Lighting Control Console For Controlling A Lighting System

• US 20120004745A1
• Filed: 07/02/2010
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MA Lighting Technology GmbH (MA Lighthing)
• Original Assignee: MA Lighting Technology GmbH (MA Lighthing)
• Inventors: Adenau, Michael, Cordes, Hartmut
• Granted Patent: US 8,452,426 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/90
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control

Abstract

A lighting control console for controlling a lighting system, wherein digital adjustment commands are generated in the lighting control console and can be transmitted to the lighting devices of the lighting system via data connections includes at least one digital processor and at least one digital memory for generating, managing and storing the adjustment commands, and at least one display unit. Graphical elements can be displayed graphically for the operator at the display unit on a display surface. The display unit is made of an at least partially transparent material in the region of the display surface, wherein the display unit can be switched between a transparency mode and a display mode, and wherein the display unit (06) is partially transparent upon activation of the transparency mode in the region of the display surface and enables the operator to look through the display surface. The display unit enables the graphical representation of graphical elements on the display surface for the operator upon activation of the display mode in the region of the display surface.

Claims

1. A lighting control console for controlling a lighting system, wherein digital adjustment commands are generated in the lighting control console and can be transmitted to the lighting devices of the lighting system via data connections, and wherein the lighting control console comprises:

at least one digital processor and at least one digital memory for generating, managing and storing the adjustment commands;

at least one display unit, and wherein graphical elements can be displayed graphically for the operator at the display unit on a display surface, wherein in the region of the display surface, the display unit is made of an at least partially transparent material, wherein the display unit can be switched between a transparency mode and a display mode, and wherein the display unit is partially transparent upon activation of the transparency mode in the region of the display surface and enables the operator to look through the display surface, and wherein the display unit enables the graphical representation of graphical elements on the display surface for the operator upon activation of the display mode in the region of the display surface.

2. The lighting control console according to claim 1, wherein the display surface of the display unit is formed by a transparent LED display.

3. The lighting console according to claim 1, wherein the display unit is formed by a projection unit having at least one projection surface and at least one projector, wherein the projection surface can be switched between a transparent state and an intransparent state, and wherein the graphical representation of graphical elements can be projected onto the projection surface, switched into the intransparent state, with the aid of the projector.

4. The lighting console according to claim 3, wherein the graphical representation of graphical elements is projected with the aid of the projector from behind onto the side of the projection surface that faces away from the operator.

5. The lighting console according to claim 4, wherein the projector is disposed on the rear side of the housing of the lighting control console.

6. The lighting console according to claim 3, wherein the projection surface is made of electro-chromatic glass having a transparency that can be modified by varying the electrical voltage applied.

7. The lighting console according to claim 3, wherein the projection surface is made of a transparent glass carrier having a transparent film disposed thereon, wherein the film includes a plurality of holographic optical elements (HOE), and wherein each holographic optical element (HOE) deflects the light passing through the film and the glass carrier towards the user.

8. The lighting console according to claim 1, wherein the display unit is mounted at the housing so as to be pivotable about a swiveling axis and can be pivoted between a swiveled-back rest position and a swiveled-up operating position, in particular in a continuous fashion.

9. The lighting console according to claim 8, wherein a drive unit is engaged between the housing and the display unit for enabling motor-driven displacement of the display unit between rest position and operating position.

10. The lighting console according to claim 9, wherein the drive unit comprises a gear rim fastened to the display unit and an electric motor fastened to the housing, wherein the drive pinion of the electric motor is in engagement with the toothed gearing of the gear rim.

11. The lighting console according to claim 9, wherein the projector for projecting the graphical representation of graphical elements onto the projection surface is disposed at a portion of the drive unit for motor-driven displacement of the display unit and is displaced synchronously with the display unit upon actuation of the display unit.

12. The lighting control console according to claim 11, wherein the projector for projecting the graphical representation of graphical elements onto the projection surface is disposed at the gear rim of the drive unit.

13. The lighting control console according to claim 1, wherein the display surface of the display unit is formed in the type of a touch-sensitive touch-screen, wherein operator inputs can be entered by touching operating elements displayed on the display surface.

14. The lighting control console according to claim 1, wherein the operating elements can be displayed on the display surface in a three-dimensional representation.