Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Signify Holding B.v.

Philips Lighting Holding B.v.

Andrew Ulrich Rutgers

Mark Thomas Johnson

Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu

Berent Willem Meerbeek

Hui Li

Reinhold Elferich

Kiran Srinivas Challapali

Jonathan David Mason

Jianfeng Wang

Qing Li

Dave Alberto Tavares Cavalcanti

Sanae Chraibi

Alan James Davie

Fulong Ma

Yi Qiang Yu

Michael Alex Van Hartskamp

Hongxin Chen

Dan Jiang

Willem Piet Van Hoof

Talmai Brandão De Oliveira

John Brean Mills

Zhong Huang

Daniel Jozef Piotrowski

Marcin Krzysztof Szczodrak

Qin Zhao

Xianneng Peng

Yong Yang

Liang Jia

Martin Elixmann

Yuan Shu

Neveen Shlayan

Johannes Petrus Wilhelmus Baaijens

Antonius Adrianus Maria Marinus

Neil Francis Joye

Lutz Christian Gerhardt

Martinus Wilhelmus Blum

Steven Ernest Franklin

Paul Theodorus Jacobus Boonen

Johannes Petrus Wilhelmust Baaijens

Talmai BrandÃo De Oliveira

Daniel J Piotrowski

A lighting device arranged to be controlled via a wireless controller, wherein said lighting device comprises a light emitting load arranged for emitting light, a driver arranged for receiving a supply voltage and for driving said light emitting load based on said received supply voltage, an auxiliary supply arranged for supplying an auxiliary Direct Current, DC, supply voltage, a wireless receiver, connected to and powered by said auxiliary supply, arranged for wirelessly receiving, from said wireless controller, a control signal, and for activating said driver based on said received control signal, wherein said wireless receiver is arranged to operate according to a pulsed listen mode, said pulsed listen mode comprising active phases in which said wireless receiver is able to receive said control signal and non-active phases in which said wireless receiver is not able to receive said control signal.

Lighting device arranged to be controlled via a wireless controller

The invention provides an energy generation and/or conversion system and method wherein an electrical power generator is controlled to periodically alternate between a contact-mode, during which elements of the generator are brought into contact to induce a state of charging, and a non-contact mode, during which plates of the generator are separated from one another and electrical energy is generated through electrostatic induction. Timing and duration of contact and non-contact modes are controlled by a controller, or by user commands, in dependence on a charge state of the elements of the generator: In this way elements are controlled to come into contact only when surface charge has fallen below a certain level, and re-charging is necessary; contact time between the elements may hence be minimised&#x2014;thereby minimising incurred noise and surface wear&#x2014;whilst still maintaining a given desired threshold power output.

Triboelectric energy generator

The invention provides a light management information system for an outdoor lighting network system, having a plurality of outdoor light units each including at least one sensor type, where each of the light units communicates with at least one other light unit, at least one user input/output device in communication with at one or more of said outdoor light units, a central management system in communication with light units, said central management system sends control commands and/or information to one or more of said outdoor light units, in response to received outdoor light unit status/sensor information from one or more of said outdoor light units or received user information requests from said user input/output device, a resource server in communication with said central management system, wherein the central management system uses the light unit status/sensor information and resources from the resource server to provide information to the user input/output device and/or reconfigure one or more of the lights units.

Methods and apparatus for information management and control of outdoor lighting networks

LED driver () comprising a switched-mode power converter () for providing power to an LED arrangement () connected across output terminals of the converter (), and wherein the converter () comprises a number of energy storage elements (L, C) and a first semiconductor switch (Q); a second semiconductor switch (Q) connected in series with the LED arrangement (); a control means () realized to generate a second control signal (G) for the second semiconductor switch (Q), such that a transition of the second control signal (G) is delayed relative to a corresponding transition of a first control signal (G) for the first semiconductor switch (Q). The invention further describes a projection arrangement (); and a method of driving an LED arrangement ().

LED driver

Converters () comprise switches () for in response to control signals controlling amplitudes of converter output signals and comprise control loops for in response to detections of the amplitudes of the converter output signals producing the control signals. The control loops comprise circuits (-) for in response to simple detections of the amplitudes counting a first number of first time-intervals for which the amplitudes are above or below reference amplitudes, for transforming counting results into the control signals having control values, and for in response to the first number of first time-intervals being equal to/larger than a reference number overruling the control values and producing control signals having first or second limit values. Complex detections of the amplitudes are no longer necessary. Simple detectors () may detect the amplitudes of the output signals and amplitudes or phases of input signals or rectified versions thereof and produce binary signals destined for binary inputs of micro-controllers () comprising the circuits (-).

Converter with control loop

A triboelectric power generator system uses a power converter to provide a controllable impedance between a triboelectric power generator and a load, in dependence on the triboelectric generator output. This enables improved power transfer even though the output generated by a triboelectric power generator can be irregular and fluctuates over time.

Triboelectric power generator system and method

Drivers () for driving first and second light emitting diode circuits () that produce first and second light may comprise first generators () for in response to ripple information generating first control signals and first controllers () for in response to the first control signals controlling first intensities of the first light such that a sum of the first and second intensities the first and second light is less fluctuating than each one of these intensities. The ripple information defines parameters of ripples resulting from rectifications of alternating-current signals. The drivers () may further comprise second generators () for in response to the ripple information generating second control signals and second controllers () for in response to the second control signals controlling the second intensities. Ripple based flickering is reduced and smaller capacitors can be used.

Ripple based light emitting diode driving

A lighting arrangement () configured to illuminate an object (), the lighting arrangement () configured to emit light of a plurality of colors, and a control unit for controlling mixed light emitted by the lighting arrangement is disclosed. The control unit is configured to determine the object () to be illuminated and to receive a reflection spectrum of the object. Then, the control unit selects control parameters for mixed light emitted by the lighting arrangement, the mixed light having an illumination spectrum matching the reflection spectrum of the object based on predetermined parameters relating to the type of object. Furthermore, the lighting arrangement illuminates the object based on the selected control parameters provided by the control unit. A corresponding method and a computer program product are also disclosed.

Color emphasis and preservation of objects using reflection spectra

The present invention relates to a driver device () for driving a load (), comprising input terminals () for connecting the driver device () to a voltage supply () and for receiving an input voltage (V) from the voltage supply (), at least one output terminal for connecting the driver device () to the load (), an electromagnetic converter unit () for converting a drive voltage to an output voltage (V) for powering the load (), two controllable switches () connected to the input terminals () for providing a variable voltage as the drive voltage to the electromagnetic converter unit (), and a control unit () for controlling a first of the controllable switches () on the basis of an electrical signal (V) measured at a member of the electromagnetic converter unit () and a threshold level () and for controlling a second of the controllable switches () on the basis of a control parameter (, t) set to a value that the on-times of the controllable switches () have independent durations.

Driver device and driving method for driving a load

The present invention relates to a driver device () for driving a load (), in particular an LED () unit having one or more LEDs, comprising input terminals () for connecting the driver device () to a voltage supply () and for receiving an input voltage (V) from the voltage supply (), an output terminal for connecting the driver device () to the load (), an converter unit () for converting a drive voltage to an output (V) voltage for powering the load (), a switching unit () connected to the input terminals () for providing different voltage levels as the drive voltage to the converter unit (), and a control unit () for controlling the switching unit () on the basis of an electrical converter signal (V; V; I; I) measured at a member () of the converter unit () and a reference signal (Vth) having an alternating component to provide an out put signal (V) having an alternating signal component on the basis of the alternating component of the reference signal (Vth).

Driver device and driving method for driving a load, in particular an LED unit

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Andrew Ulrich Rutgers