DIMMING CONSOLE

• US 20150115837A1
• Filed: 10/29/2014
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: OHTA, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US14/526,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20150115837A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/294
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/10 Controlling the light source
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/18 via data-bus transmission

Abstract

A dimming console includes a plurality of physical faders, a display and a control unit. The control unit has a function of displaying a virtual fader for changing an output level of a lighting instrument on a display and a function of displaying a scene icon including scene information on the display. Each of the physical faders has a function of playing back a scene associated with the scene icon.

Claims

1. A dimming console for preparing a scene, comprising:

a control unit having a function of displaying a virtual fader for changing an output level of a lighting instrument on a display and a function of displaying at least one scene is on including scene information on the display; and

at least one physical fader having a function of playing back a scene associated with each of the at least one scene icon.

2. The dimming console of claim 1, wherein the at least one physical fader includes a plurality of physical faders,

the plurality of physical fader are arranged side by side along a line,

the at least one scene icon includes a plurality of scene icons, and

the control unit displays the plurality of scene icons by arranging the plurality of scene icons side by side in the same direction as the direction of the line.

3. The dimming console of claim 1, wherein the at least one physical fader includes a plurality of physical faders,

the at least one scene icon includes a plurality of scene icons, and

the control unit has a function of displaying the same number of the scene icons as the number of the physical faders.

4. The dimming console of claim 1, wherein the at least one physical fader is arranged at a lower side of the display, and

the control unit displays the at least one scene icon at a lower side of the virtual faders.

5. The dimming console of claim 1, wherein a side of the display corresponding to the at least one physical fader is defined as an adjoining side;

a positional relationship between the at least one physical fader and the at least one scene icon, in which a virtual line interconnecting a reference portion of each of the physical faders and a reference portion of each of the scene icons passes through the adjoining side, is defined as a reference positional relationship; and

the at least one physical fader is arranged at positions where the reference positional relationship is established.