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LIGHTING SYSTEM

  • US 20140091731A1
  • Filed: 09/25/2013
  • Published: 04/03/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A lighting system, comprising:

  • one or more lighting devices; and

    a controller configured to set lighting control contents of the lighting devices,wherein the controller includes;

    a display unit for displaying attribute information which includes identification information and lighting information of the lighting devices;

    an operation unit incorporated in the display unit and configured to detect an operation instruction;

    an input processing unit for acquiring coordinate information indicating a position of the operation instruction detected by the operation unit;

    a storage unit for storing the attribute information;

    a transmitting unit for transmitting, to one of the lighting devices, a control signal including attribute information of the one of the lighting devices; and

    a control unit for controlling the transmitting unit to transmit the control signal in order to control lighting of one of the lighting devices based on the coordinate information acquired by the input processing unit,wherein the storage unit stores;

    area information including one or more target areas in which the lighting devices are arranged;

    the identification information of the lighting devices;

    the lighting information regarding different lighting conditions of the lighting devices; and

    a piece of scene setting information regarding a state change pattern for changing a lighting state of the lighting devices allotted to each of the target areas,wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display a scene operation screen having one or more pictorial signs each indicating one piece of scene setting information stored in the storage unit;

    selects a piece of scene setting information represented by one of the pictorial signs of which the coordinate information is acquired by the input processing unit; and

    controls the display unit to display a state change pattern of each of the lighting devices allotted to the piece of scene setting information; and

    wherein the each of the lighting devices determines whether or not the each of the lighting devices itself is a control target, based on the identification information included in the control signal received from the controller, and is turned on in accordance with the state change pattern if affirmative.

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