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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2010
Applicant:
Clint F. Chaplin, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Clint F. Chaplin, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided comprising: receiving a selection of a desired brightness level of a light source; receiving a piece of data to be transmitted via visible light communication using the light source; selecting a duty cycle, described by an encoding scheme, based on the desired brightness level; encoding the data using the encoding scheme, wherein the encoding includes identifying a code corresponding to both the piece of data and the selected duty cycle; and transmitting the identified code via visible light communication using the light source.