Patents by Inventor Craig Casey
Craig Casey 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: 11927057Abstract: A sensor may detect glare from a recorded image and a shade position of a motorized window treatment may be controlled based on the position of the detected glare in the image. A luminance of a pixel may be calculated in an image and a glare condition may be detected based on the luminance of the pixel. For example, the sensor may start at a first pixel in a bottom row of pixels and step through each of the pixels on the bottom row before moving to a next row of pixels. When the sensor detects a glare condition, the sensor may cease processing the remaining pixels of the image. The sensor may calculate a background luminance of the image by reordering the pixels of the image from darkest to lightest and calculating the luminance of a pixel that is a predetermined percentage from the darkest pixel.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Craig A. Casey, Brent Protzman
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Publication number: 20230397309Abstract: Methods and systems as described herein may be used for independently controlling the color temperature, intensity, and/or circadian response (CR) of one or more light sources (e.g., discrete-spectrum light sources) to adjust one or more color temperature, intensity, and circadian metrics in a space. For example, a light fixture may have four controllable light sources, a warm CR boost, cool CR boost, warm non-boost CR and a cool non-boost CR to independently control intensity, color temperature, and CR outputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Craig A. Casey, Brent Protzman
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Patent number: 11737183Abstract: Methods and systems as described herein may be used for independently controlling the color temperature, intensity, and/or circadian response (CR) of one or more light sources (e.g., discrete-spectrum light sources) to adjust one or more color temperature, intensity, and circadian metrics in a space. For example, a light fixture may have four controllable light sources, a warm CR boost, cool CR boost, warm non-boost CR and a cool non-boost CR to independently control intensity, color temperature, and CR outputs.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Craig A. Casey, Brent Protzman
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Publication number: 20220385063Abstract: A load control environment may be controlled by adjusting load control devices, such as a lighting intensity level, a level of the covering material for a motorized window treatment, and/or a temperature level to reduce and/or optimize the consumption of power. The optimization of power may include reducing the total cost and consumption of power, while maintaining a target or minimum level of comfort for occupants and/or a net monetary gain. The optimization of power consumption may be performed by adaptively controlling the load control devices to reduce the total power consumption of the load control environment, while maintaining a minimum level for comfort metrics indicating a level of occupant comfort and/or the net monetary gain associated with the comfort metrics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Brent Protzman, Rangasayee Sapthasayee, Craig A. Casey
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Publication number: 20220110195Abstract: Methods and systems as described herein may be used for independently controlling the color temperature, intensity, and/or circadian response (CR) of one or more light sources (e.g., discrete-spectrum light sources) to adjust one or more color temperature, intensity, and circadian metrics in a space. For example, a light fixture may have four controllable light sources, a warm CR boost, cool CR boost, warm non-boost CR and a cool non-boost CR to independently control intensity, color temperature, and CR outputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Craig A. Casey, Brent Protzman
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Publication number: 20210025229Abstract: A sensor may detect glare from a recorded image and a shade position of a motorized window treatment may be controlled based on the position of the detected glare in the image. A luminance of a pixel may be calculated in an image and a glare condition may be detected based on the luminance of the pixel. For example, the sensor may start at a first pixel in a bottom row of pixels and step through each of the pixels on the bottom row before moving to a next row of pixels. When the sensor detects a glare condition, the sensor may cease processing the remaining pixels of the image. The sensor may calculate a background luminance of the image by reordering the pixels of the image from darkest to lightest and calculating the luminance of a pixel that is a predetermined percentage from the darkest pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Craig A. Casey, Brent Protzman
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Patent number: 10822873Abstract: A sensor may detect glare from a recorded image and a shade position of a motorized window treatment may be controlled based on the position of the detected glare in the image. A luminance of a pixel may be calculated in an image and a glare condition may be detected based on the luminance of the pixel. For example, the sensor may start at a first pixel in a bottom row of pixels and step through each of the pixels on the bottom row before moving to a next row of pixels. When the sensor detects a glare condition, the sensor may cease processing the remaining pixels of the image. The sensor may calculate a background luminance of the image by reordering the pixels of the image from darkest to lightest and calculating the luminance of a pixel that is a predetermined percentage from the darkest pixel.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Craig A. Casey, Brent Protzman
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Publication number: 20180252035Abstract: A sensor may detect glare from a recorded image and a shade position of a motorized window treatment may be controlled based on the position of the detected glare in the image. A luminance of a pixel may be calculated in an image and a glare condition may be detected based on the luminance of the pixel. For example, the sensor may start at a first pixel in a bottom row of pixels and step through each of the pixels on the bottom row before moving to a next row of pixels. When the sensor detects a glare condition, the sensor may cease processing the remaining pixels of the image. The sensor may calculate a background luminance of the image by reordering the pixels of the image from darkest to lightest and calculating the luminance of a pixel that is a predetermined percentage from the darkest pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.Inventors: Craig A. Casey, Brent Protzman
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Publication number: 20090088245Abstract: A marketing system and method for customer specific promotions providing a yield management tool for casino resort properties to more effectively manage entertainment related assets and inventories to build new and existing customer business. The system provides a convenient method for consumers to realize promotional incentives proportional to their player wagering status at a broader level within the casino resort industry while simultaneously delivering casino resort operators a cost effective tool to maximize the value of their assets. The system utilizes register user supplied player wagering and comp data, and historical waging data on said registered users collected by the system from participating casino resort properties to build a broad-based casino customer database defining the waging profiles of individual gaming customers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Keith A. Klinkhammer, Craig Casey
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Publication number: 20080172733Abstract: The instant invention relates to a method and system for identifying and verifying a user seeking access to a secured workstation. The inventive procedure comprising the following acts. First, the first personal identification data (PIDS) within a wireless identification device is spontaneously detected by a secure workstation when located within a predetermined proximity. Next, at least one database accessible to the workstation is queried to retrieve the first personal identification data set and a second PIDS. The second PIDS contains biometric data corresponding to the user. Once the biometric data from the user is obtained at the point of transaction it is compared with the second PIDS to verify the identity of user. If there is a match, the user is permitted access to the secured workstation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: David Coriaty, Craig Casey
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Publication number: 20060240891Abstract: A marketing system and method for customer specific promotions providing a yield management tool for casino resort properties to more effectively manage entertainment related assets and inventories to build new and existing customer business. The system provides a convenient method for consumers to realize promotional incentives proportional to their player wagering status at a broader level within the casino resort industry while simultaneously delivering casino resort operators a cost effective tool to maximize the value of their assets. The system utilizes register user supplied player wagering and comp data, and historical waging data on said registered users collected by the system from participating casino resort properties to build a broad-based casino customer database defining the waging profiles of individual gaming customers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Keith Klinkhammer, Craig Casey
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Patent number: 5419329Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasonic diagnostic device which uses an optoelectronic transmitting circuit to trigger the voltage input to the 2-D array transducer elements located in the probe adjacent to the patient. The transmitting optoelectronic circuit disclosed comprises a plurality of light pulse generators, a plurality of fiber optic signal lines, and a plurality of light activated switching circuits that transmit the high voltage excitation input to the selected transducer transmit element(s).Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1994Date of Patent: May 30, 1995Assignee: Duke UniversityInventors: Stephen W. Smith, Charles D. Emery, John C. Swartz, H. Craig Casey, Jr.
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Patent number: 3974002Abstract: In the fabrication of double heterostructure GaAsAlGaAs junction lasers by molecular beam epitaxy, it has been found that suitably annealing the entire heterostructure increases the external quantum efficiency of the laser and reduces the room temperature threshold for lasing. Also described is a technique using relatively uncollimated beams to deposit continuously on the interior walls of the vacuum chamber fresh layers which getter deleterious contaminants. In addition, pyrolytic boron nitride, rather than graphite, effusion cells are utilized in order to reduce the amount of CO formation in the system.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1974Date of Patent: August 10, 1976Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, IncorporatedInventors: Horace Craig Casey, Jr., Alfred Yi Cho, Morton B. Panish