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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2014
Tsmc Solid State Lighting Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Wei-Yu Yeh, Tainan, TW;
EPISTAR CORPORATION, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A system includes a plurality of light-emitting devices electrically coupled together. A temperature of each of the light-emitting devices is correlated with a voltage of said light-emitting device. The system includes a current driver configured to control an amount of current through at least a subset of the light-emitting devices. The system includes electronic circuitry that is electrically coupled to the subset of the light-emitting devices. The electronic circuitry is configured to: measure a voltage of the subset of the light-emitting devices while the light-emitting devices are in operation; determine, based on the measured voltage, whether the subset of the light-emitting devices is hotter than an acceptable temperature threshold; and instruct the current driver to reduce the amount of current through the subset of the light-emitting devices if the subset of the light-emitting devices has been determined to be hotter than the acceptable temperature threshold.