Lighting Control via Time Code Data Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting systems for professional and semi-professional applications lack flexibility and creative control, as they often rely on human intervention or audio sensors that limit lighting combinations and artistic usage, failing to synchronize lighting with audio/video events effectively.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for remotely managing lighting systems using a computer program that allows for the control of lighting parameters through a modular and distributed arrangement, enabling user-friendly professional performances, synchronization of lighting effects with audio/video events, and adaptive lighting sequences based on environmental conditions and user feedback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If audio sensors are employed to detect audio program characteristics and trigger lighting interventions, then automated lighting control is achieved, but the possible light combinations and creative/artistic usage are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses time code data from audio/video programs as a template or copy to control lighting sequences. This allows the lighting system to replicate and synchronize with the temporal structure of the media content, enabling diverse and creative lighting combinations while maintaining automated control through the time code framework
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting parameters are made dynamically adjustable through the time code control system, allowing continuous modification of light color, directionality, distribution, and brightness in response to the time code data, thereby achieving both automation and creative flexibility
2Reliability
If remote management and synchronization capabilities are implemented across multiple locations, then coordination of lighting effects is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting control system is divided into modular distributed units, each capable of independently processing time code data and controlling local lighting fixtures. This segmentation allows synchronization across multiple locations while keeping each individual control unit relatively simple
Solution Approach 2:
The time code control mechanism serves as a universal interface that can synchronize diverse lighting devices across different locations. The time code protocol provides a common language for coordination, enabling reliable synchronization without requiring complex location-specific control architectures
Data Source
AI summary
In various embodiments, lighting sources including at least one operating parameter, which is controllable in at least one lighting sequence as a function of a time code data set coupled with the sequence, are controlled by providing a repository of operating data files for the sources coupled with the lighting sources with each data file including at least one time code data set for at least one lighting sequence for a respective one of the lighting sources, by retrieving in the data repository at least one operating data file coupled with a selected one of the lighting sources, and by operating the selected lighting source by controlling the at least one operating parameter as a function of the operating data included in the operating data file retrieved.