LIGHTING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090167483A1
• Filed: 12/24/2008
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Crowd Pixie, LLC, SAJE Holdings Incorporated
• Original Assignee: SAJE Holdings Incorporated
• Inventors: Li, Chuan, Huang, Zhen, Jiles, Cameron D., Bonham, Paul W., Jones, Scott A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,427,274 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/3.700
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources

Abstract

The present invention is related to a method, system and apparatus, in particular, a lighting system and method of controlling the lighting system, comprising a computer readable medium and a programmable device capable of controlling and manipulating individually addressable lights to realize a visual display at a pixel level.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a plurality of visual elements, comprising:

detecting a state of each the visual elements; and

selectively controlling the state of each of the visual elements based on a display request.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the display request is from a user.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the detecting includes identifying positions of the visual elements.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the detecting includes identifying visibilities of the visual elements.

5. The method according to claim 4, comprising:

mapping a pattern to the detected positions of the visual elements, and

displaying the pattern by controlling the lights in accordance with the display request.

6. The method according to claim 4, comprising:

capturing visual information of the visual elements, and

converting the visual information to a format that is enabled to be manipulated on a singular frame level.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the capturing obtains frames for the identifying of the positions of the visual elements.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the capturing obtains frames for the identifying of the visibilities of the visual elements.

9. The method according to claim 1, comprising:

synchronizing a timing of the visual elements with an incoming stream of display information.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the display request identifies the display information.

11. The method according to claim 1, comprising:

analyzing each pixel of the visual elements and determining illumination of the visual elements based on each analyzed pixel.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein information of the state of the visual elements is displayed to a user via a graphical user interface.

13. The method according to claim 2, comprising:

outputting a graphical representation resulting from the controlling of the visual elements based on the display request from the user.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the visual elements are controlled independent of corresponding predefined positions of the lights.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the controlling includes manipulating illumination of the visual elements based on a predetermined sequence.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the predetermined sequence is based on a parallel calibration algorithm.

17. The method according to claim 2, wherein the visual elements are controlled based on one of a pixel difference threshold value, a pixel intensity threshold, and a pixel average multiplier, and

a representative pattern is created as a result of said controlling.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the visual elements include lights.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the lights include a plurality of individual LEDs.

20. A system for controlling lights, comprising:

a user system transmitting a display request to control a state of each of the lights; and

a controller controlling the state of each of the lights based on the display request.

21. The system according to claim 20, wherein the system is a composite of visual elements comprising a display unit.

22. The system according to claim 21, wherein the visual elements comprising the display unit include a plurality of individual LEDs.

23. The lighting system according to claim 20, wherein the display request is from a user.

24. The lighting system according to claim 20, comprising:

synchronizing a timing of the lights with an incoming stream of display information indicated by the display request from the user.

25. A computer readable medium having stored therein a program to cause a computer to execute an operation, comprising:

detecting a state of each the lights; and

selectively controlling the state of each of the lights based on a display request.

26. The computer readable medium according to claim 25, comprising:

identifying positions of the lights as part of the detecting,

mapping a pattern to the positions of the lights, and

displaying the pattern by controlling the lights in accordance with the display request.

27. An apparatus for controlling lights comprising:

a controller powered by an AC or DC power source; and

a fixture comprising;

a plurality of visual elements enabled to be controlled by the controller.