IP Library Granted Patent US 12,238,840
Granted Patent B2
US 12,238,840 · App. 18/471,500 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Lighting control method, lighting control device and lighting device

Inventors: Yuanyaun Gan (Shanghai, CN); Aijun Wang (Shanghai, CN); Liang Shan (Shanghai, CN); Zhiyong Wang (Shanghai, CN); Xiaojun Ren (Shanghai, CN); Casey Klock (Cleveland, OH)
Assignee: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
H05B47/16F21V5/007H05B45/10H05B45/20F21Y2113/17F21Y2115/10
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Patent No.
US 12,238,840
App. No.
18/471,500
Granted
Feb 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a lighting control method and a lighting control device for a light source having LEDs, and a lighting device and includes acquiring the number of LEDs and a control curve for controlling changes in brightness and color of the light emitted from each LED over time, the control curve defines the same brightness cycle and color cycle for each LED, the brightness cycle indicates a brightness period and a brightness curve of the change in brightness over time within each period, determining a time offset on the control curve according to the number of LEDs and the brightness change period, determining the starting timings of the remaining LEDs on the control curve according to the starting timing of the first LED and the time offset, and controlling each LED from the starting timing on the control curve, to emit light according to the brightness and color determined.

Claims (13)

1. A lighting device, comprising:

a light source, comprising:

a light source assembly, comprising a plurality of LEDs, and

a lens assembly, comprising a plurality of lens, each of the plurality of lenses is located on a corresponding one of the plurality of LEDs, and

a bulb shell, configured to surround the light source and transmit the light emitted from the light source to the outside after diffuse reflection,

wherein the brightness of the light emitted from each LED changes cyclically according to the same brightness change period, the color of the light emitted from each LED changes cyclically according to the same color change period, and the brightness and/or color of the plurality of LEDs are different from each other at any timing wherein the color change period is several times the brightness change period.

2. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein for each LED,

within a brightness change period, the brightness first decreases linearly from the highest brightness to the lowest brightness, and then increases linearly from the lowest brightness until returning to the highest brightness, and

within a color change period, the color gradually changes in a plurality of color intervals, and the color corresponding to the highest brightness is a preset specific color.

3. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein each lens transmits the light emitted from a corresponding LED to the outside through a corresponding lighting area on the bulb shell, and

on the bulb shell, two adjacent lighting areas corresponding to two adjacent LEDs are separated from each other or are partially overlapped with each other.

4. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein each LED comprises a plurality of sub-LEDs that are the same as each other, and at any timing, the lighting color and lighting brightness of the plurality of sub-LEDs in one LED are the same.

5. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein when the color gradually changes from a color interval of a current color to a color interval of a next color, and a purity of the current color decreases linearly, and at a same time a purity of the next color increases linearly.

Assignments (2)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 11, 2026
From: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS AGENT
Reel/Frame 075090/0369 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 21, 2023
From: GAN, YUANYAUN; WANG, AIJUN; SHAN, LIANG; WANG, ZHIYONG; REN, XIAOJUN; KLOCK, CASEY
To: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Reel/Frame 064982/0445 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202111166471.6 · Sep 30, 2021 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17956501 · Sep 29, 2022
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