Lighting Pattern Libraries for Synchronized Multi-Device Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing lighting control systems face challenges such as communication overload, synchronization errors, and inefficiencies in creating and modifying light emitting patterns for multiple devices, leading to data overflow and memory degradation.
Innovation Solution
A lighting device and control system that allows for the creation and reuse of libraries and scenarios, enabling synchronized light emitting patterns across multiple devices through optimized data communication, reducing the need for redundant data storage and minimizing communication errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If different control messages are transmitted to numerous lighting devices one by one to achieve different light emitting patterns, then each lighting device can operate according to its specific location, but communication overload and synchronization errors occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the control approach by dividing lighting devices into multiple groups, where each group shares common control parameters. This allows individual devices to maintain unique light emitting patterns through device-specific parameters while synchronizing group-level operations, thereby reducing communication overhead and improving synchronization accuracy.
2Adaptability or versatility
If libraries and scenarios are created and stored one by one to cover desired light emitting patterns, then comprehensive control options are available, but data overflow and memory efficiency degradation occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universality by creating reusable library templates that can be applied across multiple lighting devices and scenarios. A single library template defines common light emitting patterns that can be instantiated for different device groups, eliminating the need to store separate duplicate data for each device while maintaining comprehensive control options.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies nesting by organizing control data hierarchically: scenario-level configurations contain group-level settings, which in turn contain device-specific parameters. This nested structure allows higher-level templates to define reusable patterns that automatically propagate to lower-level devices, reducing overall data storage requirements while maintaining flexibility.
3Manufacturing precision
If many libraries and scenarios are created to provide desired light emitting patterns, then comprehensive control coverage is achieved, but reusability is reduced and creation efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining reusable library templates with common light emitting patterns before actual device deployment. These templates contain pre-configured parameters that can be directly applied to multiple device groups, eliminating the need to create configurations from scratch for each scenario and significantly improving creation efficiency while maintaining precision through template consistency.
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AI summary
Provided are a lighting device and a method for controlling the same. The method for controlling the lighting device by a directing application executed by at least one processor of a director terminal, the method includes creating a library which defines light emitting patterns for a plurality of lighting devices, creating a scenario which defines the light emitting patterns for the plurality of lighting devices for a predetermined time, creating a performance preparation data including at least one of the library and the scenario, providing the created performance preparation data to the plurality of lighting devices, transmitting, to the plurality of lighting devices, a lighting device control signal instructing execution, suspension, or termination of a t least one of the library and the scenario included in the provided performance preparation data, and implementing an integrated lighting control performance according to the transmitted lighting device control signal.