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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2015
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
You-Jin Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Dae-Ho Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Hyun-Seok Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Hyun-Jong Kim, Cheongju-si, KR;
Tae-Gyu Kang, Daejeon, KR;
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed herein are a lighting switch apparatus and a lighting switching method, which can perform lighting control by blocking or passing light from a lighting device using a user's hand motion while the user may make input to a lighting switch by means of a capacitive touch on the lighting switch. The lighting switch apparatus includes a capacitive touch sensing unit for recognizing a user's touch. A hand motion visible light receiving unit receives visible light from a lighting device depending on motion of the user's hand. A control unit generates a touch-based lighting control signal based on results of touch recognition, controls the hand motion visible light receiving unit so that the user's hand motion-based signal is output based on the results of touch recognition, and generates a lighting control command by combining the lighting control signal with the user's hand motion-based signal.