Method of controlling lighting sources, corresponding system and computer program product

• US 10,172,221 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2017
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clay Paky SPA (Stahl Beteiligungs- GmbH)
• Original Assignee: OSRAM GmbH (Ams-Osram AG)
• Inventors: Alfier, Alberto, Capeleto, Simone, Zucchinali, Giovanni, Morra, Andrea
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thuy Vinh
• Application Number:
  US15/683,869
• Publication Number:
  US 20180063923A1
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: 709219, 340 432, 340 433, 340 435, 315293, 315297
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2818 from a device located outside both the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless eletrical link G08C17/00; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with remote control systems H04M11/007
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2825 Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with telemetering systems H04M11/002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4131 home appliance, e.g. lighting, air conditioning system, metering devices home automation data switching networks exchanging configuration information on appliance services H04L12/2807
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43074 of additional data with content streams on the same device, e.g. of EPG data or interactive icon with a TV program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/00 Circuit arrangements for operating light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/10 Controlling the light source
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/12 by detecting audible sound
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/16 by timing means
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

According to the present disclosure, lighting sources having operating parameter(s), which is controllable in lighting sequence(s) as a function of a time code data set coupled with the sequence, are controlled as a function of a videogame played on display(s): by providing a repository of operating data files for the sources coupled with the lighting sources with each data file including time code data set(s) for lighting sequence(s) for one of the lighting sources, by retrieving in the data repository operating data file(s) coupled with a source selected among the lighting sources, and by detecting from the display a videogame signal indicative of the development of a videogame, and by operating the selected lighting source by controlling the operating parameter(s) as a function of the operating data included in the operating data file retrieved and as a function of the videogame signal detected.

Claims

1. A method of controlling lighting sources as a function of a videogame played with at least one display, said lighting sources having at least one operating parameter which is controllable in at least one lighting sequence as a function of a time code data set coupled therewith, the method comprising:

providing a repository of operating data files for said lighting sources, said operating data files coupled with said 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 said lighting sources,

retrieving in said repository at least one operating data file coupled with a selected one of said lighting sources,

detecting at said at least one display at least one videogame signal indicative of the development of said videogame, and

operating said selected one of said lighting sources by controlling said at least one operating parameter as a function of the operating data included in the operating data file retrieved and as a function of said at least one videogame signal.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting said at least one videogame signal indicative of the development of said videogame as a function of display command data for at least one display area of said at least one display.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said display command data include one of a sum and an average value of colour coordinates of at least one display area of said at least one display.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting said at least one videogame signal from said at least one display at a given rate, fixed or variable.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting at said at least one display respective videogame signals indicative of the development of said videogame, and

operating said selected one of said lighting sources by controlling said at least one operating parameter as a function of the operating data included in the operating data file retrieved and as a function of said respective videogame signals.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting at said at least one display respective videogame signals indicative of the development of said videogame, and

operating a plurality of said lighting sources by controlling at least one operating parameter of said plurality of said lighting sources as a function of the operating data included in a respective operating data file retrieved and as a function of said respective videogame signals.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising operating said plurality of said lighting sources by controlling at least one operating parameter of each lighting source of said plurality of said light sources as a function of the operating data included in a respective operating data file retrieved and as a function of said respective videogame signals.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising selectively stalling operation of said selected one of said lighting sources over at least part of a playing time of said videogame.

9. A lighting system, for use together with at least one videogame display, the lighting system comprising:

at least one lighting source having at least one operating parameter which is controllable in at least one lighting sequence as a function of a time code data set coupled therewith,

a repository of operating data files for said at least one lighting sources, said operating data files coupled with said at least one lighting source with each operating data file including at least one time code data set for at least one lighting sequence for a respective one of said at least one lighting source,

a detector configured for detecting at said at least one display at least one videogame signal indicative of the development of said videogame, and

at least one controller configured to;

retrieve in said repository at least one operating data file coupled with a selected one of said at least one lighting source, and

operate said selected lighting source by controlling said at least one operating parameter as a function of the operating data included in the operating data file retrieved and as a function of said at least one videogame signal, the lighting system configured to control said at least one lighting sources as a function of a videogame played with at least one display.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, causes a process for controlling lighting sources as a function of a videogame played with at least one display, said lighting sources having at least one operating parameter which is controllable in at least one lighting sequence as a function of a time code data set coupled therewith, the process comprising:

providing a repository of operating data files for said lighting sources, said operating data files coupled with said lighting sources with each operating data file including at least one time code data set for at least one lighting sequence for a respective one of said lighting sources;

retrieving in said data repository at least one operating data file coupled with a selected one of said lighting sources;

detecting at said at least one display at least one videogame signal indicative of the development of said videogame; and

operating said selected one of said lighting sources by controlling said at least one operating parameter as a function of the operating data included in the operating data.