An ambience control system

A method of providing ambience control in a region and of outputting repositioning instructions in human readable form to prompt repositioning of at least one movable luminaire to a target position, by controlling a lighting system comprising one or more luminaries, the one or more luminaires comprising the at least one moveable luminaire repositionable within the region, the method comprising:

• obtaining position information indicative of a current position of each of the one or more luminaires;
• determining a target position of the at least one moveable luminaire based on the position information, in order to achieve the optimal ambience setting specified in a light script embedded in an audio and/or visual media, said media being played out by an entertainment system into the region;
• determining one or more positioning instructions to specify the target position of the at least one moveable luminaire;
• outputting said one or more positioning instructions in human readable form to prompt one or more human users to manually perform said repositioning of the at least one moveable luminaire in said region according to the one or more positioning instructions;
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• controlling the ambient lighting in said region via the lighting system, by varying one or more light characteristics of the ambient lighting based on the light script such that the ambient lighting in said region corresponds to the playing out of the media;
• wherein some of said position information is obtained from one or more user inputs, received via one or more user interfaces, specifying position information including at least the current position of the at least one movable luminaire;
• or wherein some of said position information is obtained from one or more position sensing devices arranged for automatically detecting at least some of the position information including the current position of the at least one moveable luminaire.

A computer program product for providing ambience control in a region and for outputting repositioning instructions in human readable form to prompt repositioning of the at least one movable luminaire to a target position, by controlling a lighting system comprising one or more luminaries, the one or more luminaires comprising the at least one moveable luminaire repositionable within the region, the computer program product comprising code embodied on computer-readable storage and configured so as when run on one or more processing units to perform operations of:

• obtaining position information indicative of a current position of each of the one or more luminaires;
• determining a target position of the at least one moveable luminaire based on the position information, in order to achieve the optimal ambience setting specified in a light script embedded in an audio and/or visual media, said media being played out by an entertainment system into the region;
• determining one or more positioning instructions to specify the target position of the at least one moveable luminaire;
• outputting said one or more positioning instructions in human readable form to prompt one or more human users to manually perform said repositioning of at least one moveable luminaire in said region according to the one or more positioning instructions;
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• controlling the ambient lighting in said region via the lighting system, by varying one or more light characteristics of the ambient lighting based on the light script such that the ambient lighting in said region (110) corresponds to the playing out of the media;
• wherein some of said position information is obtained from one or more user inputs, received via one or more user interfaces, specifying position information including at least the current position of the at least one movable luminaire;
• or wherein some of said position information is obtained from one or more position sensing devices arranged for automatically detecting at least some of the position information including the current position of the at least one moveable luminaire.