Methods and systems for an automated design, fulfillment, deployment and operation platform for lighting installations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11657190-B2
Application number	US-201916702919-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 4, 2019
Priority date	Apr 27, 2017
Publication date	May 23, 2023
Grant date	May 23, 2023

Abstract

A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for planning lighting in an augmented reality display, comprising:
representing physical features of an environment as a point cloud;
using machine learning to generate a lighting space model of the environment from the point cloud;
using the lighting space model to produce at least one of a floor plan and a reflected ceiling plan of the environment;
coupling the lighting space model to an augmented reality view of the environment, wherein light sources are added to the lighting space model by a user placing light sources in the augmented reality view of the environment by selecting a model of a light source from a catalog of light sources presented in the augmented reality environment and indicating at least one of a position and orientation of the light source in the environment;
rendering the environment through the augmented reality display including lighting effects of the placed light sources based on a near field illumination characterization of the placed light sources; and
populating a data object with item identification information for at least one of the placed light sources, wherein populating causes automatic placement of at least one order into a supply chain for the at least one placed light source.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rendering includes rendering near-field lighting effects in the environment of the placed light sources based on a near-file illumination model of the light source.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the populating includes obtaining the item identification information from the catalog of light sources.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the populating of the data object is in response to a user indicating in the augmented reality interface the at least one of the placed lights for automatic order placement.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising producing a lighting installation plan based on the floor plan and the position and orientation of the light source in the environment.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising populating an automatic procurement data object with item identification information for at least one object identified in the floor plan.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rendering includes accounting for at least one of light transparency, absorption and reflection of at least one element in the environment.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rendering includes rendering near-field lighting artifacts.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the near-field lighting artifacts are rendered throughout the three-dimensional space.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rendering includes accounting for effects relating to physical characteristics of at least one light source.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one light source includes a plurality of distinct light elements, each distinct light element being associated with a corresponding set of ray-traces.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the rendering includes rendering effects from each of the plurality of distinct light elements.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the lighting effects of the placed light sources are based on an area-source model of the placed light sources.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the catalog of light sources includes automated order light source identification information.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rendering is performed by a volumetric renderer.

Assignees

• Ecosense Lighting Inc
• Korrus Inc

Inventors

• Harrison Benjamin James
• Koparkar Shruti
• Reynoso Mark
• Pickard Paul
• Petluri Raghuram L V
• Vick Gary
• Villegas Andrew

Classifications

• H05B47/175

  by remote control · CPC title

• H04N23/80

  Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof · CPC title

• G06N20/00

  Machine learning · CPC title

• G06T2219/2012

  Colour editing, changing, or manipulating; Use of colour codes · CPC title

• G05B13/0265

  the criterion being a learning criterion · CPC title