# US 2014/0191687 A1 · Music flasher controller and the control system and control method thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0191687 A1 - Document ID: US20140191687A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/751,170 - Filed: 2013-01-28 - Published: 2014-07-10 - Earliest claimed: 2013-01-08 - Inventors: Wei Xiang - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140191687A1 ## CPC - H05B 47/12: by detecting audible sound - A63J 17/00: Apparatus for performing colour-music - Y02B 20/40: Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection - H05B: ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL - A63J: DEVICES FOR THEATRES, CIRCUSES, OR THE LIKE; CONJURING APPLIANCES OR THE LIKE - Y02B: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS ## Abstract A music flasher controller comprises a central control module, a plurality of execution modules, a plurality of light-emitting units, a power supply module, a music encoding module, a player, a signal collecting module, and a signal analysis module, thereby allowing rhythmed on/off change of the control lamp with music, exhibiting a music-light-show effect and having a flexible form, with the player not necessary to be wire-connected with the signal collecting module, thus having the advantages of easy construction, simple installation, and effective cost reduction. A music flasher control system equipped with the music flasher controller enables flexible addition or reduction of the lamp group, thus having the advantage of high scalability. A control method of the music flasher controller is also provided such that the lamp can be on/off with the music rhythm. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A music flasher controller, characterized in that it comprises: a central control module (1), used for saving lamp control codes, provided with a plurality of control output interfaces (101); a plurality of execution modules (2), each of the execution modules (2) being respectively connected to a control output interface (101) at its input terminal and to a lamp input power supply for controlling the lamp input power supply to be on/off; a plurality of light-emitting units (3), each of the light-emitting units (3) being electrically connected to one of the execution modules (2), respectively; and a power supply module (4), used for providing power supply for each of the modules. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The music flasher controller according to claim 1, characterized in that each of the light-emitting units (3) is composed of one lamp or one group of the lamps, respectively. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The music flasher controller according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises: a music encoding module (7), used for encoding music; a player (8), connected to the music encoding module (7), used for playing the music having been encoded by the music encoding module (7); a signal collecting module (5), used for collecting a music signal played by the player (8); a signal analysis module (6), connected at its input terminal to an output terminal of the signal collecting module (5) and at its output terminal to an input terminal of the central control module (1), used for analyzing the music signal collected by the signal collecting module (5) to obtain the music code of the music played by the player (8) as well as inputting the obtained music code into the central control module (1); the music encoding module (7) and the player (8) constitute a music encoding-playing device (9); and the signal collecting module (5), the signal analysis module (6), the central control module (1), a plurality of the execution modules (2), a plurality of the light-emitting units (3) and the power supply module (4) constitute a music signal collecting-processing control device (10). ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) A music flasher control system equipped with the music flasher controller according to claim 3, characterized in that the system is composed of one music encoding-playing device (9) and at least one music signal collecting-processing control device (10). ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) A control method for the music flasher controller according to claim 3, characterized in that it includes the following steps: (I) writing the lamp control code into the central control module (1); (II) connecting the power supply module (4) to initialize the central control module (1) into which the lamp control code has been written in Step (I); (III) encoding the music with the music encoding module (7); (IV) the player (8) plays the music that has been encoded in Step (III); (V) the signal collecting module (5) collects the music signal played in Step (IV), and inputs the collected music signal into the signal analysis module (6); (VI) the signal analysis module (6) real-time analyzes the music signal collected in Step (V): if the music code of the music played in Step (IV) is obtained through analysis, the obtained music code is inputted into the central control module (1) followed by a next step, otherwise returning to Step (V) to continue; (VII) the central control module (1) searches and analyzes, and compares the music code inputted in Step (VI) with the saved lamp control codes: if the lamp control code consistent with the music code inputted in Step (VI) is found, entering a next step, otherwise returning to Step (V) to continue; and (VIII) the central control module (1) controls the execution module (2) to execute an action appointed by the lamp control code found in Step (VII), so as to make the execution module (2) control the lamp input power supply to be on/off, thereby allowing rhythmed on/off change of the light-emitting unit (3) electrically connected to this execution module (2); until the central control module (1) controls the execution module (2) to complete the action appointed by the lamp control code, returning to Step (V) to continue. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The control method according to claim 5, characterized in that in Step (VIII) the action appointed by the lamp control code may be one action or a group of actions. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The control method according to claim 5, characterized in that in Step (VIII) the execution module (2) may be one execution module or a plurality of execution modules. ### Claim 8 (depends on 5) The control method according to claim 5, characterized in that in Step (VIII) the light-emitting unit (3) is composed of one lamp or a group of lamps.