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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:
Sep. 19, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2022
Applicant:

Express Imaging Systems, Llc, Renton, WA (US);

Inventors:

William G. Reed, Seattle, WA (US);

Richard Dolf, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Express Imaging Systems, LLC, Renton, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 47/11 (2020.01); G01J 1/04 (2006.01); G01J 1/42 (2006.01); H05B 47/16 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 47/11 (2020.01); G01J 1/0488 (2013.01); G01J 1/4204 (2013.01); H05B 47/16 (2020.01);
Abstract

A system to control solid state light sources, including a photosensor responsive primarily to wavelengths of light outside the emitted light band of wavelengths that the solid state light sources emit when the solid state light sources are in the ON state, and which produces a light level signal representative of a level of sensed light primarily for wavelengths outside of the emitted light band of wavelengths. A set of circuitry receives the light level signal representative of the sensed level of light from the photosensor, determines a contribution by the solid state light sources to the sensed level of light, and uses a compensated light level or a compensated threshold in assessing a dusk condition or a dawn condition when the solid state light sources are in the ON state to compensate for the contribution by the solid state light sources to the sensed level of light.


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