Patent ID: 8624498

Claim:
A method for controlling a lighting system in an aircraft cabin, the lighting system comprising a plurality of lighting units arranged in the aircraft cabin, each of the lighting units comprising a controller for controlling RGB light-emitting diodes connected to the controller, the lighting system further comprising a central processor connected to each of the controllers for data exchange, each controller comprising a storage unit storing a plurality of scene programs each for controlling a respective scene, which respective scene comprises a predetermined change with time of a luminous behavior of the RGB light-emitting diodes, wherein the lighting system is connected to a data bus, the method comprising: transmitting a plurality of control data records between the controllers and the central processor via the data bus for controlling an overall luminous behavior generated by the lighting units, each of the control data records comprising at least one scene program identification information item and at least one synchronization information item for controlling the sequence of the scene program corresponding to the scene program identification information with time, wherein, to reduce the data load of the data bus, the scene programs are transferred from the central processor to the controller via the data bus in a special update mode phase.