SYSTEM FOR SHARING AND/OR SYNCHRONIZING ATTRIBUTES OF EMITTED LIGHT AMONG LIGHTING SYSTEMS

• US 20160338179A1
• Filed: 01/04/2015
• Published: 11/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Signify Holding B.V. (Signify N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Philips Lighting BV (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: ALIAKSEYEU, DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH, VAN DE SLUIS, BARTEL MARINUS, NEWTON, PHILIP STEVEN, CLOUT, RAMON ANTOINE WIRO, DEKKER, TIM, LASHINA, TATIANA ALEKSANDROVNA
• Granted Patent: US 9,769,910 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/10 Controlling the intensity of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/24 using electrical feedback from LEDs or from LED modules
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/105 in response to determined parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/11 by determining the brightness or colour temperature of ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission

Abstract

System, methods, computer-readable media and apparatus are described herein for sharing lighting settings between lighting systems in real time. In some embodiments, a user may configure a local lighting system to “follow” a remote lighting system, such that the local lighting system emits light that resembles light emitted contemporaneously by the remote lighting system. Likewise, a user may cause one or more attributes of light emitted by a local lighting system to be published, so that other remote lighting systems may follow the local lighting system.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

identifying, by a device associated with a local user, a remote lighting system for which one or more attributes of light it emits are published in a real time;

obtaining, by the device, one or more published attributes of light emitted by the remote lighting system; and

facilitating, in real time, by the device based on the one or more published attributes, selective energizing of one or more LEDs of a local lighting system to emit light that resembles light emitted contemporaneously by the remote lighting system,

wherein the one or more attributes of light emitted by the remote lighting system are published on a social network, and the method further comprises receiving, at a user interface of the device, an instruction to follow light emission activity of the remote lighting system.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining, by the device, a new published attribute of light emitted by the remote lighting system.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising facilitating selective energizing of the one or more LEDs of the local lighting system, based on the new published attribute, to emit light that resembles light emitted contemporaneously by the remote lighting system.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, the method further comprises publishing, by the device, light attribute sharing data, wherein the light attribute sharing data includes a local attribute of light emitted or to be emitted imminently by the local lighting system and one or more identities of one or more remote users to be provided access to the uploaded data.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the light attribute sharing data includes:

a first local attribute of light emitted or to be imminently emitted by a first set of light sources of the local lighting system that is accessible to a first remote user and inaccessible to a second remote user; and

a second local attribute of light emitted or to be imminently emitted by a second set of light sources of the local lighting system that is different from the first set, wherein the second local attribute is accessible to the first and second remote users.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising receiving, via a communication interface of the device from the local lighting system, raw data indicative of the local attribute of light emitted or to be emitted imminently by the local lighting system, and including the raw data in the light attribute sharing data.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising detecting, by a light sensor associated with the device, the local attribute of light emitted by the local lighting system, and including data indicative of the detected local attribute in the light attribute sharing data.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising receiving, at a user interface associated with the device, a request to cause the local lighting system to emit light having the local attribute, and in parallel with causing the local lighting system to emit light having the requested local light attribute, including data indicative of the requested local light attribute in the light attribute sharing data.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the remote lighting system is a first remote lighting system, the method further comprising:

identifying, by the device associated with the local user, a second remote lighting system for which one or more attributes of light it emits are published in real time;

obtaining, by the device from, one or more published attributes of light emitted by the second remote lighting system; and

facilitating, by the device based on attributes of light emitted by both the first and second remote lighting systems, selective energizing of one or more LEDs of a local lighting system to emit light that resembles light emitted contemporaneously by the first and second remote lighting systems.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the selective energizing includes assigning more weight to published attributes of light emitted by one of the first and second remote lighting systems than to published attributes of light emitted by the other.

12. At least one computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, in response to execution of the instructions by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform the method of claim 1.

4. (canceled)

13. An apparatus, comprising:

one or more processors;

a communication interface operably coupled with the one or more processors; and

memory operably coupled with the one or more processors and containing instructions that, in response to execution of the instructions by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

subscribe, via the communication interface, to a real time feed of data indicative of light emitted by a remote lighting system, wherein the real time feed of data is associated with a user of a social network; and

facilitate real time synchronization of one or more attributes of light emitted by a local lighting system with one or more attributes of light emitted by the remote lighting system based on the real time feed of data.

14. (canceled)

15. (canceled)

16. (canceled)

17. (canceled)

18. (canceled)

19. (canceled)

20. (canceled)