JP5838334B2 - Dimming system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a light control system for controlling the brightness of a lighting device.

  Conventionally, a dimming system such as a stage is provided with a dimming console (operator) that can be operated by a user, and a specific lighting device is operated by operating a hardware operation unit such as a fader or a wheel provided in a plurality of the operating devices. Can be controlled (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  In addition, the hardware operation unit provided in the dimming console has fewer channels than the dimming level control unit, and assigns channels to the limited hardware operation unit. Here, as a method of assigning channels to hardware operation units, there are a fixed method in which only the first few channels are assigned according to the number of hardware operation units, a range method in which channel ranges are assigned in units of hardware operation units, and the like. is there.

JP 2004-127722 A

  By the way, in the dimming system as described above, since the number of hardware operation units is small with respect to the number of channels as a control unit of the dimming level, it is difficult to flexibly assign channels to be assigned to the hardware operation units. . This leaves room for improvement in terms of convenience.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a light control system capable of improving convenience.

In order to solve the above problems, a dimming system according to the present invention includes a plurality of illumination devices, an image of a control unit indicating a control unit including one or more illumination devices, and an image of at least one or more virtual faders. A display unit for displaying; an allocation operation unit capable of allocating the control unit to the virtual fader displayed on the display unit by a user's operation; and a storage unit for storing allocation information allocated by the allocation operation unit; A control unit that controls the light output of the lighting device of the control unit assigned to the virtual fader image by operating the virtual fader image on the display unit, and corresponds to the virtual fader and the control unit A hardware operation unit capable of operating the light output of the lighting device of the control unit is provided .

Also, the light control system of the present invention includes a plurality of lighting devices, a display unit for displaying one or images and at least one or more virtual fader image control unit indicating the control unit comprising a plurality of lighting devices An allocation operation unit that can allocate the control unit to the virtual fader displayed on the display unit by an operation by a user, a storage unit that stores allocation information allocated by the allocation operation unit, and a virtual fader A control unit that controls the light output of the lighting device of the control unit assigned to the virtual fader image by operating the image on the display unit, and the storage unit includes one of the virtual faders. are those allocation information of different control units for are more stores, especially that with switchable switching unit allocation information stored in the storage portion in the other allocation information To.

In the above configuration, the display unit and the assignment operation unit are preferably touch panels.
In the above configuration, the assignment operation unit is preferably a mouse.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the light control system which can improve the convenience can be provided.

It is a schematic block diagram of the light control operating device with which the light control system of this embodiment is equipped. It is a schematic block diagram of the light control system of this embodiment. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the allocation method of the channel and operation part of a light modulation system. (A) (b) is explanatory drawing for demonstrating the allocation method. It is a schematic block diagram of the light control operating device with which the light control system of another example is equipped.

DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the dimming system of the present embodiment includes a plurality of lighting devices 11 and a dimming controller 12.

  The dimming controller 12 includes a fader 21, a touch panel 22, a control unit 23 that performs dimming of the lighting device 11 according to the fader 21 and the touch panel 22, a channel of each lighting device 11, the fader 21, and the touch panel 22. And a storage unit 24 in which allocation information is stored.

The fader 21 is for operating the dimming level of the corresponding lighting device 11 and includes four physical faders 21a to 21d in the present embodiment.
On the touch panel 22, virtual faders 31 a to 31 d and control channel buttons 32 corresponding to the plurality of lighting devices 11 are displayed on the display screen. Further, the control channel buttons 32 are displayed in the same number (n) as the number of channels indicating a control unit composed of one or a plurality of lighting devices 11. Specifically, “CH1”, “CH2”, “CH3”,..., “CH51”, “CH52”, “CH53”,..., “CHn-2”, “CHn-1” and “CHn” n Buttons are displayed on the touch panel 22 as control channel buttons 32. The control channel button 32 can be dragged and dropped on the touch panel 22. By this drag and drop operation, the control channel can be assigned to any virtual faders 31a to 31d.

Next, a method for assigning control channels in the dimming controller 12 provided in the dimming system of this embodiment will be described.
As shown in FIG. 4A, the channel button 32 of “CHn-2” is dragged and dropped to the virtual fader 31d, for example. Similarly, the channel button 32 of “CHn−1” is dragged and dropped to the virtual fader 31d, for example. Further, the channel button 32 of “CHn” is dragged and dropped to the virtual fader 31d, for example. Then, the control unit 23 stores the control channels (control units) corresponding to “CHn-2”, “CHn-1”, and “CHn” in the storage unit 24 in association with the virtual fader 31d based on the above-described operation. Let Accordingly, by operating the virtual fader 31d, it is possible to adjust the dimming level of the illumination device 11 of the control channel corresponding to “CHn-2”, “CHn-1”, and “CHn”.

Next, an operation example (action) of the light control system of this embodiment will be described.
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, when the controller 12 and the system are powered on, the control unit 23 displays fader images as virtual faders 31a to 31d on the touch panel 22 constituting the display unit (steps). S10). At this time, the control unit 23 also displays a control channel button 32 on the touch panel 22.

  Here, as described above, the operation device 12 is configured such that the control channel button 32 follows the user by moving the finger on the touch panel 22 while the user presses the control channel button 32 on the touch panel 22 with a finger or the like. (Drag operation). When the user moves his / her finger or the like away from the touch panel 22, the control channel button 32 drop is displayed at the separated position or the initial position (drop operation). At this time, for example, when an arbitrary control channel button 32 is dragged and dropped to an arbitrary virtual fader 31a to 31d, the control unit 23 assigns the lighting device 11 corresponding to the control channel button 32 to the virtual fader 31a to 31d ( Step S20). At this time, by performing an assignment operation for assigning channels to the virtual faders 31a to 31d, the operation can also be performed by the respective faders (each physical fader) 21a to 21d corresponding to the virtual faders 31a to 31d.

And the control part 23 memorize | stores the allocated information (assignment information) in the memory | storage part 24 (step S30).
For example, when the virtual faders 31a to 31d on the touch panel 22 are operated (step S40: YES), the control unit 23 adjusts the dimming level of the illumination device 11 of the channel assigned to the operated virtual faders 31a to 31d. Is controlled (step S50).

  Further, when the virtual faders 31a to 31d on the touch panel 22 are not operated (step S40: NO) and the fader 21 is operated (step S60: YES), the channels assigned to the virtual faders 31a to 31d corresponding to the fader 21 The light control level of the illumination device 11 is controlled (step S70).

After Step S50 or Step S70, the control unit 23 repeats from Step S40.
Next, characteristic effects of the present embodiment will be described.

  (1) Touch panel 22 that displays a plurality of lighting devices 11 and images of control channel buttons 32 and virtual faders 31a to 31d, which are images of a control unit indicating a control unit (channel) composed of one or a plurality of lighting devices 11. A dimming controller 12 having The dimming controller 12 stores a control unit 23 that constitutes an allocation unit that can allocate channels to the virtual faders 31 a to 31 d displayed on the touch panel 22 by a user operation, and allocation information allocated by the control unit 23. And the control unit 23 operates the images of the virtual faders 31a to 31d on the touch panel 22 to operate the light output of the illumination device 11 of the channel assigned to the images of the virtual faders 31a to 31d. To control. With such a configuration, channels can be easily assigned to the virtual faders 31a to 31d on the touch panel 22, and convenience can be improved. Moreover, since it becomes possible to increase more easily than the physical faders 21a-21d used as a finite number by setting it as the virtual faders 31a-31d displayed on the touch panel 22, it is more flexible with respect to the virtual faders 31a-31d. Channel can be assigned.

  (2) A fader 21 corresponding to the virtual faders 31a to 31d is provided as a hardware operation unit capable of operating the output level of the channel. For this reason, the virtual faders 31a to 31d on the touch panel 22 can be operated or the physical fader 21 can be operated according to the user's preference.

  (3) Since the display unit and the assignment operation unit are the touch panel 22, the number of parts can be suppressed. In addition, by using the touch panel 22, an intuitive operation can be provided to the user.

In addition, you may change embodiment of this invention as follows.
In the above embodiment, although not particularly mentioned, at least two pieces of control channel allocation information having different patterns may be stored in the storage unit 24 for one virtual fader 31a to 31d and switched. . Specifically, in addition to the allocation information (allocation information A) by the allocation method of FIG. 4A described above, for example, allocation information (allocation information B) by the allocation method shown in FIG. The data is stored in the storage unit 24. Then, every time a switch button (not shown) displayed on the touch panel 22 of the allocation information stored in the storage unit 24 is pressed by the user, the control unit 23 as a switching unit assigns the allocation information A and the allocation information B. Is switched. Thus, the control channel that can be operated by switching the virtual fader 31d is switched. By setting it as such a structure, several allocation information can be allocated with respect to the same virtual fader 31a-31d, and the light control of each illuminating device 11 can be performed more flexibly and finely.

In the above-described embodiment, although not particularly mentioned, for example, it may be configured such that the assignment between the control channel and the virtual fader can be changed at all times by performing the drag and drop operation.
In the above embodiment, the touch panel 22 in which the display unit and the allocation operation unit are integrated is adopted, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, you may comprise with the display part 42 comprised with a liquid crystal display etc. and the operation part 41 comprised with a mouse | mouth. Further, the operation unit 41 may be configured with a touch pad or the like.

  In the above embodiment, no particular mention is made, but whether or not to display all virtual fader images on the touch panel 22 is not particularly limited. For example, a configuration may be adopted in which, for example, a button capable of screen display switching is displayed on the touch panel 22 and a virtual fader to which a different channel is assigned is displayed by pressing the button. Further, a configuration in which the display of the virtual fader can be switched by operating the touch panel 22 and scrolling the display screen may be employed.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Illuminating device 21, 21a-21d ... Fader (hardware operation part), 22 ... Touch panel which comprises a display part and an allocation operation part, 23 ... Control part, 24 ... Memory | storage part, 31a-31d ... Virtual fader, 41 ... an operation unit as an allocation operation unit, 42 ... a display unit, A, B ... allocation information.

Claims (4)

A plurality of lighting devices;
A display unit that displays an image of a control unit indicating a control unit composed of one or a plurality of lighting devices and an image of at least one virtual fader;
An assignment operation unit capable of assigning the control unit to the virtual fader displayed on the display unit by an operation by a user;
A storage unit for storing allocation information allocated by the allocation operation unit;
And a control unit for controlling the light output of the lighting device of the control unit assigned to the image of the virtual faders by manipulating the image of the virtual fader on said display unit,
A dimming system comprising a hardware operation unit corresponding to the virtual fader and capable of operating a light output of the lighting device of the control unit . A plurality of lighting devices;
A display unit that displays an image of a control unit indicating a control unit composed of one or a plurality of lighting devices and an image of at least one virtual fader;
An assignment operation unit capable of assigning the control unit to the virtual fader displayed on the display unit by an operation by a user;
A storage unit for storing allocation information allocated by the allocation operation unit;
A control unit for controlling the light output of the lighting device of the control unit assigned to the virtual fader image by operating the virtual fader image on the display unit;
The storage unit stores a plurality of pieces of allocation information of different control units for one of the virtual faders,
A dimming system comprising a switching unit capable of switching the allocation information stored in the storage unit to other allocation information. The dimming system according to claim 1 or 2,
The light control system, wherein the display unit and the assignment operation unit are touch panels. The dimming system according to claim 1 or 2,
The dimming system, wherein the allocation operation unit is a mouse.

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