Dimming control device and method
AssigneeSang Min CHUNG
InventorsSang Min CHUNG, Gyu Ho LEE
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a dimming control device and method, and a dimming control device according to an embodiment of the present invention may control the ON/OFF of a lamp depending on whether a power pad is touched, and control the brightness of the lamp depending on whether dimming pads are touched. Thus, a user may control brightness step by step and may conveniently manipulate each step of brightness.
Claims10
A dimming control apparatus that controls illuminance of a lamp, the dimming control apparatus comprising:
- a power pad that is configured as a touch panel for turning on/off power supply of the lamp;
- dimming pads that are configured as at least two touch panels for controlling illuminance of the lamp;
- a sensing unit that senses touch operations from the power pad and the dimming pads;
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- a control unit that controls turning on/off of power supply to the lamp according to whether or not the power pad is touched and controls illuminance of the lamp according to whether or not the dimming pads are touched.
A dimming control method of controlling illuminance of a lamp, the dimming control method comprising:
- turning on/off power supply to the lamp when a power pad that is configured as a touch panel for turning on/off the power supply to the lamp;
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- controlling the illuminance of the lamp according to whether dimming pads configured as at least two touch panels for controlling the illuminance of the lamp are touched.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.