Swimming pools and spas with pool vision
AssigneeZodiac Pool Systems LLC
InventorsDarin Eames, Dindo Uy, Mark J. Bauckman, Robert Warren Stiles, Jr.
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Abstract
A pool vision system may include a camera and a controller. A method of controlling equipment of a swimming pool or spa using the pool vision system may include receiving visual data from the camera having a field of view including the equipment and identify the equipment in the visual data and determining an operational state of the equipment based on the visual data. The method incudes comparing the determined operational state of the equipment with an expected operational state of the equipment and generating a control response based on a difference between the determined operational state of the equipment and the expected operational state of the equipment.
Claims12
A pool vision system for a swimming pool or spa, the pool vision system comprising:
- a camera comprising a field of view of at least a portion of a location comprising the swimming pool or spa;
- and
- a controller communicatively coupled with the camera, wherein the controller is configured to:
- receive visual data from the camera and identify a plurality of pool lights in the field of view;
- identify a first pool light of the plurality of pool lights with a characteristic that is different from a characteristic of a second pool light of the plurality of pool lights;
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- generate a control response based on the visual data and the detected different characteristics, wherein the control response comprises at least one of controlling the first pool light such that the characteristic of the first pool light matches the characteristic of the second pool light, resetting the first pool light, or controlling the second pool light such that the characteristic of the second pool light matches the characteristic of the first pool light.
A pool vision system for a swimming pool or spa, the pool vision system comprising:
- a camera comprising a field of view of at least a portion of a location comprising the swimming pool or spa;
- and
- a controller communicatively coupled with the camera, wherein the controller is configured to receive visual data from the camera, wherein the controller is configured to:
- identify a plurality of pool lights in the visual and determine a state of at least one characteristic of each pool light based on the visual data;
- identify that the at least one characteristic of a first pool light of the plurality of pool lights is different from the other pool lights of the plurality of pool lights;
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- responsive to the detected different at least one characteristic, generate a control response by at least one of controlling the other pool lights of the plurality of pool lights to match the at least one characteristic of the first pool light or changing a color of the first pool light from a first color to a second color.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.