ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ILLUMINATION DEVICE

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for controlling an illumination device (100), the illumination device (100) comprising a flux sensing unit (101) and at least two differently colored light sources (102, 103, 104), the method comprising the steps of switching on and off each of the light sources according to a predefined pattern, acquiring measurement values by means of the flux sensing unit at predetermined intervals in accordance with the predefined pattern, calculating a color point for each of the light sources based on the measurement values, calculating a difference between the color points and corresponding reference color points, and adjusting an analog current drive level of the light sources, wherein the difference is minimized such that a desired color is obtained. The present invention provides for the possibilities to in a more accurate way correct for the color changes due to change in drive current, temperature, and aging effects. Furthermore, the control method according to the present invention does not require a factory calibration, or knowledge of batch specific binning information, for obtaining the current or temperature related characteristics of the light sources, which significantly reduces the cost normally related to factory calibration and batch specific binning information. Furthermore, the present invention relates to an illumination device (100) comprising means for performing such a method.