VISUAL PERCEPTION AND ACUITY DISRUPTION TECHNIQUES AND SYSTEMS

摘要

Examples of security lighting routines are tailored to disrupt visual perception and/or acuity so as to significantly reduce the ability of a person or persons, who has breached security, to function within a secured space. A routine triggered in response to a security breach may include a flash at a relatively high intensity, some number of times brighter than normal illumination for the space. Some examples of routines include a warning light and/or a pre-flash light emission such as dim lighting or a flicker, to effectively prepare the person in the space for maximum effectiveness of the flash. Other examples of the routines may also include a post-flash sequence of multiple color light emissions, such as alternating emissions in sequence of pulses of different colors of light using emission and/or off time parameters that vary in an irregular manner.

主权项

1. A method, comprising steps of:
(a) detecting an input indicative of a breach of security relative to a space that is normally illuminated at a full intensity level, which is normal for human occupancy of the space; (b) emitting a pre-flash light into the space, the pre-flash light having an optical characteristic to set-up eyes of a person within the space to be susceptible to subsequent bright lighting; and (c) following the pre-flash light emission, emitting a flash of light at an intensity level at least twice the normal full intensity level for the space.