Plural Load Devices Patents (Class 315/152)
  • Patent number: 11930579
    Abstract: Disclosed is a performance directing system that simultaneously controls cheering lighting devices of audiences by linking a performance hall and a remote place. According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, it is possible to identically implement and provide performance directing effects on audience seats of a performance hall to audiences at a remote place. Accordingly, audiences at the remote place may have the same experience as watching a performance at an actual performance site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Ji Sun Choi
  • Patent number: 11874399
    Abstract: Disclosed is a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensor which is capable of minimizing the size of a LIDAR sensor which is capable of performing 3D scanning and setting a region of interest for obtaining point cloud data with the removal of light scattering, by separating a transmitter module and a receiver module; disposing a transmitter, a mirror, and a receiver in a specific space so that light emitted from a light source or light reflected from a transmission mirror is reflected from a first reflection region of a moving mirror and is then moved to a target object, after which light reflected from the target object is reflected from a second reflection region of the moving mirror and is moved to the transmission mirror or a photodiode; installing a blocking wall separating movement paths of light; and adjusting the range of movement of the moving mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: YUJIN ROBOT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Chul Shin, Seong Ju Park, Jae Young Lee, Moo Woong Cheon, Man Yeol Kim
  • Patent number: 11866174
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing an occupant tracking lighting system including a first light, a second light and a third light within an aircraft cabin including detecting, by a sensor, a location and a velocity of a moving occupant, generating, by a processor, a control signal to illuminate the first light and the second light in response to determining that the location is proximate to the first location and that the velocity being towards the second location, and illuminating, by a controller, the first light and the second light in response to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Josh Tatum, Stephen Spencer, Matthew Wallace, Kristin Medin
  • Patent number: 11776260
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes an illumination indicator, a thermal grid array sensor, and an electronic controller. The thermal grid array sensor is configured to sense an outside region, an entryway region, and an inside region associated with a facility subsystem. The electronic controller is configured to determine the current availability status as unavailable responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting a heat signature in the outside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the inside region. The electronic controller is also configured to determine the current availability status as available responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting the heat signature in the inside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the outside region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: WHIFFAWAY LTD, ZURN INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Feil, Anthony G. Wilcox, Arindam Chakraborty, Glen Trickle, James McLean, Sebastian Marshall, Paul Johnston
  • Patent number: 11777199
    Abstract: A light fixture includes a housing containing a light engine, and a wireless baffle module. The wireless baffle module includes a baffle coupled to the housing and used for focusing light emitted from the light engine. The wireless baffle module further includes a wireless printed circuit board assembly coupled to an antenna. The wireless printed circuit board assembly receives and processes wireless signals from the antenna, and sends control signals to the light engine based on the wireless signals. The wireless baffle module may be coupled to a lighting system with an existing non-wireless module, or be used to replace a wireless baffle module with the same or different wireless protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Bani Hani, Yan Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11770888
    Abstract: Alight system used in an ambient environment is provided. The light system comprises an emitting device and a controller coupled to the emitting device. The emitting device is configured to provide a light impinging on a subject in the ambient environment. The controller is configured to control the emitting device. The light provided by the emitting device has at least 30% green light. A line extending from the emitting device to the subject and a plane at eye level of the subject in the ambient environment forms an angle of about 45 degrees. The light has a horizontal illuminance of about 2200 lux to about 2800 lux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Yiing-Mei Liou
  • Patent number: 11769380
    Abstract: A luminaire whose primary operation is to provide ambient or focused lighting in a hazardous environment is further configured to communicate, within the hazardous environment, alert and/or detected events or conditions via visual sequences. Different visual sequences uniquely identify respective alerts and/or detected conditions, which may include conditions occurring at the luminaire and/or conditions occurring within the hazardous environment. Different visual sequences are defined by respective blink sequences stored in a blink sequence library at the luminaire. Blink sequences are configurable, are distinguished by different amplitudes, frequencies, duty cycles, and other energization/de-energization waveform characteristics, and are applied to one or more illumination sources of the luminaire to thereby generate corresponding visual sequences in the hazardous environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: APPLETON GRP LLC
    Inventor: Ravindra Viraj Gurjar
  • Patent number: 11747004
    Abstract: An apparatus including a display surface for presenting an image of a user; a light emitting portion for using light to convey semantic information to the user; a sensor for measuring the position of the user relative to the light emitting portion; and a control unit to control the light emitting portion based on the measured position of the user relative to the light emitting portion so as to minimize an effect of the light conveying the semantic information provided by the light emitting portion on the presented image of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Vincentius Paulus Buil, Frederik Jan De Bruijn, Daniel Willem Elisabeth Schobben
  • Patent number: 11707595
    Abstract: This disclosure pertains to a system configured to control light exposure for circadian phase management and/or light deficient disorders of a subject. The system comprises a user interface, physiological sensors configured to generate output signals conveying physiological data of the subject, and a light control valve configured to block or reduce blue light ambient radiation reaching eyes of the subject. Processors are in communication with the user interface, the physiological sensors, the light control valve, and radiation generators. The processors cause the system to receive physiological goals of the subject, determine a light control plan based on the physiological goals, the physiological data, environmental data, and time data. The system operates the light control valve to block or reduce blue light ambient radiation based on the light control plan, and generate, using the one or more radiation generators, therapeutic light radiation based on the light control plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Michael Edward Colbaugh, Mark Anthony Bartolomeo, Stefanida Kononov Blake, Surya Subrahmanya Sreeram Vissapragada Venkata Satya, Andreas Ralph Maihoefer, Xia Chen, Boomika Kalyan
  • Patent number: 11710956
    Abstract: A lighting system including a light source and a controller having an electronic processor and memory. The controller is configured to compare an operational characteristic of the light to a predetermined operational characteristic, and output a signal based on the comparison of the operational characteristic of the light to the predetermined operational characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: HLI SOLUTIONS, INC
    Inventor: Christopher Lane Bailey
  • Patent number: 11690149
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for a dimmer device including a driver, and a controller communicatively coupled to the driver and to a monitor device. The monitor device can include a camera and is configured to take a plurality of images of the illumination load. The controller provides a control signal that indicates to the driver to adjust power supplied to an illumination load. The control signal is provided in response to a determination that a performance of the illumination load fails to satisfy a predetermined performance indicator. The performance of the illumination load is determined based on information related to the plurality of images of the illumination load taken by the camera of the monitor device. The controller can adjust a dimming level of the illumination load by providing the control signal to the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventor: Gregory Mack Garner
  • Patent number: 11686444
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting assembly for providing electrically configured light distributions and illumination patterns. The light distributions can be pre-configured and stored in a memory device or adjusted once installed in an environment by use of a wired or wireless controller or control device. The lighting assembly comprises at least one primary transmissive optical element and multiple light sources arranged in two or more independently addressed electrical channels spatially arranged on a common plane of the lighting assembly housing. Each light source channel is both physically separated and electrically adjustable in order to control light input into the optical element and subsequently adjust the light distribution output of the lighting assembly. The lighting assembly can be used to provide a wide range of symmetric and asymmetric lighting distributions for direct or indirect lighting as well as focusing or defocusing a projected beam in a spotlight or downlight configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Fusion Optix, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence Yeo, John Montminy, Lee Mantha, Michael Demas, Timothy Kelly
  • Patent number: 11690153
    Abstract: A lighting system including one or more light assemblies, each light assembly having a light-producing subassembly with one or more light sources for emitting light upon energization thereof, one or more sensors for sensing a preselected event, and a control subassembly, to control energization of the light source upon the sensor(s) sensing the preselected event. The light assembly also includes an internal communications subassembly, for effecting communications between the sensor and the control subassembly. The lighting system includes a command center, for providing commands to the control subassembly via the internal communications subassembly, and an external communications subassembly, for communicating the commands to the internal communications subassembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: BLUE MARBLE ENTERPRISES LTD.
    Inventor: John Johnston
  • Patent number: 11639784
    Abstract: A lighting device, a lighting attachment device, and a method of manufacturing a lighting cover having a film coated with an optical-scattering agent are provided. The lighting device includes: a lighting unit having a lighting cover, the lighting cover having an adjustable degree of optical scattering; and a control unit configured to adjust the lighting cover to an appropriate degree of optical scattering according to the growth state of a cultivation subject. The method for manufacturing a lighting cover includes: partitioning a lighting cover of a synthetic resin material into a plurality of scattering zones; and coating an optical-scattering agent on the lighting cover such that each of the scattering zones has a different degree of optical scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Inventors: Choa Mun Yun, Wonjoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11624650
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system for filtering signal interference from sensors signals includes a header comprising a frame and a powered component supported relative to the frame, and a sensor configured to detect electromagnetic waves indicative of a parameter associated with the header. In addition, the system includes an electronic control unit operably connected to the sensor such that the electronic control unit is configured to receive signals from the sensor associated with the detection of the electromagnetic waves. The electronic control unit is further configured to filter interference from the signals deriving from motion of the powered component relative to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Cory Douglas Hunt, Bart M. A. Missotten, Jethro Martin
  • Patent number: 11576243
    Abstract: A light emitting system comprises an angularly varying light emitting device (AVLED) operable to individually adjust light flux output from the one or more light sources into different angular bins in the environment and a light sensor positioned to receive light from the environment. The AVLED emits light flux into different angular bins in the environment, the at least one light sensor provides first information related to light from the light flux from each of the different angular bins reflected from the environment in one or more spatial zones, and the AVLED adjusts the light flux output in at least one angular bin based at least in part on analysis of the first information received by the light sensor and a target light property for the one or more spatial zones. The target light property may be luminance, irradiance, or illuminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventor: Zane Coleman
  • Patent number: 11558942
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are transconductance circuits, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, a transconductance circuit may include an amplifier having a first input coupled to a voltage input of the transconductance circuit, and a switch coupled between an output of the amplifier and a second input of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Ye Lu, Jinhua Ni
  • Patent number: 11546651
    Abstract: A system clock reference is transmitted to user devices over a short range communication channel and used to calculated a clock offset. The clock offset is stored together with a user identifier in a server memory, from which the clock offset can be retrieved when receiving the user identifier together with a video stream of video frames tagged with respective timestamps. The timestamps are converted into capture times according to a system clock using the retrieved clock offsets. Video streams from multiple user devices thereby have video frames timestamped using a same clock reference and can be time aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Miljenko Opsenica, Le Wang
  • Patent number: 11503695
    Abstract: Disclosed are a light fixture control system and an illumination system. The light fixture control system includes a control box (100) and at least one wireless switch (200), and the wireless switch (200) is wirelessly and communicatively connected to the control box (100); an output end of the control box (100) is connected to an LED lamp, the control box (100) includes a main controller (110), a code matching control circuit (140), a first wireless communication circuit (130) and a multiple-independent-output control interface circuit (150), the main controller (110) is connected to the code matching control circuit (150) and the first wireless communication circuit (130), respectively and an output end of the main controller (110) is connected to the multiple-independent-output control interface circuit (150); output ends of the multiple-independent-output control interface circuit (150) are connected to a plurality of LED lamps in a one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN STEP ELECTRONIC AND LIGHTING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xinyuan Qu, Yongjun Wei
  • Patent number: 11452183
    Abstract: A wearable wireless device may be configured for control of a parameter of a load control device. The load control device may be responsive to a network device, for example, to provide fine tune adjustment of the parameter. The wearable wireless device may include a touch-responsive visual display for displaying feedback of the parameter of the load control device. The visual display may be configured to be actuated to receive a user input to adjust the parameter of the load control device. An actuation of the visual display of the wearable wireless device may adjust the parameter by a greater percentage than the fine tune adjustment provided by the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Lautron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin F. Bard, Erica L. Clymer, Jason C. Killo, Jeremy B. Kleinberg
  • Patent number: 11445589
    Abstract: A method (400) for analyzing output of lighting units (10) in a lighting system (100) includes the steps of: (i) simulating (430), based on data from a photometric database (310), the output of a lighting unit; (ii) receiving and storing (420), from a database (330) of historical information, historical observed data about the output of the lighting unit; (iii) receiving (450) observed data (36) about the output of the lighting unit; (iv) generating (440) a model of the lighting system based at least in part on the simulated output of the lighting unit and the historical observed data about the output of the lighting unit, wherein the model comprises localization information for the lighting unit; and (v) comparing (470) the received observed data about the output of the lighting unit to the generated model, wherein a fault is detected if the observed data varies from the generated model by a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Yuting Zhang, Dong Han, Sirisha Rangavajhala, Talmai Brandão De Oliveira
  • Patent number: 11388863
    Abstract: An indoor gardening appliance includes a liner defining a grow chamber and a grow module mounted within the grow chamber for receiving a plurality of plant pods. A lighting assembly is positioned within the grow chamber and includes a plurality of lights that are independent movable and adjustable. A controller detects an abnormal growth condition, e.g., a plant growing in a single direction, the presence and location of bare or void regions within a particular plant, growth toward a pinch point, and other growth abnormalities. The lighting assembly may be adjusted to correct the abnormal grow condition, e.g., by modifying an illumination schedule, an illumination direction, an intensity, a wavelength, or another parameter of the generated light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Hunter, Michael Goodman Schroeder, Stephanos Kyriacou
  • Patent number: 11363688
    Abstract: Lighting systems and methods implementing toggle control are provided. In one example implementation, a lighting system can include a first LED array having one or more LED devices and a second LED array having one or more LED devices. The system can further include a single throw circuit interrupter configured to receive power from a power source. The system can further include a power conversion circuit configured to convert an input power received via the toggle switch to a power output for the first LED array and the second LED array. The power conversion circuit can be configured to control a power distribution ratio between the first LED array and the second LED array based at least in part on a detected toggle input (e.g., a toggle pattern) implemented using the single throw circuit interrupter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Hubbell Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Pritam Yadav, T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Douglas M. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11320116
    Abstract: An integrated light emitting diode (LED) device includes an LED light source coupled to a base. The device also includes a controller coupled to a bottom portion of the base. The device also includes a switch coupled to the controller, the switch toggling the controller. The device also includes a controller box comprising an aperture coupled to the base, the controller box encasing the controller and a portion of the switch, an actuator of the switch extending through the aperture. The device also includes an electrical coupler coupled to a recess of the controller box. The device also includes a lens holder coupled to a top portion of the base. The device also includes a lens coupled to the lens holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventor: David Da Liu
  • Patent number: 11310892
    Abstract: The described implementations provided herein relate to systems, methods, and apparatuses for using a network of luminaires to perform distributed computation of sensor data to identify hardware and network anomalies. In some implementations, a method is set forth as including operations such as receiving, from a first luminaire (114, 128, 216), first sensor data (122, 124) in response to a stimulus (204) affecting a network of luminaires (110), and receiving, from a second luminaire (208) in the network of luminaires, second sensor data. The method can also include determining a correlation between the first sensor data and the second sensor data, and modifying a luminaire spatial-temporal model (222) based at least partially on the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Olaitan Philip Olaleye, Tamir Hegazy, Abhishek Murthy
  • Patent number: 11291098
    Abstract: A lighting system has at least one luminaire (1) for illuminating a thoroughfare (10). At least one sensor (11,12,13) detects that a fallen object (30) may be at least partially blocking said thoroughfare (10). A traffic flow monitor (11,12,13) monitors traffic flow along said thoroughfare (10). The light output by the luminaire (1) is controlled to be of a first pattern in accordance with a determination that a fallen object (30) is at least partially blocking said thoroughfare (10). The light output by the luminaire (1) is controlled to be of a second pattern in accordance with the traffic flow monitor (11,12,13) determining that traffic is flowing along said thoroughfare (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Judith Hendrika Maria De Vries, Dennis Van De Meulenhof, Ralf Gertruda Hubertus Voncken, Dominika Lekse, Tom Verhoeven, Alexandre Georgievich Sinitsyn
  • Patent number: 11284497
    Abstract: A method of automatically programming a new load control device that replaces an old load control device takes advantage of a remote identification tag (e.g., an RFID tag) located in the vicinity of the old device. The remote identification tag stores an identifier that is representative of a location in which the old device is installed. The method includes the steps of: (1) storing a setting of an old device in a memory of a controller; (2) associating the setting with the identifier of the old device in the memory of the controller; (3) the new device retrieving the identifier from the remote identification tag after the new device is installed in the location of the old device; (4) the new device transmitting the identifier to the controller; and (5) the controller transmitting the setting of the old device to the new device in response to receiving the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: Dragan Veskovic
  • Patent number: 11272598
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are transconductance circuits, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, a transconductance circuit may include an amplifier having a first input coupled to a voltage input of the transconductance circuit, and a switch coupled between an output of the amplifier and a second input of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Ye Lu, Jinhua Ni
  • Patent number: 11266081
    Abstract: A distributed sensor grid may be used to monitor the growth conditions of plants in an agricultural environment. In one example, a distributed sensor grid may include sensors that are arranged as a grid defined by a vertical axis and a first horizontal axis. The sensors may each be coupled to a cable and/or a port that provides operating power and/or network communications access. In some implementations, a plurality of lighting fixtures disposed in the agricultural environment may be configured to provide the power and network communications access to one or more sensors, thus alleviating use of excess cabling for connectivity and simplifying installation. The sensors may be correspondingly disposed within the vicinity of respective lighting fixtures to monitor growth conditions for a portion of the agricultural environment. The sensors used may also be packaged as an integrated sensor assembly, further simplifying installation and deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Agnetix, Inc.
    Inventors: Ihor Lys, Nicholas Maderas
  • Patent number: 11258511
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a system and method for operating at least one LED unit of lighting grid comprising a plurality of LED units, wherein the LED units are configured to transmit a VLC signal including a code word. A plurality of user equipment devices captures the light transmitted by the LED unit and determines parameters related to the light, such as a VLC quality parameter, flicker value, light intensity parameter and light colour parameter. Based on these parameters, a controller determines control parameters for the LED unit. As such, a feedback loop is created wherein the LED unit is controlled based on measurements with the user equipment devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: eldoLAB Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Marc Saes, Andy Johanna Elisabeth Otten
  • Patent number: 11259373
    Abstract: A streetlight asset module (SAM) is provided including at least one memory block configured to store operating configuration settings of a streetlight associated with the SAM. The SAM is configured to communicate the operating configuration settings of the streetlight to a control and monitoring system (CMS) node coupled to the streetlight. The CMS node is configured to communicate the operating configuration settings to a remote location using a radio communications network. Related streetlights and systems are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SELC IRELAND LTD.
    Inventors: William John Kerrigan, Francis Joseph Magee, John Martin Power
  • Patent number: 11234314
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device, which is controlled in order to light at least one scene (151-158) in an area (150) with a first light characteristic. Measurement data is received, which is indicative of the behavior of a flow of people (180) in the area (150) during the lighting of the at least one scene (151-158) with the first light characteristic. Then a second light characteristic is determined on the basis of the measurement data. The lighting device is controlled in order to light the at least one scene (151-158) with the second light characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Zumtobel Lighting GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Siegel, Nikolaus Ess, Stefan Von Terzi, Herbert Pamminger
  • Patent number: 11234304
    Abstract: A photocontrol circuit includes a set of light level detection circuitry which is powered by a 0 to 10V dimming input. In response to a determination that light sensed in ambient environment is at or below the light level threshold, the light level detection circuitry switches a 0 to 10V dimming input line to approximately 10V, controlling a luminaire to emit maximum light. In response to a determination that light sensed in ambient environment is above the light level threshold, the light level detection circuitry switches the 0 to 10V dimming input line to less than approximately 1 Volt, thereby controlling the luminaire to emit minimum or no light. The photocontrols embodiments described herein advantageously employ the 0 to 10V dimming line as the luminaire control line, and photocontrol power source, unlike previous photocontrols which typically switch the power input to the luminaire. The photocontrol circuit may be housed in a photocontrol module comprising a base and a cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Express Imaging Systems, LLC
    Inventor: William G. Reed
  • Patent number: 11213693
    Abstract: A light source for eye therapy configured to emit light having a wavelength range from about 380 nm to about 780 nm, and has a spectrum area that overlaps at least about 55% of an area of a normalized solar spectrum, in which a peak wavelength of light has a deviation equal to or less than about 0.14 from the normalized solar spectrum in a wavelength range from about 380 nm to about 490 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: A Young Lee, Yeong Min Yoon
  • Patent number: 11153953
    Abstract: Adjustment of a surgical light is provided to optimize viewing an object. First, a distance between the surgical light and the object being viewed can be measured and the light output from the surgical light can be adjusted depending on the distance. Second, the surgical light can be moved to optimize the direction of light emitted from the surgical light according to the position of light from visible locating light sources. Third, the light emitted from a pair of light assemblies can be adjusted to ensure that the intensity of the light at an area of overlap of the light assemblies stays below a predetermined level to help prevent eye fatigue and dehydration and excessive radiation of a wound at the area of overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: James K. Alexanderson, Wojciech K. Timoszyk, Dustin R. Campbell, Andrew Schultz
  • Patent number: 11129258
    Abstract: The sensing type lamp fixture executes an initialization procedure to calculate an ambient brightness value to determine whether entering the nighttime and to generate a nighttime-entering command. The sensing type lamp fixture will light up and start timing a nighttime value and automatically adjust the brightness at various adjustment times during the night. The sensing type lamp fixture will continuously detect the ambient brightness to determine whether it has entered the daytime. If not, the nighttime value will continue to be timed until entering the daytime. Then the lamp fixture will be off and stop timing the nighttime value and generate a midnight time of the next night. The sensing type lamp fixture calculates the brightness adjustment times of the next night according to the midnight time, and automatically adjusts the light-on time of the sensing type lamp fixture and automatically adjusts the brightness to save power and energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: IR-TEC International Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen-I Huang
  • Patent number: 11129249
    Abstract: A method of controlling a lighting system comprising one or more illumination sources each controllable to emit respective illumination for illuminating an environment, the method comprising: causing a user interface of a user device to output an indication of one or more past lighting events associated with a set of the one or more illumination sources, wherein the indication comprises: one or more attributes of the illumination associated with a respective lighting event from the one or more past lighting events, and a trigger which led to the respective lighting event from the one or more past lighting events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Walter Jeroen Slegers, Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Remco Magielse, Leendert Teunis Rozendaal
  • Patent number: 11107408
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes: a light emitting element including an anode and a cathode; a first switching circuit; a driving circuit and a second switching circuit. The driving circuit includes: a first transistor, of which a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal are electrically connected to the first switching circuit, a first voltage terminal, and the anode respectively; and a capacitor, of which a first terminal and a second terminal are electrically connected to the first voltage terminal and the first switching circuit respectively. The second switching circuit is configured to stabilize a potential of the data line at a first fixed potential that makes the light emitting element emit light and a second fixed potential that makes the first transistor be turned off respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xinshe Yin
  • Patent number: 11102870
    Abstract: A lighting device with physiological dimming and a dimming method for the same are provided. The lighting device includes a lighting unit with lighting modules, a light sensor, and a control circuit. According to a first illumination requirement and a light sensing value of the light sensor, the control circuit controls the lighting unit to output a first illumination light source that meets a first predetermined illuminance in a first time slot. According to a second illumination requirement and the light sensing value, the control circuit controls the lighting unit to output a second illumination light source that meets a second predetermined illuminance in a second time slot. According to the first and the second illumination requirements, the control circuit dynamically controls lighting from any one or a combination of the lighting modules, such that the lighting unit generates correspondingly the first and the second illumination light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: LRU TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Lu-Sung Yeh
  • Patent number: 11083069
    Abstract: A microphone picks up a speech and outputs a speech signal. A lighting control unit recognizes the speech by performing speech recognition on the speech signal, thereby generating command data corresponding to the speech recognized. The lighting control unit controls a light fixture based on the command data. A state decision unit makes a state decision of the light fixture. A condition setting unit sets, depending on the state decision made by the state decision unit, a condition for a speech recognition unit to perform the speech recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Hanazono, Katsuhiko Kimura, Ryuji Natsume, Minoru Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11074856
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a display device, the display panel makes a circuit structure of a first pixel driving circuit driving a first display pixel of a display transparent area to emit light different from a circuit structure of a second pixel driving circuit driving a second display pixel of a main display area to emit light, thereby reducing an area of a function add-on area occupied by the first pixel driving circuit, increasing an area of the display transparent area, improving light transmittance of the display transparent area, and improving photographing effect of under screen camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Zhao, Zuomin Liao, Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 11064585
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems for generating tunable white light. The systems include a plurality of LED strings that generate light with color points that fall within blue, yellow/green, red, and cyan color ranges, with each LED string being driven with a separately controllable drive current in order to tune the generated light output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: EcoSense Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Paul Kenneth Pickard
  • Patent number: 11029013
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure provide an assembled lamp and a lighting system. A first conductive terminal is disposed on at least one of side walls of a lamp in the assembled lamp, a row hole of a second conduction terminal is disposed on other side walls, a power supply bus, a light source device and a processor connected with the power supply bus, and a communication bus connected with the processor are arranged inside the lamp, and each of the power supply bus and the communication bus is connected with the first conductive terminal and the second conductive terminal, while the first conductive terminal and the second conductive terminal in the row hole are in inserted connection, mechanical connection, electrical connection and communication connection between any two lamps are implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenghua Zhang, Jun Wu
  • Patent number: 11026317
    Abstract: The invention provides a light management information system for an outdoor lighting network system, having a plurality of outdoor light units each including at least one sensor type, where each of the light units communicates with at least one other light unit, at least one user input/output device in communication with at one or more of said outdoor light units, a central management system in communication with light units, said central management system sends control commands and/or information to one or more of said outdoor light units, in response to received outdoor light unit status/sensor information from one or more of said outdoor light units or received user information requests from said user input/output device, a resource server in communication with said central management system, wherein the central management system uses the light unit status/sensor information and resources from the resource server to provide information to the user input/output device and/or reconfigure one or more of the l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Hongxin Chen, Dave Alberto Tavares Cavalcanti, Marcin Gramza, Liang Jia, Qing Li, Daniel J. Piotrowski, Marek Zbigniew Szczerba, Marcin Krzysztof Szczodrak, Qin Zhao, Hongqiang Zhai, Michael Alex Van Hartskamp, Martin Elixmann, Zhong Huang, Fulong Ma, Xianneng Peng, Jianfeng Wang, Yi Qiang Yu, Kiran Srinivas Challapali
  • Patent number: 11019709
    Abstract: A visible light sensor may be configured to sense environmental characteristics of a space using an image of the space. The visible light sensor may be controlled in one or more modes, including a daylight glare sensor mode, a daylighting sensor mode, a color sensor mode, and/or an occupancy/vacancy sensor mode. In the daylight glare sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to decrease or eliminate glare within a space. In the daylighting sensor mode and the color sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to provide a preferred amount of light and color temperature, respectively, within the space. In the occupancy/vacancy sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to detect an occupancy/vacancy condition within the space and adjust one or more control devices according to the occupation or vacancy of the space. The visible light sensor may be configured to protect the privacy of users within the space via software, a removable module, and/or a special sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Craig Alan Casey, Brent Protzman, James P. Steiner
  • Patent number: 10980099
    Abstract: A wearable wireless device may be configured for control of a parameter of a load control device. The load control device may be responsive to a network device, for example, to provide fine tune adjustment of the parameter. The wearable wireless device may include a touch-responsive visual display for displaying feedback of the parameter of the load control device. The visual display may be configured to be actuated to receive a user input to adjust the parameter of the load control device. An actuation of the visual display of the wearable wireless device may adjust the parameter by a greater percentage than the fine tune adjustment provided by the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin F. Bard, Erica L. Clymer, Jason C. Killo, Jeremy B. Kleinberg
  • Patent number: 10969088
    Abstract: LED related lighting methods and apparatus are described. Various features relate to water tight light fixtures. Some of the fixtures are spotlights while other fixture are intended for in ground use. The light fixtures in at least some embodiments include power control features. In spotlight embodiments beam angle and power or light output can be controlled without opening the light assembly or compromising the water tight seals which also protect against dirt. In ground embodiments support tilt angle setting which allow a user to set the light fixture to one or more tilt angles. Beam angle can also be changed in some embodiments as well as power control. Beam angle, power control and tilt angle adjustments are supported in some embodiments but need not be supported in all embodiments with some embodiments using one or more of the described features but not all features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Wangs Alliance Corporation
    Inventors: Basar Erdener, Voravit Puvanakijjakorn
  • Patent number: 10966305
    Abstract: A light fixture disposed in an ambient environment. The light fixture can include at least one light source, and a sensor module that measures a parameter, where the parameter is used to operate the at least one light source. The light fixture can also include an antenna assembly coupled to the sensor module, where at least a portion of the antenna assembly is disposed on an exposed component, where the exposed component has a substantially unobstructed line of sight with the ambient environment, where the antenna assembly is used to measure the parameter in the ambient environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: John Trublowski, Sridhar Reddy Nimma, Matthew Alan Davis
  • Patent number: 10950187
    Abstract: A method is suggested for sensing light being incident on an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a display and a light sensor arrangement mounted behind the display such as to receive incident light through the display. The method comprises periodically switching the display on and off depending on a control signal, wherein a period is defined by a succession of an on-state and an off-state of the display. A sensor signal is generated by integrating the incident light by means of the light sensor arrangement for a total integration time comprising a number of periods. A first signal count is determined from the sensor signal being indicative of an amount of integrated incident light during an on-state. A second signal count is determined from the sensor signal being indicative of an amount of integrated incident light during an off-state. A third signal count is determined from the sensor signal being indicative of an amount of integrated incident light during the total integration time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: AMS AG
    Inventors: Josef Kriebernegg, Bernhard Greimel-Rechling, Herbert Lenhard, Peter Bliem, Joachim Lechner, Christian Halper, Manuel Hoerbinger
  • Patent number: 10920971
    Abstract: LED related lighting methods and apparatus are described. Various features relate to water tight light fixtures. Some of the fixtures are spotlights while other fixture are intended for in ground use. The light fixtures in at least some embodiments include power control features. In spotlight embodiments beam angle and power or light output can be controlled without opening the light assembly or compromising the water tight seals which also protect against dirt. In ground embodiments support tilt angle setting which allow a user to set the light fixture to one or more tilt angles. Beam angle can also be changed in some embodiments as well as power control. Beam angle, power control and tilt angle adjustments are supported in some embodiments but need not be supported in all embodiments with some embodiments using one or more of the described features but not all features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Wangs Alliance Corporation
    Inventors: Basar Erdener, Voravit Puvanakijjakorn