Wireless Lighting Terminal Icon Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional lighting system mapping processes are cumbersome and error-prone, requiring operators to physically verify the location of blinking devices, which becomes impractical with large numbers of lighting devices, leading to prolonged and error-prone mapping operations.
Innovation Solution
A lighting system with a terminal that uses a wireless transmitter to send directed radio signals, including logical addresses, to lighting devices, allowing them to respond with their communication addresses, and displays icons on a screen with corresponding order images, enabling easier and more secure mapping by associating logical and communication addresses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional mapping procedures are used where operators physically verify the location of blinking lighting devices, then mapping can be completed, but the mapping operation time becomes excessively long and error-prone when the number of lighting devices is large
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of physical movement and visual verification with an electronic/optical system. The terminal device uses a camera to capture images of lighting devices and automatically identifies them through image processing, eliminating the need for operators to physically locate and verify each blinking device. This substitution dramatically reduces mapping time while maintaining accuracy through automated recognition.
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting devices automatically provide their identification information through their physical characteristics (such as unique patterns, positions, or optical signatures) that can be captured by the camera. The system enables self-identification where the lighting devices themselves serve as the source of identification data, eliminating the need for manual verification and reducing operational time and errors.
2Ease of operation
If operators manually drag icons to match physical device positions, then mapping can be established, but operation errors increase and the process becomes extremely troublesome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical operation of dragging and dropping icons with an automated image recognition system. The camera captures the physical arrangement of lighting devices, and the system automatically maps the captured positions to the corresponding icons in the interface, eliminating manual dragging operations and their associated errors.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a visual copy of the physical lighting device arrangement through camera imaging. This optical copy is then processed to automatically establish the mapping relationship between physical positions and logical icons, replacing manual copying operations with automated image-based replication of the spatial arrangement.
3Productivity
If broadcasting is used to obtain communication addresses of all lighting devices, then pairing can be performed, but the process requires subsequent manual verification for each device
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the initial broadcasting-based pairing process with the subsequent mapping verification process into a single unified operation. By capturing images during or after the broadcasting phase, the system simultaneously obtains communication addresses and verifies physical positions, eliminating the need for separate manual verification steps for each device.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous useful action by performing multiple functions in sequence without interruption. The broadcasting process continues while the camera captures images, and the mapping is established continuously based on the captured data, eliminating idle verification steps and maintaining productive operation throughout the process.
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AI summary
A lighting system includes lighting devices and a terminal. The terminal includes a display screen, an input unit, a wireless transmitter which transmits a radio signal, a communication unit which wirelessly transmits a control command to one of a communication address and a logical address for at least one of the lighting devices, specifying the one of the communication address and the logical address, and a controller which displays, on the display screen, icons respectively corresponding the lighting devices, and when an instruction for selecting any one of the icons has been received by the input unit, causes the wireless transmitter to transmit a radio signal indicating predetermined information. When one of the lighting devices which corresponds to the selected icon has received the radio signal, the lighting device transmits the communication address assigned to the lighting device itself to be used for communication with the communication unit.