Color-Coded Lighting Control Icons for Intuitive Lamp Grouping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing lighting control systems face limitations in intuitively grouping and regrouping lamps due to character-based labels, which can lead to confusion and require rewiring for changes, especially when dimming or color changes are desired, and are restricted by electrical current ratings and inrush current limits.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of color-coded icons for both group and member icons in a lighting control interface, allowing users to visually group and ungroup lamps using drag-drop gestures or line-drawing interactions, enabling easy assignment and reassignment of lamps to different lighting scenes without physical rewiring.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If character-based labels are used for grouping lamps, then the control system can identify and group lamps, but user interaction becomes non-intuitive and confusion arises
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color-coded icons where different colors represent different lighting scenes or groups. Users can visually identify which lamps belong to which group through color matching, making the grouping intuitive and eliminating confusion associated with character-based labels. The color coding persists across the interface, providing continuous visual feedback about lamp groupings.
2Adaptability or versatility
If physical rewiring is performed to change lamp groupings, then lamp assignments can be changed, but the process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical rewiring process with a digital drag-and-drop interface. Users can visually assign lamps to different color-coded groups by dragging lamp icons between colored zones, eliminating the need for physical rewiring while maintaining full flexibility in lamp grouping and regrouping.
3Reliability
If electrical current ratings and inrush current limits are considered, then system safety is maintained, but lamp control flexibility is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary electrical assessments when lamps are initially assigned to groups. The controller evaluates current ratings and inrush current limits before finalizing group assignments, storing this electrical compatibility information digitally. This allows flexible regrouping through software while maintaining electrical safety constraints, as the system pre-validated assignments.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of controlling lighting that includes color coding at least one group icon for a scene for lighting on a light control interface. The at least one group icon can be color coded with a first type color coded identifier corresponding to the scene. The method can continue with grouping at least one member icon designating a light function form for at least one lamp to the at least one group icon on the light control interface. The at least one member icon may include a second type color identifier, in which a member icon being grouped to a group icon has a same color for the second type color identifier for the member icon as the first type color identifier for the group icon.