Method of configuration a wireless-controlled lighting system
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsDemetri Giannopoulos, Ling Wang
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Abstract
A method for associating a group of lighting units in a wireless-controlled lighting system to respective buttons or other control elements on a remote control. Each of the lighting units transmits, via modulation of its own illumination light, a unique identification code for the respective unit. The remote control is successively positioned to receive the modulated light from each lighting unit and, at each position, the user activates a respective control element of the remote control for association with the lighting unit. The remote control then transmits to a control master for the group the unique codes and codes identifying the respective control elements with which they have been associated.
Claims20
In a wireless-controlled lighting system including a control master and a group of lighting units, all communicating via commonly-received wireless transmissions, a method of associating said group of lighting units, each having a unique identification code, with respective control elements of a remote control, said method comprising:
- a. each of the lighting units transmitting a modulated light signal carrying the respective identification code;
- b. positioning the remote control at a location where it receives the modulated light signal from only one of the lighting units;
- c. activating a selected one of the control elements of the remote control to associate said control element with the lighting unit transmitting the modulated light signal being received;
- d. transmitting from the remote control to the control master a signal identifying the unique identification code for the lighting unit and the control element with which said lighting unit has been associated;
- e. repeating each of steps b through d for each of the remaining lighting units in the group.
A method of configuring a wireless-controlled lighting system including a group of lighting units, each having a unique identification code, and a remote control, all communicating via commonly-received wireless transmissions, said method comprising:
- a. emission by each of the lighting units of a modulated light signal carrying the respective identification code;
- b. positioning of the remote control at a location where it receives the modulated light signal from only one of the lighting units;
- c. activation of a selected one of a plurality of control elements of the remote control to associate said selected control element with the lighting unit transmitting the modulated light signal being received;
- d. transmission from the remote control to a control master for the system of a signal identifying the unique identification code for the lighting unit and the control element with which said lighting unit has been associated;
- e. repeating each of steps b through d for each of the remaining lighting units in the group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.