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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2010
Applicant:
Julius Muschaweck, Gauting, DE;
Inventor:
Julius Muschaweck, Gauting, DE;
Assignee:
OSRAM GmbH, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/50 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2013.01); G02B 27/0012 (2013.01); G06T 15/50 (2013.01); G06F 17/5009 (2013.01);
Abstract
This invention relates to a method of designing an illumination device, wherein a light source unit is modeled with a set of rays. Therein, each ray is assigned a light power and is further characterized by a light volume, which specifies how 'spread out' the light is in area and angle. In this way, a selection of rays with respect to their 'density' becomes possible, and an optical system can be optimized for a transmission of those rays providing the most light per volume.