Smart lighting system and control method thereof

• US 10,070,497 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2017
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Wang, Liang, Zhou, Zhixian, Hu, Yang, Zheng, Tianhang, Wang, Jian, Wen, Wei, He, Jie, Chen, Jie, Yan, Wanghui, Bian, Juan
• Primary Examiner(s): King, Monica C
• Application Number:
  US15/681,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20170347422A1
• Time in Patent Office: 382 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/20 Controlling the colour of the light

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a smart lighting system and a control method for the smart lighting system. The smart lighting system includes: an environment acquisition module being configured to acquire environment information and at least one lighting module, and where the environment acquisition module includes: a color detection unit configured to acquire color information in an environment; an auxiliary detection unit configured to acquire auxiliary information in the environment, wherein the environment information is determined by using the color information and/or the auxiliary information; an operational unit and a control unit configured to determine a control signal according to the environment information; and where the at least one lighting module includes: a driving unit configured to determine a driving signal according to the control signal; and at least one light source configured to receive the driving signal and emit light according to the driving signal.

Claims

1. A smart lighting system, comprising:

an environment acquisition module being configured to acquire environment information and at least one lighting module, and wherein the environment acquisition module comprises;

a color detection unit configured to acquire color information in an environment;

an auxiliary detection unit configured to acquire auxiliary information in the environment, wherein the environment information is determined by using the color information and/or the auxiliary information;

an operational unit and a control unit configured to determine a control signal according to the environment information; and

wherein the at least one lighting module comprises;

a driving unit configured to determine a driving signal according to the control signal; and

at least one light source configured to receive the driving signal and emit light according to the driving signal.

2. The smart lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary detection unit comprises at least one of a human body detecting sensor, an air quality sensor or a position sensor.

3. The smart lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the color detection unit and the lighting module are separately arranged.

4. The smart lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the color detection unit is close to or fixed on an irradiated operating surface.

5. The smart lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the environment acquisition module and the lighting module are integrally arranged;

or

the color detection unit is separately arranged with the lighting module and also separately arranged with the auxiliary detection unit, and the lighting module and the auxiliary detection unit are integrally arranged;

or

the color detection unit is separately arranged with the lighting module and also separately arranged with the auxiliary detection unit, and the lighting module and the auxiliary detection unit are separately arranged.

6. The smart lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the environment acquisition module communicates with the lighting module by a wired or wireless approach.

7. The smart lighting system according to claim 1, wherein

the light source comprises L groups of luminescent units with different colors, and L≥

3;

the operational unit is disposed in the environment acquisition module or the lighting module that is configured to receive the color information, acquire a target light color according to the color information, and operate to obtain information describing which groups of the luminescent units are participated to emit light and control signals of the luminescent units participating to emit light according to the target light color; and

the control unit is disposed in the lighting module that is configured to receive the control signals, control luminous intensities of the groups of the luminescent units according to the control signals, and allow the light source to generate the target light color by the combination of the luminous intensities.

8. The smart lighting system according to claim 7, wherein a quantity of the at least one lighting module is multiple;

and the operational unit and the control unit determine respective control signals according to the environment information.

9. The smart lighting system according to claim 8, wherein the environment acquisition module further comprises a central processing unit (CPU) which is configured to analyze the color information and the auxiliary information and acquire multiple pieces of the environment information that are respectively corresponding to the multiple lighting modules;

and correspondingly, the operational unit and the control unit determine respective control signals according to the corresponding environment information.

10. The smart lighting system according to claim 7, wherein the operational unit comprises a target light color operational element which is configured to receive the color information and acquire the target light color according to the color information.

11. The smart lighting system according to claim 10, wherein the operational unit further comprises an output mode selection element and a control signal operational element;

wherein the output mode selection element is configured to operate to acquire information of the luminescent units participating to emit light according to the target light color, and groups of the luminescent units are participated to emit light; and

wherein the control signal operational element is configured to operate to acquire control signals of the luminescent units participating to emit light according to the information of the luminescent units participating to emit light and the target light color.

12. The smart lighting system according to claim 10, wherein the operational unit further comprises an output mode selection element and an output mode memory;

wherein the output mode selection element is configured to operate to acquire output mode information according to the target light color; and

wherein the output mode memory is configured to output the control signals of the luminescent units that are corresponding to the output mode information according to the output mode information.

13. A control method for a smart lighting system comprising an environment acquisition module being configured to acquire environment information and at least one lighting module, comprising:

allowing a color detection unit to acquire color information in an environment;

allowing an auxiliary detection unit to acquire auxiliary information in the environment;

determining the environment information according to the color information and the auxiliary information;

allowing an operational unit and a control unit to determine a control signal according to the environment information;

allowing a driving unit to determine a driving signal according to the control signal; and

allowing a light source to emit light according to the driving signal.

14. The control method according to claim 13, wherein the auxiliary information comprises human body existence information and/or air quality information and/or human body position information.

15. The control method according to claim 13, wherein a quantity of the lighting modules is multiple, and allowing the driving unit to determine the driving signal according to the control signal comprises:

allowing the operational unit and the control unit to determine respective control signals according to the environment information.

16. The control method according to claim 15, wherein the environment acquisition module further comprises a CPU, and determining the environment information according to the color information and the auxiliary information comprises:

allowing the CPU to analyze the color information and the auxiliary information and acquire multiple pieces of environment information that are respectively corresponding to the multiple lighting modules; and

correspondingly, allowing the operational unit and the control unit to determine respective control signals according to the environment information comprises;

allowing the operational unit and the control unit to determine the respective control signals according to corresponding environment information.

17. The control method according to claim 16, further comprising:

acquiring a target light color;

marking a point indicating the target light color in a CIE 1931 chromatic diagram, selecting a lighting output mode according to a position of the point indicating the target light color in the chromatic diagram, and obtaining control signals for controlling luminescent units according to the lighting output mode; and

outputting the acquired target light color according to the control signals.

18. The control method according to claim 17, wherein marking the point comprise:

marking light colors of the luminescent units in the smart lighting system in the CIE 1931 chromatic diagram, with a corresponding light color of each group of the luminescent units being represented as a light source luminous point;

encircling an output light color area by taking I (L≥

I≥

3) light source luminous points as vertexes, with the point indicating the target light color falling into the output light color area; and

representing the luminescent units by the vertexes of the output light color area wherein the luminescent units participate to emit light and display the target light color.

19. The control method according to claim 18, wherein I=3, and after the luminescent units participating to emit light are determined, the control signals for the groups of the luminescent units participating to emit light are obtained by the following formula:

20. The control method according to claim 17, wherein marking the point comprises:

dividing a plurality of areas in the CIE 1931 chromatic diagram;

presetting a corresponding output mode for each area;

corresponding each output mode to corresponding luminescent units participating to emit light and control signals of the corresponding luminescent units; and

outputting control signals according to an output mode corresponding to a particular area when the point indicating the target light color falls into the particular area.