Patent ID: 7016115
Filing Date: 2006-03-21
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A process for simultaneously providing illumination that is free to the eye of flicker and other distracting optical phenomena and for providing communication comprising the steps of: providing a source of data comprising elements selected from a group consisting of analog data, digital data, control codes and start codes; providing a design of an illumination means in which the illumination means can be modulated; analyzing the nature of the data from the source of data and the design of the illumination means; based on the analysis, selecting an encoding means for the data such that it is transmitted by modulating the illumination means without creating flicker or other distracting optical phenomena which are visible to the eye; providing an illumination means based on said design of an illumination means; providing a medium means through which the illumination passes; providing a receiver means for receiving and processing the modulated illumination from the illumination means and extracting the encoded data; providing a user means for using the data processed by the receiver means; and transmitting data from the source of data to the illumination means, wherein the encoding means encodes the data, and the illumination means then transmits the encoded data by modulating the illumination means without creating flicker or other distracting optical phenomena visible to the eye, to the receiver means which receives and processes the modulated illumination, extracts the encoded data and supplies it to the user means.