Transmitting an alternative light command for a longer period

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11706863-B2
Application number	US-201917269076-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 30, 2019
Priority date	Aug 17, 2018
Publication date	Jul 18, 2023
Grant date	Jul 18, 2023

Abstract

An electronic device is configured to determine apart ( 161 ) of a light effect for a first period and determine a succeeding part ( 186 ) of the light effect for a second period succeeding the first period. The electronic device is further configured to determine a likelihood that a second original light command specifying a part ( 162 ) of a light effect for the second period will not arrive at its destination and transmit an original first light command or determine and transmit an alternative first light command in dependence on the likelihood and/or the determined succeeding part of the light effect. The original first light command specifies the part of the light effect and the alternative first light command is determined based on the part and the succeeding part of the light effect and specifies a portion of the light effect for both the first period and the second period.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic device for causing one or more lighting devices to render a light effect, the electronic device comprising at least one processor configured to:
determine a first part of said light effect to be rendered by said one or more lighting devices during a first period based on an original first light command,
determine a likelihood that an original second light command specifying a second part of said light effect to be rendered by said one or more lighting devices during a second period, succeeding said first period, will not arrive at a destination of said original second light command is above a threshold,
determine said second part of said light effect, and
determine and transmit an alternative first light command, instead of the original first light command, in dependence on said determined likelihood and based on said determined second part of said light effect, said alternative first light command being determined based on said determined first part of said light effect and said determined second part of said light effect and said alternative first light command specifying a portion of said light effect for both said first period and said second period.

2. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said at least one processor is configured to determine said second part of said light effect by predicting said second part from said first part of said light effect.

3. An electronic device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said at least one processor is configured to predict said second part of said light effect by determining a trajectory of said light effect based on extrapolating said first part of said light effect.

4. An electronic device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said at least one processor is configured to perform said extrapolation further based on historical trajectories of rendered light effects.

5. An electronic device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein said at least one processor is configured to select said historical trajectories by selecting historical trajectories with a similar part as said trajectory from a collection of historical trajectories.

6. An electronic device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein said at least one processor is configured to select said historical trajectories from a collection of historical trajectories based on an application type of an application which created said light effect.

7. An electronic device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said at least one processor is configured to determine which shape best matches said trajectory and transmit said alternative first light command in dependence on said determined shape.

8. An electronic device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein said shape is determined to be linear.

9. An electronic device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein said shape is determined to be irregular.

10. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said at least one processor is configured to include in said alternative first light command an indication of the duration of said portion of said light effect.

11. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said at least one processor is configured to determine a likelihood that a original third light command specifying a third part of said light effect to be rendered by said one or more lighting devices during a third period, succeeding said second period, will not arrive at said destination and determine said second part of said light effect for both said second period and said third period, said alternative first light command specifying a portion for said light effect for said first period, said second period and said third period.

12. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said at least one processor is configured to receive said original first light command from another device and determine said first part of said light effect from said original first light command.

13. An electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said at least one processor is configured to determine said likelihood that said original second light command will not arrive at said destination of said original second light command based on feedback from one or more light devices, knowledge possessed by a network scheduler and/or statistics received from a MAC layer through which said original second light command will be transmitted.

14. A method of transmitting a light command for causing one or more lighting devices to render a light effect, comprising:
determining a first part of said light effect to be rendered by said one or more lighting devices during a first period based on an original first light command;
determining a likelihood that an original second light command specifying a second part of said light effect to be rendered by said one or more lighting devices during a second period, succeeding said first period, will not arrive at a destination of said original second light command is above a threshold;
determining said second part of said light effect, and
determining and transmitting an alternative first light command, instead of the original first light command, in dependence on said determined likelihood and based on said determined second part of said light effect, said alternative first light command being determined based on said determined first part of said light effect and said determined second part of said light effect and said alternative first light command specifying a portion of said light effect for both said first period and said second period.

15. A computer program or suite of computer programs comprising at least one software code portion or a computer program product storing at least one software code portion, the software code portion, when run on a computer system, being configured for carrying out the method of claim 14 .

Assignees

• Signify Holding Bv

Inventors

• Kamp Antonie Leonardus Johannes
• Hubbers Aloys
• Goergen Daniel Martin

Classifications

• H05B47/16 Primary

  by timing means · CPC title

• H05B47/19 Primary

  via wireless transmission · CPC title

• H05B47/175 Primary

  by remote control · CPC title

• H05B47/155

  Coordinated control of two or more light sources · CPC title

• Y02B20/40

  Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection · CPC title