Patent ID: 8031131

Claim:
A lighting control system, comprising: a computer that receives a light control indicative of an image on which a projected light beam will be based, said light control including a control of a fading effect for said image, where said image being a full intensity image; said computer including a video card that operates using a computer-based image drawing system in the video card driven by a computer graphics driver, said computer-based image drawing system being programmed to produce an entirety of an image output at full intensity as an output of said video card, and also being capable of producing a dimmed intensity image based on said output of said video card, said dimmed intensity image being at an intensity which is less than said full intensity image; and a second dimmer board, separate from said computer-based image drawing system and separate from said video card, receiving said output of said video card from said video card, and said second dimmer board including a first dimmer and a second dimmer, said first dimmer producing a first output in a form to be displayed by an external stage light at a first dimmed level controlled by said first dimmer, and said second dimmer producing a second output in a form to be displayed on a monitor display, at a second dimmed level controlled by said second dimmer, wherein said second dimmed level is different than said first dimmed level.