Lighting system and method for controlling a light intensity and a color temperature of light in a room

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9345090-B2
Application number	US-201414761423-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 2, 2014
Priority date	Jan 18, 2013
Publication date	May 17, 2016
Grant date	May 17, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to a lighting system ( 10 ) arranged to control a light intensity and a color temperature of light in a room ( 1 ). The lighting system comprising: a light source ( 12 ) arranged to emit light, the light source ( 12 ) comprising a first and second light emitters ( 13, 14 ) each being adjustable between a number of light intensity levels and arranged to emit light having a first and second color temperature, respectively. The light source ( 12 ) is arranged to provide an output signal (OS) comprising information pertaining to a light intensity level of said first and second light emitters ( 13, 14 ), respectively; a light sensor ( 16 ) arranged to measure the light intensity and the color temperature of the light in the room, and to provide a sense signal (SS) comprising information pertaining to the measured light intensity and color temperature; and a controller ( 18 ) arranged to control the color temperature and the light intensity of the light in the room ( 1 ) by adjusting the light intensity level of said first and second light emitters ( 13, 14 ), based on said sense signal (SS) provided by the light sensor ( 16 ) and said output signal (OS) provided by the light source ( 12 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. Lighting system arranged to control a light intensity and a color temperature of light in a room, the lighting system comprising:
a light source arranged to emit light, the light source comprising a first light emitter adjustable between a number of light intensity levels and arranged to emit light having a first color temperature, and a second light emitter adjustable between a number of light intensity levels and arranged to emit light having a second color temperature, wherein said second color temperature is different from said first color temperature, the light source is further arranged to provide an output signal comprising information pertaining to a light intensity level of said first and second light emitters, respectively;
a light sensor arranged to measure the light intensity and the color temperature of the light in the room, the light in the room originating from both the light source and at least one more additional light source, and to provide a sense signal comprising information pertaining to the measured light intensity and color temperature; and
a controller arranged to control the color temperature and the light intensity of the light in the room by adjusting the light intensity level of said first and second light emitters, based on said sense signal provided by the light sensor and said output signal provided by the light source;

wherein the controller is further arranged to calibrate the lighting system by defining a correspondence between a number of light intensity levels of the first light emitter and a corresponding light intensity measured by the light sensor and a correspondence between a number of light intensity levels of the second light emitter and a corresponding light intensity measured by the light sensor, and to store these correspondences in a memory
wherein the controller is further arranged to set a desired light intensity and color temperature of the light in the room by: from the sensor receiving measured present light intensity and color temperature of light in the room; determining a contribution of light intensity and color temperature from the at least one more additional light source by subtracting a present contribution of light intensity and color temperature of the first and second light emitters, respectively, from the measured present light intensity and color temperature; determining new contributions of light intensity and color temperature for the first and second light emitters, respectively, such that the desired light intensity and color temperature of light in the room can be achieved; determining, based on the correspondences stored in the memory, new light intensity levels of the first and second light emitters corresponding to said new contributions of light intensity and color temperature; and setting the light intensity levels of the first and second light emitters to said new light intensity levels of the first and second light emitters.

2. Lighting system according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second light emitters are arranged to emit white light.

3. Lighting system according to claim 1 , wherein the first color temperature is below 2 000 K and the second color temperature is above 10 000 K.

4. Lighting system according to claim 1 , wherein the light sensor is arranged to continuously measure the light intensity and the color temperature at a fixed sampling frequency.

5. Lighting system according to claim 4 , wherein the fixed sampling frequency is equal to or more than 0.1 Hz.

6. Method for controlling a light intensity and color temperature of light in a room, the method comprising:
providing a lighting system comprising: a light source arranged to emit light, the light source comprising a first light emitter adjustable between a number of light intensity levels and arranged to emit light having a first color temperature, and a second light emitter adjustable between a number of light intensity levels and arranged to emit light having a second color temperature, wherein said second color temperature is different from said first color temperature; and a light sensor arranged to measure a light intensity and a color temperature;
outputting, from the light source, an output signal comprising information pertaining to a light intensity level of said first and second light emitters, respectively;
outputting, from the light sensor, a sense signal comprising information pertaining to the measured light intensity and color temperature;
calibrating the lighting system by defining a correspondence between a number of light intensity levels of the first light emitter and a corresponding light intensity measured by the light sensor and a correspondence between a number of light intensity levels of the second light emitter and a corresponding light intensity measured by the light sensor and storing said correspondences in a memory; and
controlling the light intensity and color temperature of the light in the room, the light in the room originating from both the light source and at least one more additional light source, by adjusting the light intensity level of said first and second light emitters, based on said sense signal provided by the light sensor and said output signal provided by the light source,

wherein the method further comprises:
setting a desired light intensity and color temperature of light in the room, the light in the room originating from both the provided light source and at least one more additional light source, by:
measuring a present light intensity and color temperature of light in the room;
determining a contribution of light intensity and color temperature from the at least one more additional light source by subtracting a, from the calibrating act, known present contributions of light intensity and color temperature of the first and second light emitters, respectively, from the measured present light intensity and color temperature;
determining new contributions of light intensity and color temperature for the first and second light emitters, respectively, such that the desired light intensity and color temperature of light in the room can be achieved;
determining, based on the correspondences stored in the memory, new light intensity levels of the first and second light emitters corresponding to said new contributions of light intensity and color temperature; and
setting the light intensity levels of the first and second light emitters to said new light intensity levels of the first and second light emitters.

7. Method according to claim 6 , wherein the first and second light emitters are arranged to emit white light.

8. Method according to claim 6 , wherein the first color temperature is below 2 000 K and the second color temperature is above 10 000 K.

9. Method according to claim 6 , wherein said at least one more additional light source comprises daylight.

Assignees

• Koninkl Philips Nv

Inventors

• Tiberi Luca
• Sarroukh Bahaa Eddine
• Barroso Andre Melon
• Verhaegh Janneke

Classifications

• H05B47/10

  Controlling the light source · CPC title

• H05B47/11

  by determining the brightness or colour temperature of ambient light · CPC title

• H05B33/0857

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H05B33/0845 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H05B37/02

  Electricity · mapped topic