2614 results about "Light effects" patented technology

Methods and apparatus for downloading one or more lighting programs including one or more lighting effects. The lighting program(s) may be downloaded from a web site to one or more LED-based lighting devices that are configured to execute the downloaded lighting program(s) so as to reproduce the lighting effect(s). In various examples, a variety of programming devices may be employed to facilitate wired or wireless downloading, including one or more computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), cell phones, media players (e.g., MP3 players), and the like. Information may be uploaded to the web site to facilitate selection and / or creation of lighting effect(s) that are included in the downloaded lighting program(s).

The invention pertains to electronic devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance, i.e., the outer appearance as seen by a user. The electronic devices generally include an illuminable housing. The illuminable housing, which includes at least one wall configured for the passage of light, is configured to enclose, cover and protect a light arrangement as well as functional components of the electronic device. The light arrangement, which generally includes one or more light sources, is configured to produce light for transmission through the light passing wall(s) of the illuminable housing. The transmitted light illuminates the wall(s) thus giving the wall a new appearance. That is, the transmitted light effectively alters the ornamental or decorative appearance of the electronic device. In most cases, the light is controlled so as to produce a light effect having specific characteristics or attributes. As such, the electronic device may be configured to provide additional feedback to the user of the electronic device and to give users the ability to personalize or change the look of their electronic device on an on-going basis. That is, a housing of the electronic device is active rather than passive, i.e., the housing has the ability to adapt and change. For example, the light may be used to exhibit a housing behavior that reflects the desires or moods of the user, that reflects inputs or outputs for the electronic device, or that reacts to tasks or events associated with operation of the electronic device.

A tubular Electro-Luminescent panel(s) light device offer a desired bending directions with super brightness basing on certain width of panel incorporated proper invertor system. The said panel(s) with much narrow width than tube means to allow the panel(s) can be bend at any direction and angle within the tube means to offer a desired light effects. The said panel(s) can be flat or twisted within the tube means which may have the desired colored, transparency, wall thickness, diameter, shape, length for requirement. The said device may incorporated with non-elastic means, magnetic means, tube holder, sensor means, Integrated circuit to add a lot of desired variety features.

An automated point of purchase advertising device includes at least one motion sensor, and a power management function to manage power usage depending on the sensor on the automated device determining the presence of a person in a vicinity of the device. A control circuit connected to the sensor causes the device to display video information, play audio sound, and / or create a light effect. The device also operates in different power modes based at least in part on the determination of the presence of a person by the sensor.

The present invention relates to a location commissioning method for a lighting system, which comprises several lighting arrangements. Thus, an illuminated position, of for example a room, is selected for the performing the commissioning, which is then associated with that position. This commissioning is called Luxissioning™. The position is assigned a position id, and the light at the position is measured. Light data associated with each one of the lighting arrangements is derived from the measured light, and the light data is associated with the position id. Light transfer data is determined on basis of the light data and current drive data for the lighting arrangements and stored in a light effect setting array for the position id. A light effect setting method is also present, where there is requested a selected light effect at a selected position. For each such request data comprising a position id and a target light effect setting associated with the position is received. The associated initial light effect setting array is derived, for example by retrieving a stored one. Required drive data for the relevant light arrangements, for obtaining the target light effect setting, is determined by means of the light transfer data held in the array, and adjustments are made accordingly, if necessary. Devices and systems for performing the above methods are also addressed by this invention.

The invention discloses a fast rendering method and device for a virtual scene and a model. The method comprises steps of firstly obtaining the rendering request of the virtual scene and the model to be rendered and the standard material library; creating a read and write file including the corresponding relation among the scene parameter, the model and the material according to the rendering request, and selecting a material corresponding to the model to be rendered from the pre-established standard material library after loading; setting and adjusting the scene parameter according to the rendering request, rendering the model according to the selected material and adjusting the material parameter to complete the rendering satisfying the specified rendering request; when a single model corresponds to a plurality of materials, directly subjecting the plurality of materials to a three-dimensional presence UV mapping on the surface of the three-dimensional model; and generating a high light effect and its corresponding material by the hand-drawn trajectory according to the rendering request, and rendering the model's high light effect. The method has the advantages of high efficiency, openness, automation, integration of tools, light weight, sustainability, and the like on the basis of greatly improving the efficiency of virtual scene and model rendering.

A control system for a water amusement system is described. The control system is configured to operate the water amusement system to produce water effects, sound effects, and / or light effects when the control system receives an activation signal. The activation signal may be sent to the control system by an activation point, such as an optical touch button, or a water target. The control system is further configured to produce water effects, sound effects, and / or light effects in the absence of an activation signal to attract participants to the water amusement system.

A computing device is disclosed. The computing device includes a housing having an illuminable portion. The computing device also includes a light emitting device disposed inside the housing. The light emitting device is configured to produce a light effect that alters the ornamental appearance of the computing device.

A high-light effect and high-power integrated LED with even light spots is mainly composed of a support, gold wires and a plurality of wafers. The wafers are fixed on the support and are connected through the gold wires. The wafers at the two ends are connected with the positive electrode of the support and the negative electrode of the support through the gold wires, the wafers are evenly distributed on the surface of the support in an S-shaped structure mode, and a bowl cup of the support is filled with fluorescence glue. According to the high-light effect and high-power integrated LED with the even light spots, the S-type crystal solid wire method is adopted, the wafers are evenly distributed on the surface of the support, the bowl cup of the support is filled with the fluorescence glue, and therefore an LED can emit even light without a light spot, the excitation efficiency of fluorescent powder is higher, and the brightness is greatly improved. Due to the fact that the wafers are arranged in a scattered mode, the heat dissipation of the high-light effect and high-power integrated LED is better, and the quality reliability is enhanced.

A method of making an animated movie includes the steps of casting one or more animated characters as performers in a play of the animated video; creating one or more scenes of the animated video; canvassing the animated character in the scene to form a motion picture, and outputting the motion picture in a realtime playback manner. The motion picture is canvassed by the steps creating a timeline of the scene; setting a light effect of the scene; setting a shooting angle of the animated character in the scene; and setting a movement of the animated character in the scene in responsive to the timeline.

A location commissioning method for a lighting system, having several lighting arrangements, includes selecting an illuminated position, assigning the position a position id, measuring light at the position, deriving light data associated with each lighting arrangement from the measured light, associating the light data with the position id, determining light transfer data from the light data and current drive data for the lighting arrangements, and storing in a light effect setting array for the position id. A light effect setting method includes requesting a selected light effect at a selected position, receiving a position id and a target light effect setting associated with the position, deriving the associated initial light effect setting array, for example by retrieving a stored one, determining the drive data for obtaining the target light effect setting, via the light transfer data in the array.

A method and a device for simulating the realization of lighting effects in an environment are disclosed. The method may receive environment data, user input indicative of lighting effects, and data indicative of what installable devices exist. Based thereon, the method may generate at least one implementation option for each lighting effect and select one implementation option for each lighting effect. As a result, realization data based on the environment data and selected implementation options options can be generated. A simulator for simulating realization of lighting effects is adapted to communicate, on the one hand, with a user or other provider of environment and lighting effect data, and, on the other, with a source of information on installable hardware device. The simulator can be operable in a design mode, an implementation mode, a selection mode and a realization mode.

A loudspeaker structure with a lighting effect includes a support frame having a magnetic circuit disposed at the bottom of the support frame, a voice coil installed above the magnetic circuit, a diaphragm adhered on the voice coil, and a suspending edge disposed between the diaphragm and the support frame, characterized in that the diaphragm is a thin object pervious to light, and a through hole is constructed separately at the front and rear ends of the magnetic circuit for receiving a light emitting device. After the loudspeaker is assembled, the light emitting device is installed in the interior space between the diaphragm and the magnetic circuit. Besides outputting sounds, the loudspeaker also produces a lighting effect, so as to make the manufacture and applications of the loudspeaker more diversified and allow the loudspeaker to have various changes.

A training projectile includes at its head a hollow arched cavity or cap that defines a hollow cavity within the head of the training projectile, and that bursts when the projectile strikes a target. Into this cavity are placed a first chemically-inactive marking material and a second chemically-active marking material, whereby both marking materials are released upon bursting of the arched cavity. The first marking material creates, for example, a color effect by means of a colored powder; the second marking material produces a light effect by means of, for example, materials that interact to produce chemo-luminescence.

A card with a picture-contained mirror surface layer comprises an upper covering layer; an upper middle layer installed below the upper covering layer; a lower middle layer installed below the upper middle layer; a lower covering layer installed below the lower middle layer; and a picture-contained mirror surface layer installed at a position between the upper covering layer and the upper middle layer or between the upper middle layer and the lower middle layer, or the picture-contained mirror surface layer is installed between the lower middle layer and the lower covering layer. Or the combination of the different layers is performed by mechanically melting the layers and then combining the melting layers. The picture-contained mirror surface layer is made from compound material or metals. The picture is selected from textures, numbers, figures, or the combinations of above items. The different layers have present different light effect.

A training projectile includes at its head a hollow arched cavity or cap that defines a hollow cavity within the head of the training projectile, and that bursts when the projectile strikes a target. Into this cavity are placed a first chemically-inactive marking material and a second chemically-active marking material, whereby both marking materials are released upon bursting of the arched cavity. The first marking material creates, for example, a color effect by means of a colored powder; the second marking material produces a light effect by means of, for example, materials that interact to produce chemo-luminescence.

The invention provides a method for time base determination of simple and convenient multi-node synchrosystem and system thereof, and relates to a method for time base determination of multi-node synchronous control system which are connected with the same electric network line and share an power switch, and LED dynamic colored lights by utilizing the method and a general synchronous measurement controller. In the invention, the eigenvalue of the electric network cyclic wave is used as synchronous signals, and the signals are captured and counted; the count value is used for representing the time base run by system application program, and the timing error requirement of the control system is balanced; and the conventional timing method of time base circuits such as crystal oscillator, capacitance resistance oscillator and the like is utilized as another time reference used for representing time. The LED dynamic colored light set of the invention consists of a plurality of separated LED dynamic colored lights. The use of the light set is similar to the use of electricity-saving lamps used for lighting commonly, but the light set is used in groups according to lighting effect or the quantity of the lamp holder in luminaire. The LED dynamic colored light set can not only be used separately as colored lanterns or advertising lamps with pictures and words, but also be arranged in ordinary luminaire as the quick-wear part of the ordinary luminaire.

A system for and method of controlling lighting in a digital video stream is presented. A user loads digital content into a light tracking system. The digital content includes three tracks, which are a video track, an audio track, and a light control track. After loading, the user selects either a “partial light effect setting” or a “full light effect setting.” When the user selects a partial light effect setting, the light tracking system lowers the environmental lighting device's illumination at the beginning of the digital content's playing, and raises the environmental lighting device's illumination at the end of the digital content's playing. When the user selects a full light effect setting, the light tracking system adjusts the environmental lighting device's illumination throughout the digital content's playback, as well as lowering and raising the environmental lighting device's illumination at the beginning and the end of the movie, respectively.

The invention discloses a browser-based construction system of a three-dimensional ultra-large scene, comprises a scene photo manager, a three-dimensional original shared library, a three-dimensional scene webpage editor, a three-dimensional navigation map generator, a scene light-effect embedder, a simulated natural environment generator and a three-dimensional webpage exporter which work together to finish the construction of the three-dimensional ultra-large scene. The invention uses a website-type collaboration platform with a uniform server, does not store files in a local workstation, thereby ensuring multiple calling and uploading and the coordinate synchronization of file updating, greatly improving the group collaboration efficiency and shortening the construction period of the ultra-large scene; and the invention uses a webpage as a working platform, checks the finally three-dimensional display effect and the webpage rendering performance at any time, controls the balance relation between model fineness and issuance performance in time, greatly reduces the capacity of three-dimensional scene files and effectively controls the redundancy of large-scene shared sources.

A light string includes a core made of a soft material and having multiple axial holes defined in one side of the core, two connection wires received in the other side of the core to be opposite to positions of the axial holes, multiple light emitting diodes (LEDs) respectively received in the axial holes and connected to the two connection wires for electrical connection with one another, a scattering body formed on top of the core and on top of the LEDs for scattering light beams from the LEDs and a cladding enclosing the scattering body and the core and having an arcuate top face for emission of light beams of the LEDs. Due to the addition of the scattering body and the cladding, the light beams from the LEDs are refracted and scattered to present a soft and continuous lighting effect.

An illuminating fabric product includes an elongated fabric ribbon adapted to be selectively folded to form a decorative fabric product, and a light string longitudinally extended along the fabric ribbon, wherein the light string includes a power supply, a plurality of spacedly apart illuminators provided at the fabric ribbon, and an electric wire electrically linked the illuminators with the power supply. When the light string is folded within the fabric ribbon to form the decorative fabric product, the illuminators are adapted for generating a light effect to produce an illuminating effect for the decorative fabric product.

An illumination device with a number of light sources arranged in at least two groups of light sources that are individually controllable. The first group of light sources (203) have light collectors (209) such as internal reflection (TIR) lenses, mixers or other lenses placed over them to collect and convert light of the light sources into a number of light source beams. The second group of light sources (205) pass light through diffusing areas (215) of a diffuser (213) in the form of a diffusion cover included in the lamp housing to diffuse the light and create a background light for the first group of light sources. The light from the first group of light sources pass through non diffusing regions (211) of the diffuser cover without the light being diffused. The second group of light sources are interleaved with the first group by the diffuser having one or several diffusion areas between non diffusion areas. By controlling both groups of light sources based on the same target color the dotted look of led light sources can be removed or by controlling the two groups of light sources based on two different colors light effects can be obtained. The illumination device can be included in a moving head light source with a base, a yoke connected rotatably to the base and the head connected rotatably to the head.

The present invention relates to a light emitting device (100) comprising a side emitting light source (102) and a light guide plate (101) having at least one light input area (101a) and at least one light output area (101b). Such a device (100) may be used for replacing an incandescent light source or arranged to create various decorative light sparkling effects.A wide light intensity distribution matching that of an incandescent light source may be achieved.