Patent ID: 8560091

Claim:
A method of guiding a user from an initial position to a destination, chosen from among a plurality of possible destinations, in a public area over which is distributed a plurality of lighting arrangements (L 1 , L 2 , . . . , L n ) each of which can be driven to render one or more light patterns from a plurality of light patterns, which method comprises the steps of determining the chosen destination by obtaining a destination descriptor from the user; allocating a specific light pattern from the plurality of light patterns to the chosen destination; providing the user with a depiction of the specific light pattern allocated to the chosen destination; selecting a number of lighting arrangements (L 1 , L 2 , . . . , L n ) between a starting point of the user ( 1 ) and the chosen destination; driving the selected lighting arrangements (L 1 , L 2 , . . . , L n ) such that the selected lighting arrangements (L 1 , L 2 , . . . , L n ) between the starting point of the user ( 1 ) and the chosen destination render the specific light pattern; wherein the specific light pattern is composed by the user.