Patent ID: 7357530

Claim:
A modular designed, quickly deployable and reconfigurable light emitting diode (LED) lighting apparatus for navigational aids, the lighting apparatus comprising: a plurality of high intensity LED units adapted to produce a plurality of light beams; a plurality of optical beam transformers, each transformer being positioned in a path of a beam among the plurality of light beams, for individually controlling a set of properties of each beam and producing a transformed light beam with both the plurality of high intensity LED units and optical beam transformers disposed in a pre-calculated manner within the lighting apparatus, thereby mixing the transformed light beams to produce a desired illumination pattern; a micro-controller controllably coupled to the plurality of high intensity LED units, the micro-controller being adapted to receive instructions either local or remote to the apparatus for controlling a set of controllable parameters, and process locally available information; and a direct current (DC) power supply electrically coupled to the plurality of high intensity LED units and the micro-controller for providing power thereto; wherein the plurality of high intensity LED units is disposed such that the plurality of light beams produced possesses different light orientations; and wherein the optical beam transformer comprises a non-imaging optical component for collecting and collimating the LED light beam.