Antimicrobial backlit device
AssigneeHubbell Incorporated
InventorsThomas Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas James Veltri, John Lawrence Wolf, Blake Ashton Nickles, Christopher Lane Bailey
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Abstract
Antimicrobial backlit devices and methods are provided. In one example embodiment, a device includes a backlight system configured to provide backlight for a display screen of the device. The backlight system includes one or more HINS light sources configured to emit HINS light and one or more non-HINS light sources configured to emit non-HINS light. The device further includes one or more control devices configured to control operation of the one or more HINS light sources and the one or more non-HINS light sources according to one or more light control profiles.
Claims8
An electronic device, comprising:
- a display device comprising a display screen;
- and
- a backlight system configured to provide backlight for the display device, the backlight system comprising one or more high intensity narrow spectrum (HINS) light sources configured to emit HINS light, the backlight system further comprising one or more non-HINS light sources configured to emit non-HINS light;
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- one or more control devices configured to:
- obtain data indicative of a trigger event;
- access one or more light control profiles based on the data indicative of the trigger event;
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- control operation of the one or more HINS light sources and the one or more non-HINS light sources based on the one or more light control profiles,
- wherein the data indicative of the trigger event comprises data indicative of a number of microbes present on the display screen being greater than a threshold value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.