Luminous Element Arrangement for the Dynamic Display of a Machine-Readable Code

• US 20170236454A1
• Filed: 08/13/2015
• Published: 08/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tridonic GmbH & Co. KG (Zumtobel Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Tridonic GmbH & Co. KG (Zumtobel Group AG)
• Inventors: Herter, Jens
• Granted Patent: US 9,922,581 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06112 the marking being simulated using a light source, e.g. a barcode shown on a display or a laser beam with time-varying intensity profile
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0297 including a machine-readable marking, e.g. a bar code digitally marked record carriers in general G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/208 Electronic labels, Labels integrating electronic displays
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/30 in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements panels comprising a number of electrodes in a single cell controlling light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. electro-optical or magneto-optical cell, G02F1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/33 being semiconductor devices, e.g. diodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks

Abstract

The invention relates to a luminous element arrangement (A), in particular a luminous element field, comprising a plurality of luminous elements, at least one communication interface (5), in particular a bus and/or radio interface, and a converter unit (2), said converter unit (2) activating and/or deactivating the plurality of luminous elements of the luminous element arrangement (A) in response to a signal received via the communication interface (5) such that in top view onto the luminous element arrangement (A) a machine-readable code, in particular a one-dimensional or two-dimensional, machine-readable code is represented.

Claims

1. A luminous element arrangement (A), comprising numerous luminous elements, at least one communication interface (11), and a converter unit (2), wherein the converter unit (2) activates and deactivates the numerous luminous elements of the luminous element arrangement (A), depending on a signal received via the communication interface (11), such that when viewed from above, the luminous element arrangement (A) depicts a machine-readable code, comprising one of a one-dimensional machine-readable code and two-dimensional machine-readable code.

2. The luminous element arrangement (A) according to claim 1, wherein the machine-readable code is a QR code.

3. The luminous element arrangement (A) according to claim 1, wherein the machine-readable code encodes at least one parameter, which is received with the signal from the luminous element arrangement (A).

4. The luminous element arrangement (A) according to claim 1, wherein the luminous element arrangement (A) is functionally connected to a lighting or building technology system via the communication interface (11), and the machine-readable code encodes operating and configuration parameters of the corresponding system and of system participants of the respective system.

5. The luminous element arrangement (A) according to claim 4, wherein the operating and configuration parameters are operating and configuration parameters of a luminous element operating device.

6. A luminous element arrangement (A) comprising:

luminous elements;

at least one communication interface (11), comprising one of a bus and a radio interface; and

a converter unit (2), wherein the converter unit (2) is adapted to activate the luminous elements for lighting purposes;

wherein further luminous elements are removably connected to an interface of the luminous element arrangement, and can be operated by the converter unit such that when viewed from above, a machine-readable code, comprising one of a one-dimensional machine-readable code and a two-dimensional machine-readable code, is depicted on the luminous element arrangement (A) by the further luminous elements.

7. A system comprising a luminous element arrangement (A) according to claim 6, wherein the system has a further communication interface (9), comprising a radio interface, and is configured to receive operating and configuration parameters via the further communication interface (9), from a mobile communication device (6b).

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the mobile communication device (6b) is a component of the system, and wherein the mobile communication device (6b) is configured to register a machine-readable code depicted by the luminous element arrangement (A), to extract, and modify, operating and configuration parameters therefrom, and to transmit the operating and configuration parameters to the further communication interface (9).

9. The system according to claim 7, wherein the system evaluates the operating parameter and configuration parameter received via the further communication interface (9), and outputs evaluation information to system participants.

10. The system according to claim 7, wherein the system comprising one of a lighting system and building technology system.

11. The system according to claim 7 further comprising a central control unit (4), wherein the operating and configuration parameters received via the further interface (9) are used by the central control unit (4) in order to set operating and configuration parameters in system participants connected to the system.

12. The system according to claim 7, wherein at least one system participant transmits operating and configuration parameters to the luminous element arrangement (A), and the luminous element arrangement sets or modifies the machine-readable code in response thereto.

13. The system according to claim 7, wherein the mobile communication device (6b) comprises at least one camera for registering the machine-readable code, and an interface (8) for communication with the further communication interface (9).

14. The system according to claim 9, wherein the central control unit (4) evaluates the operating and configuration parameters received via the further communication interface (9), and transmits corresponding operating and configuration parameters to participants of the system.

15. The system according to claim 7, wherein the operating and configuration parameters comprise at least one identifier, which identifies a participant of the system, the operating and/or configuration parameters of which are to be set.

16. The system according to claim 7, wherein the mobile end device comprises a software component, which enables a decoding of the machine-readable code.

18. The system according to claim 13 wherein the communication between the interface (8) on the mobile communication device (6b) and the further communication interface (9) on the central control unit (4) is wireless via WLAN/WiFi.

19. The system according to claim 13 wherein the communication between the interface (8) on the mobile communication device (6b) and the further communication interface (9) on the central control unit (4) is via a low power wireless protocol.

20. The system according to claim 13 wherein the communication between the interface (8) on the mobile communication device (6b) and the further communication interface (9) on the central control unit (4) is over a USB cable.

21. The system according to claim 13 wherein the communication between the interface (8) on the mobile communication device (6b) and the further communication interface (9) on the central control unit (4) is via a mobile data communication interface.

17. A method for setting operating and configuration parameters of a system participant in a lighting or building technology system, wherein operating and configuration parameters that indicate a state of the system participant are to be depicted by means of a luminous element arrangement (A), comprising a luminous element field, in the form of a machine-readable code, wherein the machine-readable code is registered and evaluated by a mobile communication device (6b), wherein the depicted operating and configuration parameters are available in the communication device (6b), and the operating and configuration parameters are transmitted to the system, in the modified form, by the communication device (6b), and further wherein the operating and configuration parameters of the system participant are set, based on the transmitted operating and configuration parameters.