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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsBartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Theodorus Johannes Petrus Van Den Biggelaar, Anthonie Hendrik Bergman
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The invention relates to a an interactive light system for a clothing rack, particularly for creating attraction lighting for clothes hanging on a rail of the clothing rack. A basic idea of the invention to control light sources integrated in the clothing rack depending on the detection of an object such as a person. This allows implementing a kind of an interactive lighting function, and furthermore attraction functions for shoppers. An interactive light system (10) according to an embodiment of the invention for a clothing rack (12) comprises one or more light sources (14) integrated in the clothing rack (12), one or more sensors (16, 18, 20) adapted to detect an object (22), and a control unit (24) which receives signals (26) from the sensors (16, 18, 20) and is adapted to evaluate the received signals (26) and to generate control signals (28) for the light sources (14) controlling the lighting depending on the evaluation.
An interactive light system (10) for a clothing rack (12), the system comprising
2-3. (canceled)
The light system of claim 2, wherein the dynamic control of the light sources depends on the distance between the object and the clothing rack.
The light system of claim 2, wherein the dynamic control of the light sources comprises switching the lighting from a dynamic mode to a static mode.
9-10. (canceled)
14-16. (canceled)
The method of claim 15, wherein the step of dynamically controlling the light sources comprises switching the lighting from a dynamic mode to a static mode.
20-22. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.