Patents by Inventor Robert Henig
Robert Henig 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: 9572228Abstract: Commissioning a lighting system is disclosed. A user can be provided with a pointing device capable of emitting or returning a signal which can be received by detectors co-located with each fixture in the lighting system. The user can add a fixture to a group by aiming the pointing device at the fixture when the fixture is not assigned to the group, and the user can remove a fixture from a group in the same way when the fixture was previously assigned to the group. Additional user gestures are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Redwood Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Henig, David Fowler, Deepak Nulu, David Leonard, Carl P. Zwanzig
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Publication number: 20150115805Abstract: Commissioning a lighting system is disclosed. A user can be provided with a pointing device capable of emitting or returning a signal which can be received by detectors co-located with each fixture in the lighting system. The user can add a fixture to a group by aiming the pointing device at the fixture when the fixture is not assigned to the group, and the user can remove a fixture from a group in the same way when the fixture was previously assigned to the group. Additional user gestures are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2015Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Robert Henig, David Fowler, Deepak Nulu, David Leonard, Carl P. Zwanzig
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Patent number: 8981913Abstract: Commissioning a lighting system is disclosed. A user can be provided with a pointing device capable of emitting or returning a signal which can be received by detectors co-located with each fixture in the lighting system. The user can add a fixture to a group by aiming the pointing device at the fixture when the fixture is not assigned to the group, and the user can remove a fixture from a group in the same way when the fixture was previously assigned to the group. Additional user gestures are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Redwood Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Henig, David Fowler, Deepak Nulu, David Leonard, Carl P. Zwanzig
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Patent number: 8729835Abstract: A lighting system for areal illumination is disclosed which may include a remote driver and a plurality of fixtures including luminaires. The luminaires may include a light source whose output light level can be adjusted, a light sensor co-located therewith adapted to measure light received from adjacent fixtures. The remote driver may provide power for the light sources of the luminaires.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Redwood Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Henig, David Fowler, Jeremy Stieglitz, David Leonard, Mark Covaro
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Patent number: 8710772Abstract: A lighting system for areal illumination is disclosed which includes a remote driver and a plurality of fixtures including luminaires, control devices, and/or standalone sensors. The luminaires include a light source whose output light level can be adjusted, a light sensor co-located therewith adapted to measure light received from adjacent fixtures, and a microcontroller capable of transmitting the output of the light sensor over wires to the remote driver. The remote driver is capable of bidirectional communication with the luminaires and provides independently controllable power for the light sources of the luminaires. A movable orb region containing luminaires can also be defined and the light levels of individual luminaires can be set according to their location within the orb region.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Redwood Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Henig, David Fowler, Jeremy Stieglitz, David Leonard, Mark Covaro
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Publication number: 20120194083Abstract: A lighting system for areal illumination is disclosed which may include a remote driver and a plurality of fixtures including luminaires. The luminaires may include a light source whose output light level can be adjusted, a light sensor co-located therewith adapted to measure light received from adjacent fixtures. The remote driver may provide power for the light sources of the luminaires.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: REDWOOD SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Robert Henig, David Fowler, Jeremy Stieglitz, David Leonard, Mark Covaro
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Patent number: 8230148Abstract: Systems and methods for transmitting and processing interrupts by embedding interrupt information into a serial data stream are disclosed. An event is detected and converted into an interrupt signal. The interrupt signal is converted into a special interrupt character or symbol sequence. The special interrupt character or symbol sequence is embedded into a serial data stream at the next available character or symbol boundary and transmitted to a receiving controller. The receiving controller strips the special interrupt character or symbol sequence from the serial data stream and raises a corresponding interrupt. The receiving controller processes the interrupt by interrupting normal processing to run an interrupt subroutine. Once the receiver has detected and raised an interrupt, it can return an acknowledgement character or symbol sequence by the same mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Redwood Systems, Inc.Inventor: Robert Henig
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Publication number: 20120161643Abstract: A lighting system for areal illumination is disclosed which includes a remote driver and a plurality of fixtures including luminaires, control devices, and/or standalone sensors. The luminaires include a light source whose output light level can be adjusted, a light sensor co-located therewith adapted to measure light received from adjacent fixtures, and a microcontroller capable of transmitting the output of the light sensor over wires to the remote driver. The remote driver is capable of bidirectional communication with the luminaires and provides independently controllable power for the light sources of the luminaires. A movable orb region containing luminaires can also be defined and the light levels of individual luminaires can be set according to their location within the orb region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2012Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Redwood Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Henig, David Fowler, Jeremy Stieglitz, David Leonard, Mark Covaro
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Patent number: 8159156Abstract: A lighting system for areal illumination is disclosed which includes a remote driver and a plurality of fixtures including luminaires, control devices, and/or standalone sensors. A method of commissioning a lighting system is also disclosed which includes causing a light source co-located with each luminaire to emit a signal, detecting the signal at light sensors co-located with each luminaire, converting the signals obtained by the light sensors into distance measurements between luminaires, creating a map recording the relative location of luminaires, and assigning luminaires to groups based on their relative locations in the map. A movable orb region containing luminaires can also be defined.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Redwood Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Henig, David Fowler, Jeremy Stieglitz, David Leonard, Mark Covaro
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Publication number: 20110241567Abstract: A system may be provided for controlling an amount of light generated by multiple fluorescent lamps based on a desired light level. A dimming circuit may vary the amount of light generated by at least one of the fluorescent lamps based on the desired light level if the desired light level is in a first range of light level values. The fluorescent lamps remain lit as the amount of light generated by the lamps is varied. A switch circuit may switch off a first subset of the fluorescent lamps while a second subset of the fluorescent lamps remains lit if the desired light level is in a second range of light level values. The second range of light level values indicates less light is desired than the first range of light level values indicates.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: REDWOOD SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Mark Covaro, Robert Henig, Amro A. Younes
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Publication number: 20110199004Abstract: Commissioning a lighting system is disclosed. A user can be provided with a pointing device capable of emitting or returning a signal which can be received by detectors co-located with each fixture in the lighting system. The user can add a fixture to a group by aiming the pointing device at the fixture when the fixture is not assigned to the group, and the user can remove a fixture from a group in the same way when the fixture was previously assigned to the group. Additional user gestures are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: REDWOOD SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Robert Henig, David Fowler, Deepak Nulu, David Leonard, Carl P. Zwanzig
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Publication number: 20110199020Abstract: A method of commissioning a lighting system is disclosed. A user is provided with a pointing device capable of emitting or returning a signal which can be received by detectors co-located with each fixture in the lighting system. The user can add a fixture to a group by aiming the pointing device at the fixture when the fixture is not assigned to the group, and the user can remove a fixture from a group in the same way when the fixture was previously assigned to the group. This commissioning method can be used with a lighting system comprising a central control unit and a plurality of fixtures comprising luminaires, optional control devices, and optional standalone sensors, wherein each fixture includes a co-located sensor capable of receiving the signal emitted by the pointing device, and a central control unit which can communicate bidirectionally with each fixture. Additional user gestures are disclosed together with methods for the central control unit to acknowledge gestures.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: REDWOOD SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Robert Henig, David Fowler, Deepak Nulu, David Leonard
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Publication number: 20110185096Abstract: Systems and methods for transmitting and processing interrupts by embedding interrupt information into a serial data stream are disclosed. An event is detected and converted into an interrupt signal. The interrupt signal is converted into a special interrupt character or symbol sequence. The special interrupt character or symbol sequence is embedded into a serial data stream at the next available character or symbol boundary and transmitted to a receiving controller. The receiving controller strips the special interrupt character or symbol sequence from the serial data stream and raises a corresponding interrupt. The receiving controller processes the interrupt by interrupting normal processing to run an interrupt subroutine. Once the receiver has detected and raised an interrupt, it can return an acknowledgement character or symbol sequence by the same mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: REDWOOD SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: Robert Henig
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Publication number: 20110101872Abstract: Systems and methods for transmitting and processing interrupts by embedding interrupt information into a serial data stream are disclosed. An event is detected and converted into an interrupt signal. The interrupt signal is converted into a special interrupt character or symbol sequence. The special interrupt character or symbol sequence is embedded into a serial data stream at the next available character or symbol boundary and transmitted to a receiving controller. The receiving controller strips the special interrupt character or symbol sequence from the serial data stream and raises a corresponding interrupt. The receiving controller processes the interrupt by interrupting normal processing to run an interrupt subroutine. Once the receiver has detected and raised an interrupt, it can return an acknowledgement character or symbol sequence by the same mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: REDWOOD SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: Robert Henig
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Publication number: 20110031897Abstract: A lighting system for areal illumination is disclosed which includes a remote driver and a plurality of fixtures including luminaires, control devices, and/or standalone sensors. The luminaires include a light source whose output light level can be adjusted, a light sensor co-located therewith adapted to measure light received from adjacent fixtures, and a microcontroller capable of transmitting the output of the light sensor over wires to the remote driver. The remote driver is capable of bidirectional communication with the luminaires and provides independently controllable power for the light sources of the luminaires.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: Redwood Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert HENIG, David Fowler, Jeremy Stieglitz, David Leonard, Mark Covaro