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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2007
Applicant:
Jian Xu, Windsor, CA;
Inventor:
Jian Xu, Windsor, CA;
Assignee:
Masco Corporation, Taylor, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A lighting control circuit for dimming a light is provided with different algorithms that are utilized to dim fluorescent and incandescent lights. Some method of identifying the type of light which is to be dimmed, reports to a control for the lighting control circuit, and the appropriate algorithm is then selected and utilized.