KR20040107640A - Method of lighting control - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A color lighting control method is provided to allow a user to control a wide variety of functions in a color and brightness by using a plurality of lighting modules in accordance with an operating program. CONSTITUTION: A control unit(2) receives display data from an operator computer(1) through a wire/wireless communication system, and drives color modules of a color module unit(3). Each of the color modules displays color same as the color input into the computer. The control unit has an operating function including color and brightness control, left/right sequential lighting, top/down sequential lighting, rotation, and zoom-in/out and a set function including setting of displaying order, stop time, and turn-on/off time. The control unit performs a brightness control and turn-on/off function by using an optical sensor. The color of a lighting device is input and edited in the operating computer embedded with a lighting control program, and data are transmitted to the control unit.

Description

Color lighting control method using a computer {METHOD OF LIGHTING CONTROL}

The present invention relates to a color lighting device and a control method of the lighting device, and more particularly, it is possible to easily perform various display functions such as color conversion and brightness conversion of the lighting device by an operating program using a computer (PC). It is a lighting control method that integrates and manages a device. It sets a certain area of a computer monitor in accordance with a color lamp of a color lighting module, and inputs various colors in the form of a picture in the set area to transmit data to the control device. The color input to the monitor is controlled to display the same color on the color lighting module so that all the colors displayed on the monitor are displayed on the lighting module in the same way, and various display functions are added to enhance the display effect. Applicable to all lighting devices that require multiple lighting devices such as garden lights, underwater lights, street lights, and decorative lighting Application example is color to display lighting inside signboard on computer monitor when color module using color light emitting diode (LED) is used as internal lighting of signboard. After setting various expression functions such as color conversion, up, down, left and right sequential points, and sending them to the control device, the signboard lights with various colors are performed. In addition, integrated management of the lighting of multiple signboards on the street will be possible. When applied to street lamps, the color and brightness of each street lamp can be totally or individually managed by various display functions depending on the computer input. The interior lights, garden lights, color bars, decorative lights, street lights, etc. of existing signboards have a simple dot, lights out, or color-by-light, light-out means lighting effects, and color-specific points. It is used as a form, and the dot and light forms are stored in the microcomputer in advance and converted by a switch operation. In this case, the expression is simple, and it is difficult for users to change the color conversion function of each lighting arbitrarily, and it is difficult to integrate and manage multiple color lighting.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention configures a driving circuit to enable individual dots and light-outs of color lamps such as light emitting diode lamps (LEDs), and according to the intended use, BAR shape, square shape, circle shape, three-dimensional shape, etc. Color module is attached to make color module, and the micro-controller equipped with microcomputer for driving color module has color and brightness data of certain area matched with color module lamp on computer monitor. All the colors displayed on the monitor of the computer are displayed on the color lighting device so that they are displayed on the module in the same way. The display program is installed on the control device to perform various display functions, and the display information is received from the computer. It performs various lighting functions, and the computer sets a certain area on the monitor to match the color pixels of the lighting device It reads the station's video memory and transmits color DATA and various display functions DATA to the control device to control and operate the lighting device. It is characterized by the comprehensive management and operation of a large number of lighting windows by computer to input operation edit and display schedule and transmit it to one or many control devices by wire or wireless communication.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a lighting control device using a computer

Figure 2a Figure 2b is an illustration of a color module

3 is an exemplary view of a control device.

4 is a computer illustration.

5 is an example of an operation program

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1: Computer unit 2: Control unit unit 3: Color module unit 4: Color lamp

5: Drive circuit component 6: Connector 7: Cable 8: Picture input window

9: Function input window 10: Display order setting window 11: Stop time setting window

12: Number of drive modules setting window 13: Communication setting window

Hereinafter, described in detail by the accompanying drawings as follows.

FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing the overall configuration of a color lighting control method using a computer, and illustrates a state in which a computer unit 1, a control unit 2, and a color module unit 3 are linked to each other.

Fig. 2A shows an embodiment of a color module, and shows each color light emitting diode lamp as a separate BAR type color module in which a driving circuit capable of extinguishing control is integrally installed. The parts (5), the control device and the color module, and the connector (6) for connecting the power supply and the DATA signal between the color module and the color modulus are shown attached to the PC7 by soldering. The cable 7 is connected to drive a plurality of color modules, and the attachment type of the color lamp 4 is composed of bars, squares, circles, and three-dimensional shapes (e.g., vertical stacking of PC).

Fig. 2B shows the color module in a form in which the PC 7 with the color light emitting diode lamp 4 is separated from the PC 7 with the driving circuit 5 capable of individual dot-off control.

Fig. 3 is a device for driving color modules by receiving display data from an operating computer as a control device, which is a microcomputer with components such as a CPU, ROM, RAM, and communication port (wired / wireless communication port) soldered to the PC. The program for communication and communication is installed in the ROM, and the data of each color lamp received from the computer are stored in the RAM. It transmits through various functions and expresses the color of the display. When receiving 8 bits of data by color from the computer to each lamp of the color module, the decoder circuit can display 256 levels of brightness for each color. When combined with green, 256 * 256 * 256 = 16,777,216 colors can be realized. It is also equipped with a light sensor for automatic adjustment of dot, light and brightness according to the surrounding brightness and a switch for manual function selection.

Figure 4 shows an operating computer, a dedicated program for lighting control is installed so that the input data can be edited and edited via wired communication (eg RS-232C, RS-422 / 485, USB, MODEM, etc.) or It transmits data to the control device by wireless communication (eg wireless modem, IRDA, Bluetooth, sound wave, etc.).

5 shows an embodiment of an operating program, in which a picture input window 8 is provided on the monitor so that color pixels of the monitor and color lamps of the color lighting module coincide with each other at a predetermined position on the monitor so that they can be easily input in picture form. If you input the color and shape to display in the input window (8) in the form of picture, color data in the input window is read from the computer's video memory, saved and transmitted to the control device to display the color module in the same color as the monitor. Function input window (9), display order setting window (10), display time setting window (11), which can select various operation display functions such as sequential lighting, sequential lighting, Shanghai-dong, left-right movement, rotation, color inversion etc. Menus for operation such as the number of module setting window (12) and communication setting window (13) are configured. Collect and manage lighting devices.

In this method, lighting control using a computer is performed.

As described above, the present invention can control a plurality of lighting modules by inputting and editing a plurality of lighting modules with a color and brightness desired by a user using an operating program using a computer, and also integrated management operation of a plurality of lighting devices. can do.

Claims (1)

In the color light control method using a computer, each color lamp is individually turned on and off, and a color circle module is used. The control device using the microcomputer receives the display data from the operating computer through the wireless communication and drives the color module. The color module displays the same color as the color input from the computer monitor. It has operation functions such as brightness conversion, left / right sequence lighting, up / down sequence lighting, rotation, zoom in, zoom out, etc., display order designation, stop time setting, dot / off time setting function, and is automatically controlled by the light sensor. The controller is configured to perform brightness control lighting off. A method of controlling color lighting devices by inputting and editing the color of lighting devices in the form of pictures with an operating computer equipped with a dedicated lighting control program and transmitting data to the control device by wire communication.