System and Method for Creating Artificial Atomosphere

• US 20080265797A1
• Filed: 12/06/2006
• Published: 10/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Signify Holding B.V. (Signify N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Van Doorn, Markus Gerardus Leonardus Maria
• Granted Patent: US 8,356,904 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/292
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/206 Control of light source other than position or intensity
• 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: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

A lighting system (100) includes at least one controllable light source (125) configured to provide a light having at least one attribute; an image renderer (135) configured to render at least one image; and a system controller (110) configured to select the image in corresponding to the selected attribute. The system controller (110) may be configured to receive at least one script associated with different light attributes such as different light intensity or brightness levels, and to change the image in response to changes of the light attribute in accordance with the script.

Claims

1. A lighting system comprising:

at least one controllable light source configured to provide a light having at least one attribute;

an image renderer configured to render a plurality of images; and

a system controller configured to select one of said plurality of images corresponding to selected levels of said at least one attribute.

2. The lighting system of claim 1, further comprising an input device configured to control said at least one controllable light source;

said input device comprising at least one of a rotatable switch, a slideable switch, a touch sensitive screen, a voice activated module, a sound activated module, a keyboard, a mouse, and a remote controller.

3. The lighting system of claim 1, wherein said system controller is configured to receive at least one script associated with different ones of said levels of said at least one attribute, and to change said plurality of images in response to changes of said levels in accordance with said at least one script.

4. The lighting system of claim 3, wherein said system controller is further configured to allow a user to select different ones of said at least one script.

5. The lighting system of claim 1, wherein said at least one attribute includes at least one of intensity, color, hue, and saturation.

6. The lighting system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface connectable to said system controller for allowing a user to associate different ones of said plurality of images with different ones of said selected levels.

7. The lighting system of claim 1, wherein said system controller is further configured to at least one of limit the exposition of a currently displayed image to a predetermined time interval, and change said currently displayed image to another image.

8. The lighting system of claim 1, wherein said system controller is further configured to translate signals from an input device based on at least one of entries of a user and parameters of an environment into predetermined fragments further parsed and collected in a pool;

said fragments being further processed by said system controller to generate a dynamic content output resulting in dynamically changing said at least one image.

9. An imaging system comprising:

an input device configured to provide a low condition, a high condition, and intermediate conditions between said low condition and said high condition; and

in image renderer configured to render images in response to said low, high and intermediate conditions;

wherein a low image responsive to said low condition has a low intensity;

and a high image responsive to said high condition has a higher intensity image than said low intensity.

10. The imaging system of claim 9, wherein an intermediate image responsive to one of said intermediate conditions has an intermediate intensity between said low and higher intensities.

11. The imaging system of claim 10, wherein said intermediate intensity increases from said low intensity in response to said input device being changed from said low condition to said one of said intermediate conditions, and said intermediate intensity decreases from said higher intensity in response to said input device being changed from said high condition to said one of said intermediate conditions.

12. A method for displaying at least one image comprising the acts of:

controlling at least one light source to provide a light having at least one attribute;

selecting at least one image corresponding to selected levels of said at least one attribute; and

rendering said at least one image.

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17. A computer readable medium having computer readable code embodied thereon, said computer readable code when executed comprising the acts of:

receiving at least one script associated with different ones of levels of at least one attribute of a light from a light source; and

changing rendered images in response to changes of said levels in accordance with said at least one script.

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21. A control system comprising:

an input device having a plurality of positions, said plurality of positions including a minimum position and a maximum position; and

an image renderer configured to render different images in response to said plurality of positions;

wherein a first one of said different images includes a first scene rendered in response to said maximum position, and a second one of said different images includes a second scene rendered in response to said minimum position;

wherein said first scene is associated with a high intensity, and said second scene is associated with a lower intensity than said high intensity.

22. The control system of claim 21, wherein said input device further includes intermediate positions between said minimum position and said maximum position, said image renderer being further configured to change said different images to correspond to times of day associated with said intermediate positions.

23. The control system of claim 21, further comprising at least one controllable light source configured to provide a light having at least one attribute associated with said plurality of positions.