LIGHTING CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20120081030A1
• Filed: 05/31/2010
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2009
• 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 De Sluis, Bartel M., Berkvens, Winfried A. H., Willems, Lina
• Granted Patent: US 9,226,370 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/291
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/10 Controlling the intensity of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/1965 using handheld communication devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

A lighting control device for controlling one or more lighting parameters of each of one or more light sources is disclosed. The lighting control device comprises at least a first user interaction element, an element appearance control unit, a light setting control unit, and a memory for saving at least a first light setting, the first light setting comprising values of the one or more lighting parameters. The light setting control unit is adapted to set the lighting parameters according to the first light setting in response to an input via the first user interaction element. The element appearance control unit is adapted to set a first appearance associated with the first user interaction element based on at least one of the lighting parameters of the first light setting. Corresponding system, use, methods and computer program product are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A lighting control device for controlling one or more lighting parameters of each of one or more light sources, the device comprising:

at least a first user interaction element;

an element appearance control unit;

a light setting control unit; and

a memory for saving at least a first light setting, the first light setting comprising values of the one or more lighting parameters, wherein

the light setting control unit is adapted to set the lighting parameters according to the first light setting in response to an input via the first user interaction element, and

the element appearance control unit is adapted to set a first appearance associated with the first user interaction element based on at least one of the lighting parameters of the first light setting.

2. The lighting control device of claim 1, wherein the element appearance control unit is adapted to set the first appearance associated with the first user interaction element in response to the first light setting being saved in the memory as a new light setting.

3. The lighting control device of claim 1, wherein the element appearance control unit is adapted to set the first appearance associated with the first user interaction element in response to the first light setting being saved in the memory as an update of a previously saved light setting.

4. The lighting control device of claim 1, wherein the element appearance control unit is further adapted to set the first appearance associated with the first user interaction element corresponding to at least one of the lighting parameters of the first light setting.

5. The lighting control device of claim 1, wherein the first user interaction element is one of:

a mechanical user interaction element, a push button, a key, an on-screen user interaction element, an on-screen icon, an on-screen button, a 3D interaction element, a 3D screen element, a spherical control element, and a holographic interaction element.

6. The lighting control device of claim 1, wherein the lighting parameters comprise one or more of:

a hue;

a saturation;

an intensity;

a brightness;

a red-green-blue—

RGB—

value;

a color temperature;

a lighting direction;

a light spreading angle;

an illumination area;

a lighting pattern; and

a light dynamics.

7. The lighting control device of claim 1, wherein the first appearance comprises one or more of:

a hue;

a saturation;

an intensity;

a brightness;

a red-green-blue—

RGB—

value;

a color temperature;

a shape;

a tactile property;

a representation of a lighting direction;

a representation of a light spreading angle;

a representation of an illumination area;

a representation of a lighting pattern;

a two-dimensional representation of a lighting orientation in a space comprising the one or more light sources;

a three-dimensional representation of a lighting orientation in a space comprising the one or more light sources;

a digital photograph;

a video clip; and

a dynamic image.

8. The lighting control system of claim 1, wherein the element appearance control unit is adapted to set the first appearance of the first user interaction element based on at least one of the lighting parameters of the first light setting.

9. The lighting control system of claim 1, wherein the element appearance control unit is adapted to determine a plurality of suggested appearances based on at least one of the lighting parameters of the first light setting and to set the first appearance associated with the first user interaction element to an appearance selected by a user from the plurality of suggested appearances.

10. A lighting system comprising the lighting control device of claim 1 and the one or more light sources.

11. Use of the lighting control device of claim 1 for control of the one or more lighting parameters of each of the one or more light sources.

12. A method of a lighting control device, the lighting control device being suitable for controlling one or more lighting parameters of each of one or more light sources and comprising at least a first user interaction element, a memory for saving at least a first light setting comprising values of the one or more lighting parameters, and a light setting control unit adapted to set the lighting parameters according to the first light setting in response to an input via the first user interaction element, the method comprising:

setting a first appearance associated with the first user interaction element based on at least one of the lighting parameters of the first light setting.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of setting the first appearance associated with the first user interaction element is performed in response to the first light setting being saved in the memory as a new light setting.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of setting the first appearance associated with the first user interaction element is performed in response to the first light setting being saved in the memory as an update of a previously saved light setting.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

saving the first light setting and associating the first light setting with the first user interaction element.

16. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium, having thereon a computer program comprising program instructions, the computer program being loadable into a data-processing unit of a lighting control device, the lighting control device being suitable for controlling one or more lighting parameters of each of one or more light sources and comprising at least a first user interaction element, a memory for saving at least a first light setting comprising values of the one or more lighting parameters, and a light setting control unit adapted to set the lighting parameters according to the first light setting in response to an input via the first user interaction element, the computer program being adapted to cause the data-processing unit to execute at least the following steps when the computer program is run by the data-processing unit:

setting a first appearance associated with the first user interaction element based on at least one of the lighting parameters of the first light setting.