Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control device having buttons with automatically adjustable backlighting
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Application No.: US16271463Application Date: 2019-02-08
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Publication No.: US11240886B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Daniel L. Twaddell , Matthew Philip McDonald , Jason C. Killo , Jonathan Robert Quayle
- Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
- Applicant Address: US PA Coopersburg
- Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
- Current Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Coopersburg
- Agent Michael Czarnecki; Glen Farbanish; Philip Smith
- Main IPC: H05B33/08
- IPC: H05B33/08 ; H02B15/00 ; H05B37/02 ; H05B45/10 ; H05B47/10 ; H05B31/50 ; H01H13/83 ; H05B47/11 ; H05B47/175 ; H05B45/12

Abstract:
A control device may comprise a plurality of buttons, a plurality of light sources located behind the respective buttons and configured to illuminate the buttons, a light detector circuit configured to measure an ambient light level around the control device, and/or a control circuit configured to control the light sources to adjust surface illumination intensities of the respective buttons in response to the measured ambient light level. Each button may comprise indicia indicating a function of the button. The control circuit set the first button as active and the second button as inactive in response to an actuation of the first button. The control circuit may, based on the measured ambient light level, control the light sources to illuminate the first button to an active surface illumination intensity, and to illuminate the second button to an inactive surface illumination intensity that is less than the active surface illumination intensity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190174598A1 CONTROL DEVICE HAVING BUTTONS WITH AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTABLE BACKLIGHTING Public/Granted day:2019-06-06
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