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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2017
Applicant:

Abl Ip Holding Llc, Conyers, GA (US);

Inventors:

Jonathan Lloyd Goodman, Ashburn, VA (US);

David P. Ramer, Reston, VA (US);

Ravi Kumar Komanduri, Brambleton, VA (US);

Jack C. Rains, Jr., Herndon, VA (US);

Assignee:

ABL IP HOLDING LLC, Conyers, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G09G 3/34 (2006.01); G02B 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/3426 (2013.01); G02B 5/0205 (2013.01); G02B 5/0252 (2013.01); G02B 5/0273 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0646 (2013.01); G09G 2340/04 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0407 (2013.01);
Abstract

Examples relate to a method and implementations of general illumination light emitters, an image display device and an image diffuser in a luminaire. The image display device is configured to output an image having a reduced, or first, pixel image fill factor and, as a result, might appear pixelated. To mitigate the pixelation, the image diffuser has a predetermined image diffusion angle and is a predetermined distance from the image display device. The image diffuser outputs an image having a second image pixel fill factor that is greater than the first image pixel fill factor. The appearance of the outputted image appears to be formed from fuzzy pixels. Characteristics related to the image, device, diffuser, and their arrangement may be optimized to provide the fuzzy pixels. A luminaire may output an image formed of the fuzzy pixels and general illumination lighting to an area.


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