Digitally adjustable focused beam lighting system
AssigneeNBCUniversal Media, LLC
InventorsCharles Edwards, Richard Pierceall
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Abstract
A lighting assembly includes a lighting tower. The lighting tower includes a plurality of layers of lighting elements, where each layer of lighting elements is configured to provide a different angle of emitted light onto a parabolic reflector with respect to light emitted from another layer of lighting elements onto the parabolic reflector when activated.
Claims24
A lighting assembly comprising:
- a lighting tower, wherein the lighting tower comprises:
- a plurality of layers of lighting elements, wherein each layer of lighting elements is configured to provide a different angle of emitted light with respect to light emitted from another layer of lighting elements when reflected by a parabolic reflector.
A hardware circuitry-implemented method for adjusting a beam angle of a lighting assembly, the method comprising:
- identifying a desired beam angle based upon one or more inputs from a user interface;
- identifying one or more layers of lighting elements of a lighting tower that, when activated within a parabolic reflector, generate the desired beam angle, wherein each layer of lighting elements is configured to provide a different beam angle of emitted light with respect to light emitted from another layer of lighting elements when reflected from the parabolic reflector;
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- providing a first activation request to the one or more layers of the lighting elements, wherein the first activation request causes activation of the one or more layers of the lighting elements, and wherein the activation of the one or more layers of the lighting elements generates the desired beam angle.
A hardware circuitry-implemented method for providing an adjustable color-correlated temperature (“CCT”) comprising:
- receiving an indication of a desired CCT from a user interface;
- determining one or more adjustments to one or more supplementary light sources, that would result in the desired CCT when light from the one or more supplementary light sources is blended with a base light from a base light source;
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- performing the one or more adjustments to the one or more supplementary light sources to generate the desired CCT.
A lighting assembly, comprising:
- a lighting tower configured to emit light;
- and
- a cooling system configured to cool the lighting tower, wherein the cooling system comprises:
- one or more heat pipes extending into the lighting tower;
- a condenser configured to cool a coolant passing through the one or more heat pipes;
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- a pump configured to pump the coolant from the condenser, through the one or more heat pipes, and back to the condenser, wherein the coolant is configured to absorb heat generated by the lighting tower due to light emission as the coolant passes through the one or more heat pipes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.