Lighting Control System, Arrangement Registering Method, and Recording Medium Storing Arrangement Registering Program

• US 20140339988A1
• Filed: 12/31/2013
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishigaki, Hidenori, Yamamoto, Hisashi
• Application Number:
  US14/144,655
• Publication Number:
  US 20140339988A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/153
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/11 by determining the brightness or colour temperature of ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/199 Commissioning of light sources
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

According to one embodiment, there is provided a lighting control system including an integral control unit capable of a control; a mobile terminal which photographs a plurality of lighting apparatuses among a plurality of lighting apparatuses as a photographing range; and a control unit which performs a first process of obtaining an association between an image portion of the lighting apparatus in a photographed image and an arranging position on a layout drawing; a second process which obtains a correspondence between the lighting apparatuses which are sequentially turned on and the lighting apparatuses on the layout drawing; and a third process in which each address corresponding to the lighting apparatuses which are arranged on the layout drawing is caused to correspond with each ID information of the plurality of lighting apparatuses.

Claims

1. A lighting control system comprising:

an integral control unit which controls a plurality of lighting apparatuses in which ID information unique to each is assigned in predetermined order;

a mobile terminal configured to photograph a part of or all of the plurality of lighting apparatuses; and

a control unit which performs a first process in which an association between an image portion of the lighting apparatus in a photographed image and an arranging position on a layout drawing is obtained using information on the layout drawing which illustrates the arranging positions of the plurality of lighting apparatuses, and using an image analysis process of the photographed image which is obtained by the mobile terminal;

a second process in which a correspondence between the lighting apparatuses which are sequentially turned on and the lighting apparatuses on the layout drawing is obtained; and

a third process in which each address corresponding to the lighting apparatuses which are arranged on the layout drawing is caused to correspond with each ID information of the plurality of lighting apparatuses.

2. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit performs the first process using information on a photographing position, and information on a photographing direction using the mobile terminal.

3. The system according to claim 2,

wherein the mobile terminal includes a display unit which displays a layout drawing based on information on the layout drawing.

4. The system according to claim 3,

wherein the mobile terminal obtains information on the photographing position based on a user operation with respect to the layout drawing which is displayed on the display unit.

5. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is provided in any one of the integral control unit and the mobile terminal.

6. The system according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit is provided in any one of the integral control unit and the mobile terminal.

7. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit includes a first processing unit which performs at least one of the first to third processes, and a second processing unit which performs processes other than the processes which are performed by the first processing unit,

wherein the first processing unit is provided in the integral control unit, and

wherein the second processing unit is provided in the mobile terminal.

8. The system according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit includes a first processing unit which performs at least one of the first to third processes, and a second processing unit which performs processes other than the processes which are performed by the first processing unit,

wherein the first processing unit is provided in the integral control unit, and

wherein the second processing unit is provided in the mobile terminal.

9. An arrangement registering method of a lighting control system which includes an integral control unit which controls a plurality of lighting apparatuses in which ID information unique to each is assigned in predetermined order, and a mobile terminal configured to photograph a part of or all of the plurality of lighting apparatuses, the method comprising:

performing a first process in which an association between an image portion of the lighting apparatus in a photographed image and an arranging position on a layout drawing is obtained using information on the layout drawing which illustrates the arranging positions of the plurality of lighting apparatuses, and using an image analysis process of the photographed image which is obtained by the mobile terminal;

performing a second process in which a correspondence between the lighting apparatuses which are sequentially turned on and the lighting apparatuses on the layout drawing is obtained; and

performing a third process in which each address corresponding to the lighting apparatuses which are arranged on the layout drawing is caused to correspond with each ID information of the plurality of lighting apparatuses.

10. The method according to claim 9,

wherein the first process is performed using information on a photographing position, and information on a photographing direction using the mobile terminal.

11. A computer-readable recording medium storing an arrangement registering program in a lighting control system which includes an integral control unit which controls a plurality of lighting apparatuses in which ID information unique to each is assigned in predetermined order, and a mobile terminal configured to photograph a part of or all of the plurality of lighting apparatuses, the medium causes a computer to perform:

a first process in which an association between an image portion of the lighting apparatus in a photographed image and an arranging position on a layout drawing is obtained using information on the layout drawing which illustrates the arranging positions of the plurality of lighting apparatuses, and using an image analysis process of the photographed image which is obtained by the mobile terminal;

a second process in which a correspondence between the lighting apparatuses which are sequentially turned on and the lighting apparatuses on the layout drawing is obtained; and

a third process in which each address corresponding to the lighting apparatuses which are arranged on the layout drawing is caused to correspond with each ID information of the plurality of lighting apparatuses.

12. The medium according to claim 11,

wherein the first process is performed using information on a photographing position, and information on a photographing direction using the mobile terminal.