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Method of configuration a wireless-controlled lighting system

US7446671B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 11, 2003
Grant dateNov 4, 2008
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Expiry dateAug 22, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH05B47/196
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for associating a group of lighting units in a wireless-controlled lighting system to respective buttons or other control elements on a remote control. Each of the lighting units transmits, via modulation of its own illumination light, a unique identification code for the respective unit. The remote control is successively positioned to receive the modulated light from each lighting unit and, at each position, the user activates a respective control element of the remote control for association with the lighting unit. The remote control then transmits to a control master for the group the unique codes and codes identifying the respective control elements with which they have been associated.

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