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Title:
LIGHTING CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2011081982
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a lighting control device which performs high precision illuminance measurement from image information from a camera, and also achieves dimming control in high precision suitable for each area by acquiring illuminance information necessary in each area of a wide space.

A lighting control device which performs illuminance measurement treatment based on the image information of a camera 14 includes an image treatment device 12 where a specific object area is established as an imaging object of the camera, and obtains image feature information from the image information received through imaging the object area. The image treatment device 12 calculates the illuminance information inside the lighting object area based on the image feature information.


Inventors:
BABA KENJI
ENOHARA TAKAAKI
NODA SHUHEI
NISHIMURA NOBUTAKA
Application Number:
JP2009232259A
Publication Date:
April 21, 2011
Filing Date:
October 06, 2009
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Assignee:
TOSHIBA CORP
International Classes:
H05B37/02; G06T1/00; H04N5/225; H04N5/232; H04N5/238
Domestic Patent References:
JP2004178129A2004-06-24
JPH0535877A1993-02-12
JP2006270865A2006-10-05
JP2001250696A2001-09-14
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kurata Masatoshi
Satoshi Kono
Makoto Nakamura
Yoshihiro Fukuhara
Takashi Mine
Toshio Shirane
Sadao Muramatsu
Nobuhisa Nogawa
Kocho Chojiro
Naoki Kono
Katsu Sunagawa
Katsumura Hiro
Shoji Kawai
Tatsushi Sato
Takashi Okada
Mihoko Horiuchi
Takenori Masanori
Takuzo Ichihara
Yamashita Gen