Controls for digital lighting
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1. A lighting system, comprising:
- a control part which produces controls for controlling digital light effects of a plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices, and which produces media clips which include multimedia information to be displayed on said plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices;
said control part including a first network connection, producing first outputs which are connected over a first network cable to plural remote devices that are connected to said first network cable, and which are remote from said control part, said first network connection having only data that is formatted to control said only said light effects, and said first network connection not having data that is formatted to provide any content for said media clips; and
said control part including a second network connection, producing an output which is totally separate from said first network connection, producing second outputs which are connected over a second network cable to plural remote devices that are connected to said second network connection, and which are remote from said control part, said second network connection having only data that is formatted to produce content for said media clips, and said second network connection not having data formatted for controlling said light effects; and
said control part receiving a version back from at least one of said plural remote devices, indicative of what the at least one of said plural remote devices is actually playing, and controlling display of said version.
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Abstract
A digitally controlled lighting system where aspects have a central media server connected to remote media servers. The connection may have separate networks for control versus media. Automatic synchronization of the contents of the media servers may be carried out.
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1. A lighting system, comprising:
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a control part which produces controls for controlling digital light effects of a plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices, and which produces media clips which include multimedia information to be displayed on said plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices; said control part including a first network connection, producing first outputs which are connected over a first network cable to plural remote devices that are connected to said first network cable, and which are remote from said control part, said first network connection having only data that is formatted to control said only said light effects, and said first network connection not having data that is formatted to provide any content for said media clips; and said control part including a second network connection, producing an output which is totally separate from said first network connection, producing second outputs which are connected over a second network cable to plural remote devices that are connected to said second network connection, and which are remote from said control part, said second network connection having only data that is formatted to produce content for said media clips, and said second network connection not having data formatted for controlling said light effects; and said control part receiving a version back from at least one of said plural remote devices, indicative of what the at least one of said plural remote devices is actually playing, and controlling display of said version. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A lighting system, comprising:
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a control part which produces controls for controlling digital light effects of a plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices, and which produces media clips which include multimedia information to be displayed on said plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices; said control part including a first network connection, and producing outputs which control said light effects, but do not provide any content for said media clips; and said control part including a second network connection, producing an output which is totally separate from said first network connection, producing content for said media clips but not producing any output which controls said light effects, wherein said control part controls cross fade between an old image and a new image, by dimming the old image, and progressively brightening the new image, where the new image has its brightest items displayed first, and its least bright items displayed last.
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30. A lighting system comprising:
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a control part which produces controls for controlling digital light effects of a plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices, and which produces media clips which include multimedia information to be displayed on said plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices; said control part including a first network connection, producing outputs which control said light effects, but do not provide any content for said media clips; and said control part including a second network connection, producing an output which is totally separate from said first network connection, producing content for said media clips but not producing any output which controls said light effects, wherein said control part controls forming a color specific grayscale, where everything in an image in the media clip except for at least one specified color is changed to grayscale, but said at least one specified color is maintained as its original color.
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31. A lighting system, comprising:
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a control part which produces controls for controlling digital light effects of a plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices, and which produces media clips which include multimedia information to be displayed on said plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices; said control part including a first network connection, producing outputs which control said light effects, but do not provide any content for said media clips; and said control part including a second network connection, producing an output which is totally separate from said first network connection, producing content for said media clips but not producing any output which controls said light effects, wherein said control part controls setting a threshold intensity level, said everything with a first relation to said threshold intensity level is set to a first color, and everything with a second relation to said threshold intensity level is set to a second color. - View Dependent Claims (32)
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33. A lighting system, comprising:
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a control part which produces controls for controlling digital light effects of a plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices, and which produces media clips which include multimedia information to be displayed on said plurality of separate digitally controllable lighting devices; said control part including a first network connection producing outputs which control said light effects, but do not provide any content for said media clips; and said control part including a second network connection, producing an output which is totally separate from said first network connection, producing content for said media clips but not producing any output which controls said light effects, wherein said controller stores a central database of media information, along with information about which of the digitally controllable lighting devices should have items from said central database of media information, and controls periodically synchronizing between said central database and said digitally controllable lighting devices.
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34. A lighting system, comprising:
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a first digitally controllable lighting device, controlled by a digital signal and having a digital mirror device therein, which digital mirror device can operate to shape an outer perimeter of a projected light beam, and can also project images and video; a second digitally controllable lighting device, controlled by a digital signal and having a digital mirror device therein, which digital mirror device can operate to shape an outer perimeter of a projected light beam, and can also project images and video; a control part which produces controls for controlling digital light effects of said first and second digitally controllable lighting devices, said control part having a central media server which stores and produces media clips which include multimedia information to be displayed on said first and second digitally controllable lighting devices; said control part including a first network connection, producing outputs which control said light effects, but do not provide any content for said media clips, said first network connection producing first outputs which are connected over a first network cable to plural remote devices that are connected to said first network cable, and which are remote from said control part devices including at least said first digitally controllable lighting device and said second digitally controllable lighting device; and said control part including a second network connection, producing an output which is totally separate from said first network connection, producing content for said media clips but not producing any output which controls said light effects, said second network connection producing first outputs which are connected over a second network cable to plural remote devices that are connected to said first network cable, and which are remote from said control part devices including at least said first digitally controllable lighting device and said second digitally controllable lighting device; and said control part receiving a version back from at least one of said plural remote devices, indicative of what the at least one of said plural remote devices is actually playing, and controlling display of said version. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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