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7615939 Spectrally calibratable multi-element RGB LED light source  
An LED lighting system is disclosed. The lighting system includes means to calibrate the light temperature and intensity between multiple modules in one system, or to calibrate the light...
7614771 Wireless controlled light emitting assembly  
A light emitting assembly and a system utilizing a plurality of light emitting assemblies having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged and disposed within a sub-assembly. The assembly...
7609006 LED light string with split bridge rectifier and thermistor fuse  
A string of lights has an electrical plug at one end and a receptacle at the other end and plural light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in series with a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor....
7605809 Driver and method for driving a semiconductor light emitting device array  
A driver and method for driving a semiconductor light emitting device array is provided. The driver includes at least one current regulator unit having a plurality of controllable switches to...
7605550 Controlled bleeder for power supply  
An LED backlighting system including: a control circuit; a power source; at least one LED string associated with the power source, the at least one LED string being arranged to be switchably...
7605547 Addressable LED architecture  
The present disclosure provides an addressable light emitting diodes (LED) architecture that is able to control a plurality of LEDs individually. The present disclosure further provides a method of...
7605544 Current balancing circuit  
A current balancing circuit for first and second lamp sets includes a step-up transformer and a current balancer. The step-up transformer is adapted to be coupled to a power supply for receiving an...
7598859 Method and system for controlling lighting  
A method and system for controlling lighting in a space reduces energy consumption of the light sources by changing at least one of the color rendering index (CRI) and the correlated color...
7598686 Organic light emitting diode methods and apparatus  
Organic light emitting diode (OLED) methods and apparatus in which at least one first OLED generates first radiation having a first spectrum, and at least one second OLED generates second radiation...
7598685 Off line LED driver with integrated synthesized digital optical feedback  
The present invention creates an LED driver in which all feedback signals are derived from a power stage media, and presents an isolated off-line LED driver with an accurate primary side controller...
7598683 Control of light intensity using pulses of a fixed duration and frequency  
A method and circuit to control the intensity of lights, illumination fixtures, and displays using pulses of a fixed duration and a fixed frequency (FD/FF) is provided. In particular, the method...
7598681 Methods and apparatus for controlling devices in a networked lighting system  
Disclosed are various methods and apparatus for controlling illumination sources in a networked lighting system. For example, disclosed is an integrated circuit to control at least one illumination...
7598679 Integrated circuit capable of synchronization signal detection  
A method according to one embodiment may include providing power to at least one light source. The method of this embodiment may also include detecting the frequency of at least one vertical...
7595786 Illumination system and illumination control method for adaptively adjusting color temperature  
This invention discloses an illumination method and an illumination control method. An embodiment of the illumination system includes two light detection modules for detecting a light produced by a...
7593241 Hybrid power supply system  
A hybrid power supply system including piezoelectric and ferrite transformers for driving a discharge lamp is provided. Specifically, the hybrid power supply system includes a rectifier/filter, a...
7592756 Driving circuit for light emitting diodes  
A driving circuit includes a DC-to-DC voltage converter, a current source, a detector and a feedback control circuit. The DC-to-DC voltage converter has a switch and generates a driving voltage on...
7592753 Inductively-powered gas discharge lamp circuit  
An inductively powered gas discharge lamp assembly having a secondary circuit with starter circuitry that provides pre-heating when power is supplied to the secondary circuit at a pre-heat...
7589478 Inverter circuit for discharge lamps for multi-lamp lighting and surface light source system  
An inverter circuit for discharge lamps for multi-lamp lighting in which the value of a negative resistance characteristic of a fluorescent lamp is controlled, and an excessively set reactance is...
7586273 Method and apparatus for achieving perceived light mixing via alternating different colored LEDS  
A method and apparatus for achieving perceived light mixing via alternating colored light emitting diodes (LEDs) is disclosed. For example, a control signal to produce a requested color output is...
7586271 Efficient lighting  
A light source includes a plurality of lighting elements arranged to illuminate different regions of visual perception. Circuitry coupled to the light source is configured to supply power to a...
7586268 Apparatus and method for controlling the filament voltage in an electronic dimming ballast  
An electronic dimming ballast comprises a filament turn-off circuit for controlling the magnitudes of filament voltages supplied to the filaments of a gas discharge lamp. Each of a plurality of...
7583035 System and method for driving LED  
A system drives one or plurality of LEDs regulating their brightness by controlling LEDs average current or voltage. The system includes a switching power converter and an integrated digital...
7579790 Multiple gas discharge lamp interleave trigger circuit  
Embodiments are disclosed for apparatus and methods for increasing the reliability of the flash discharge response in pulsed gas discharge lamps. One embodiment includes a system comprising two gas...
7579786 Method, apparatus, and system for driving LED's  
A method and apparatus for driving LED's is disclosed, comprising the steps of receiving a desired intensity value, wherein the desired intensity value represents the desired intensity for the...
7573210 Method and system for feedback and control of a luminaire  
A method and system for controlling the chromaticity and luminous flux output of a digitally controlled luminaire. The luminaire includes one or more light-emitting elements and one or more light...
7571063 Lighting performance power monitoring system and method with optional integrated light control  
A light performance monitoring device and optionally integrated controller includes a monitor module that directly monitors energy usage of at least one energy load to generate at least one...
7564201 Intelligent gas discharge lamp control circuit  
An electronic control circuit for intelligently controlling a gas discharge lamp associated with an HVAC system. The circuit includes a microcontroller having a memory containing instructions...
7564193 DC-AC converter having phase-modulated, double-ended, full-bridge topology for powering high voltage load such as cold cathode fluorescent lamp  
A phase-modulated, double-ended, full-bridge topology-based DC-AC converter supplies AC power to a load, such as a cold cathode fluorescent lamp used to back-light a liquid crystal display. First...
7560880 Control device for work lamp  
A control device for work lamp includes a microprocessor, which is able to receive signals sent from a power supply unit and a switch. The microprocessor is able to determine the number of times...
7560876 Light device and control method thereof  
Provided is a light device. The light device according to one embodiment comprises a backlight unit, a plurality of color sensors, a backlight unit driver, and a backlight unit controller. The...
7557524 Lighting device  
An LED lighting device is provided which is capable of being connected to a network and being controlled by a host computer also connected to the network. The lighting device has several lifespan...
7557521 LED power control methods and apparatus  
Methods and apparatus for providing and controlling power to loads including one or more LEDs. In one example, a controlled predetermined power is provided to a load without requiring any feedback...
7554273 Protection for external electrode fluorescent lamp system  
The present invention provides a driving circuit with protection function for driving a set of external electrode fluorescent lamps (EEFL). The drive circuit includes: a transformer connected to...
7551153 Combined exponential/linear RGB LED I-sink digital-to-analog converter  
Methods and systems to achieve linear and exponential control over a current to drive color LEDs have been achieved. Current digital-to-analog converters (IDAC) comprising each an exponential...
7550935 Methods and apparatus for downloading lighting programs  
Methods and apparatus for downloading one or more lighting programs including one or more lighting effects. The lighting program(s) may be downloaded from a web site to one or more LED-based...
7550934 LED driver with fast open circuit protection, short circuit compensation, and rapid brightness control response  
An LED driver drives one or more strings of series-connected LEDs. A feedback voltage at a sense resistor is detected by an op amp, and the op amp controls the conductivity of a MOSFET in series...
7550931 Controlled lighting methods and apparatus  
Described herein are lighting units of a variety of types and configurations, including linear lighting units suitable for lighting large spaces, such as building exteriors and interiors. Also...
7550929 Power system and method for driving plural lamps  
A power system for driving plural or multiple lamps includes a transformer circuit, a filter and steady-flow circuit, and a light source. The transformer circuit transforms a voltage level of an...
7548150 Method for the allocation of short addresses in illumination systems  
In a method for the allocation of short addresses in illumination systems, whose illumination components (DALI EB, Lp) are controlled via a DALI bus, the short address is determined and allocated...
7547113 Full-color LED-based lighting device  
A LED full-color lighting device contains a control unit, a light source unit, and a light display unit. The control unit relies on at least a potentiometer to apply various voltages to constant...
7545106 Discharge lamp driving device and driving method  
A discharge lamp driving device for driving a lamp module ( 23 ) including a plurality of lamps includes a switch circuit ( 21 ), a transformer and filter circuit ( 22 ), and a microcontroller ( 20...
7541752 Illuminating device and liquid crystal display  
An illuminating device comprises a plurality of light-emitting element groups each including a plurality of series-connected light-emitting elements, a load which is connected in series with one of...
7538497 Constant current driver, back light source and color liquid crystal display  
Disclosed is a constant current driving unit for constant current driving a plural number of series connected light emitting diodes by a pulse-width modulating constant current driving circuit....
7531968 Inverter circuit, backlight and liquid crystal display  
An inverter circuit includes an inverter transformer to supply AC high voltages of opposite phases, and a plurality of balance transformers. The inverter transformer supplies AC high voltages of...
7528556 Light regulation device  
A light regulation device includes at least one light sensor which provides at its output a real brightness value, at least one regulator to which a set brightness value can be supplied, besides...
7528551 LED control system  
In one embodiment, an LED system is controlled to have a substantially unity power factor.
7525258 Current balancing techniques for fluorescent lamps  
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for balancing currents passing through multiple circuit loads and in some cases through fluorescent lamps. Multiple-leg magnetic cores are wound in specific...
7525257 Device for driving light sources  
A driving device for driving a light source module ( 32 ) includes a first power stage circuit ( 30 ) and a first transformer circuit ( 31 ). The first transformer circuit is connected to the first...
7524085 Series wiring of highly reliable light sources  
The light array of this invention includes a number of columns and rows of LED's connected in a series/parallel combination. The series parallel combinations effectively optimize the impedance,...
7521879 Device for driving light emitting diode  
A device for driving a plurality of light emitting diodes includes a plurality of light emitting diode groups in series; a current providing unit for providing a current to the plurality of light...