US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on Sept. 23 for "Visible light sensor configured for glare detection and controlling motorized window treatments" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,943, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Visible light sensor configured for glare detection and controlling motorized window treatments" was invented by Craig Alan Casey (Coopersburg, Pa.) and Brent Protzman (Easton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor and/or system controller may process an image multiple times at multiple resolutions to detect glare conditions. A glare condition threshold used to determine whether a glare condition exists may be based on the resolution of the image. When the resolution of the image is higher, the glare condition threshold may be higher. The s...