Clock Device with Automatic Simulation of Sunrise or Suset
AssigneeLutron Technology Company LLC
InventorsErica Patton, Daniel Raneri
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Abstract
A clock comprises an alarm clock housing having a front face, a clock display occupying at least a portion of the front face, a control on the housing for activating a shade positioning function, and a processor within the housing. The processor is responsive to the control for generating at least one shade positioning command to be transmitted to at least one motorized window shade, so as to cause the motorized window shade to move to one or more position at one or more corresponding predetermined interval relative to an alarm time.
Claims24
An apparatus communicatively couplable to a portable electronic device, the apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a portable electronic device connector extending from the housing, the portable electronic device interface to enable a direct communicative coupling between the apparatus and a portable electronic device;
- wireless communication interface circuitry disposed at least partially within the housing;
- electrical load control circuitry disposed within the housing, the electrical load control circuitry to, responsive to receipt of data representative of an alarm time from the portable electronic device:
- generate at least one command to cause a window treatment to adjust an amount of ambient light passed by the window treatment at one or more corresponding predetermined intervals relative to the alarm time;
- and
- transmit, via the wireless communication interface circuitry, the generated at least one command to the window treatment at the one or more corresponding predetermined intervals.
A method of automatically simulating a sunrise or sunset condition using an apparatus communicatively couplable to a portable electronic device, the method comprising, responsive to receipt of data representative of an alarm time from the portable electronic device:
- generating, by electric load control circuitry, at least one command to cause a window treatment to adjust an amount of ambient light passed by the window treatment at one or more corresponding predetermined intervals relative to the alarm time;
- and
- transmitting, by the electric load control circuitry via a communicatively coupled wireless communication interface circuitry, the generated at least one command to the window treatment at the one or more corresponding predetermined intervals.
A non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device that includes instructions that, when executed by electric load control circuitry disposed in an apparatus communicatively couplable to a portable electronic device, causes the electric load control circuitry to:
- generate at least one command to cause a window treatment to adjust an amount of ambient light passed by the window treatment at one or more corresponding predetermined intervals relative to the alarm time;
- and
- transmit, via a communicatively coupled wireless communication interface circuitry, the generated at least one command to the window treatment at the one or more corresponding predetermined intervals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.