| US 7,369,903 B2 | ||
| Method of and system for controlling an ambient light and lighting unit | ||
| Elmo Marcus Attila Diederiks, Eindhoven (Netherlands); Erwin Rinaldo Meinders, Eindhoven (Netherlands); Edwin Van Lier, Eindhoven (Netherlands); and Ralph Hubert Peters, Eindhoven (Netherlands) | ||
| Assigned to Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven (Netherlands) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/519,059 PCT Filed Jun. 20, 2003, PCT No. PCT/IB03/02958 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Dec. 22, 2004, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/006578, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 15, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 02077686 (EP), filed on Jul. 04, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0058925 A1, Mar. 16, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G05B 13/02 (2006.01); G01J 1/32 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 700—28 [250/205] | 9 Claims |
| 1. Method of controlling an ambient light, the method comprising:
receiving main program data and additional data by a receiver;
setting a property of the ambient light based upon the additional data;
including descriptive information about the main program data in the additional data;
filtering the descriptive information from the additional data;
setting a sensitivity of the ambient light to the main program data; and
setting the property of the ambient light based upon the descriptive information and the sensitivity to enhance perception
of the main program data, wherein a lower sensitivity results in less changes to the property of the ambient light over time
than a higher sensitivity for the main program data.
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