Patent ID: 7202607
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: H05B

Abstract:
1. A decorative lighting apparatus, comprising: control circuitry; a plurality of color-control outputs from the control circuitry for coupling to color-control terminals of each one of a plurality of color-controllable lights; the color-control outputs including a red color-control output for coupling to each red color-control terminal of the color-controllable lights; the color-control outputs including a green color-control output for coupling to each green color-control terminal of the color-controllable lights; the color-control outputs including a blue color-control output for coupling to each blue color-control terminal of the color-controllable lights; one or more set selection outputs from the control circuitry for selectively and individually enabling at least a first set of one or more of the color-controllable lights and a second set of one or more of the color-controllable lights; and the control circuitry being operative to illuminate the color-controllable lights with a color scheme by repeatedly time-multiplexing color-control signals at the red, the green, and the blue color-control outputs to the first and the second sets of color-controllable lights with use of the one or more set selection outputs at a rate of 32 Hertz or greater.