METHOD AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED APPARATUS FOR LIGHTING EXPERIENCE TRANSLATION

• US 20110109250A1
• Filed: 07/09/2009
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Philips Lighting BV (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Engelen, Dirk Valentinus Rene
• Granted Patent: US 8,565,905 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/312
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/165 following a pre-assigned programmed sequence; Logic control [LC]

Abstract

The invention relates to the translation of lighting experience, particularly to the translation of scripts for describing lighting experiences and provided for controlling of lighting devices in a lighting system. An embodiment of the invention provides a method for lighting experience translation by means of a computer, comprising the acts of—receiving an effect based script, which describes one or more light effects of the lighting experience on one or more locations in a view in an environment (S10), —receiving one or more location-effect control models, wherein a location-effect control model describes light effects being available on a location in the view in the environment (S12), and —translating the effect based script into controls for one or more virtual lighting devices by using the location effect control model (S14). This allows to design lighting infrastructure independent effect based scripts and to translate the light experience, described with such scripts, automated into controls for virtual lighting devices, which may then further processed for a concrete lighting infrastructure.

Claims

1. A method for lighting experience translation by means of a computer, comprising the acts of

receiving an effect based script, which describes one or more light effects of the lighting experience on one or more locations in a view in an environment (S10),

receiving one or more location-effect control models, wherein a location-effect control model describes light effects being available on a location in the view in the environment (S12), and

translating the effect based script into controls for one or more virtual lighting devices by using the location effect control model (S14).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of translating the effect based script into controls for one or more virtual lighting devices by using the location effect control model (S14) comprises

placing a light effect, which is described in the effect based script, into a shape that defines the location of the light effect in the view (S141),

deriving color and intensity values from the shape containing the light effect (S142), and

deriving controls for a virtual lighting device of the environment from the color and intensity values (S143).

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the view is a real or virtual surface in the environment.

4. The method of claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein a light effect is described in the effect based script by specifying a 2-dimensional distribution of light values.

5. The method of any of the preceding claims, wherein all light effects being available on the same location in the view in the environment are described by a virtual lighting device in a location-effect control model.

6. The method of any of the preceding claims, further comprising the acts of

replacing the controls for a virtual lighting device into controls of a lighting infrastructure (S16) and

sending the controls of the lighting infrastructure to lighting devices (S18).

7. A computer program enabled to carry out the method according to any of the preceding claims when executed by a computer.

8. A record carrier storing a computer program according to claim 7.

9. A computer programmed to perform a method according to any of the claims 1 to 6 and comprising an interface for communication with a lighting infrastructure.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 being adapted to perform a method of any of claims 1-6.

10. A computer implemented apparatus (10) for lighting experience translation being adapted to

receive an effect based script (34), which describes one or more light effects of the lighting experience on one or more locations in a view in an environment,

receive one or more location-effect control models (12), wherein a location-effect control model describes light effects being available on a location in the view in the environment, and comprising

a script translation service (14) being adapted to translate the effect based script into controls (16) for one or more virtual lighting devices by using the location effect control model.