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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2017
Applicant:
American Sterilizer Company, Mentor, OH (US);
Inventors:
Michael Hollopeter, Kirtland, OH (US);
David Jesurun, South Euclid, OH (US);
Assignee:
American Sterilizer Company, Mentor, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 33/08 (2006.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 33/0854 (2013.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.02); H05B 33/0842 (2013.01); A61B 2090/309 (2016.02);
Abstract
An adaptive shadow control system that compensates for blockage of one lighthead of a surgical lighting system by increasing the light output from one or more other lightheads of the lighting system. The system also includes control logic for automatic enablement/disablement of adaptive shadow control by detecting whether there is blockage of a lighthead and whether the respective light beams of a plurality of lightheads are being aggregated to form a single aggregated co-illumination light pattern at a work area.