Industry Patents

Patent: 9018840

Systems and Methods for Providing a Lighting Effect

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Patent Number: 9018840 
Title: Systems and Methods for Providing a Lighting Effect 
Abstract:

Systems and methods for creating and previewing a lighting effect, such as displaying an array of colors across a number of lighting fixtures are provided. A user may specify some of the colors for the array, as well as relative positions of the colors. A lighting management system determines transitional or intermediary colors and assigns the colors specified by the user, as well as the intermediary colors to the lighting fixtures. The resulting lighting effect may be displayed in a preview bar. The colors and the order of the colors may be edited to obtain a desired lighting effect.  

Country of Issue: US 
First Named Inventor: Hickok, Norton, Westrick 
Assignee: ABL IP Holdings 
Continuation or Divisional of:  
International Classification: H05B 37/02 
US Classification: 315/132 
Issue Date: 04-28-2015 
Filing Date: 03-15-2013 
Application : 13/832980 
Notes:  
Link to Patent at freepatentsonline.com: 9018840 at Freepatentsonline 
Link to World Patent Family1: World Patent Family at European Patent Office 
Link to Google Patents1: 9018840 at Google Patents 

 

1. The Google Patents and World Patent Family links will likely not work until a few weeks
after the patent has issued - they take a while to get new patents in their systems.

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