical element includes a cylindrical lens, a prism or an axicon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Renato FRISON, Alberto ALFIER, Aris QUADRI
  • Patent number: 11382201
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus for show-business or entertainment sector comprises a light-radiation generator for projecting a lighting beam towards a lighting space that includes one or more undesired lighting zones. A motorization causes the lighting beam to scan the lighting space as a function of scanning-control signals as received by the lighting apparatus. Driving circuitry is provided, configured to control emission of the lighting beam, as well as processing circuitry configured to sense the scanning-control signals received and the scanning position of the lighting beam of the light-radiation generator. As a result of the detection of received scanning-control signals that can lead the lighting beam to being brought into the undesired lighting zone, the processing circuitry acts on the motorization and/or on the driving circuitry of the light-radiation generator, containing projection of the lighting beam directed towards the undesired lighting zone and preventing possible risks of a photobiological nature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: OSRAM GMBH, CLAY PAKY S.P.A.
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Andrea Laini
  • Patent number: 11355481
    Abstract: A multi-COB-LED lighting module includes a submount; and a plurality of clusters of LED-chips that emit light radiation in respective emission bands, wherein each LED-chip cluster includes a plurality of LED-chips arranged on the submount by chip on board technology and emit light radiation in a respective emission band, and at least two LED-chips of at least a first LED-chip cluster each borders with a plurality of LED-chips belonging to one or more clusters of LED-chips different from the first LED-chip cluster and connect one to the other by at least a wire bond that extends above one or more of the adjoining LED-chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Xiaolong Li
  • Patent number: 11178745
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus, for example for applications in the show-business or entertainment sector, including: a light-radiation generator, for example a laser generator, configured for projecting a lighting beam towards a lighting space in a certain direction; control circuitry of the light-radiation generator configured for controlling emission of the lighting beam by the light-radiation generator; and processing circuitry configured for calculating a thermal retinal radiance ratio of the light-radiation generator as a function of a distance from the light-radiation generator in the aforesaid direction and for acting on the control circuitry of the light-radiation generator in order to control the lighting beam of the light-radiation generator as a function of the thermal retinal radiance ratio, with the aim of maintaining the aforesaid thermal retinal radiance ratio below unity starting from a certain value of distance from the light-radiation generator in the aforesaid direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Renato Frison
  • Patent number: 11109539
    Abstract: A system for lighting a space for growing vegetables, e.g. a greenhouse, wherein the system includes a first set of lighting sources for lighting the vegetables in a first, vertical direction, a second set of lighting sources for lighting the vegetables in at least one second direction, different from the vertical direction, e.g. in a horizontal and/or oblique direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Luca Mascolo
  • Publication number: 20210127470
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus for show-business or entertainment sector comprises a light-radiation generator for projecting a lighting beam towards a lighting space that includes one or more undesired lighting zones. A motorization causes the lighting beam to scan the lighting space as a function of scanning-control signals as received by the lighting apparatus. Driving circuitry is provided, configured to control emission of the lighting beam, as well as processing circuitry configured to sense the scanning-control signals received and the scanning position of the lighting beam of the light-radiation generator. As a result of the detection of received scanning-control signals that can lead the lighting beam to being brought into the undesired lighting zone, the processing circuitry acts on the motorization and/or on the driving circuitry of the light-radiation generator, containing projection of the lighting beam directed towards the undesired lighting zone and preventing possible risks of a photobiological nature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Alberto ALFIER, Andrea LAINI
  • Publication number: 20210127472
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus, for example for applications in the show-business or entertainment sector, including: a light-radiation generator, for example a laser generator, configured for projecting a lighting beam towards a lighting space in a certain direction; control circuitry of the light-radiation generator configured for controlling emission of the lighting beam by the light-radiation generator; and processing circuitry configured for calculating a thermal retinal radiance ratio of the light-radiation generator as a function of a distance from the light-radiation generator in the aforesaid direction and for acting on the control circuitry of the light-radiation generator in order to control the lighting beam of the light-radiation generator as a function of the thermal retinal radiance ratio, with the aim of maintaining the aforesaid thermal retinal radiance ratio below unity starting from a certain value of distance from the light-radiation generator in the aforesaid direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Alberto ALFIER, Renato FRISON
  • Publication number: 20210098433
    Abstract: A multi-COB-LED lighting module includes a submount; and a plurality of clusters of LED-chips that emit light radiation in respective emission bands, wherein each LED-chip cluster includes a plurality of LED-chips arranged on the submount by chip on board technology and emit light radiation in a respective emission band, and at least two LED-chips of at least a first LED-chip cluster each borders with a plurality of LED-chips belonging to one or more clusters of LED-chips different from the first LED-chip cluster and connect one to the other by at least a wire bond that extends above one or more of the adjoining LED-chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Xiaolong LI
  • Patent number: 10851967
    Abstract: A lens for lighting installations including a lenticular body having a planar light input surface and a curved light output surface, with the lenticular body providing a light propagation path from the input surface to the output surface along a lens axis. The curvature values of the output surface includes peak values at the peripheral region and at least one valley value at the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Renato Frison, Alberto Alfier, Luca Mascolo
  • Patent number: 10837620
    Abstract: A lighting device, e.g. for wallwashing lighting applications, includes a linear array of light radiation emitters including a light radiation source, e.g. a LED source, a light guide member having a first end coupled with the radiation source and a second end to emit light radiation guided by the guide member along a guide axis, as well as an optical system to receive light radiation from the light guide member and project outgoing light radiation from the lighting device. The light guide members of the light radiation emitters in the array are arranged with their second ends aligned in a longitudinal direction of the array, and with their light guide axes lying in a common plane angled to a reference plane. The optical systems of the light radiation emitters in the array produce outgoing light radiation beams having higher angles to said reference plane than the corresponding input beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Renato Frison, Alberto Alfier, Xiaolong Li, Luca Mascolo
  • Publication number: 20200309335
    Abstract: A light fixture may include a casing and a support assembly configured to support and move the casing. The light fixture may include a light source assembly housed inside the casing and configured to generate visible light radiation of different colours. The light fixture may further include a control device configured to control the light source assembly based on the position or the movement of the casing or based on a parameter correlated to the position or the movement of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Aris Quadri, Andreas Huber, Alberto Alfier