Apple's new patent: intelligent ceiling lighting system

Tencent technology news, according to foreign media reports, apple on Tuesday to get an intelligent ceiling lighting system patents, it will be deployed to the next generation of such lighting systems throughout the world apple retail stores.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple's patent No. 9217247th U.S. patents, patent name "ceiling system", the patent document detailed description of an indoor lighting system, the lighting system is composed of the overwhelming light ceiling panel and a linear optical slot.

In the latest Apple retail stores in Brussels and California City, the headquarters of the Kolb Park renovation retail store plan has been mentioned in the text of the patent.

This intelligent ceiling lighting system is not a point light source, but the whole ceiling into a huge diffuse lighting device. Apple said that a unified lighting intensity helps to provide a perfect customer experience, but also on the display of goods will have greater flexibility.

In a variety of lighting design, apple can be used with or without lighting ceiling panels and narrow slot into different patterns. LED panels or other light sources may be installed in the panel with lighting function, which can be reflected directly through the fabric or plastic diffuser or through the back panel.

A narrow slot is spread over the entire ceiling, and a LED subsystem is integrated in the narrow slot to emit light or vertically downward light toward a narrow slot centerline. Some lighting schemes can also be extended through the T-shaped frame so as to reserve space for the ventilation pipe.

Cameras, microphones, alarms, fire alarms, and other electronic systems can be installed in the back and longitudinal slots of the ceiling panels by innovative designs, so that they can't be seen from the outside. Although apple is not described in the patent document, but the iBeacon communication module can be directly installed in the ceiling.

Jonny Avi, chief designer at Jony (Ive) with the help of senior vice president of Apple's retail business (Angela Ahrendts) is an important renovation of Apple's retail stores. MS ahrendts on Sunday unveiled an apple retail store near the city, the headquarters of the apple Kolb model in the "60 minutes" program, she said her goal is to let customers into the next generation of Apple's retail stores can get a full change shopping experience.

The patent document is apple submitted in February 2014, including the patent inventor: Stefan Behring (Stefan Behling), David Nelson (David Nelson), James crath (James McGrath), Wolfgang Muller (Wolfgang Muller), Lorenzo Poli (Lorenzo Poli), Bernd Likert (Bernd Richter), Robert Brij (Robert Bridger), Jonathan P Seagal (Jonathan P. Siegel), Vasco Agnori (Vasco Agnoli) and Kathy Feeney (Casey Feeney).

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