Imitation flame generating apparatus and method
AssigneesChAotic Toys Factory Ltd., Honda Tsushin Kogyo Co., Ltd., Asiacorp International Limited
InventorsHiroshi Nozawa, Noriyuki Matsuo
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Abstract
A space that closely approximates the state of an actual flame is reproduced without depending on temporal periods. Namely, by reproducing a spatiotemporal pattern of a flame, the light source can be caused to emit warm light, whereby a compact and inexpensive imitation flame generating apparatus is provided. The imitation flame generating apparatus 1 comprises a light source 10 and a control device 40 for controlling the output of electric current to the light source 10. The control device 40 comprises computation means 41 for computing a spatiotemporal pattern of the flame using a coupled map lattice, and output means 42 for outputting the electric current in accordance with the thus computed spatiotemporal pattern of the flame.
Claims8
An imitation flame generating apparatus comprising a light source and a control device for controlling the output of an electric current to said light source, wherein said control device comprises computation means for computing a spatiotemporal pattern of a flame using a coupled map lattice, wherein said coupled map lattice comprises a field variable relating to an appropriately coarse graining flame, and output means for outputting said electric current based on the thus computed spatiotemporal pattern of a flame, wherein said computation means comprises a procedure for computing said field variable relating to said flame using a control parameter.
An imitation flame-generating method for generating an imitation flame by controlling an electric current supplied to a light source, said method comprising computing a spatiotemporal pattern of a flame for generating an imitation flame using a coupled map lattice, wherein said coupled map lattice comprises a field variable relating to an appropriately coarse graining flame, and supplying the output current in accordance with the thus computed spatiotemporal pattern of a flame to turn on said light source, wherein said computation comprises a procedure for computing said field variable relating to the flame using a control parameter.
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