Managing atmosphere programs for atmosphere creation systems

摘要

The invention relates to the management of atmosphere programs including lighting scenes for lighting systems, audio, video, scent or any combination of the above, particularly to a user interface for comfortably selecting an atmosphere program to be created by an atmosphere creation system. A basic idea of the invention is to provide a central control of atmosphere programs together with the possibility of interactively selecting an atmosphere program to be activated locally with an atmosphere creation system. This is particularly useful for large retail chains, which for example require a uniform lighting atmosphere in all chain shops and want to provide their shop personal to comfortably select among a predefined set of lighting scenes in an comfortable way. An embodiment of the invention relates to an atmosphere program management system (10) comprising a server (12), which is remotely accessible via a data connection and stores atmosphere programs and a remote management client (14) for accessing the server and providing a user interface for managing the atmosphere programs stored by the server.

主权项

1. An atmosphere program management system comprising:
a server, which is remotely accessible via a data connection and stores a plurality of atmosphere programs, a remote management client for accessing the server and having a user interface for managing accessibility of the plurality of atmosphere programs stored by the server to a plurality of client atmosphere creation system controllers that are configured to control a plurality of atmosphere creation systems, and at least one client atmosphere creation system controller of the plurality of client atmosphere creation system controllers, separate from the remote management client, for accessing the server, and for providing a user interface for selecting an atmosphere program of a first subset of the plurality of atmosphere programs for implementation at a given atmosphere creation system of the plurality of atmosphere creation systems, wherein the given atmosphere creation system is being controlled by the at least one client atmosphere creation system controller and wherein each of the plurality of atmosphere programs are implementable by the given atmosphere creation system; wherein the at least one client atmosphere creation system controller downloads, from the server, said first subset of the plurality of atmosphere programs that are accessible for implementation at the given atmosphere creation system, wherein the server is configured to execute an atmosphere management program which is adapted to remotely display, at the remote management client, the plurality of atmosphere programs stored by the server, and to enable the remote management client to select said first subset for access by said at least one client atmosphere creation system controller and to exclude a second subset of the plurality of atmosphere programs, which are different from the first subset, from access by the at least one client atmosphere creation system controller, and wherein the atmosphere management program is adapted to monitor the effects of implementing at least one atmosphere program of the second subset by the given atmosphere creation system using video data received from a camera device installed proximal to the given atmosphere creation system.