IP Library Granted Patent US 10,667,360
Granted Patent B2
US 10,667,360 · App. 16/186,298 · Granted May 26, 2020

Artificial light color mixing process

Inventors: Albert DeMayo (Santa Clarita, CA); Alex Vazquez (Monrovia, CA); Lee Parker (Turlock, CA); Sean Goossen (Sherman Oaks, CA); James David Smith (Raleigh, NC)
H05B45/20H05B45/10
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Patent No.
US 10,667,360
App. No.
16/186,298
Granted
May 26, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems and methods for compensating, controlling, mixing and saturating/desaturating colors produced by or emitted from LED artificial light sources through use of multiple channel, LED controllers to control the proportion of constituent colors each to the other, to control the intensity level of the total light output of the mixed, desaturated light during and after color mixing and/or saturation/desaturation by simultaneously increasing and decreasing power to the constituent color LEDs at the same rate, and once a desired color has been produced, changing the intensity/brightness and/or degree of saturation of the produced color without changing the hue of the produced color.

Claims (20)

1. A process for mixing a first color of LED-sourced light with a second color of LED-sourced light to produce a mixed color of LED-sourced light comprising:

providing the first color of LED-sourced light at a first intensity;

providing the second color of LED-sourced light at a second intensity, the second intensity lower than the first intensity; and,

cross fading the first color of LED-sourced light with the second color of LED-sourced light until a desired mixed color of LED-sourced light is produced at the first intensity.

2. The process of claim 1 further including increasing the intensity of the desired mixed color of LED-sourced light.

3. The process of claim 1 further including decreasing the intensity of the desired mixed color of LED-sourced light.

4. The process of claim 1 wherein the first color of LED-sourced light is a primary color and the second color of LED-sources light is a primary color.

5. The process of claim 1 wherein the first color of LED-sourced light is a mixed color.

6. The process of claim 1 wherein the second color of LED-sourced light is white color of light.

7. The process of claim 6 wherein the second color of LED-sourced light is a Kelvin temperature, phosphor-corrected white color of light.

8. The process of claim 7 wherein the Kelvin-adjustable temperature is about 3000K.

9. The process of claim 7 wherein the Kelvin-adjustable temperature is about 6000K.

10. The process of claim 7 wherein the Kelvin-adjustable temperature is in the range of from about 3000K to about 6000K.

11. The process of claim 1 wherein the first color of LED-sourced light is RGB color light.

12. The process of claim 1 wherein the first color of LED-sourced light is an amber color.

13. The process of claim 1 wherein the LED-sourced light is from LEDs positioned on a panel.

14. The process of claim 1 wherein the LED-sourced light is from LEDs positioned on a string.

15. The process of claim 1 wherein the cross fading is by pulse width modulation control.

16. The process of claim 1 wherein the cross fading is by duty cycle control.

17. The process of claim 1 wherein the cross fading is by changing power to the LEDs.

Assignments (3)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Apr 14, 2025
From: CHAUVET & SONS, LLC
To: CAPITAL ONE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 070824/0835 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 3, 2025
From: LITEGEAR, INC.
To: CHAUVET & SONS, LLC
Reel/Frame 070384/0371 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 30, 2020
From: SMITH, JAMES; DEMAYO, ALBERT; PARKER, LEE; VASQUEZ, ALEX; GOOSSEN, SEAN
To: LITEGEAR, INC.
Reel/Frame 051671/0780 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 15614596 · Jun 5, 2017
Provisional Application 62344996 · Jun 3, 2016
Related Publication 20190098722A1 · Mar 28, 2019
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