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A light guide containing substantially aligned non-spherical particles provides more efficient control of light scattering. One or more regions containing ellipsoidal particles may be used and the particle sizes may vary between 2 and 100 microns in the smaller dimension. The light scattering regions may be substantially orthogonal in their axis of alignment. Alternatively, one or more asymmetrically scattering films can be used in combination with a backlight light guide and a reflector to produce an efficient backlight system. The light guides may be manufactured by embossing, stamping, or compression molding a light guide in a suitable light guide material containing asymmetric particles substantially aligned in one direction. The light scattering light guide or non-scattering light guide may be used with one or more light sources, collimating films or symmetric or asymmetric scattering films.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for preventing incorrect lighting changes in a daylight-harvesting system, which controls the output of a lighting system based on the presence of daylight and / or other light sources to reduce energy usage. During operation, the system measures a first light level using a first sensor. Next, the system measures a second light level for a different field-of-view using a second sensor. When the system detects through the first sensor a change in the first light level, the system determines from the second sensor whether the second light level has also changed. If the first sensor and the second sensor both detect a change (in the same direction) in the measured light levels, the system adjusts the light output of the lighting system to maintain target light levels for the area.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for preventing incorrect lighting changes in a daylight-harvesting system, which controls the output of a lighting system based on the presence of daylight and / or other light sources to reduce energy usage. During operation, the system measures a first light level using a first sensor. Next, the system measures a second light level for a different field-of-view using a second sensor. When the system detects through the first sensor a change in the first light level, the system determines from the second sensor whether the second light level has also changed. If the first sensor and the second sensor both detect a change (in the same direction) in the measured light levels, the system adjusts the light output of the lighting system to maintain target light levels for the area.

At least one exemplary embodiment can control light emission so as to facilitate a face area of a subject to be adequately photographed. In the at least one exemplary embodiment, respective face areas of the subject can be detected from captured image signals acquired before and after preliminary light emission, and a luminance comparison calculation can be performed between the detected face areas from the captured image signals, so that light amount control can be performed in an area centered on the face area of the subject.

A light emitting device of III-V group compound semiconductor includes a first stack and a second stack. The first stack includes a semiconductor stack including a light emitting layer. A multilayered reflective structure for reflecting light from the light emitting layer and a first metal bonding-layer are successively formed on the semiconductor stack. The second stack includes a second metal bonding-layer. The first and second stacks are bonded together by bonding the first and second metal bonding-layers to each other. The multilayered reflective structure includes a transparent conductive oxide layer and a reflective metal layer adjacent thereto in this order from the side of the semiconductor stack. The thickness of the transparent conductive oxide layer is adjusted to control the light emission characteristics.

The invention judges whether or not the relation between an illumination at a desired position and a target illumination satisfies a predetermined condition, and causes the illumination at the desired position to approach the target illumination by letting a plurality of lighting devices successively perform a procedure of increasing / decreasing their respective light intensities based on a result of the judgment. The illumination at the desired position is caused to approach the target illumination by randomly varying the light intensities of the lighting devices, making comparison between the illumination at the desired position and the target illumination, and narrowing the width of variation based on a result of the comparison. When the electric power consumption has increased, the light intensities are returned to the previous values. Furthermore, there is provided a control terminal device for control that can be used for other control amounts.

An image pickup module of the present invention includes a cover in the form of a tube, and a lens holder. The cover is fixed (bonded) to a base in a state in which its leg section is in contact with a surface of the base. The lens holder is inserted in an inner surface of the cover, and an outer surface of the lens holder is fixed (bonded) to the inner surface of the cover in a state in which the leg section is in contact with the transparent plate, and the outer surface is in contact with the inner surface of the cover. A lens for guiding a path of incident light to the light receiving section of the image pickup element is fixed on a predetermined position of the lens holder.

A light emitting device includes: a plurality of unit circuits each of which includes a driving transistor for generating a driving current corresponding to a potential of a gate and a light emitting element for emitting light having a brightness corresponding to the driving current; a plurality of signal processing units which correspond to the unit circuits; and a designating unit which designates voltages to the signal processing units. Each of the plurality of signal processing units includes: a voltage adjusting unit which variably outputs a voltage to operate the driving transistor in a saturated region in response to a designation by the designating unit; and an output unit which outputs the voltage output from the voltage adjusting unit to the gate of the driving transistor corresponding to the signal processing unit at a time density corresponding to a gray-scale value designated to the light emitting element.

A diode chip is sealed by a glass material.There are provided a light emitting diode chip and a glass member in close contact with at least one portion of the surface of the light emitting diode chip. The glass member has a surface shape containing a curved surface at least a portion thereof. The curved surface is preferably a portion of a spherical surface or a spheroidal surface. The glass member has a surface shape containing a spherical portion and a flat portion, and the diode chip is preferably disposed on the flat portion.

A light beam scanning device which is capable of performing high-accuracy light amount control without complicated control even when the device includes a laser diode having non-linear I-L characteristics. Gain circuits set the amount of light to be emitted from the laser diode. A PD circuit board detects the amount of the emitted light. A laser controller controls the amount of the emitted light by adjusting drive current applied to the laser diode based on a detection output from the PD circuit board. A CPU corrects data for correcting the drive current. The CPU decides a light amount correction range for correcting the light amount based on the correction data, calculates the slope of the I-L characteristics in the light amount correction range based on light amounts at two points within the light amount correction range and drive currents associated with the respective light amounts, and corrects the correction data using the calculated slope.

Disclosed herein is a lighting period setting method for a display panel which permits control of the peak luminance level by controlling the total lighting period length which is the sum of all lighting periods per field period, the lighting period setting method including the steps of, calculating the average luminance level across the screen based on input image data, determining light emission mode based on the calculated average luminance level, and setting the number, arrangement and lengths of lighting periods per field period according to the setting conditions defined for the determined light emission mode so as to provide the peak luminance level which is set according to the input image data.

A laser projection display device 1 includes a laser light source driving unit 4 setting a current which drives a laser light source according to an image signal, a light sensor 10 detecting a light amount of the laser light generated by the laser light source 5, and a light emission control unit 22 emitting light by supplying a standard image signal and a current setting signal to the laser light source driving unit and setting the laser light source driving unit such that the light amount detected by the light sensor becomes a target value. The light emission control unit supplies the current setting signal to the laser light source driving unit such that light emission is performed a plurality of times with a predetermined current difference, in a fly-back period in one frame of the image signal.

A discharge lamp lighting circuit is provided. The discharge lamp lighting circuit includes a power supplying portion which comprises an inverter circuit comprising a switching element; a series resonant circuit comprising a capacitor, and at least one of an inductor and a transformer; and a driving circuit which drives said switching element, said power supplying portion converting DC power to AC power and supplying the AC power to a discharge lamp; and a controlling portion which produces a frequency control signal for controlling a frequency of a drive signal output from said driving circuit, the controlling portion including a phase difference detecting portion which detects a phase difference between an input voltage and an input current that are supplied from said inverter circuit to said series resonant circuit; and a control signal producing portion which produces the frequency control signal in accordance with the phase difference.

The invention discloses an energy-saving lamp with a shade and an assembly method thereof. The energy-saving lamp comprises a spiral tube and a glass shade, wherein a 4-10mm high cold end is arranged at the top end of the spiral tube and is provided with mercury source substances for releasing mercury vapor; the top of the cold end is contacted with the bottom of the inner wall of the glass shade; transparent insulation glue is arranged at the bottom of the glass shade; the cold end is positioned in the insulation glue, thus the tube can use the low temperature mercury source substances though working under high temperature and the lighting effect of the energy-saving lamp can be ensured not to be affected, thereby realizing rapid lighting of the energy-saving lamp; and the insulation glue can further prevent influence of conduction of the hot air in the glass shade, thereby better controlling the temperature of the cold end and improving the heat dissipation property of the spiral tube. The assembly method can ensure the cold end at the top of each spiral tube to be effectively contacted with the bottom of the inner wall of the glass shade, without being affected by the dimensional tolerance of the spiral tube and the glass shade.

A discharge lamp lighting circuit is provided. The discharge lamp lighting circuit includes a power supplying portion which comprises an inverter circuit comprising a switching element; a series resonant circuit comprising a capacitor, and at least one of an inductor and a transformer; and a driving circuit which drives said switching element, said power supplying portion converting DC power to AC power and supplying the AC power to a discharge lamp; and a controlling portion which produces a frequency control signal for controlling a frequency of a drive signal output from said driving circuit, the controlling portion including a phase difference detecting portion which detects a phase difference between an input voltage and an input current that are supplied from said inverter circuit to said series resonant circuit; and a control signal producing portion which produces the frequency control signal in accordance with the phase difference.

A method for correcting an actuator characteristic of a clutch actuator for a friction clutch of a vehicle transmission after the commissioning of the vehicle. The actuator characteristic relates a first desired variable, such as a desired clutch pressure, to a second desired variable, such as an desired actuator current. The method includes approaching a quasi-steady-state operating point of the friction clutch. In addition, a deviation is detected between the first desired variable and an actual variable of the friction clutch. Also, a correction function is set up for the actuator characteristic according to the deviation.

The present invention provides a light irradiation apparatus for an exposure apparatus capable of restraining electric power consumption corresponding to necessary luminous intensity and capable of performing simple control to the light source part, its lighting control method, exposure apparatus and substrate. The optical control part 76 has a plurality of lighting mode groups with different numbers of illumined light source part 73, and each lighting mode group respectively has a plurality of lighting modes A1 to D1, A2 to D3, A3 to D3 lighted up by the light source part 73 in point symmetric mode. Furthermore, the optical control part 76 controls that a preset number of light source parts 73 are lighted up at point symmetry mode according to identical lighting mode, therefore all light source parts 73 are lighted up in point symmetry mode.

There is provided a lighting control system of a vehicle lamp. The system includes: a plurality of lamps including: a main lamp; and a separate lamp which is separated from the main lamp; and a lighting controller configured to control lighting of the plurality of lamps. The main lamp includes: a first lamp lighting circuit configured to perform a lighting operation of the main lamp; and a control circuit configured to output a lighting signal based on a lighting control signal output from the lighting controller. The separate lamp includes: a second lamp lighting circuit configured to perform a lighting operation of the separate lamp. The first lamp lighting circuit and the second lamp lighting circuit are configured to perform the lighting operations based on the lighting signal output from the control circuit.

A method for correcting an actuator characteristic of a clutch actuator for a friction clutch of a vehicle transmission after the commissioning thereof. The actuator characteristic relates a first desired variable, such as a desired clutch pressure, to a second desired variable, such as an desired actuator current. The method comprises the steps: approaching a quasi-steady-state operating point of the friction clutch; detecting a deviation between the first desired variable and an actual variable of the friction clutch; and setting up a correction function for the actuator characteristic according to the deviation.

A light beam scanning device which is capable of performing high-accuracy light amount control without complicated control even when the device includes a laser diode having non-linear I-L characteristics. Gain circuits set the amount of light to be emitted from the laser diode. A PD circuit board detects the amount of the emitted light. A laser controller controls the amount of the emitted light by adjusting drive current applied to the laser diode based on a detection output from the PD circuit board. A CPU corrects data for correcting the drive current. The CPU decides a light amount correction range for correcting the light amount based on the correction data, calculates the slope of the I-L characteristics in the light amount correction range based on light amounts at two points within the light amount correction range and drive currents associated with the respective light amounts, and corrects the correction data using the calculated slope.

A laser projection display device 1 includes a laser light source driving unit 4 setting a current which drives a laser light source according to an image signal, a light sensor 10 detecting a light amount of the laser light generated by the laser light source 5, and a light emission control unit 22 emitting light by supplying a standard image signal and a current setting signal to the laser light source driving unit and setting the laser light source driving unit such that the light amount detected by the light sensor becomes a target value. The light emission control unit supplies the current setting signal to the laser light source driving unit such that light emission is performed a plurality of times with a predetermined current difference, in a fly-back period in one frame of the image signal.

The invention belongs to the archive management technology field and relates to an intelligent archive room big data analysis and display system. The system comprises a data acquisition unit, a data storage unit, an analysis unit and a display unit which are electrically connected with one another sequentially; the data acquisition unit comprises an archive data acquisition module and an environmental data acquisition module; the analysis unit comprises an archive data statistical analysis module and an environmental data statistical analysis module; and the display unit comprises a three-dimensional scene display module and a real-time data display module. According to the system of the invention, the Internet of Things, cloud computing and big data technology are adopted to implement integrated management on archive work in order to create a safe, efficient and convenient smart archives.

A discharge lamp lighting method for controlling lighting of a discharge lamp includes varying an amount of generation (current value) of overshoot and undershoot generated in a waveform of a drive current that is applied when driving the discharge lamp, according to a magnitude of drive power supplied to the discharge lamp and a drive mode.

A zoomable light beam spreader comprising first and second multiple-lens arrays includes a plurality of plano-convex lenses in correspondence with a plurality of plano-concave lenses having matched, curved optical surfaces. In a zero-power state, the two multiple-lens arrays are very closely spaced so that the matched convex and concave surfaces effectively cancel each other optically but, as the two arrays are separated coaxially along the axis of a light beam, beam divergence angle increases as a function of the distance of separation. A large amount of beam divergence is obtained when the curved surfaces of the plano-concave lenses of the second array are positioned beyond the focus points of the plano-convex lenses of the first array.

The present invention provides a light irradiation apparatus for an exposure apparatus capable of restraining electric power consumption corresponding to necessary luminous intensity and capable of performing simple control to the light source part, its lighting control method, exposure apparatus and substrate. The optical control part 76 has a plurality of lighting mode groups with different numbers of illumined light source part 73, and each lighting mode group respectively has a plurality of lighting modes A1 to D1, A2 to D3, A3 to D3 lighted up by the light source part 73 in point symmetric mode. Furthermore, the optical control part 76 controls that a preset number of light source parts 73 are lighted up at point symmetry mode according to identical lighting mode, therefore all light source parts 73 are lighted up in point symmetry mode.

Provided is a light assembly including a bulb, a lamp base enclosure having circuitry therein configured to supply power to the bulb, and an integrated and dial electrically coupled to the bulb and the lamp base. The dial is operable for selecting one of a plurality of predetermined power settings for the light assembly prior to installation.