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US 2019/0357333 A1Published application
Color-Changing Lighting Dynamic Control
AssigneeInception Innovations, LLC
InventorScott Eddins
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Abstract
A method of communicating an emergency and the type of emergency using the general-purpose lighting on a premises using color-changing lighting. A premises network includes a controller for controlling the color-changing lighting. Upon an emergency, the color-changing lighting is controlled to emit a color-coded emergency signal indicating the presence and type of emergency.
Claims11
A method of controlling the general purpose color-changing lights on a premises, the method comprising:
- in a premises network connected to a service network via the internet, the premises network having a color-changing light controller controlling a plurality of general purpose, color-changing lights positioned throughout the premises and used as general purpose light sources providing illumination at the premises;
- connecting the premises network via the internet, to the service network;
- transmitting color-changing light control data between the service network and the premises network;
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- in response to the color-changing light control data and using the light controller, controlling the general purpose lights to emit a color-changing lighting code by changing the color of light emitted from the general purpose lights from an initial color to a pattern of alternating colored light and white light, and communicating by the controlled lighting code an emergency condition.
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A method of controlling general-purpose, color-changing lighting on a premises to communicate an emergency condition, the method comprising:
- for general-purpose lighting on the premises, the lighting used for illumination of rooms in the premises, the lighting emitting an original color of light;
- controlling the color-changing lighting in response to a first emergency condition to emit a color-coded signal by emitting from the general-purpose, color-changing lighting in a repeated sequence a first colored light and a second colored light, at least one of the colors of the first and second colored lights indicating the emergency type of the first emergency condition;
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- controlling the color-changing lighting in response to a second emergency condition to emit a color-coded signal by emitting from the general-purpose lighting in a repeated sequence a third colored light and a fourth colored light, at least one of the colors of the third and fourth colored lights indicating the type of emergency of the second emergency condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.