Position tracking system
    41.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US06266136B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-07-24

    申请号:US09503708

    申请日:2000-02-14

    IPC分类号: G01B1126

    摘要: An optical position tracking system that tracks the position of objects, using light intensity and/or frequency with the application of geometry and ratios of detector responses, is provided, having light distributing and light detecting components that employ the concepts of constructive occlusion and diffuse reflection. Diffusely reflective cavities, masks and baffles are used to improve certain radiating characteristics of the distributing components and certain response characteristics of the detecting components, to tailor the radiation and detection profiles thereof, including them substantially uniform for all angles within a hemispheric area which the distributing and detecting components face. The distributing and/or detecting components are partitioned with specially-configured baffles. A partitioned distributor has distinct emission sections where the sections can emit spectrally-different or distinguishable radiation. A partitioned detector has distinct detection sections where the sections can detect radiation from different directions. The system may be variously configured, to use different combinations of partitioned and nonpartitioned devices. In most configurations, a single head module provides one set of directional data about two coordinates (e.g., &rgr; and &THgr;) for one reflector. An additional head module remotely positioned from the first head module can provide a second set of directional data for the reflector (e.g., &rgr;2 and &THgr;2), for cross-referencing with the first set of directional data to obtain positional data in three dimensions of the object being tracked. The system can also track multiple objects, using spectrally-different (or at least spectrally distinguishable reflectors) in conjunction with correspondingly spectrally-compatible sensors to distinguish between data collected for each reflector. Numerous variations particularly on the concept of constructive occlusion may be accomplished with varying results as desired or appropriate. By reconfiguring the radiation/detection surface, the cavity, the mask and/or the baffle, the radiation/detection profile may be varied in substantially unlimited ways.

    Quadrant light detector
    42.
    发明授权
    Quadrant light detector 失效
    象限光检测器

    公开(公告)号:US5705804A

    公开(公告)日:1998-01-06

    申请号:US589104

    申请日:1996-01-23

    摘要: A quadrant light detector that employs the concept of constructed occlusion to improve its accuracy and by incorporating baffles within the design to improve its detection response to incoming light having an incidence angle near the horizon, and to divide a diffusely reflective cavity into quadrants. The quadrant detector is able to determine the direction, or azimuth and elevation, to the light source anywhere within a sector of a hemisphere or a sphere.

    摘要翻译: 一个象限光检测器采用构造遮挡的概念来提高其精度,并且通过在设计中引入挡板来改善其对具有接近地平线的入射角的入射光的检测响应,并将漫反射腔分成象限。 象限检测器能够确定在半球或球体的扇区内任何地方的光源的方向或方位角和仰角。

    Visual perception and acuity disruption techniques and systems
    44.
    发明授权
    Visual perception and acuity disruption techniques and systems 有权
    视觉感知和敏锐度破坏技术和系统

    公开(公告)号:US08907809B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-09

    申请号:US13463571

    申请日:2012-05-03

    IPC分类号: G08B5/36

    摘要: Exemplary security lighting routines are tailored to disrupt visual perception and/or acuity so as to significantly reduce the ability of a person or persons, who has breached security, to function within a secured space. A routine triggered in response to a security breach includes a flash at a relatively high intensity, some number of times brighter than normal illumination for the space. Some exemplary routines include a warning light and/or a pre-flash light emission such as dim lighting or a flicker, to effectively prepare the person in the space for maximum effectiveness of the flash. Exemplary routines may also include a post-flash sequence of multiple color light emissions, such as alternating emissions in sequence of pulses of different colors of light using emission and/or off time parameters that vary in an irregular manner.

    摘要翻译: 定制示例性安全照明例程以破坏视觉感知和/或敏锐度,以便显着降低已经违反安全性的个人在安全空间内起作用的能力。 响应于安全漏洞触发的例程包括相对较高强度的闪光,比该空间的普通照明亮一些次数。 一些示例性程序包括警告灯和/或预闪光发射,例如昏暗的照明或闪烁,以有效地准备该空间中的人以最大限度地发挥闪光的有效性。 示例性例程还可以包括多个颜色光发射的后闪光序列,例如使用以不规则方式变化的发射和/或关闭时间参数的不同颜色的光的脉冲序列的交替发射。

    ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL USING A CHAOTIC FUNCTION
    47.
    发明申请
    ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL USING A CHAOTIC FUNCTION 有权
    使用混沌功能的环境控制

    公开(公告)号:US20140058566A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-02-27

    申请号:US13594236

    申请日:2012-08-24

    IPC分类号: G05B19/18

    CPC分类号: G05B15/02 G05B2219/2642

    摘要: One or more controlled environmental conditions have a characteristic thereof that varies over time at least in part in accordance with a chaotic function. Variable control, for example, may control one or more characteristics of visible lighting of the environmentally controlled space. Examples of lighting characteristics that may be controlled in such a manner include spectral content, intensity, color temperature, chromaticity difference or Delta_uv, and polarization. In addition or instead, one or more characteristics of the atmosphere in the controlled environment may be controlled based on a chaotic function. Examples of atmospheric characteristics that may be controlled in such a manner include temperature, humidity, air pressure, ionization, electromagnetic fields, precipitation, visibility, wind, smell and chemical composition. A sound system may also provide a chaotic component to the environment in the environmentally controlled space.

    摘要翻译: 一个或多个受控的环境条件具有至少部分地根据混沌功能随时间变化的特性。 可变控制例如可以控制环境可控空间的可见光的一个或多个特性。 可以以这种方式控制的照明特性的示例包括光谱含量,强度,色温,色度差或Delta_uv和极化。 另外或替代地,可以基于混沌函数来控制受控环境中的大气的一个或多个特性。 可以以这种方式控制的大气特性的实例包括温度,湿度,空气压力,电离,电磁场,沉淀,可见度,风,气味和化学成分。 声音系统还可以在环境受控的空间中为环境提供混沌分量。

    NETWORKED SYSTEM OF INTELLIGENT LIGHTING DEVICES WITH SHARING OF PROCESSING RESOURCES OF THE DEVICES WITH OTHER ENTITIES
    48.
    发明申请
    NETWORKED SYSTEM OF INTELLIGENT LIGHTING DEVICES WITH SHARING OF PROCESSING RESOURCES OF THE DEVICES WITH OTHER ENTITIES 有权
    智能照明设备的联网系统与具有其他实体的设备的处理资源共享

    公开(公告)号:US20140035482A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-02-06

    申请号:US13564519

    申请日:2012-08-01

    IPC分类号: H05B37/02

    摘要: A system of network-connected lighting devices also offers a distributed processing function that utilizes processor and/or memory resources if/when available in some or all of the lighting devices. In the examples, a resource manager receives a job for distributed processing using shared available resources. The resource manager identifies lighting devices having resources of the processors and/or the memories available for the distributed processing function. The resource manager distributes tasks and/or data of the received job through a communications network to identified lighting devices, for distributed processing. The resource manager also receives results of distributed processing for the received job, from the identified lighting devices through the communications network. The received results are processed to produce a composite result for a response to the received job.

    摘要翻译: 网络连接的照明设备的系统还提供了分布式处理功能,其在某些或全部照明设备中可用时利用处理器和/或存储器资源。 在示例中,资源管理器使用共享的可用资源来接收用于分布式处理的作业。 资源管理器识别具有处理器和/或可用于分布式处理功能的存储器的资源的照明设备。 资源管理器通过通信网络将所接收的作业的任务和/或数据分配给所识别的照明设备,用于分布式处理。 资源管理器还从所识别的照明设备通过通信网络接收所接收的作业的分布式处理结果。 接收的结果被处理以产生用于对接收到的作业的响应的复合结果。

    NETWORKED ARCHITECTURE FOR SYSTEM OF LIGHTING DEVICES HAVING SENSORS, FOR INTELLIGENT APPLICATIONS
    49.
    发明申请
    NETWORKED ARCHITECTURE FOR SYSTEM OF LIGHTING DEVICES HAVING SENSORS, FOR INTELLIGENT APPLICATIONS 有权
    用于具有传感器的照明设备系统的网络结构,用于智能应用

    公开(公告)号:US20130297212A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-11-07

    申请号:US13463586

    申请日:2012-05-03

    IPC分类号: G06F19/00

    摘要: Intelligent lighting devices, with sensors, programmed processors and communication capabilities and networked with a hierarchy of computers, to form a system to monitor one or more conditions external to the lighting devices not directly related to operational performance of the respective lighting devices, for a variety of applications separate and in addition to the lighting related functions of the networked devices.

    摘要翻译: 智能照明设备,具有传感器,编程处理器和通信能力,并与计算机的层次结构联网,以形成一种系统,用于监控与各个照明设备的操作性能无直接关系的照明设备外部的一个或多个条件 的应用程序与网络设备的照明相关功能相互独立。

    Phosphor-centric control of color of light
    50.
    发明授权
    Phosphor-centric control of color of light 有权
    以色子为中心的光色控制

    公开(公告)号:US08517550B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-27

    申请号:US12754261

    申请日:2010-04-05

    IPC分类号: F21V9/16 H01J40/18

    摘要: Lighting devices and/or systems offer dynamic control or tuning of color of light. The lighting systems utilize sources, such as solid state sources, to individually pump a number of different phosphors of types having relatively high degrees of color purity. The phosphor emissions, however, are still broader than the traditionally monochromatic color emissions of LEDs. The different phosphors can be independently excited to controllable levels, by individually controlled sources rated for emission of energy of the same spectrum. Adjustment of intensities of electromagnetic energy emitted by the sources independently adjusts levels of excitations of the phosphors selected to emit different colors of relatively high purity and thus the contributions of pure colors to the combined light output, for example, to enables color adjustment of the light output over a wide range of different selectable colors encompassing much of the gamut of visible light.

    摘要翻译: 照明设备和/或系统提供光的颜色的动态控制或调谐。 照明系统利用诸如固态光源的源来单独泵送具有相对较高色彩纯度的类型的许多不同的荧光体。 然而,荧光体发射仍然比LED的传统单色彩色发射更广泛。 不同的荧光体可以独立激发到可控的水平,通过单个控制的光源来评估相同光谱的能量发射。 由源发射的电磁能量的强度的调整独立地调节被选择发射不同颜色的相对高纯度的磷光体的激发水平,并因此调节纯色对组合光输出的贡献,例如能够使光的颜色调节 输出范围广泛的不同的可选颜色,涵盖大部分可见光范围。