US 11,815,234 B2
Systems and methods for connecting and controlling configurable lighting units
Tomas Rodinger, Vancouver (CA); Aliakbar Juzer Eski, Mississauga (CA); Henry Chow, Toronto (CA); Arash Sadr, Toronto (CA); John Anders Ohrn, Vancouver (CA); and Gimmy Chu, Mississauga (CA)
Assigned to Nanogrid Limited, Sheung Wan (HK)
Filed by Nanogrid Limited, Sheung Wan (CN)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/723,415.
Application 17/723,415 is a continuation of application No. 17/013,461, filed on Sep. 4, 2020, granted, now 11,306,880.
Application 17/013,461 is a continuation of application No. 16/735,630, filed on Jan. 6, 2020, granted, now 10,806,009, issued on Oct. 13, 2020.
Application 16/735,630 is a continuation of application No. 16/095,637, granted, now 10,531,542, issued on Jan. 7, 2020, previously published as PCT/CA2017/050500, filed on Apr. 21, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/441,720, filed on Jan. 3, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/359,068, filed on Jul. 6, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/326,484, filed on Apr. 22, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0243877 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. F21S 2/00 (2016.01); F21V 21/00 (2006.01); H05B 47/18 (2020.01); H05B 45/20 (2020.01); F21V 21/005 (2006.01); F21V 23/06 (2006.01); H05B 45/30 (2020.01); H05B 47/19 (2020.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01); F21Y 113/10 (2016.01); F21Y 105/18 (2016.01); F21Y 113/00 (2016.01); H05B 45/325 (2020.01); H05B 47/12 (2020.01); H05B 47/155 (2020.01)
CPC F21S 2/005 (2013.01) [F21V 21/005 (2013.01); F21V 23/06 (2013.01); H05B 45/20 (2020.01); H05B 45/30 (2020.01); H05B 47/18 (2020.01); H05B 47/19 (2020.01); F21Y 2105/18 (2016.08); F21Y 2113/00 (2013.01); F21Y 2113/10 (2016.08); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08); H05B 45/325 (2020.01); H05B 47/12 (2020.01); H05B 47/155 (2020.01)] 23 Claims
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1. A lighting device providing a plurality of coupled lighting components automatically controlled in accordance with a digital signal, the lighting device comprising:
the plurality of coupled lighting components coupled in a physical arrangement, each of the plurality of the coupled lighting components being configured to emit individually controllable light, individually controllable in accordance with one or more received lighting activation instructions;
a computer processor configured to:
maintain an electronic representation of the physical arrangement based on sensed rearrangements of the physical arrangement or change events occurring in relation to the physical arrangement, the electronic representation including at least linkages indicative of geospatial relations between coupled lighting components of the plurality of coupled lighting components;
provide a plurality of lighting activation instructions generated in accordance with the digital signal, the plurality of lighting activation instructions comprising timed instruction sets representative of at least one of (i) a color coordinate, (ii) an intensity level, and (iii) a desired geometric position of the lighting activation;
for each lighting activation instruction, to select an individual coupled lighting component of the plurality of the coupled lighting components based at least on querying of the electronic representation of the physical arrangement; and
individually control each of the coupled lighting components in accordance with the plurality of lighting activation instructions to cause a geometric visualization effect to be co-operatively displayed across one or more coupled lighting components of the plurality of coupled lighting components.