REMOTELY CONTROLLED SMART LIGHTING SYSTEM

• US 20140097767A1
• Filed: 02/22/2013
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Foxsemicon Integrated Technology Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Foxsemicon Integrated Technology Incorporated
• Inventors: HSIEH, KUAN-HONG, CHEN, TE-SHENG
• Application Number:
  US13/773,794
• Publication Number:
  US 20140097767A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/291
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/10 Controlling the light source
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/185 via power line carrier transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

The disclosure provides a smart lighting system. The smart lighting system includes a lighting apparatus, a controller, and a remote control. The lighting apparatus is coupled to the controller and a power supply. The controller is connected to the remote control via a communication interface. The controller includes a user identification device (UID), a encryption system, and a dimmer. Via the encryption system, the UID is adapted to authenticate the signals transmitted from the remote control, and the dimmer modifies electrical currents from the power supply for the lighting apparatus according to the signal. The brightness of the lighting apparatus is thus modulated by the remote control.

Claims

1. A smart lighting system comprising:

a remote control;

a controller connected to the remote control via a contntunication interface, the controller comprising a user identification device (UID), a encryption system and a dimmer; and

a lighting apparatus coupled between the controller and a power supply;

wherein the remote control is adapted to generate and transmit a signal between the remote control and the communication interface;

the UID is adapted, to authenticate the signal via the encryption system; and

the dimmer modulates electrical currents for the lighting apparatus according to the signal.

2. The smart lighting system of claim 1, wherein the lighting apparatus comprises a light bulb, a light tube, or a socket.

3. The smart, lighting system of claim 1, wherein the power supply is coupled to the light apparatus through a power cord and the controller is installed, inside the light apparatus.

4. The smart lighting system of claim 1, wherein the remote control is adapted to generate the signal comprising a dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signal, a frequency shift keying (FSK) signal, or an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal.

5. The smart lighting system of claim 1, wherein the communication interface and the remote control communicate in dual-direction.

6. The smart lighting system of claim 1, wherein the UID is farther adapted, to authenticate the signal between the communication interface and the remote control by confirming a user'"'"'s identification and authenticating the remote control.

7. The smart lighting system of claim 1, wherein the encryption system encrypts and decrypts the signal between the communication interface and the remote control.

8. The smart lighting system of claim 1, wherein the power supply provides the electrical currents for the lighting apparatus, and the dimmer modifies the electrical currents by a pulse-width modulation (PWM).

9. The smart lighting system of claim 1, wherein the controller further comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) integrated in the controller.

10. The smart lighting system of claim 1, wherein remote control comprises a remote, a smart phone or a tablet;

the remote control is adapted to communicate with the communication interface via a signal communication device on the remote control.

11. The smart lighting system of claim 10 wherein the signal communication device comprises an infrared (IR) transmitter/receiver, a BLUETOOH device, a Wi-Fi device, or a voice controller, and the signal communication device communicates with the controller via a telephone wire, a wireless router, a home network, a internet server, or a cloud server.