Lighting setting apparatus and lighting system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9980346-B2
Application number	US-201715716200-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 26, 2017
Priority date	Sep 28, 2016
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

A lighting setting apparatus which is used to set lighting modes in a plurality of luminaires installed in a space includes: a storage which stores a lighting setting image indicating the entirety of an illumination area of the luminaires in the predetermined space and luminaire position information indicating the positions of the luminaires in the space; an input receiver which receives a user input regarding use of the lighting setting image; and a lighting setter which obtains the target pixel values of target pixels that are of the lighting setting image for which the input regarding the use has been received and that are located correspondingly to the positions of the luminaires indicated by the luminaire position information, determines, based on the obtained target pixel values, a lighting setting value for at least one of dimming or toning of the luminaires, and outputs the lighting setting value.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A lighting setting apparatus which is used to set lighting modes in a plurality of luminaires installed in a predetermined space, the lighting setting apparatus comprising: a storage which stores (i) a lighting setting image indicating an entirety of an illumination area of the plurality of luminaires in the predetermined space and (ii) luminaire position information indicating positions of the plurality of luminaires in the predetermined space, in association with the lighting setting image; an input receiver which receives an input by a user, the input regarding use of the lighting setting image; and a lighting setter which obtains target pixel values of target pixels of the lighting setting image for which the input regarding the use has been received, the target pixels being located correspondingly to positions of the plurality of luminaires indicated by the luminaire position information, determines, based on the obtained target pixel values, a lighting setting value for at least one of dimming or toning of the plurality of luminaires, and outputs the determined lighting setting value.

2. The lighting setting apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a display portion which displays the lighting setting image; and
a pixel value determiner which determines second pixel values as pixel values of the lighting setting image to be displayed on the display portion,
wherein the input receiver further receives a user input regarding a setting of at least one of a color or a brightness in the lighting setting image while the lighting setting image is being displayed on the display portion, and
the pixel value determiner determines the second pixel values based on the setting which has been input, and causes the display portion to display the lighting setting image using the second pixel values.

3. The lighting setting apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the luminaire position information includes a luminaire position image indicating positions of the plurality of luminaires in the predetermined space, and
the pixel value determiner causes the display portion to superimpose and display the lighting setting image and the luminaire position image.

4. The lighting setting apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the lighting setting image includes a plurality of subareas, and
the input receiver receives an input of a setting of at least one of a color or a brightness for each of the plurality of subareas in the lighting setting image.

5. The lighting setting apparatus according to claim 4 ,
wherein the plurality of subareas in the lighting setting image include a plurality of first subareas obtained by dividing the lighting setting image.

6. The lighting setting apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the lighting setting image is a plane image, and the plurality of first subareas are rectangular or hexagonal.

7. The lighting setting apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the pixel value determiner determines pixel values of pixels in two or more continuous first subareas included in the plurality of first subareas, to be pixel values which gradually change across boundaries between the two or more continuous first subareas.

8. The lighting setting apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the plurality of subareas further include a second subarea which is circular or a polygonal superimposed and placed by the user on one or more first subareas included in the first subareas at an arbitrary position in the lighting setting image,
in a range in which the second subarea is superimposed on the first subarea, the input receiver further receives a user input regarding a setting of at least one of a color or brightness onto the second subarea, and
the pixel value determiner determines pixel values in the second subarea based on the setting of the at least one of the color or the brightness in the second subarea.

9. The lighting setting apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the storage stores a plurality of lighting setting images,
the input receiver further receives a user input of a setting regarding a time period in which one of the plurality of lighting setting images is applied, and
the lighting setter determines the lighting setting value for the time period further according to the setting regarding the time which has been input, and outputs the determined lighting setting value.

10. A lighting system, comprising:
the lighting setting apparatus according to claim 1 ;
a plurality of luminaires; and
the lighting control apparatus which obtains the lighting setting value output from the lighting setting apparatus, and controls the plurality of luminaires using the lighting setting value.

11. A lighting system, comprising: a plurality of luminaires; a storage which stores (i) one or more lighting setting images each indicating an entirety of an illumination area of the plurality of luminaires in a predetermined space in which the plurality of luminaires are installed and (ii) luminaire position information indicating positions of the plurality of luminaires in the predetermined space in association with the one or more lighting setting images; and a controller that: selects a lighting setting image from the one or more lighting setting images by a user input, or creates a lighting setting image by a user input, obtains target pixel values of target pixels of the lighting setting image, the target pixels being located correspondingly to positions of the plurality of luminaires indicated by the luminaire position information, determines, based on the obtained target pixel values, a lighting setting value for at least one of dimming or toning of the plurality of luminaires, and controls the at least one of dimming or toning of the plurality of luminaires using the lighting setting value.

12. A method of controlling a plurality of luminaires, the method comprising: selecting a lighting setting image from one or more lighting setting images by a user input, or creating a lighting setting image by a user input, each of the one or more lighting setting images indicating an entirety of an illumination area of the plurality of luminaires in a predetermined space in which the plurality of luminaires are installed; obtaining target pixel values of target pixels of the lighting setting image, the target pixels being located correspondingly to positions of the plurality of luminaires indicated by luminaire position information indicating positions of the plurality of luminaires in the predetermined space in association with the one or more lighting setting images; determining, based on the obtained target pixel values, a lighting setting value for at least one of dimming or toning of the plurality of luminaires, and controlling the at least one of dimming or toning of the plurality of luminaires using the lighting setting value.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hidaka Yuto
• Sugawara Hiroshi

Classifications

• H05B45/20

  Controlling the colour of the light · CPC title

• H05B45/24

  using electrical feedback from LEDs or from LED modules · CPC title

• H05B47/196

  characterised by user interface arrangements · CPC title

• H05B47/1985

  Creation of lighting zones or scenes · CPC title

• H05B37/0272

  Electricity · mapped topic