Illuminated, decorative led-display wearable safety device with different modes of motion and color

• US 6,611,244 B1
• Filed: 10/30/2000
• Issued: 08/26/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Steven P.W. Guritz
• Original Assignee: Steven P.W. Guritz
• Inventors: Guritz, Steven P. W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Saras, Steven
• Assistant Examiner(s): BELL, PAUL A
• Application Number:
  US09/699,178
• Time in Patent Office: 1,030 Days
• Field of Search: 345/33, 345/34, 345/39, 345/44, 345/46, 345/82, 345/83, 362/103, 362/104, 362/105, 362/106, 362/108, 362/251, 362/252, 362/800, 362/806, 405/86
• US Class Current: 345/46
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 15/0015 Illuminated or sound-producing jewellery
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/20 Controlling the colour of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/30 Driver circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources

Abstract

A relatively small, illuminated, wearable-safety device or item that may also serve as an item of jewelry or ornamental apparel attachment item of jewelry or ornamental apparel attachment which incorporates a series of LED'"'"'s packages, with each LED package being made of three individual LED'"'"'s, one of blue, one of green, and one of red, whereby a continuous range of colors may be emitted by selected energizing of each individual LED of an LED package. The LED packages are capable of being flashed in various modes of operation, such as sequential, random, continuous, and the like. The LED packages are also controlled where the colors emitted by each LED package may also have various modes of operation, such as sequential, random, continuous, and the like, where the color emitted by each LED package may be altered according to a fixed or random pattern, all of which are controlled by one microprocessor.

Claims

1. An illuminated item to be worn on a person or clothing comprising a main body portion configured as one of the following:

a small, illuminated, wearable-safety device, item of jewelry, or ornamental apparel attachment; and

an illuminated lighting display means mounted on said main body portion,

said lighting display comprising;

a plurality of LED-packages, each said LED package comprising three, separate LED'"'"'s, one green LED, one red LED, and one blue LED;

a microcontroller for controlling the actuation and time span of actuation of each of said three, separate LED'"'"'s of each said LED package;

said microcontroller comprising memory means;

said memory means having software means stored therein, said software means comprising a first means for causing said microcontroller to produce control signals for each of said three, separate LED'"'"'s of each said LED package, in order to generate a selected color to be visible from each said LED package;

said software means comprising second means for controlling said first means to display a desired mode of color display of said LED packages, said second means controlling said first means to change the color to be displayed by each said LED package, whereby a plurality of color modes may be generated whereby each LED package will have its displayed color changed after a predetermined, pre-selected duration of time according to a specified color pattern;

said software means comprising third means controlling said LED packages to vary the actuation and illumination thereof to vary the mode of said LED packages from one pattern of apparent movement to another pattern of apparent movement;

control means for controlling the state of said microcontroller, said control means comprising a first actuation means for powering up said microcontroller, and a second actuation means for controlling said second means of said software means;

said second actuation means controlling said second means of said software means to change a selected color mode to a different color mode.

2. The illuminated item according to claim 1, wherein said second means produces at least one of the following color modes for said plurality of LED packages:

random switching of color of said plurality of LED packages;

sequencing of colors of said plurality of LED packages; and

the changing of colors where each said LED package generates a color different from another said LED package.

3. The illuminated item according to claim 2, wherein said second means controls the duration of each color display of each said LED packages for a preset duration of time, said preset duration of time being alterable based on the color mode selected.

4. The illuminated item according to claim 1, wherein said second actuation means controls said second means of said software means to change the speed of a selected color mode.

5. A lighting display comprising a main body portion configured as one of the following:

a small, illuminated, wearable device, item of jewelry, ornamental apparel attachment, clothes-worn display, or animal-worn display;

said main body comprising;

a plurality of LED-packages;

each said LED package comprising three, separate LED'"'"'s, one green LED, one red LED, and one blue LED;

a microcontroller for controlling the actuation and time span of actuation of each of said three separate LED'"'"'s of each said LED package;

said microcontroller comprising memory means;

said memory means having software means stored therein, said software means comprising a first means for causing said microcontroller to produce control signals for each of said three separate LED'"'"'s of each said LED package, in order to generate a selected color to be visible from each said LED package;

said software means comprising second means for controlling said first means to display a desired mode of color display of said LED packages, said second means controlling said first means to change the color to be displayed by each said LED package, whereby a plurality of color modes may be generated whereby each LED package will have its displayed color changed after a predetermined, pre-selected duration of time according to a specified color pattern;

control means for controlling the state of said microcontroller, said control means comprising a first actuation means for powering up said microcontroller, and a second actuation means for controlling said second means of said software means;

said second actuation means controlling said second means of said software means to change the speed of said selected color mode.