Pattern Function for Dynamic Lighting Fixture Order Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting control systems lack an effective method to automatically adjust and adapt lighting effects across different stages with varying groups of fixtures, requiring complex manual programming and being inflexible to changes in fixture numbers or configurations.
Innovation Solution
A method and system utilizing a Pattern function to dynamically control the order of selection of lighting elements, allowing for flexible and programmable lighting effects by converting the original order of elements into a desired sequence, enabling simultaneous control of multiple aspects like base, amplitude, and time offset, and allowing the system to adapt to different numbers of fixtures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual programming is used to control lighting instruments in a predetermined order, then the lighting effects can be precisely controlled, but the system becomes inflexible and requires complex reprogramming when fixture numbers or configurations change
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by introducing a set of coefficients (base coefficient, amplitude coefficient, rate coefficient, time offset coefficient) that define a mathematical function relationship between fixture position and selection order. This allows the system to adapt to different fixture configurations by simply changing coefficient values rather than reprogramming the entire control sequence, thereby improving adaptability while maintaining system simplicity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a predetermined fixed order is used for selecting lighting fixtures, then the control logic is simple, but the system cannot adapt to different numbers or arrangements of fixtures across various stages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling the control system to automatically determine the selection order of lighting fixtures based on their position in the group and a defined mathematical function. The system calculates the activation sequence autonomously using coefficients that represent the desired lighting pattern, eliminating the need for manual programming and allowing automatic adaptation when fixture configurations change.
3Manufacturing precision
If complex manual programming is implemented to achieve desired lighting effects, then precise control is possible, but the programming time and system complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining a mathematical function model with coefficients that describe the desired lighting effect pattern. This function relationship is established in advance and can be directly applied to any fixture configuration, allowing the system to generate precise control sequences automatically without requiring time-consuming manual programming for each new scenario.
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AI summary
A technique for controlling order of selecting elements from an ordered set of N elements, the technique provides applying to the ordered set a mathematical function P converting the order, in which the elements are preliminarily ordered in the set, into a desired order defined by the function P. The elements may further be selected from the set according to the new order defined by the function P. The elements in the set comprise at least one of the following: devices, items, parameters, values.