Patent ID: 9674929
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06K,H05B

Claim:
1. A system comprising, in combination: (a) one or more I/O devices for accepting input from a human user, which input is indicative of a value for each control variable in a set of separate control variables; (b) a computer for analyzing the input and outputting control signals to specify a set of separate setpoints; and (c) a set of dimmers for adjusting the intensity or color of a set of luminaires according to the setpoints; wherein (i) the number of separate control variables is less than the number of separate setpoints, (ii) axes of the control variables are a function of a data matrix, which matrix includes data indicative of human perceptions of lighting effects under different luminaire multi-settings, and (iii) the number of control variables is less than the rank of the data matrix.