Load Device Irradiating The Radiant Energy Responsive Device Patents (Class 315/151)
  • Patent number: 12098827
    Abstract: An adjustable-height pendant luminaire is proposed which comprises the following: a luminaire head, a ceiling mounting unit from which the luminaire head is suspended by means of cables, a height adjustment unit arranged in the ceiling mounting unit, a sensor arrangement having at least one sensor arranged on the luminaire head, wherein the at least one sensor is configured as a near-field sensor designed to detect a hand of a user in the proximity of the sensor for the detecting of gestures as non-contact control commands, and a control unit in communicative connection with the sensor arrangement and the height adjustment unit. The control unit is configured to send a control command to the height adjustment unit for changing the vertical position of the luminaire head upward or downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: OCCHIO GMBH
    Inventor: Anton Biersack
  • Patent number: 11972706
    Abstract: An image display system includes semiconductor light sources that output optical signals including modulated signal portions at timings different from each other, optical fiber cables that respectively transmit the optical signals, a light synthesizer that synthesizes the optical signals to output a synthesized optical signal, a light amount detector that detects an output light amount of the synthesized optical signal, a modulated signal detector that detects the modulated signal portions from the detected output light amount, an image modulator that modulates the synthesized optical signal according to an input image signal to output a modulated image light, and a light source controller that outputs drive control signals for respectively outputting the optical signals respectively including the modulated signal portions according to the image signal, and detects a failure of the optical fiber cables based on whether a modulated signal portion among the plurality of modulated signal portions is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaaki Gyoten
  • Patent number: 11818819
    Abstract: A lighting device, such as a controllable light-emitting diode (LED) light source, may execute a self-calibration procedure to compensate for changes in an optical system of the lighting device that may have occurred after an initial factory calibration procedure. The lighting device may include an emitter, a detector that generates a detector signal in response to detected light, a memory that stores a curve defining an optical compensation value with respect to a measured forward voltage of the detector, and a control circuit configured to receive a measured value of a luminous flux of the light emitted by the emitter that may be determined in response to the detector signal and based on the optical compensation value. The control circuit may adjust the curve defining the optical compensation value in response to a difference between the measured value and an expected value of the luminous flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Jason E. Lewis, Jivan J. Luu, Alcides J. Dias, Jacob Guerra
  • Patent number: 11784177
    Abstract: A display device comprises a substrate, a pixel electrode on the substrate, a light emitting element on the pixel electrode, and a common electrode layer on the light emitting element, and configured to receive a common voltage, wherein the light emitting element configured to emit a first light according to a driving current having a first current density, is configured to emit a second light according to a driving current having a second current density, and is configured to emit a third light according to a driving current having a third current density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Geun Lee, Jin Wan Kim, Sang Jo Kim, Su Jeong Kim
  • Patent number: 11743985
    Abstract: The lighting device may be configured to perform black body curve fading. For example, the control circuit may be configured to control the drive circuit such that the light emitted by the lighting load is adjusted (e.g., faded) along a black body curve. The control circuit may be configured to determine whether to fade from an initial color to a destination color in a Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) chromaticity space or an XY chromaticity space. The control circuit may be configured to determine whether the initial color and/or the destination color are on the black body curve. When the initial color and the destination color are determined to be on the black body curve, the control circuit may be configured to control the drive circuit such that the light emitted by the lighting device is adjusted from the initial color to the destination color along the black body curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Christopher M. Green, Jaykrishna A. Shukla, Robert C. Newman, Jr., Peter MacLellan, Matthew R. Blakeley
  • Patent number: 11536832
    Abstract: This system is directed to a batteryless, self-powered sensor comprising: a microprocessor; a first and second solar panel in electronic communications with the microprocessor; a transceiver in communication with the microprocessor; and a set of computer readable instructions included in the microprocessor adapted for creating motion data including a direction and a speed of movement of object within a first sensing area and a second sensing area, transmitted the motion data to a remote location if sufficient power is provided by the first solar panel to actuate the transceiver and a number of data points in the motion data exceeds a pre-determined number of minimal data points, associating a reduction in power delivered from the first solar panel to the microprocessor with movement and associating an increase in power delivered from the first solar panel to the microprocessor with movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Clemson University
    Inventors: Jacob Sorber, Josiah D. Hester, Harsh Desai, Nicole Tobias, Arwa Alsubhi, Taylor Antonio Hardin, Calvin Moody
  • Patent number: 11476395
    Abstract: A light source that emits light, wherein, in coordinates in a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram, the light has a color purity included in a region of 2 to 50 in a region surrounded by a line segment WB and a line segment WG that connect coordinates W (0.33, 0.33) indicating an achromatic color with coordinates B (0.091, 0.133) of 480 nm and coordinates G (0.373, 0.624) of 560 nm on a spectral locus, and the spectral locus, and has an area occupied by a continuous spectral wavelength in a wavelength region of 480 to 540 nm, of 15% or more relative to an area of an overall spectral wavelength of the light source at 380 to 780 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: ASAHI RUBBER INC., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAITAMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Naoya Mashiko, Takashi Kanahira, Masutsugu Tasaki, Eiji Ishiguro, Keiichi Watanuki, Keiichi Muramatsu, Kazunori Kaede
  • Patent number: 11443686
    Abstract: A display screen including display circuits, each display circuit including a light-emitting diode, a controllable current source powering the light-emitting diode, and a control circuit capable of supplying a pulse-width modulated signal for controlling the current source from a periodic signal. The display screen further includes first electrodes coupled to the control circuits, a circuit for supplying a selection signal successively on each first electrode, and an oscillating circuit or oscillating circuits capable of supplying the periodic signals, the periodic signals being non-synchronous with the display circuit selection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Aledia
    Inventors: Matthieu Charbonnier, Frédéric Mercier
  • 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: 11382202
    Abstract: A method of controlling a lighting fixture based on motion detection includes: receiving a plurality of captured image frames; obtaining a plurality of resampled image frames by resampling the captured image frames according to regional characteristics of the resampled image frames; dynamically adjusting a sensitivity for motion detection according to the regional characteristics of the resampled image frames; performing motion detection on the resampled image frames according to the sensitivity; and controlling the lighting fixture according to a result of the motion detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Himax Imaging Limited
    Inventors: Wei-Chieh Yang, Po-Chang Chen, Yuan-Chih Peng
  • Patent number: 11295520
    Abstract: A system and corresponding method is disclosed for monitoring and conducting large-scale performance verification of a city's lighting infrastructure. In particular, the current invention combines measurements of lighting performance measurements along city roadways with regulatory requirements for the roadways. In various embodiments, the current invention then presents a three-dimensional visualization of the 5 adequacy of existing roadway lighting with respect to these regulatory requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Dong Han, Yuting Zhang, Olaitan Philip Olaleye, Sirisha Rangavajhala
  • Patent number: 11272599
    Abstract: A lighting device, such a controllable light-emitting diode (LED) light source, may execute a self calibration procedure to compensate for changes to an optical system of the lighting device that may have occurred after an initial factory calibration procedure. The lighting device may include an emitter, a detector that generates a detector signal in response to detected light, a memory that stores a curve defining an optical compensation value with respect to a measured forward voltage of the detector, and a control circuit configured to receive a measured value of a luminous flux of the light emitted by the emitter that may be determined in response to the detector signal and based the optical compensation value. The control circuit may adjust the curve defining the optical compensation value in response to a difference between the measured value and an expected value of the luminous flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Jason E. Lewis, Jivan J. Luu, Alcides J. Dias, Jacob Guerra
  • Patent number: 11259380
    Abstract: An LED light unit comprises an LED assembly and a light sensor to measure light emitted by the LED assembly and having a measurement range; a current source to drive the LED assembly at an LED current A control device is configured to: pre-heat the LED assembly by driving the current source to operate the LED assembly at an operating current; the LED assembly thereby illuminating the light sensor at a light level above the measurement range; interrupt operating the LED assembly during a stray light measurement time; and read an output signal of the light sensor; operate the LED assembly at a measurement current, to emit light at a measurement level; subtract the output signal of the light sensor during the stray light measurement time from the output signal of the light sensor during the light measurement time to obtain a stray light corrected light measurement signal; scale the stray light corrected light measurement signal by a scaling factor based on a ratio of the operating LED current and the measurem
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: eldoLAB Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Andy Johanna Elisabeth Otten
  • Patent number: 11250408
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides intelligent lighting control systems for adjusting a user interface on a mobile electronic device. A user input requested via the user interface to change a lighting state of one or more light emitting elements in a luminaire connected to a lighting control system communicably coupled to a server system is detected. A transaction identification (ID) code is generated on the mobile electronic device. A display of an icon displayed in the user interface is changed. The icon depicts a status of the one or more light emitting elements. The transaction identification code and a request to change the lighting state to be transmitted from the mobile electronic device to the server system. A change notification received by the server system is analyzed to determine if it includes the transaction ID code. The display state of the icon is either changed on maintained based on the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Savant Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Casey Scott Marshall, David Creighton Mott
  • Patent number: 11244637
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a backlight control method and apparatus for a backlight module, a display device and a computer readable storage medium. The backlight module includes a plurality of backlight partitions. The backlight control method includes, for each backlight partition: determining a first brightness change threshold according to an output backlight brightness corresponding to a previous frame image; and determining, according to a difference between an initial backlight brightness of a current frame image and the output backlight brightness corresponding to the previous frame image and the first brightness change threshold, the output backlight brightness corresponding to the current frame image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingyang Yan, Zhifu Li, Jinghua Miao, Yukun Sun, Wenyu Li, Lili Chen, Hao Zhang, Chenxi Zhao
  • Patent number: 11234307
    Abstract: A powering circuit for a diode light source includes an inductor charged through an on/off switch. The charging occurs during a charging cycle for a controllable amount of time when the on/off switch is closed. The energy of the charged inductor is used to power the semiconductor light source by opening the on/off switch. In such a driving configuration, the ringing is nearly constant and thus may be suppressed using an appropriately configured circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ziv Magoz
  • Patent number: 11232738
    Abstract: A display device and a method of compensating the same are provided. The display device includes a display panel, an optical sensor, and a control unit. The optical sensor is disposed behind the display panel and configured to provide first optically sensed data and second optically sensed data. The control unit is electrically connected the optical sensor and the display panel and configured to determine service life of the display panel based on the first optically sensed data and the second optically sensed data and provide a compensation to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Zhou, Yong Zhao, Mugyeom Kim
  • Patent number: 11191139
    Abstract: An LED driver configured to power a plurality of LEDs having a different colour or colour spectrum is described, the LED driver comprising: a power converter configured to supply power to the plurality of LEDs and a control unit, the control unit comprising: an input terminal configured to receive an input signal representing a desired colour set-point; a processing unit configured to: determine a MacAdam ellipse for the desired colour set-point; determine a required intensity or current for each of the plurality of LEDs so as to achieve the desired colour set-point; determine a colour shift direction for the colour set-point, based on the determined required intensities or currents; select a modified colour set-point based on the colour shift direction and the MacAdam ellipse; determine a required supply current for each of the plurality of LEDs so as to achieve the modified colour set-point; determine a control signal for the power converter so as to generate the required supply currents; and wherein
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: eldoLAB Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Andy Johanna Elisabeth Otten
  • Patent number: 11158187
    Abstract: The invention is directed at a remote-control device for controlling one or more user devices, comprising a directional optical sensor for receiving one or more optical signals from the user devices. Each optical signal encodes a device identifier by high and low signal states in periods having granulated lengths. Each granulated length is an integer number of clock periods of a transmitter clock. The transmitter clock has a clock ratio to the predetermined receiver clock, the clock ratio being a number larger than one. At least one granulated length is longer than an integer number of clock periods of the predetermined receiver clock by a fraction of the clock period of the predetermined receiver clock, which granulated length may be detected by an asynchronous receiver clock and a detection range having only two values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Hendricus Theodorus Gerardus Maria Penning De Vries, Hendrik Cornelis Kok
  • Patent number: 11150619
    Abstract: The invention discloses an intelligent lighting control system based on Internet of Things, comprising a gateway, a cloud server a plurality of DALI systems, each DALI system includes a DALI bus 100 connected to the gateway, and each DALI bus is provided with a power node, a plurality of execution nodes, a plurality of control nodes and a plurality of sensor nodes, and the number of execution nodes on each DALI bus ranges from 1 to 64; the intelligent terminal can perform data interaction with any one of the nodes in any DALI system under the gateway. In the present invention, a single gateway can provide up to 256 execution nodes, which can be applied to construct a large and complex lighting control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Self Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11125611
    Abstract: A method for light sensing senses the light during a sub-frame of a picture frame operated display. The sensing is performed during an adaptive observation window which is determined in dependence on the duty cycle of the operation of the display. A calculation that uses the light sensed during the observation window and the light sensed during the sub-frame delivers a value indicative of the amount of received ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: AMS AG
    Inventors: Helmut Theiler, Josef Kriebernegg
  • Patent number: 11105476
    Abstract: A luminaire can include a housing having at least one outer surface that forms a cavity. The luminaire can also include at least one electrical component disposed, at least in part, within the cavity. The luminaire can further include an electrical cable having a first end and a second end, where the first end is coupled to the at least one electrical component. The luminaire can also include a switch coupled to the electrical cable, where the switch is disposed remotely from the housing, where the switch has multiple positions, wherein each position of the switch corresponds to a discrete photometric distribution emitted by one or more light sources of the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: John Edward Bowen, Raymond Janik
  • Patent number: 11088330
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a compound that can improve the lifespan, low drive voltage and high luminous efficiency of an element, an organic electronic element using same, and an electronic device comprising same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventors: Yun Suk Lee, Seul-gi Kim, Dae Sung Kim, Ki Ho So, Dae Hwan Oh, Jin Ho Yun, Bum Sung Lee, Seong Je Park
  • Patent number: 11089274
    Abstract: A light source device has light source module. The light source module has a light source assembly having a plurality of light source combinations. The light source combinations are arranged around a central axis. Each of the light source combinations has an excitation light source and a reflecting article. The reflecting article is disposed between the excitation light source and the central axis for reflecting an excitation light of the excitation light source to form an illumination beam. A type of the excitation light sources of the light source module is composed of a red excitation source, a green excitation source, and a blue excitation source. A projection apparatus has the light source device, a light valve, and a projection lens. The light source device and the projection apparatus have advantages of improving the utilization efficiency of condenser lens, simple configuration, low cost, and wide color gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: Chang-Hsuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11060696
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a housing, a downlight that includes one or more first light sources configured to emit a first light downwardly from the housing, a waveguide, and one or more second light sources. The waveguide is formed of a portion of an optical material and characterized by opposing planar faces joined by one or more edge faces about a periphery of the optical material. The waveguide forms at least a portion of an uppermost optical surface of the luminaire. The one or more second light sources are coupled with the housing and configured to emit a second light into the optical material through at least one of the one or more edge faces. The waveguide is configured to emit at least a portion of the second light upwardly from an upper one of the planar faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Dewayne Grove, Benjamin Bruckner
  • Patent number: 11056028
    Abstract: A method for detecting luminance uniformity of a screen, storage medium, and electronic device are provided. The method includes the following steps. At least one pixel on a display panel of a screen is lit. Light intensity of the pixel reflected by a non-opaque cover plate is acquired by a photoelectric sensor of the screen. Whether the pixel is uniformly luminous based on the acquired light intensity is determined. In this solution, by adding a photoelectric sensor to the screen, it is convenient to obtain the light condition of the screen, and then it is convenient to obtain whether the pixel is uniformly luminous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Jiandong Huang
  • Patent number: 11051375
    Abstract: A color adjusting method for a color light-emitting element is provided. Firstly, a first white light beam is produced by red, green and blue light-emitting units collaboratively, and a second white light beam is produced by a white light-emitting unit. Then, a second chromaticity value corresponding to the second white light beam is acquired. Then, the red, green and blue light-emitting units are controlled to produce a third white light beam according to the second chromaticity value, and a first adjusting parameter is acquired. Then, the white light-emitting unit is controlled to produce a fourth white light beam according to a third luminance value corresponding to the third white light beam, and a second adjusting parameter is acquired. Then, a gray level adjustment process is performed according to the first and second adjusting parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Ding-Hsiang Pan, Hui-Ling Lin, Chuan-Tai Hsiao, Chun-Han Huang
  • Patent number: 11032891
    Abstract: A control method is provided for controlling a lighting system for automatically adjusting the colour temperature of the lighting system, by adjusting the colour temperature of the light emitted by the lighting system during one day according to a pre-set daily emission profile; the colour temperature emitted by the lighting system is progressively adjusted during the day according to a daily emission profile represented by a spline function consisting of a plurality of spline function portions corresponding to respective pre-set time periods; the daily emission profile is, moreover, modified based on a geographic position and, in particular, a latitude of the lighting system being controlled, as well as on the current date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: ARTEMIDE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Carlotta Francesca Isolina Maria De Bevilacqua, Andrea Gallucci, Roberto Franzosi, Laura Pessoni
  • Patent number: 11004883
    Abstract: A processing system for an optical sensing device may comprise receiver circuitry and a determination module. The processing system may also include drive circuitry configured to drive a light source to emit light. The receiver circuitry is coupled to a photodetector, and the receiver circuitry is configured to acquire a resulting signal from the photodetector, and generate a measurement of light received by the photodetector based on the resulting signal. The receiver circuitry includes high-pass filter circuitry configured to high-pass filter the resulting signal to generate a high-pass filtered signal based. The determination module is configured to generate a light measurement based on the high-pass filtered signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Kirk Hargreaves
  • Patent number: 10988026
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes an interface, an outlet, and a converter configured to, responsive to user input to the interface enabling shed mode, interrupt flow of battery current to internal vehicle loads such that power available at the outlet exceeds a predetermined threshold regardless of whether an external load is plugged into or removed from the outlet, and otherwise, maintain the flow regardless of whether an external load is plugged into the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Stephenson Tyler Mattmuller
  • Patent number: 10932338
    Abstract: Provided is a power supply adjustment system including: an electronic load whose load voltage is variable; a power supply board that supplies the electronic load with current; and an information processing apparatus that controls the load voltage of the electronic load and the output current of the power supply board to the electronic load on the basis of a current value in the load voltage, in which the information processing apparatus includes a control unit that sets a plurality of load voltages in a predetermined range as the load voltage of the electronic load and sets a correction current value for adjusting the output current to a preset target current value for each of the plurality of load voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Izumi, Yukihito Yabuki, Kazuo Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10904992
    Abstract: Systems and methods which leverage the wireless communication capability present in wireless-enabled luminaires where the lamps include a short-range wireless transceiver and can be controlled by a smart appliance. The wireless capability of a luminaire may be paired with a compatible wireless interface system (e.g., adapter system) that allows for control of the luminaire via plug-in or hard-wired photocontrols and wireless network lamp control nodes. An adapter system may be provided that replaces a standard wired receptacle of a luminaire. The adapter system may include a wired interface to the luminaire which provides power to the wireless adapter system. The wireless adapter system may include a receptacle interface that receives a plug of a control node, such as photocontrol or a networked control node. The wireless adapter system may also include a wireless interface circuit that communicates control, status or other data between the connected control device and the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: EXPRESS IMAGING SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Donald Arthur Vendetti, Richard Dolf, William G. Reed
  • Patent number: 10855928
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus that allows the user to easily change the brightness of an image that is shot while using automatic exposure control is disclosed. The image capture apparatus comprises a setting unit configured to be able to set a reference value of proper exposure. The image capture apparatus determines exposure conditions based on the luminance information and the reference value, wherein the reference value is a value used as a reference exposure value from which exposure conditions are varied in an exposure compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Matsuno, Takeshi Ikeda, Kenzo Hisa, Taketoshi Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10855895
    Abstract: A light source module includes an array of illumination elements and a light diffusing material. The light source module is configured to receive a control signal for adjusting diffusion of light emitted from the light source module and in response adjust the amount of diffusion of light emitted from the light source module. A light source module may include a segmented light diffusing material where each segment is associated with an illumination element. And individual segments may have light diffusing properties that are different than other segments of the light diffusing material. Some illumination elements may emit light of a different color spectrum than other illumination elements, and a light diffusing material may scatter the different colored light to illuminate a scene with combinations of light of different colors. A light source module may be embedded in a mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Florian R. Fournier, Angelo M. Alaimo, Simon S. Lee, Miodrag Scepanovic, Andreas G. Weber
  • Patent number: 10852468
    Abstract: An optical member including a base substrate, a quantum dot layer disposed on the base substrate and having a first top surface including a lower wrinkle, the quantum dot layer including a medium layer and a plurality of quantum dots dispersed in the medium layer, a lower barrier layer disposed between the base substrate and the quantum dot layer, and an upper barrier layer covering the quantum dot layer, in which the upper barrier layer has a second top surface with an upper wrinkle corresponding to the lower wrinkle of the quantum dot layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taewoo Lim, Dongwoo Kim, Minsu Kim, Cheonjae Maeng, Seongyeon Lee, Hongbeom Lee
  • Patent number: 10802388
    Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a light source unit which time-divisionally emits light in colors by light emission from light emitting devices; a display element using light emitted from the light source unit, displaying images respectively corresponding to the colors of the emitted light, and forming optical images by reflection or transmission light thereof; a projection unit emitting the optical images formed by the display element toward a projection target; a timing setting unit setting a change timing associated with changing each of the colors, and setting spoke periods generated at each change timing; a light source drive unit driving the light source unit, based on the change timings and spoke periods; a detection unit detecting information indicating a light amount of the light for each of the colors emitted from the projection unit during the spoke periods; and a light source controller setting a delay time for light emission timings at the light source unit in the spoke periods by the light sourc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuro Narikawa
  • Patent number: 10783831
    Abstract: A pixel circuit comprising an organic light emitting diode; a driving transistor including a gate, a source connected to a first node, a drain connected to a second power supply terminal; and a photosensitive circuit connected between a second node and a third node, the second node configured to receive a reference voltage. The driving transistor is configured to, responsive to a gate voltage and a source voltage, control a magnitude of a driving current flowing through the organic light emitting diode. The photosensitive circuit is configured to sense an intensity of light emission of the organic light emitting diode and to set a potential at the third node according to the reference voltage and the intensity that was sensed, the potential that was set being detectable by an external circuit via a sense line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yicheng Lin, Pan Xu, Guang Yan, Dongfang Yang
  • Patent number: 10772174
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a method of operating a tunable light module. The method can include driving a lamp in the tunable light module, having lamps of at least two colors, to produce a colored light according to the color mixing plan that corresponds to a correlated color temperature (CCT); measuring a light characteristic of the lamp using a light sensor; detecting a degradation level by comparing the measured light characteristic against an expected light characteristic; and adjusting a current level for driving the lamp at the CCT by referencing the color mixing plan and an alternative coefficient corresponding to the degradation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Lumenetix, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew D. Weaver
  • Patent number: 10764976
    Abstract: A lighting device includes an ultra-wideband (UWB) sensor module configured to detect movement, a light source module having a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and a driver configured to drive the plurality of LEDs, and a first controller connected to the light source module and the UWB sensor module, the first controller being configured to receive setting data from an external control device, output the setting data to the UWB sensor module to cause the UWB sensor module to set at least one operational parameter of the UWB sensor module, and output a control signal to the driver to cause the driver to drive the plurality of LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Seob Kim, Chang Hoon Baek
  • Patent number: 10753552
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide multiple channels of light to form a blended white light output, the systems and methods utilizing recipient luminophoric mediums to alter light provided by light emitting diodes. The predetermined blends of luminescent materials within the luminophoric mediums provide predetermined spectral power distributions in the white light output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: ECOSENSE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Paul Kenneth Pickard
  • Patent number: 10750598
    Abstract: Lighting systems and methods for lighting fixture location mapping, for example, using a combination of photosensing readings and/or other sensors to identify a correct mapping. These systems and methods may be used to resolve ambiguities that could not be resolved using other processes, such an auto-commissioning method that identifies more than one possible mapping of the lighting fixtures to spatial locations. Such ambiguities are typically found in floor plans that are symmetrical. The systems and methods of the present invention record and utilize environmental profiles, such as ambient lighting levels and occupancy patterns, to match lighting fixtures to their respective spatial locations and provide resolution to ambiguities in an auto-commissioning method that identifies more than one possible mapping of the lighting fixtures to spatial locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Mathan Kumar Gopal Samy, Jia Hu, Maulin Dahyabhai Patel
  • Patent number: 10728987
    Abstract: A distributed lighting control system has a plurality of independently controlled light fixtures. Each light fixture of the plurality of independently controlled light fixtures includes: an illuminating element; driver circuitry operatively coupled to the illuminating element and configured to provide power to the illuminating element; one or more sensors; and a processor operatively coupled to the one or more sensors and the driver circuitry. The processor is configured to: receive signals from the one or more sensors; and control the driver circuitry to provide power to the illuminating element to generate illumination based on the received signals from the one or more sensors. Illumination provided by each light fixture of the plurality of independently controlled light fixtures is controlled independently of the illumination provided by others of the plurality of independently controlled light fixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Richard Lee Westrick, Jr., Januk Swarup Aggarwal, Nathaniel Christopher Herwig
  • Patent number: 10728984
    Abstract: A powering circuit for a diode light source includes an inductor charged through an on/off switch. The charging occurs during a charging cycle for a controllable amount of time when the on/off switch is closed. The energy of the charged inductor is used to power the semiconductor light source by opening the on/off switch. In such a driving configuration, the ringing is nearly constant and thus may be suppressed using an appropriately configured circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ziv Magoz
  • Patent number: 10726794
    Abstract: A luminaire can include a housing having at least one outer surface that forms a cavity. The luminaire can also include an aperture that traverses the at least one outer surface of the housing. The luminaire can further include a substrate disposed within the cavity. The luminaire can also include an electrical connector disposed on the substrate adjacent to the aperture. The luminaire can further include a dial coupled to the electrical connector, where dial has a range of positions, where each position within the range of positions of the dial corresponds to a discrete correlated color temperature (CCT) output by multiple light sources of the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Signify Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Jyoti Kumar, Philip Dean Winters, Steven Walter Pyshos
  • Patent number: 10699630
    Abstract: Provided is an an LED electronic bulletin board enabling high-speed image calibration, which is configured to apply brightness calibration data in consideration of brightness characteristics according to a brightness value through determination of whether or not there is a difference in a brightness value of a pixel or a part of an expression portion of the LED electronic bulletin board, which is to be expressed, with respect to image information inputted through a pixel capacitor controller installed between an image input device and a main controller unit (MCU), and then calibrate the image data inputted in real-time to express brightness-calibrated image data on the LED electronic bulletin board so that the image brightness of the electronic bulletin board can be calibrated irrespective of a configuration of an electronic bulletin board expression driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: KLD CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Jae Ha, Sung Jun Ha
  • Patent number: 10701783
    Abstract: A display device includes: an illuminating unit having a light source unit emitting light; an illumination control unit controlling the illuminating unit; a display element forming an image using illuminating light from the illuminating unit; a display control unit controlling the display element; a control unit controlling the illumination control unit and the display control unit based on a video signal; and a detection unit detecting the output intensity of the light source unit at that time. The control unit stores a control value corresponding to a target output intensity of the light source unit, and based on a difference between the to target output intensity and the output intensity at that time, the control unit determines a correction value for correcting the control value, and based on a control correction value obtained by correcting the control value using the correction value, the illumination control unit drives the light source unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukie Umezawa, Tamito Kawate
  • Patent number: 10685596
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display apparatus and an operating method thereof. The display apparatus includes a control unit and a display module. The control unit outputs a first signal. The display module is coupled to the control unit, and the display module continuously displays a first image in a first period based on the first signal, in which the first image has a first pattern, and a first ratio of an area of the first pattern to an area of the first image ranges from 5% to 30%. The first pattern has a first brightness at a first time point in the first period, and the first pattern has a second brightness at a second time point in the first period. The second time point is later than the first time point, and the second brightness is less than the first brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Wen Yen, Kuo-Cheng Tung
  • Patent number: 10649134
    Abstract: There are provided a circuit device for emitting heat to the outside and a backlight unit including the same. The present invention relates to a display device, a backlight unit connected to a display panel, or a constituent element thereof. The circuit device generates heat, and one or more heat emitting units for emitting heat generated from the light source of the backlight unit to the outside are added to the circuit device, and the backlight unit controlled by the aforementioned circuit device is provided. Each of the heat emitting units according to one embodiment of the present invention includes two or more different material layers to fix the circuit device and provide a heat emitting/directing function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunmin Park, SangChul Ryu, RokHee Lee, Suhun Lee
  • Patent number: 10624168
    Abstract: LED luminaires including an LED engine as the vehicle for programming the LED driver. An example luminaire includes an LED engine including a non-transitory memory having driver parameters and an LED driver coupled to the LED engine. The LED driver is configured to receive the driver parameters from the non-transitory memory and to provide a power based on the driver parameters. The luminaire further includes a plurality of LEDs to be driven by the power from the LED driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael Bandel
  • Patent number: 10616969
    Abstract: A luminaire can include a housing having at least one outer surface that forms a cavity. The luminaire can also include at least one electrical component disposed, at least in part, within the cavity. The luminaire can further include an electrical cable having a first end and a second end, where the first end is coupled to the at least one electrical component. The luminaire can also include a switch coupled to the electrical cable, where the switch is disposed remotely from the housing, where the switch has multiple positions, wherein each position of the switch corresponds to a discrete lumen output emitted by one or more light sources of the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: John Edward Bowen, Raymond Janik