Patent ID: 11906116
Assignee: ASTERA MANUFACTURING LIMITED
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  H | IPC F  H

Claim 19:
20. A method for operating the solid-state lighting apparatus according to claim 16, the method comprising:
detection of the presence of adjacent lighting units;
setting of DMX addresses of adjacent lighting units; and
communication between adjacent lighting units;
wherein the step of detection of the presence of adjacent lighting units comprises:
for each inter-unit communication module:
activating the inter-unit communication module by a microprocessor when a corresponding presence detector detects presence of a corresponding adjacent lighting unit; and
deactivating the inter-unit communication module by the microprocessor when the corresponding presence detector does not detect presence of the corresponding adjacent lighting unit;

wherein the setting of DMX addresses of adjacent lighting units comprises: sequentially setting, by the control communication module, a DMX address for each of the plurality of lighting units when the plurality of solid-state lighting units is working in the chain-effect mode; and
wherein the communication between adjacent lighting units comprises:
receiving, by a control communication module, control signal from a control panel;
decoding, by the control communication module, the control signal into a control command by;
sending, by the control communication module, the control command to the microprocessor;
receiving, by the microprocessor, the control commands from the control communication module; and
sending, by the microprocessor, the control commands to one or more activated optical transceivers to forward the control commands to one or more adjacent lighting units.