Patent ID: 11937353
Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A method for adding a first lighting device to a lighting scene of a lighting system upon the first lighting device becoming active from a dormant state, the lighting system comprising a plurality of lighting devices for illuminating an environment, each lighting device comprising at least one lamp controllable to emit configurable illumination, the first lighting device is configured to perform the method comprising:
polling one or more neighboring lighting devices of the plurality of lighting devices to determine whether they are part of a lighting scene being output by the lighting system and determining information about the lighting scene based on said polling, said information comprising at least one or more illumination settings;
polling the one or more neighboring lighting devices to determine the light output of the one or more neighboring lighting devices, thereby determining whether the first lighting device is part of the lighting scene being output by the lighting system; and
based on the determined light output of the one or more neighboring lighting devices estimating a contribution of the first lighting device to the lighting scene;
based on the determined scene, the determination that the first lighting device is part of that lighting scene and the first lighting device's estimated contribution to the lighting scene, ascertaining one or more lighting settings of the first lighting device and a light output to be rendered by the first lighting device in order to join the lighting scene.