Patent ID: 6841945

Claim:
A system for automatically activating only less than all of a plurality of banks of lights, upon automatically sensing entry into an area which includes the plurality of banks of lights, regardless of the last light-activating setting selected by a user, wherein the system is incorporated in an apparatus for sensing entry into the area, and wherein the system includes a plurality of selectable light-activating settings, comprising: a selecting-enabling element for enabling the selecting by the user of one of a plurality of light-activating settings for the plurality of banks of lights, wherein the plurality of light-activating settings include a plurality of less-than-all-banks-only settings for enabling the selecting of only less than all of the plurality of banks of lights, and an all-banks setting for enabling the selecting of all of the plurality of banks of lights; a sensing element for automatically sensing entry into the area which includes the plurality of banks of lights; and an activating element for automatically activating only less than all of the plurality of banks of lights upon the automatic sensing by the sensing element of entry into the area regardless of the last of the plurality of light-activating settings selected by the user.