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 system and method for creating and controlling light emitting patterns through libraries and scenarios, allowing for reusable and optimized data communication between lighting devices, enabling synchronized operation and efficient pattern changes.
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 the lighting devices can operate according to specific patterns, but communication overload and synchronization errors occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges control messages into a single broadcast message that contains pattern information applicable to multiple lighting devices simultaneously. Instead of sending individual control messages to each device, the system combines the control information into one message that all devices can receive and execute, thereby reducing communication overhead and improving synchronization reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The control message is segmented into different components including pattern information, timing information, and device-specific parameters. This segmentation allows each lighting device to extract and execute only the relevant portions of the control message while maintaining synchronization with the overall pattern, resolving the contradiction between individual pattern control and communication reliability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If libraries and scenarios are created and stored one by one to cover desired light emitting patterns, then comprehensive pattern coverage is achieved, but data overflow and memory efficiency degradation occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal library structure where a single library can serve multiple lighting devices and multiple scenarios. The library contains parameter sets that can be reused across different scenarios and devices, eliminating the need to create separate libraries for each device-pattern combination. This multi-functionality reduces data storage requirements while maintaining comprehensive pattern coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of creating unique libraries for each lighting device and pattern combination, the system creates master library templates that can be copied and instantiated multiple times. These copied instances can be modified with device-specific parameters while retaining the core pattern definitions, significantly reducing the total data volume required while maintaining full pattern coverage across all devices.
3Shape
If a large number of lighting devices are arranged in a wide space to create specific shapes or patterns, then visual impact is enhanced, but synchronization errors and communication overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a hierarchical dimension to the control architecture, organizing lighting devices into groups or zones rather than controlling them individually. This dimensional organization allows the system to manage large numbers of devices by aggregating them into manageable units, each controlled by consolidated control messages that maintain synchronization across the entire wide-space installation while reducing communication overhead.
Data Source
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.