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US 6,606,175 B1Granted
Multi-segment light-emitting diode
AssigneeSharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey B. Sampsell, James M. Florence, Larry Alan Westerman
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AssigneeSharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey B. Sampsell, James M. Florence, Larry Alan Westerman
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A power conservative multi-segment LED transmitter including a multi-segment LED with a plurality of independently addressable LED segments, each LED segment suitable for selectively emitting a beam segment. A controller selectively enables and disables the LED segments. Depending on whether the beam segments overlap or not and whether low or high power is supplied to the enabled LED segments, the combined resulting beam may be a low power steered beam, a power conservative steered beam, an overlapping low power intense steered beam, or an overlapping power conservative steered beam. The steerable multi-segment LED transmitter and receiver system preferably includes an “all enabled” state in which each of the LED segments are enabled and emit a respective beam segment; a “training” state in which the LED segments are selectively enabled and disabled and the receiver determines substantially detected beam segments; and a “steered” state in which only the LED segments emitting the substantially detected beam segments are enabled.
A power conservative multi-segment LED transmitter responsive to a receiver, comprising:
A multi-segment LED transmitter system, said system comprising:
A method for conserving power in a multi-segment LED, said method comprising the steps of:
A steerable multi-segment LED transmitter and receiver system, comprising:
A method for producing a steered beam using a multi-segment LED, said method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.