Patent ID: 9554450
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H05B,Y02B

Claim:
1. A method of manipulating levels of brightness for a lighting device, comprising: receiving, by an interface device, an input signal transmitted to the lighting device; identifying, by the interface device, a first digital value represented by the input signal, the first digital value having a first portion of bits and a second portion of bits forming a predetermined number of bits; manipulating, by the interface device, the bits in the first portion of the first digital value to smooth noise in the first digital value; mapping, by the interface device, the manipulated first portion of the digital value and the second portion of the first digital value to a second digital value having the predetermined number of bits and that represents a second level of brightness; and transmitting, by the interface device, as input to the lighting device a second signal representing the second digital value.