US 12,188,826 B2
Control of motorized window treatments and lighting color
Rhodes B. Baker, Bethlehem, PA (US); Craig Alan Casey, Coopersburg, PA (US); and Thomas M. Shearer, Macungie, PA (US)
Assigned to Lutron Technology Company LLC, Coopersburg, PA (US)
Filed by Lutron Technology Company LLC, Coopersburg, PA (US)
Filed on May 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/323,124.
Application 17/323,124 is a continuation of application No. 16/560,897, filed on Sep. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,041,762.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/726,839, filed on Sep. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0270675 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G01J 5/02 (2022.01); E06B 9/42 (2006.01); E06B 9/72 (2006.01); G01J 5/60 (2006.01); H05B 47/11 (2020.01); E06B 9/68 (2006.01)
CPC G01J 5/027 (2013.01) [E06B 9/42 (2013.01); E06B 9/72 (2013.01); G01J 5/60 (2013.01); H05B 47/11 (2020.01); E06B 2009/6818 (2013.01); E06B 2009/6827 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system controller configured to:
receive at least one color temperature measurement of light inside a space from one or more first color temperature sensors, the space having a window having one or more window treatments, wherein, as a result of the one or more window treatments, the color temperature of the light that is entering the space is not equal to a color temperature of light from outside of the space;
receive an input for a desired color temperature for the space;
determine a color temperature of light that is entering the space from outside of the space based on at least one color temperature measurement of light from one or more second color temperature sensors; and
if the color temperature of the light that is entering the space is not equal to the desired color temperature for the space, control one or more lighting control devices to cause one or more lighting fixtures to adjust a color temperature of light emitted by the one or more lighting fixtures, wherein:
when the color temperature of the light that is entering the space is greater than the desired color temperature for the space, the system controller is configured to control the one or more lighting control devices to adjust the one or more lighting fixtures to decrease the color temperature of the light emitted; and
when the color temperature of the light that is entering the space is less than the desired color temperature for the space, the system controller is configured to control the one or more lighting control devices to adjust the one or more lighting fixtures to increase the color temperature of the light emitted.