ILLUMINATION LIGHTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ILLUMINATION

• US 20120248992A1
• Filed: 02/14/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHA, Min Ho, JEON, Jong Hoon, JIN, Joong Hun
• Granted Patent: US 9,237,632 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/155
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/115 by determining the presence or movement of objects or living beings
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

Provided are an illumination lighting apparatus that provides various and intuitional light in response to a motion of a user, and an illumination controlling method. The illumination lighting apparatus may include a lamp unit including at least one light emitting part that is selectively turned on and off, a motion sensing unit including at least one motion sensor, transmitting a sensed signal when the at least one motion sensor senses a motion of a user, and enabling the lamp unit to provide a light corresponding to the sensed signal, and a control unit to receive the sensed signal from the motion sensing unit to adjust a light emitting type of the lamp unit in a plurality of modes, and the motion sensing unit may transmit, based on a mode of the control unit, different sensed signals to the control unit to change the light emitting type of the lamp unit.

Claims

1. An illumination lighting apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

a lamp unit including at least one light emitting part that is selectively turned on and off;

a motion sensing unit including at least one motion sensor, transmitting a sensed signal when the at least one motion sensor senses a motion of a user, and enabling the lamp unit to provide a light corresponding to the sensed signal; and

a control unit to receive the sensed signal from the motion sensing unit to adjust a light emitting type of the lamp unit in a plurality of modes,

wherein the motion sensing unit transmits, based on a mode of the control unit, different sensed signals to the control unit to change the light emitting type of the lamp unit.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a mode selecting unit to select the plurality of modes,

wherein the mode selecting unit comprises a brightness adjustment mode and a color adjustment mode.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the lamp unit is configured as a frame including an outside wall and an inside wall; and

the motion sensing unit is included on the inside wall of the frame, senses the motion of the user in a space formed by the inside wall, and adjusts the light emitting type of the lamp unit.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein, when the mode selecting unit selects the brightness adjustment mode, the motion sensing unit recognizes the motion of the user from one side to another side and adjusts a brightness of light from the lamp unit.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein, when the mode selecting unit selects the color adjustment mode, the motion sensing unit recognizes the motion of the user from one side to another side and adjusts a color of light from the lamp unit.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a touch inputting unit formed on the lamp unit, and turning the lamp unit on and off by a touch motion or a drag motion of the user.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the touch inputting unit comprises a plurality of touch sensors, and an area corresponding to the touch motion or the drag motion of the user is only turned on in the lamp unit.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the touch inputting unit and the motion sensing unit are formed on different sides.

9. A method of controlling an illumination of an illumination lighting apparatus including a plurality of motion sensors, the method comprising:

recognizing, by the motion sensors, a motion of a user; and

adjusting a light emitting type of the illumination based on the recognized motion,

wherein the light emitting type comprises at least one of a brightness of light or a color of light, to adjust the brightness of light or the color of light based on the motion of the user.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein an area selected by a touch motion or a drag motion of the user is turned on.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein, when a touch motion or a drag motion is performed on an overlapping area that is turned on, the overlapping area is turned off.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein, when the illumination is turned on by the touch motion or the drag motion, and the motion sensor recognizes the motion of the user to change a brightness or a color of the turned-on illumination.