Light management system with automatic identification of light effects available for a home entertainment system

• US 8,352,079 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2008
• Issued: 01/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Signify Holding B.V. (Signify N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Wendt, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): KASENGE, CHARLES R
• Application Number:
  US12/740,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20100244745A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,526 Days
• Field of Search: 700/11, 700/13, 700/19, 700/275, 315/312, 381/300, 382/103
• US Class Current: 700/275
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/28 responding to control signals received from the game device for affecting ambient conditions, e.g. for vibrating players' seats, activating scent dispensers or affecting temperature or light controlling the output signals based on the game progress A63F13/50
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/60 Generating or modifying game content before or while executing the game program, e.g. authoring tools specially adapted for game development or game-integrated level editor
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/302 specially adapted for receiving control signals not targeted to a display device or game input means, e.g. vibrating driver's seat, scent dispenser
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6009 for importing or creating game content, e.g. authoring tools during game development, adapting content to different platforms, use of a scripting language to create content
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources

Abstract

The invention relates to the automatic identification of light effects available for a home entertainment system with a light management system. According to an embodiment of the invention, a light management system (10) with automatic identification of light effects available for a home entertainment system (12), wherein the light management system (10) is adapted for—automatically composing a lighting scene from an abstract light experience description (14), which describes types of light effects at certain locations relative to the entertainment system, —automatically registering light effects controlled by the light management system (10) and being available for the home entertainment system (12), and—automatically integrating the registered light effects in the composition of the lighting scene. This allows to automatically identify light effects generated by light sources in a room and controllable by a light management system and make them available for a home entertainment system such as an amBX® system.

Claims

1. A method for automatically identifying, by a light management system including one or more light sources, a plurality of light effects available for a home entertainment system disposed in a room and including a screen and a plurality of loudspeakers, the method comprising the steps of:

automatically composing a lighting scene from an abstract light experience description, which describes types of light effects at predefined locations in the room relative to the home entertainment system,

automatically registering light effects of lamps controlled by the light management system and being available for the home entertainment system,

automatically registering positions of light effects relative to the screen of the home entertainment system by analyzing a picture taken with a camera, and

automatically integrating the registered light effects in the composition of the lighting scene.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of

automatically registering the picture of a calibration scene displayed on the screen of the home entertainment system by analyzing pictures taken with the camera,

automatically determining the position of the registered picture of the calibration scene in the room and relative to all registered light effects, and

automatically identifying lamps being able to make light effects at predefined locations to the home entertainment system.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of registering and mapping available ambient lighting features of the screen of the home entertainment system to semantic locations.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

automatically registering positions of loud speakers of the home entertainment system, and

automatically controlling the sound processing of the home entertainment system depending on the automatically registered positions of the loud speakers.