Patent ID: 8212466

Claim:
A solid state lighting apparatus comprising: a first plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), each of the first plurality of LEDs comprising an LED device configured to emit light having about a first dominant wavelength and a phosphor configured to receive at least some of the light emitted by the LED device and responsively emit light having a second dominant wavelength; and a second plurality of LEDs configured to emit light having about a first color point, wherein a combined light emitted by the LED device and the phosphor of a first one of the first plurality of LEDs has a second color point and a combined light emitted by the LED device and the phosphor of a second one of the first plurality of LEDs has a third color point that falls outside a seven step Macadam ellipse around the second color point; and wherein a combined light emitted by the first plurality of LEDs and the second plurality of LEDs has a fourth color point that falls within a ten-step Macadam ellipse around any point on the planckian locus between 2000 Kelvin and 8000 Kelvin.