Dpa Ventures, Inc.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

St. Peter's Health Partners

Mark Pettus

Partha S Dutta

Kedar Prasad Gupta

Saurabh Ullal

Pooja Devendran

Anand Devendran

Charles Gianfagna

George W Seabury

Robert Cella

Dorothy Maria Urschel

In general, the present disclosure is directed to an artificial window system that can simulate the user experience of a traditional window in environments where exterior walls are unavailable or other constraints make traditional windows impractical. In an embodiment, an artificial window consistent with the present disclosure includes a window panel, a panel driver, and a camera device. The camera device captures a plurality of image frames representative of an outdoor environment and provides the same to the panel driver. A controller of the panel driver sends the image frames as a video signal to cause the window panel to visually output the same. The window panel may further include light panels, and the controller may extract light characteristics from the captured plurality of image frames to send signals to the light panels to cause the light panels to mimic outdoor lighting conditions.

Artificial window system

Power management in an artificial window system

A therapeutic environmental light and image system and related methods are provided. A controller controls a lighting system and one or more images displayed on a display monitor to create a virtual window in a patient recovery room that simulates characteristics of a real window. Optionally, circadian full-spectrum light cycling is delivered via a prescriptively-selected circadian light cycle, which may or may not be configured based on the images provided on the display monitor. Additionally, ultraviolet light from an ultraviolet light source may be dosed to the patient to favorably impact biologic functions and other health aspects of the patient, to facilitate patient recovery.

Therapeutic environmental light and image system

Growing community of inventors

Dalton, MA, United States of America

Mark Pettus