Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Jens Friedemann Marschner

Kiran Srinivas Challapali

Jianfeng Wang

Dave Alberto Tavares Cavalcanti

Christian Benien

Georgios Parlantzas

Thomas Portele

Stefanie Brauers

An OLN lighting requirements generation system and method including a lighting requirements generation system for an outdoor lighting network (OLN,) having lighting units (), the system having a central control apparatus (); a plurality of lighting unit control apparatus (); and a communication system () operably connecting the central control apparatus () and the lighting unit control apparatus (). The central control apparatus () is operable to: acquire location-based data; define clusters from the location-based data; define lighting requirements for each of the clusters; associate the lighting units () to the clusters from location information for the lighting units; map the lighting units () to the lighting requirements; and implement the lighting requirements of the clusters associated with each of the lighting units ().

Lighting requirements generation system and method

The invention describes a method of driving an interactive system () comprising a user interface system () with an inherently sequential input/output modality () and comprising a plurality of applications (A, A, A, . . . , An). In this method a first application (A, A, A, . . . , An) is currently controlling the input/output modality () for performing an interaction with the user (U), wherein, at least for a certain period of time, a focus level is assigned to the first application (A, A, A, An). The current interaction process of the first application (A, A, A, . . . , An) is only terminated or paused and the control of the input/output modality () for performing an interaction is only transferred to a second application (A, A, A, . . . , An) when an application-switching command (ASC) is received from the user (U) and according to the focus level of the first application (A, A, A, . . . , An). Furthermore, an appropriate user interface system () with an inherently sequential input/output modality () and an interactive system () comprising such a user interface system () is described.

Method of driving an interactive system and user interface system

The invention describes a method of controlling an autonomous device (), which autonomous device records ambient data and optionally transmits the recorded ambient data, which method comprises positioning an indicator (S, S, S, S) at a boundary (B) between a private area (P) and a non-private area (N) to optically distinguish the private area (P) from the non-private area (N) for a user of the autonomous device (). The indicator (S, S, S, S) is detected by the autonomous device () and interpreted to determine whether the autonomous device () is in a private area (P) or a non-private area (N). Subsequently, recording or transmission of ambient data is restricted while the autonomous device () is within the private area (P). The invention also describes a system ( ) for controlling an autonomous device (), an autonomous device (), and an indicator (S, S) for placement at a boundary between a private area (P) and a non-private area (N), to optically distinguish the private area (P) from the non-private area (N) for a user (), comprising a number of electronically detectable components ().

Method of controlling an autonomous device

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Jens Friedemann Marschner