Decorative lights with addressable color-controllable LED nodes and control circuitry, and method
    1.
    发明授权
    Decorative lights with addressable color-controllable LED nodes and control circuitry, and method 失效
    装饰灯具有可寻址颜色可控LED节点和控制电路及方法

    公开(公告)号:US07131748B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-11-07

    申请号:US10758143

    申请日:2004-01-15

    IPC分类号: F21V23/00 H05B37/00

    CPC分类号: H05B37/029

    摘要: A decorative lighting apparatus includes a decorative light strand having a plurality of addressable color-controllable red-green-blue (RGB) light-emitting diode (LED) nodes positioned therealong; a decorating selector which provides a plurality of user-selectable switch settings; control circuitry; and memory. The control circuitry selects, from the memory, stored holiday color data associated with a user-selectable switch setting and sends the holiday color data over one or more data lines to addressable color-controllable RGB LED nodes associated with LED node address data. Preferably, the plurality of holiday color schemes include color schemes for most major U.S. holidays including Christmas, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Independence Day, and Halloween.

    摘要翻译: 一种装饰性照明装置,具备:具有多个可寻址颜色可控红绿蓝(RGB)发光二极管(LED)节点的装饰灯串; 装饰选择器,其提供多个用户可选择的开关设置; 控制电路; 和记忆。 控制电路从存储器中选择存储与用户可选开关设置相关联的假日颜色数据,并将假期颜色数据通过一个或多个数据线发送到与LED节点地址数据相关联的可寻址颜色可控RGB LED节点。 优选地,多个假日配色方案包括大部分主要美国假期的配色方案,包括圣诞节,情人节,圣帕特里克节,复活节,独立日和万圣节。

    Year-round decorative lights with time-multiplexed illumination of interleaved sets of color-controllable LEDS
    2.
    发明授权
    Year-round decorative lights with time-multiplexed illumination of interleaved sets of color-controllable LEDS 失效
    全年装饰灯具有交错组合的彩色可控LED的时间多路复用照明

    公开(公告)号:US07202607B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-04-10

    申请号:US10763658

    申请日:2004-01-23

    IPC分类号: F21S4/00 H05B37/00

    CPC分类号: H05B37/029

    摘要: A decorative lighting apparatus provides user-selectable color schemes corresponding to several holidays and other occasions for year-round use. In one illustrative example, the decorative lighting apparatus includes control circuitry which has a plurality of color-control outputs for coupling to color-control terminals of each one of a plurality of color-controllable lights along a decorative light strand. The control circuitry is operative to illuminate the color-controllable lights with any given color scheme by repeatedly time-multiplexing color-control signals at the color-control outputs to different interleaved sets of color-controllable lights along the decorative light strand. Each color-controllable light is a Red-Green-Blue (RGB) Light-Emitting Diode (LED). Preferably, the time-multiplexing rate is sufficient such that the RGB LEDs appear to be simultaneously illuminated along the strand (e.g. 32 Hertz or greater). Advantageously, this low-cost implementation reduces the number of wires required along the decorative light strand without sacrificing versatility.

    摘要翻译: 装饰照明装置提供对应于几个假日和其他场合的用户可选择的颜色方案,用于全年使用。 在一个说明性示例中,装饰照明装置包括控制电路,该控制电路具有多个颜色控制输出,用于耦合到沿着装饰光线的多个可颜色可控光中的每一个的颜色控制端。 控制电路可操作以通过在颜色控制输出处将颜色控制信号反复时间复用到沿着装饰光线的不同交错组的可颜色控制的光,以任何给定的配色方案来照亮颜色可控的光。 每个颜色可控的光是红 - 绿 - 蓝(RGB)发光二极管(LED)。 优选地,时间复用速率是足够的,使得RGB LED似乎同时沿着线照亮(例如32赫兹或更大)。 有利的是,这种低成本的实施方式减少了装饰轻链所需的电线数量,而不牺牲通用性。

    Year-round decorative lights with multiple strings of series-coupled bipolar bicolor LEDs for selectable holiday color schemes
    3.
    发明授权
    Year-round decorative lights with multiple strings of series-coupled bipolar bicolor LEDs for selectable holiday color schemes 失效
    全年装饰灯,配有多串串联双极双色LED,可选择假日配色方案

    公开(公告)号:US07175302B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-02-13

    申请号:US11033643

    申请日:2005-01-11

    IPC分类号: F21S4/00 H05B37/00

    摘要: A decorative lighting apparatus includes a decorative light strand having first, second, and third wires, each with a plurality of lamps coupled in series therealong, and a return wire coupled to ends of the first, the second, and the third wires. Each lamp of the plurality of lamps has a first light-emitting diode (LED) device coupled in parallel and in reverse orientation with a second LED device. The first, the second, and the third wires are positioned together such that each lamp of the first, the second, and the third pluralities are positioned adjacent to each other but sufficiently separated such that little or no color mixing occurs between the lamps. The apparatus also includes a controller adapted to control the plurality of lamps to provide different user-selectable color schemes in various simultaneously-illuminated combinations of color.

    摘要翻译: 装饰性照明装置包括具有第一,第二和第三布线的装饰灯串,每根导线均具有串联连接的多个灯,以及耦合到第一,第二和第三导线的端部的返回线。 多个灯中的每个灯具有并联连接并且与第二LED器件相反取向的第一发光二极管(LED)器件。 第一,第二和第三线被定位在一起,使得第一,第二和第三多个的每个灯彼此相邻定位,但是充分分离,使得在灯之间几乎不发生颜色混合。 该装置还包括控制器,其适于控制多个灯以在各种同时亮度的颜色组合中提供不同的用户可选择的配色方案。