Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Signify Holding B.v.

Philips Lighting Holding B.v.

Philips Electronics North America Corporation

U.S. Philips Corporation

North American Philips Corporation

Koninklike Philips N.v.

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

Kiran Srinivas Challapali

Jianfeng Wang

Dave Alberto Tavares Cavalcanti

Carlos Cordeiro

Hongqiang Zhai

Javier Del Prado Pavon

Qing Li

Fulong Ma

Yi Qiang Yu

Michael Alex Van Hartskamp

Hongxin Chen

Zhong Huang

Daniel Jozef Piotrowski

Marcin Krzysztof Szczodrak

Qin Zhao

Xianneng Peng

Martin Elixmann

Liang Jia

Dagnachew Birru

Yingwei Chen

Yong Yan

Amjad Ali Soomro

Joerg Habetha

Sai Shankar Nandagopalan

Marcin Gramza

Marek Zbigniew Szczerba

Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu

Monisha Ghosh

Berent Willem Meerbeek

Hui Li

Jonathan David Mason

Guido Roland Hiertz

Sanae Chraibi

Zhun Zhong

Vasanth Reddy Gaddam

Dan Jiang

Andrew Ulrich Rutgers

Talmai Brandão De Oliveira

John Brean Mills

Yong Yang

Dave A T Cavalcanti

Yuan Shu

Saishankar Nandagopalan

Bin Dong

Bong-Jun Ko

Cedric Y Caron

Neveen Shlayan

Weidong Mao

Richard Chen

Carlo Basile

Tommaso Gritti

Karl R Wittig

Alan Peter Cavallerano

Stefan Mangold

Faramarz Azadegan

Mahesh Balakrishnan

Richard C Shen

Jens Friedemann Marschner

Stefanie Brauers

We Dong Mao

Olu Akiwumi-Assani

Sai Shanker Nandagopalan

Dave AT Cavalcanti

Carlos M Cordeiro

Guido Hiertz

Sai Shankar Nandagapalan

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

A system for guiding a driver of a vehicle is disclosed. The system comprises a light sensor configured to detect light; and a processor configured to determine a position of vehicle on a roadway based on a characteristic of the detected light.

Vehicle positioning and guidance system

Detecting the presence of a television signal embedded in a received signal including the television signal and noise. Either first-order or second order cyclostationary property of the signals may be used for their detection. When the first-order cyclostationary property is used, the received signal is upsampled by a factor of N, a synchronous averaging of a set of M segments of the upsampled received signal is performed, an autocorrelation of the signal is performed; and the presence of peaks in the output of the autocorrelation function is detected. When the second order cyclostationary property of the signal is used, the received signal is delayed by a fixed delay (symbol time), the received signal is multiplied with the delayed version, and a tone (single frequency) in the output is detected.

Detection of the presence of television signals embedded in noise using cyclostationary toolbox

A system and methods to provide imaging service using outdoor lighting networks. The system uses outdoor lighting networks to manage/control video/image sensors connected to the network, e.g. hosted at lighting units, and coordinates the capture of useful video/image data associated with events. The system also provides an information search platform for users to retrieve only the relevant video/image data associated with events of interest. Furthermore, the system controls when and how to retrieve video/image data at lighting units across the whole network according to user requests, the priority of the events, and available bandwidth.

Imaging service using outdoor lighting networks

Wireless networks and their method of implementation include a first network and one or more networks. The first network assigns designated time slots to each of the one or more networks during which at least one device of at least one of the networks may communicate with at least one other device of its respective network.

Method to achieve coexistence between centralized TDMA MAC and a second MAC in wireless communication systems

Self-coexistence of first and second wireless communication networks () is improved by transmitting a coexistence beacon from a first station () of the first wireless communication network () to a first station () of the second wireless communication network (. The coexistence beacon includes information about a traffic reservation of the first station () of the first wireless communication network (). The first station () of the second wireless communication network () may then use this information in a variety of ways to reduce data collisions between the two networks (). It can communicate this information to a base station () of the second wireless communication network (). The base station () of the second wireless communication network () can then use this information to more efficiently allocate frequency channels and/or time slots for future traffic reservations of the first station () of the second wireless communication network ().

Method for improving self-coexistence of wireless communication networks

A lighting network () and methods therefore are disclosed. The lighting network () includes a plurality of lighting units (LU-LU) each including a wireless receiver () arranged to obtain a wireless signal from an object () to be tracked and a communication interface (). The lighting network () also includes a control unit () including a communication unit () that is arranged to communicate with at least one of the plurality of lighting units (LU-LU) to obtain tracking data based upon the wireless signal. The tracking data is processed by the control unit () using a topology table (FIG.). The topology table (FIG.) is based upon the geographic locations of the plurality of lighting units and mapping data.

System and method for traffic management using lighting networks

A method for detecting the presence of a television signal embedded in a received signal including the television signal and noise is disclosed. Either first-order or second order cyclostationary property of the signals may be used for their detection. When the first-order cyclostationary property is used, the following method is used, the method comprising the steps of upsampling the received signal by a factor of N, performing a synchronous averaging of a set of M segments of the upsampled received signal, performing an autocorrelation of the signal; and detecting the presence of peaks in the output of the autocorrelation function. When the second order cyclostationary property of the signal is used, the method comprising the steps of delaying the received signal by a fixed delay (symbol time), multiplying the received signal with the delayed version, looking for a tone (single frequency) in the output.

A method to control a lighting network having a plurality of light units, the method may be controlled by a lighting operator which may obtain information related to service availability for each of the light units; map the information related to service availability for each of the light units to form a service availability information map comprising attribute information of each of the light units; determine one or more of service policies, service schedules, and operational parameters for each of the plurality of light units for a service time period; and/or provide cellular communication service to one or more cellular stations in a service area of the light units in accordance with one or more of the determined service policies, service schedules, and operational parameters for the service time period.

Enhanced lighting network to serve mobile cellular users and method of operation thereof

An OLN lighting requirements generation system and method including a lighting requirements generation system for an outdoor lighting network (OLN,) having lighting units (), the system having a central control apparatus (); a plurality of lighting unit control apparatus (); and a communication system () operably connecting the central control apparatus () and the lighting unit control apparatus (). The central control apparatus () is operable to: acquire location-based data; define clusters from the location-based data; define lighting requirements for each of the clusters; associate the lighting units () to the clusters from location information for the lighting units; map the lighting units () to the lighting requirements; and implement the lighting requirements of the clusters associated with each of the lighting units ().

Lighting requirements generation system and method

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Kiran Srinivas Challapali