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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2005
Alois Biebl, St. Johann, DE;
Stefan Hackenbuchner, München, DE;
Gunther Hirschmann, München, DE;
Reinhard Weitzel, Gernlinden, DE;
Alois Biebl, St. Johann, DE;
Stefan Hackenbuchner, München, DE;
Gunther Hirschmann, München, DE;
Reinhard Weitzel, Gernlinden, DE;
Abstract
An illumination system has at least two light sources of which at least one light source includes an LED, and a driver device designed to operate at least the one LED with a DC signal; a sensor device for determining at least one feature of the light output; an actual value storage device connected to the sensor device for storing an actual value of the feature; a setpoint selection device for storing a setpoint of the feature; and a control device connected on the input side to the actual value storage device for of transmitting the actual value, and to the setpoint selection device for transmitting the setpoint, and which provides the driver device with a control signal that changes a characteristic of the DC signal used for driving the LED such that the actual value approaches the setpoint.