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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
May. 04, 2015
Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Mitsunori Nagashima, Kyoto, JP;
Masahide Tanaka, Osaka, JP;
Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
Of the various technological features disclosed in the present specification, a structure according to the one technological feature is as follows. A lighting apparatus changeable between an illuminating state and a non-illuminating state comprising: a non-contact motion sensor arranged to sense a movement of a hand near the lighting apparatus; and a controller arranged to control the lighting apparatus in the non-illuminating state to change from the non-illuminating state to the illuminating state in response to the movement of hand sensed by the non-contact motion sensor, and to control the lighting apparatus in the illuminating state to cause a change in illumination with the illuminating state kept in response to the same movement of hand sensed by the non-contact motion sensor.
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