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US 2017/0061904 A1Published application
Enhancements for use of a display in a software configurable lighting device
AssigneeABL IP Holding LLC
InventorsGuan-Bo LIN, Ravi Kumar KOMANDURI, Rashmi Kumar RAJ, David P. Ramer, Jack C. RAINS, JR.
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Abstract
The examples relate to various implementations of a software configurable lighting device, having an enhance display device that is able to generate light sufficient to provide general illumination of a space in which the lighting device is installed and provide an image display. The general illumination is provided by additional light sources and/or improved display components of the enhanced display device.
Claims22
A lighting device, comprising:
- an image display device for presenting an image,
- a general illumination device collocated with the image display device;
- a driver system coupled to the general illumination device to control light generated by the general illumination device;
- a memory;
- a processor having access to the memory and coupled to the driver system to control operation of the driver system;
- and
- programming in the memory, wherein execution of the programming by the processor configures the lighting device to perform functions including functions to:
- obtain an image selection of a luminaire and a general lighting distribution selection as software control data;
- present an image output, based on the image selection, via the image display device;
- and
- control operation of the general illumination device via the driver system to emit light for general illumination from the general illumination device according to the general lighting distribution selection.
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A lighting device, comprising:
- a display device for presenting an image;
- a general illumination device collocated with the display device;
- a memory;
- configuration data stored in the memory;
- and
- a driver system coupled to the memory, the display device and the general illumination device to control light generated by the display device and the general illumination device based on the configuration data stored in the memory;
- wherein the driver system is configured to:
- access the configuration data stored in the memory, and
- in response to the configuration data:
- (a) generate control signals for the display device to cause the display device to present the image on the display device, and (b) generate control signals for the general illumination device to cause the general illumination device to generate light for general illumination output from the lighting device.
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A lighting device, comprising:
- a light output surface positioned on a front portion of the lighting device;
- a display layer configured to output an image display toward the light output surface;
- an illumination layer that generates light for general illumination of a premises, wherein:
- the display layer and the one or more illumination layers are configured as a stack of layers in which the vertical axis of the stack is perpendicular to the light output surface, and
- one of the display or illumination layers is transparent and emissive with respect to light output from the other of the display or illumination layers;
- and
- a controller coupled to control operation of the display layer and the one or more illumination layers, wherein the display layer is controlled to present images based on image signals and the one or more illumination layers are controlled to generate illumination sufficient for general illumination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.