Lighting fixture, lighting system, and method performed by the lighting fixture

• US 9,713,234 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2016
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Gotoh, Shigeo, Nishioka, Shinsuke, Ando, Tamotsu, Nanahara, Atsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, THAI N
• Application Number:
  US15/080,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20160302288A1
• Time in Patent Office: 481 Days
• Field of Search: 315149, 315291, 315292, 315307, 315308, 700 90, 700275, 700295, 700296, 700297
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/10 Controlling the intensity of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/195 the transmission using visible or infrared light

Abstract

A lighting fixture includes a transceiver, a receiver, a storage, and a controller. The transceiver receives a radio command from a radio remote controller for operating the lighting fixture. The receiver receives an infrared command from an infrared remote controller for operating the lighting fixture. The storage stores identification information of the radio remote controller. The controller, if the identification information is stored in the storage, accepts a radio command that includes identification information same as the identification information stored in the storage, among radio commands received by the transceiver, and ignores the infrared command received by the receiver, and if no identification information is stored in the storage, accepts the infrared command received by the receiver.

Claims

1. A lighting device comprising:

a transceiver which receives radio commands for operating the lighting device, from a radio remote controller;

a receiver which receives an infrared command for operating the lighting device, from an infrared remote controller;

a storage for storing identification information of the radio remote controller serving as a master device; and

a controller which determines whether the identification information is stored in the storage, wherein;

when the controller determines that the identification information is stored in the storage, the controller accepts a radio command that includes identification information same as the identification information stored in the storage, among the radio commands received by the transceiver, and discards the infrared command received by the receiver, and

when the controller determines that no identification information is stored in the storage, the controller accepts the infrared command received by the receiver.

2. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller invalidates the identification information stored in the storage when the receiver receives an unpairing signal.

3. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller

determines, immediately after the lighting device is powered on, whether the identification information of the radio remote controller serving as the master device is stored in the storage,

causes the lighting device to enter a pairing configuration mode when the controller determines that the identification information of the radio remote controller serving as the master device is not stored in the storage, and

in the pairing configuration mode, when the transceiver receives, from the radio remote controller, a pairing command which includes identification information and the receiver receives a pairing trigger signal from the infrared remote controller, stores the identification information included in the pairing command into the storage.

4. The lighting device according to claim 3, wherein

the controller

causes the lighting device to emit light in a first illumination mode when the controller determines that the identification information of the radio remote controller serving as the master device is not stored in the storage,

causes the lighting device to emit light in a second illumination mode when the controller receives the pairing command in the pairing configuration mode, and

causes the lighting device to emit light in a third illumination mode, after storing the identification information included in the pairing command into the storage.

5. A lighting system comprising:

lighting devices each being configured to function as the lighting device according to claim 1;

the radio remote controller configured to operate in a pairing configuration mode in which the radio remote controller transmits, repeatedly for a predetermined time period, a pairing command which includes identification information of the radio remote controller, and a normal operation mode in which the radio remote controller transmits the radio commands; and

the infrared remote controller which transmits the infrared command to at least one of the lighting devices.

6. The lighting system according to claim 5, wherein

the infrared remote controller emits, to a lighting device among the lighting devices, infrared light which has a distribution that does not concurrently reach a lighting device adjacent to the lighting device.

7. A method performed by a lighting device, the method comprising:

receiving radio commands for operating the lighting device, from a radio remote controller;

receiving an infrared command for operating the lighting device, from an infrared remote controller;

determining whether identification information of a radio remote controller serving as a master device is stored in a storage included in the lighting device;

when it is determined that the identification information is stored in the storage, accepting, among the radio commands, a radio command that includes the identification information stored in the storage, discarding, among the radio commands, a radio command that includes identification information different from the identification information stored in the storage, and discarding the infrared command; and

when it is determined that the identification information of the radio remote controller serving as the master device is not stored in the storage, accepting the infrared command.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising

when it is determined that the identification information of the radio remote controller serving as the master device is stored in the storage and an unpairing signal from the infrared remote controller is received, invalidating the identification information of the radio remote controller serving as the master device stored in the storage.