Patent ID: 8189008
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: H05B,Y02B

Abstract:
1. lighting control touch pad system comprising: a variable color light source; a computer having a control signal output to vary a hue, a saturation and an intensity of the variable color light source; a two dimensional touch pad input device which sends a hue signal, a saturation signal and an intensity signal to the computer; said hue and saturation signals derived from a first Cartesian axis coordinate and a second Cartesian axis coordinate of a touch on the touchpad in a color region of the touch pad input device; said color region of the touch pad having a first Cartesian axis for a color spectrum (hue) in any chosen sequence of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and violet, each color represented within a colored overlay, and having a second Cartesian axis for minimal to maximum saturation levels of a selected color; said color region of the touch pad having a color graphical overlay representing the colors of the color spectrum; said intensity signal derived from an x and y coordinate of another touch in a separate intensity region apart from the color region of the touch pad input device; and wherein the computer scans the touch pad input device to determine the coordinates of the touch and the another touch and via an algorithm creates the control signal output.