WO2012035469A1 - Coded light emitting device - Google Patents
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- H04B—TRANSMISSION
- H04B10/00—Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
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- H04B10/114—Indoor or close-range type systems
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
- H05B45/00—Circuit arrangements for operating light-emitting diodes [LED]
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
- H05B47/00—Circuit arrangements for operating light sources in general, i.e. where the type of light source is not relevant
- H05B47/10—Controlling the light source
- H05B47/175—Controlling the light source by remote control
- H05B47/19—Controlling the light source by remote control via wireless transmission
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
- H05B45/00—Circuit arrangements for operating light-emitting diodes [LED]
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- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02B—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
- Y02B20/00—Energy efficient lighting technologies, e.g. halogen lamps or gas discharge lamps
- Y02B20/30—Semiconductor lamps, e.g. solid state lamps [SSL] light emitting diodes [LED] or organic LED [OLED]
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- Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to the field of illumination systems, and, more specifically, to systems and methods for embedding data into the light output of such illumination systems.
- One visible light communications technique is based on embedding data into the light output of an illumination device by modulating the light output of the illumination device in response to a data signal (such light output is sometimes referred to as “coded light” and abbreviated as "CL”).
- a data signal such light output is sometimes referred to as “coded light” and abbreviated as "CL”
- the light output is modulated at a high frequency and/or using a special modulation scheme so that the modulation is invisible to human beings.
- illumination systems usually employ dedicated driver electronics to allow superimposing a data signal onto the LED driving signal.
- Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of such an illumination system 100.
- the illumination system 100 includes a dedicated driver circuit 110 and a LED 120, and is configured to generate a light output 125 according to light settings.
- the dedicated driver circuit 110 includes a drive signal generator 112 and a driver controller 114.
- the illumination system 100 is configured to operate as follows. As shown in Figure 1, the light settings for the illumination system 100 are provided to the drive signal generator 112. The light settings indicate what the average light output 125 should be in terms, for example, of light power, e.g. defined in lumen, and color.
- the drive signal generator 112 translates the light settings into a drive signal (e.g., a drive current) for the LED 120 and provides the drive signal to the driver controller 114.
- a drive signal e.g., a drive current
- an illumination device for embedding one or more data symbols of a data signal into a luminance output of the illumination device.
- the illumination device includes a LED comprising at least a first segment and a second segment.
- the first segment and the second segment have a common electrode and are individually controllable.
- the LED is configured to generate the luminance output in response to a drive signal.
- the illumination device further includes a controller configured for switching the second segment on or off in response to the data signal to embed the one or more data symbols of the data signal.
- the phrase “switch off a segment” [of a LED] refers to disrupting the drive signal provided to the segment.
- the phrase “switch on a segment” [of a LED] refers to providing the drive signal to the segment. When a segment is switched off it does not generate light. When a segment is switched on, it generates light.
- the luminance output of the LED is a composition of the luminance outputs of each of the segments.
- Embodiment of claims 6 and 13 provide an advantageous type of the LED to be employed in the illumination device.
- Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of an illumination system according to prior art
- FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of an illumination system according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a schematic illustration of implementation of a segmented LED approach according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 5 is a schematic illustration of the droop effect.
- Figure 2 shows a structure 200 - in this case a room - with an installed illumination system 210.
- the illumination system 210 comprises one or more of light sources 220 and one or more controllers (not shown in Figure 1) controlling the light sources 220. When driven with an electrical signal, the light sources 220 illuminate parts of the structure 200.
- the light sources 220 may comprise inorganic and/or organic light emitting devices.
- the illumination system 210 may further comprise a remote control 230 allowing a user to control the light sources 220.
- FIG 3 is a schematic illustration of an illumination system 300 according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- the illumination system 300 may be used as the illumination system 210 in the structure 200 illustrated in Figure 2. As shown, the
- illumination system 300 includes a LED 320 which includes at least two individually controllable segments having a common electrode, a LED driver 310 configured to provide a drive signal to the LED 320, and a data source 330 configured to provide data to be embedded into the light output of the LED 320.
- the illumination system 300 is configured to operate as follows. As shown in
- the light settings may be preprogrammed and stored in a memory within the LED driver 310 or within the illumination system 300.
- the LED driver 310 translates the light settings into a drive signal for the LED 320.
- the phrase “constant drive signal” (which includes “constant drive current”) is used to reflect the fact that the drive signal is not modulated to embed data bits. This does not exclude drive signals consisting of pulses, as long as the pulses are not modulated to embed data signals, as was done in the prior art.
- the LED 320 further includes a controller 340.
- the controller 340 is configured to receive a data signal 335 from a data source 330.
- the signal 335 includes (at least) data bits to be embedded into the light output 325 of the LED 320.
- the symbols are referred to as bits. However, it should be recognized that whenever the word "bit" is used in the present application, a wider definition of a
- the controller 340 is configured to switch segments D2, ... Dn on or off in response to the signal 335 in order to embed the data bits of the signal 335 into the light output 325.
- the amount of emitting area corresponding to each of the different segments defines the intensity levels of the light output modulation.
- the number of segments that can be switched on or off defines the number of modulation levels. For example, for a two level modulation (i.e. each bit to be embedded is either "1" or "0"), only two segments within the LED 320 are required - one segment which is always switched on and another segment which could be switched on or off to embed data bits. Referring to Figure 4, such an embodiment corresponds to the emitting portion 422 comprising only two emitting segments, Dl and D2.
- the emitting portion 422 comprises the segments Dl ... Dn.
- n is an integer between 3 and 10, more preferably between 5 and 8, such as 6 or 7. Switching the segments D2 ... Dn using the switches S2 ... Sn enables implementing data with multiple discrete levels in the light output 325 of LED 320.
- the relative sizes A2 ... An of the segments D2 ... Dn are all equal.
- the segments D2 ... Dn are designed such that their nominal operation current densities relate to each other similarly as described for the sizes above.
- the LED 320 could also operate in DC mode as any other conventional LED device when switches S2-Sn remain in on- state. Namely, the current through the segments Dl, D2, ... Dn will flow uniformly provided that the on-resistance of the switches S2, ... Sn is much lower than the dynamic resistance of the segments.
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