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Lighting apparatus and image pick-up apparatus with lighting

US7284870B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 15, 2004
Grant dateOct 23, 2007
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Expiry dateNov 15, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH05B45/30
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A lighting apparatus in which plural light emitting devices for illuminating light to an object to be illuminated from the periphery thereof are put to light control, and a control device is provided for controlling light to the light emitting devices on every segment divided isogonally with respect to the lighting center at which the light is focused by a control device, wherein the control device 6 comprises an illuminance distribution setter 7 that sets the illuminance on every segments S1 to S4 individually in accordance with the start position of a vector that represents the lighting direction to the lighting center F on the XY coordinate plane D with the lighting center F being as an origin P0, and a light controller 9 that reads out the illuminance on every segment from the illuminance distribution setter 7 in accordance with the input data from a two dimensional data input device 8 that sets the start position and controls the light.

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