Techniques and photographical user interface for controlling solid-state luminaire with electronically adjustable light beam distribution

A non-transient computer program product encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes a process to be carried out, the process comprising:

• capturing, by an image capture device, an image of a target space to be lighted by a solid- state luminaire;
• determining, by a position sensor on a computing device configured to be communicatively coupled with the solid-state luminaire, a geomagnetic north orientation of the computing device and a north orientation of the image;
• presenting a field of selectable control features on the computing device, wherein at least one of the selectable control features is presented as a photographical canvas depicting the image and including one or more selectable zones corresponding to one or more regions of the target space;
• adjusting the light beam distribution of a plurality of light sources in the solid-state luminaire within the target space based on a selection of one of the one or more selectable zones to illuminate the region corresponding to the selected zone;
• capturing, by the image capture device, an updated image of the target space with the adjusted light beam distribution;
• and
• updating the photographical canvas with the updated image;
• wherein, when the computing device is in an auto-orientation mode, when the computing device is rotated, the image in the photographical canvas is rotated such that the north orientation of the image matches the geomagnetic north orientation of the computing device.

A photographical user interface (UI) on a computing system, the UI comprising:

• a field of selectable control features configured such that selection therefrom electronically controls a light beam distribution of a solid-state luminaire communicatively coupleable with the computing system;
• wherein at least one of the selectable control features is presented as a photographical canvas depicting an image of a target space to be lighted by the solid-state luminaire and including one or more selectable zones corresponding to one or more regions of the target space, wherein the image is captured by an image capture device;
• wherein the computing device determines a geomagnetic north orientation of the computing device and a north orientation of the image;
• wherein selection of a selectable zone of the photographical canvas toggles a corresponding one or more light sources of the solid-state luminaire on/off to illuminate the region corresponding to the selected zone and adjust the light beam distribution of the solid-state luminaire;
• wherein, after selection of the selectable zone, the image capture device captures an updated image of the target space with the adjusted light beam distribution and the photographical canvas is updated with the updated image;
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• wherein, when the computing device is in an auto-orientation mode, when the computing device is rotated, the image in the photographical canvas is rotated such that the north orientation of the image matches the geomagnetic north orientation of the computing device.