Lighting

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9491826-B2
Application number	US-201414493577-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2014
Priority date	Sep 23, 2013
Publication date	Nov 8, 2016
Grant date	Nov 8, 2016

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 color temperature adjustable ornamental lighting system comprising:
a plurality of lamps wired into a string of lamps;
each lamp containing a cool white LED chip and a warm white LED chip near thereto,
each of said LED chips being controllable by an individual electronic address; a processor associated with each address, for controlling the flow of power to said chips;
a remotely controlled device with a display screen;
a touch responsive selector configured to allow user control of each addressed lamp;
a touch responsive control for varying an illumination parameter of one of the LED chips relative to the other, so that the color temperature represented on the display screen can be adjusted to user preference;
a transmission link for transmitting said user preference color temperature to said lamps which are selected;

so that the user can select the color temperature of one or all lamps.

2. The system of claim 1 further including a polling algorithm for detecting the presence of lamps by their address and displaying a representation of said lamps on said screen.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the cool white LED chip and the warm white LED chip are adjacent each other.

4. The system of claim 1 further including a diffuser, and wherein the cool white LED chip and the warm white LED chip are housed within the same diffuser.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the device is wirelessly connected to the LEDs.

6. The system of claim 1 further including an ambient light sensor for measuring ambient light before illumination of the lamps and further matching the illumination of the LED chips to reproduce said ambient color temperature.

7. The system of claim 6 including a further verifying sensor proximate the ambient sensor for comparison of the color temperature of the LED chip output to the ambient color temperature.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the verifying sensor is configured to periodically compare the color temperature of the LED chips with the ambient sensor to maintain matched color temperature between the two.

9. A color temperature adjustable ornamental lighting system comprising:
a plurality of lamps wired in a string of lamps;
each lamp containing a three color RGB LED chip and a white LED chip adjacent thereto,
each of said LED chips being controllable by an individual electronic address; a processor associated with each address, for controlling the flow of power to said LED chips;
a remotely controlled device with a display screen;
a selector configured to allow user control of each addressed lamp;
a control for varying the color balance of the RGB LED chip to achieve a user desired color,
a control for varying the intensity of the white LED chip relative to the RGB LED chip to allow the user to achieve an overall designed color balance and temperature resulting from the mixing of RGB color and white light;
a transmission link for transmitting said user preference color temperature to said lamps which are selected;

so that the user can select the color and temperature of one or all lamps.

10. The system according to claim 9 wherein the white LED is a warm white LED.

11. The system according to claim 9 wherein the white LED is a cool white LED.

12. The system of claim 9 wherein the device is wirelessly connected to the LED chips.

13. The system of claim 9 further including an ambient light sensor for measuring ambient light before illumination of the lamps and further matching the illumination of the LED chips to reproduce said ambient color temperature.

14. The system of claim 13 including a further verifying sensor proximate the ambient sensor for comparison of the color temperature of the LED output to the ambient color temperature.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein the verifying sensor is configured to periodically compare the color temperature of the LED chips with the ambient sensor to maintain matched color temperature between the two.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein the verifying sensor is configured to periodically compare the color temperature of the LED chips with a previously obtaining reading from the ambient sensor to maintain matched color temperature between the two and prevent color drift as the LED chips age.

17. The system of claim 9 wherein each color of the RGB LED chip is addressable and controllable by the device.

Assignees

• Seasonal Specialties Llc

Inventors

• Altamura Steven J
• Werner Christine

Classifications

• H05B45/20

  Controlling the colour of the light · CPC title

• F21S4/10 Primary

  with light sources attached to loose electric cables, e.g. Christmas tree lights · CPC title

• H05B47/155

  Coordinated control of two or more light sources · CPC title

• F21W2121/00

  Use or application of lighting devices or systems for decorative purposes, not provided for in codes F21W2102/00 – F21W2107/00 · CPC title

• H05B47/16

  by timing means · CPC title