Interactive Lighting Control via Virtual Location Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
In complex lighting environments with multiple light sources, users face difficulty in tracing and adjusting light effects, as existing control paradigms are lamp-driven, making it challenging to identify which control affects which light source, especially when multiple light sources of different types are involved.
Innovation Solution
An interactive lighting control system that uses a location indication device to map real locations to virtual environments, allowing users to select and adjust light effects by pointing, with a computer model that calculates control settings for the lighting infrastructure, incorporating input devices like infrared LEDs, coded beacons, and cameras for precise location detection and effect creation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a lamp-driven control paradigm is used where users directly operate on lamp controls, then users can adjust individual lamp parameters, but users face difficulty in tracing and adjusting light effects when multiple light sources are involved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an effect-driven control interface as an intermediary between the user and the complex lighting infrastructure. This interface maps real-world locations to virtual representations, allowing users to select and adjust light effects by pointing at locations rather than directly manipulating individual lamp controls. The intermediary layer translates user intentions into coordinated control signals for multiple light sources, simplifying the user experience while managing complex lighting systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the number of light sources increases beyond 20, then more lighting effects can be created, but it becomes difficult to trace an effect on a location back to the light source
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional control approach by moving from lamp-driven control to effect-driven control. Instead of starting with light sources and their controls, the system starts with the desired light effects at specific locations and automatically determines which light sources need to be adjusted. This inversion makes it easy to trace effects to sources by displaying the mapping between selected effects and the contributing light sources, regardless of how many sources are in the system.
3Manufacturing precision
If users manually adjust controls of different lamps to achieve desired light effects, then individual lamp parameters can be optimized, but users have to evaluate the effect of changing each control and determine which control is related to which effect
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a self-service control system where the lighting infrastructure automatically determines the optimal control settings for multiple light sources based on the user's selected effect and location. The system autonomously calculates which lights need to be adjusted and by how much, eliminating the need for users to manually evaluate and coordinate changes across multiple lamp controls. This self-service approach maintains precise control over light effects while significantly reducing the time and effort required for adjustment.
Data Source
AI summary
Interactive lighting control system (and method) for controlling and creating of light effects such as the tuning of light scenes based on location indication received from an input device. A basic idea of the claimed system is to provide an interactive lighting control by combining a location indication with a light effect driven approach in lighting control in order to improve the creating of light effects such as the tuning of light scenes especially with large and diverse lighting infrastructures. The claimed interactive lighting control system (10) comprises—an interface (12) for receiving data (14) indicating a real location (16) in a real environment from an input device (18), which is adapted to detect a location in the real environment by pointing to the location, and for receiving data related to a light effect (32) desired at the real location, and—a light effect controller (20) for mapping the real location to a virtual location of a virtual view of the real environment and determining light effects available at the virtual location.