Patent ID: 9510418
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: H05B

Claim Text:
1. A dimmer circuit for an event based integrated driver system for a light emitting diode (LED) lighting application that uses one or more LEDs, the dimmer circuit comprising: a front end module configured for receiving an external dimming input in at least one of an analog domain, a digital domain or software domain and for operating a dimming output; an event generator for generating a plurality of events in a prioritized manner to trigger a respective response through the front end module; and a firmware module configured for storing instructions for processing the plurality of events in the prioritized manner and for processing each response to implement a functionality in the dimming output; wherein the front end module, the event generator and the firmware module are configured to communicate with each other to generate the dimming output of the one or more LEDs, wherein the dimming output has at least one of a linear profile, a non linear profile, a custom profile or combinations thereof.