Illumination content translation
AssigneeTelelumen, LLC
InventorsSteven Paolini, Veronika Zelikson, Dmitri Simonian, Ross Archer
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Abstract
A multi-track illumination content editing system allows creation or alteration of content using multiple input tracks representing illumination or other electromagnetic emissions and auxiliary content representing presentations other than electronic emissions, e.g., images, audio, or video. The editing system may particularly perform mixed media editing that manipulates both illumination and auxiliary content so that output illumination or auxiliary tracks depend on both illumination and auxiliary input tracks.
Claims16
A process for producing illumination, the process comprising:
- receiving source illumination content representing illumination, the source illumination content being formatted for a source illumination system to produce the represented illumination from the source illumination content;
- using the source illumination content in determining a target spectral power distribution for illumination from a target light source in a target illumination system, the target illumination system being different from the source illumination system;
- calculating control parameters that would cause the target light source to produce illumination approximating the target spectral power distribution;
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- applying the control parameters to the target light source to produce the illumination approximating the target spectral power distribution while the target illumination system produces the illumination represented by the source illumination content.
A process for producing illumination, the process comprising:
- receiving source illumination content representing illumination, the source illumination content being formatted for a source illumination system to play;
- using the source illumination content in determining a target spectral power distribution for illumination from a target light source in a target illumination system, the target illumination system being different from the source illumination system;
- calculating control parameters that would cause the target light source to produce illumination approximating the target spectral power distribution;
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- applying the control parameters to the target light source to produce illumination, wherein
- calculating the control parameters comprises:
- selecting a plurality of sets of drive levels for respective spectral channels of the target light source;
- for each of the sets of the drive levels, calculating a measure of difference between the target spectral distribution and a spectral distribution that the target light source would emit if the drive levels in the set were respectively applied to the spectral channels of the target light source;
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- selecting from the plurality of the sets of the drive levels a selected set for which the calculated measure of difference is least.
A method for operating an illumination system including one or more light sources, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of tracks representing illumination, the tracks respectively corresponding to a plurality of categories of locations in an environment to be illuminated;
- selecting from among the plurality of categories, a first category for a first light source in the illumination system, wherein a position of the first light source in the environment to be illuminated is within the first category;
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- using the first light source for playing the track that corresponds to the first category.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.