Illumination Device for Adjusting Color Temperature Based on Brightness and Time of Day

    公开(公告)号:US20220104321A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-31

    申请号:US17548137

    申请日:2021-12-10

    IPC分类号: H05B45/20 H05B47/16

    摘要: An illumination device, system, and method are provided herein for emulating sunlight along a daytime or nighttime locus. Color temperature is determined using a first color temperature curve that includes data representative of a first color temperature as a function of a time of day. In response to a request to a change in brightness of one or more LED chains, a target color temperature output as a function of the current time of day is determined using a second color temperature curve based on the requested change in brightness. The second color temperature curve includes the target color temperature corresponding to the determined current time of day. The target color temperature output includes a lesser change in color temperature at solar noon than the change in color temperature at sunrise and sunset.

    Illumination device for adjusting color temperature based on brightness and time of day

    公开(公告)号:US11202352B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-14

    申请号:US16356896

    申请日:2019-03-18

    摘要: An illumination device, system and method are provided herein for emulating sunlight along a daytime or nighttime locus. Sunlight is emulated depending on the path length of the sun relative to a structure containing the illumination device and system. One or more illumination devices can be grouped together and perform the sunlight emulation along the locus by producing different color temperatures throughout the day by all illumination devices within that group producing the same color temperature changes throughout the day. Moreover, a particular advantage of the preferred embodiments is the ability to manually change at any time the emulated natural sunlight output from the one or more groups of illumination devices and advantageously change the color output more so at certain times than at other times by simply actuating a trigger on a dimmer associated with a virtual or physical keypad.