Lighting

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10327311-B2
Application number	US-201715592591-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 11, 2017
Priority date	Sep 23, 2013
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

Abstract

Enhancements to ornamental or holiday lighting are disclosed including remote control ornamental illumination with color pallet control whereby a user can vary the color/intensity/appearance of an individual bulb or entire light string by selecting the electronic address of the bulb and selecting its attribute. Further disclosures include: motion responsive lights which respond to sensed movement, gesture controlled lights, adjustable white color/white led sets, connectable multi-function lights, controller to sequence lights to music or other input source, rotating projection led light/tree top/table top unit, and remote controlled sequencing icicle lights and ornament lighting system.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system for configuring a display of lights in a lights string comprising:
a. a plurality of color controllable lamps wired into at least one slave string of lights;
b. said slave string having at least one address and is connected to a processor controller for responding to commands sent to said address;
c. a controller connected to said slave string to provide power and address signals said slave string;
d. a device connected to said controller for transmitting said commands to said controller;
e. said device including a camera;
f. a display screen including a display of colors;
g. said camera configured to capture an image, compute a dominate color in a field of view and generate a single color being the dominate color in the field of view and displaying the dominate color on the screen;
h. a sender to transmit color instructions to said address;

so that said slave string will display a color equivalent to the dominate color on said image.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the dominate color is displayed as a point on a color pallet which is then user adjustable to a different color.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the dominate color is a color which fills more of the display screen than any other color.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the dominate color is an average of all colors in the image.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said single color is chromatically complementary to the dominate color from the color sensor.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein said single color is an average of the colors detected by a color sensor; and wherein the processor controller computes an amalgamated color which is transmitting a color scheme to said slave string.

7. The system of claim 1 further including the display screen including a color pallet; and wherein said single color is the dominate color detected by a color sensor, and wherein the dominate color is displayed on said color pallet, so that a user may select a color scheme of choice and transmit said single color to said slave string to the LED lamps.

8. The system of claim 1 further including a display screen including a color pallet; and wherein the dominate color includes a plurality of color zones on the image of select colors indicated on the display screen and wherein a user may select a color scheme of choice and transmit said color scheme of choice to said slave string.

9. A system for configuring a display of lights in a lights string comprising:
a. a plurality of color controllable lamps wired into at least one slave string of lights;
b. said slave string having at least one address and a processor controller for responding to commands sent to said address;
a controller connected to said slave string to provide power and address signals to said slave string;
d. a device wirelessly connected to said controller for transmitting said commands to said controller;
e. said device including a color sensor;
f. a display screen including a color pallet;
g. said color sensor configured to capture an image, compute colors in a field of view and display them as points on said color pallet;
h. in response to user selection of the points on the display screen, a sender to transmit color instructions to said address;
so that said light of said slave string will display the user selected points on the display screen.

10. A system for configuring a display of lights in a lights string comprising:
a. a plurality of lamps wired into at least one slave string of lights;
b. said slave string having at least one address and being a capable of responding to commands sent to that said address;
c. a controller connected to said slave string to provide power and address signals to the slave string;
d. a device connected to said controller for transmitting said commands to said controller;
e. said device including a display screen and running software including:
i. a display including a visual indication said slave string and an indication that lamps are connected;
ii. a touch responsive interface for accessing said displayed slave string;
iii. in response to access of said displayed slave string, displaying at least one color to be assigned to said slave string;
iv. a transmitter for transmitting said color assigned to said slave string from said device to said controller and to said slave string by said address;
v. in response to access of said displayed slave string, displaying a selection of non-color light display characteristics assignable to said slave string;
vi. a transmitter for transmitting said selected non-color light display characteristics from said device to said controller and to said slave string by said address,
vii. wherein the display includes a virtual representation of at least one of said lamps corresponding to lamps on said slave strings and wherein said selected color and non-color light display characteristics are virtually indicated on said display screen before transmission to said controller;

so that when said slave string of lights are illuminated, they will display whatever color and non-color light display characteristics have been transmitted to them from said device.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein said lights string includes a plurality slave light strings each having its own address, and wherein said device polls the slave light strings to determine which slave strings have reachable addresses.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the polled slave light strings appear as representations on said device.

13. The system of claim 10 including a plurality preprogrammed color and non-color characteristics are stored on said device for user selection.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein said device is configured to save a plurality of color matrices and non-color transitional characteristics wherein an user can select from said saved color matrices to be transmitted to said controller.

15. The system according to claim 10 wherein said at least one assigned color is saved to a color matrix display screen capable of saving multiple colors thereon and wherein a color matrix screen includes a non-color transitional characteristic selector which allows user a selectable input to select a non-color characteristic to transition from each indicated on the color matrix display so that when the colors and non-color characteristics are selected and transmitted to the addressed slave strings, they will display a sequence of previously saved colors and non-color transition characteristics between colors.

Assignees

• Seasonal Specialties Llc

Inventors

• Altamura Steven J
• Werner Christine
• Anderson Derek Dean
• Guse Matthew
• Miller Carmen

Classifications

• F21V23/003 Primary

  the elements being electronics drivers or controllers for operating the light source, e.g. for a LED array · CPC title

• H05B47/19

  via wireless transmission · CPC title

• H05B45/20

  Controlling the colour of the light · CPC title

• H05B45/40

  Details of LED load circuits · CPC title

• F21W2121/04

  for Christmas trees · CPC title