PORTABLE ELECTRIC LAMP WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

专利摘要:

公开号:FR3017691A1
申请号:FR1400408
申请日:2014-02-14
公开日:2015-08-21
发明作者:Raphael Bortolotti；Romain Marie
申请人:Zedel SAS；
IPC主号:

专利说明:

[0001] BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to the field of portable electric lamps and in particular to a portable electric lamp equipped with a wireless communication system. State of the art The applicant of the present patent application has marketed a portable lamp, headlight type, with a so-called "reactive" or "dynamic" lighting which is described in the patent application WO2009 / 133309, date di 16 April 2009. Briefly, as illustrated in FIG. 1, it is a headlamp comprising at least one light-emitting diode 11 of LED type as well as an optical sensor 14 housed in its vicinity and intended to capture a signal representative of the light reflected by the surface of an object 16 illuminated by the lamp. A control circuit 13 provides a processing of this signal for the purpose of automatically regulating the power of the LED according to a predetermined threshold. In this way, automatic regulation of the light beam emitted by the lamp is performed without further manual action to adapt the lighting environment, while managing energy consumption. The principle of this so-called "reactive" or "dynamic" lighting is undeniably a significant advance in the field of headlamps, and more generally of portable lighting, especially in that it makes it possible to adapt the lighting in a constant manner. under lighting conditions.
[0002] On the other hand, it appears that the integration of signal processing and processor means in headlamps rapidly increases both the cost of these lamps as well as their weight and bulk. The problem therefore arises of allowing both this integration of additional and innovative features in headlamps requiring significant computing resources, without significantly increasing the manufacturing cost, weight and / or bulk of these lamps. The applicant of the present patent application has also asked the European application not yet published EP13368029, wherein a frontal-type lamp is equipped with infrared-type communication means (IR) in order to be able to detect the appearance of a second lamp also provided with IR communication means and to modify the lighting powers in order to avoid any mutual glare. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a new portable lamp architecture, in particular a headlamp, which allows the integration of new functionalities without requiring significant increase in the cost of manufacture. , the computing power or the size of the lamp. It is another object of the present invention to provide efficient and effective communication between a portable lamp and a mobile data processing device, external to the lamp, to improve light power regulation or the addition of new features. . It is a third aim of the present patent application to propose a portable lamp architecture that can allow use within a fleet of lamps, with the concern, in particular, of increasing the autonomy of all portable lights within this fleet. It is a fourth object of the present invention to provide a portable lamp with sophisticated regulation of the beam emission power and the geometry of the same beam. It is a fifth object of the present invention to provide a portable lamp, in particular frontal, offering new features in terms of security, and in particular an alert function for informing the lamp holders within a same group. It is a sixth object of the present invention to provide a portable lamp with a new feature for quickly informing the wearer of the lamp when it strays from a predetermined path or takes a wrong direction. The present invention achieves all of these objects by providing a portable lamp comprising first bidirectional wireless communication means for exchanging commands, parameters and / or configuration data with at least one mobile information processing system, comprising means for establishing a downlink for transmitting said commands, parameters and / or configuration data to the lamp; means for establishing an uplink for transmitting commands, parameters and / or configuration data of the lamp to said mobile information processing system. In this way the portable lamp can communicate with a mobile data processing device, such as a mobile phone so as to take advantage of the high computing power present therein. In a particular embodiment, the lamp also comprises additional bidirectional communication means allowing communication with at least one other lamp, thus opening the way to the constitution of a real ad-hoc network in which each of the lamps as well as the or the mobile systems receive an identifier. More specifically, the ad-hoc network uses group addresses making it possible to simultaneously address several lamps and / or mobile systems belonging to the same group, and the uplink and / or downlink transmissions can be intended for all devices of the same group. group. Preferably, the portable lamp comprises means for detecting the state of charge of the battery, said state being transmitted via the uplink to the mobile device. In a particular embodiment, the lamp comprises a photosensor, operating in the visible and / or infrared range, for generating a brightness information that is transmitted via the uplink to the mobile device. Preferably, the uplink is used for transmission of power information and / or information representative of the geometry of the beam. In a specific embodiment, the portable lamp comprises means for controlling the brightness of the lamp, driven by a first piece of information received from the mobile device via the downlink. More specifically, a second piece of information received from the mobile device makes it possible to fix the geometry of the light beam. Preferably, the lamp comprises beam geometry control means based on an electrically controlled diffusing device, such as a PDLC film. Preferably, the first bidirectional communication communication is based on a Bluetooth or Wifi communication, and the portable lamp is a headlamp comprising one or more LEDs.
[0003] The invention also allows the realization of a method of controlling the operation of a portable lamp, said method comprising the steps of: - establishing a bidirectional and wireless communication between the lamp and a mobile information processing system comprising a downlink to the lamp and an uplink to said mobile information processing system; said downlink being intended for the transmission of said commands and / or configuration data to the lamp; and said uplink being intended for the transmission of operating parameters of the lamp to said mobile information processing system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: - detecting the state of charge of the battery of the lamp; - Transmission to said mobile system of the state of charge of the battery. In a specific embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: detecting the brightness present in front of the lamp by means of a photosensor; - Transmission to said mobile system of information representative of said brightness captured by the photosensor. More specifically, the brightness of the lamp and the geometry of its beam are respectively controlled by first and second information received from said mobile device via the downlink. In a specific embodiment, the bidirectional communication means are organized according to an ad hoc network in which each of the lamps as well as the mobile system or systems receive an identifier, the ad-hoc network using group addresses making it possible to address simultaneously several lamps belonging to the same group.
[0004] Preferably, the method uses the state of charge of the battery provided by the lamp and generates said first information as a function of said state of charge so as to guarantee a predefined autonomy time for the lamp. In a particular embodiment, the method is such that the mobile device receives the state of charge of the battery supplied by each lamp of said group and generates said first information for each of the lamps of said group according to said states of charge so as to guarantee a predefined autonomy time for the entire group. In a particular embodiment, the method detects an emergency situation and transmits on the downlink to the lamp an alert command controlling the generation of a light alarm signal. The emergency situation results more specifically from the exploitation of GPS data to determine the presence of a junction to attract the attention of the user of the lamp or to inform him that he is moving away from a predetermined path. The invention also allows the realization of a computer program, of the type APPLICATIF, including programming code to be stored in the mobile device, and for the implementation of the methods defined above. The invention finally allows the realization of a specially adapted mobile processing device, by the installation of an application or an application for the implementation of the methods described above.
[0005] DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Other characteristics, objects and advantages of the invention will appear on reading the description and the drawings below, given solely by way of nonlimiting examples. In the accompanying drawings: FIG. 1 illustrates the schematic diagram of so-called "dynamic" or "reactive" lighting known in the state of the art. FIG. 2 illustrates a first embodiment of the present invention allowing the delocalization of the control of the power of the beam of the lamp via the downlink. Figure 3 illustrates the organization of the mobile data processing device 300 used in the first mode. Fig. 4 illustrates a second embodiment of the present invention for controlling the beam power and scattering angle via the downlink. Figure 5 illustrates a third embodiment of the present invention showing the integration of "dynamic" or "reactive" display technology. Figure 6 illustrates an improved "reactive" or "dynamic" lighting method using the third embodiment. FIG. 7 illustrates a fourth embodiment offering communication functionalities both with a mobile device 300 and with other lamps belonging to the same fleet. Figure 8 illustrates a diagram of a useful scenario to allow the regulation of the light power of a lamp within a group of lamps organized in a network.
[0006] DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS The inventors of the present patent application have first recognized that such processors or digital signal processing means are increasingly present in the immediate vicinity of the lamp, whether embedded in telephones. portable devices (known as "smartphones" in English-speaking practice) or touch-sensitive tablets that will be understood as the mobile information processing system. On the basis of this observation, the inventors have devised a system making it possible to integrate these digital signal processor or processor means with the headlamp by providing the latter with means of wireless and bidirectional communication, thus making it possible to relocate the different calculation tasks to the headlamp. within the mobile information processing system. The inputs and outputs of the processor are communicated over the bidirectional wireless link. This joint operation of two devices greatly increases the possibilities of regulation of the headlamp and allows even many new possible features as will appear below, while maintaining a reasonable level of manufacturing costs of such a lamp since the power calculation is relocated in a device external to it. In all of the embodiments below, the term uplink will be used when the headlamp is the transmitter of commands, data or configuration parameters intended for the mobile information processing system and, conversely, it will be called a downlink when the mobile information processing system is the information transmitter whose headlamp is receiving. On these two respectively ascending and descending links, one will more specifically distinguish one or more data channel and one or more control channel which can be advantageously transmitted via the same uplink or downlink. Thus, for example an optical sensor (of the photodiode, phototransistor, CCD or other type) and / or an image sensor (infrared sensor type Passive Infra-red Sensor, analog camera with its optical system or other) to be housed on the lamp can transmit data to the mobile device for processing data (including images ...) via the uplink, while commands or requests - for example to come fix the light power - can be transmitted via the channel control on the downlink. But this is just one of many other possibilities. With this arrangement, it will result in many new features as will appear with the following four embodiments: 1) a first mode in which is delocalized within the mobile data processing device the function of regulation of light output; 2) a second mode in which the two parameters of the beam are relocated within the data processing device: the power and the diffusion angle; 3) a third mode in which the two uplink and downlink links are combined with the principle of the so-called "reactive" or "dynamic" lighting 4) a fourth mode in which the lamp becomes communicating, not only with its associated mobile processing device but also with other portable lamps 1) First embodiment: Control of the FIG. 2 illustrates the general architecture of a first embodiment of a lamp 100 - assumed to be frontal - comprising a system for regulating the luminous intensity. The lamp 100 comprises a power module 210 associated with a control module 220 and a lighting unit 230 comprising at least one LED (or LED in the English literature) as well as a coupled transceiver module 240. to the control module and a battery module 250 also coupled to the control module. In the example of FIG. 2, the lighting unit 230 comprises a single LED 231 with its power supply circuit 232 connected to the power module 210. Clearly, several diodes can be envisaged for obtaining a beam of high brightness. In general, the LED or diodes (s) may be associated (s) with a clean focal optics 233 to ensure a collimation of the generated light beam. In a specific embodiment, the power supply of the LEDs 231 via the circuit 232 is performed by the power module under the control of an information or a control signal generated by the control module 220. via a link that may take the form of a driver or a set of drivers constituting a bus. The figure shows more particularly the example of a conductor 225. The power module 210 specifically comprises all the components conventionally encountered in an LED lighting lamp for producing a high intensity light beam. and in general based on PWM Width Modulation (or Pulse Width Modulation), well known to a person skilled in the art and similar to that encountered in class D audio circuits. This PWM modulation is controlled by means of the control signal 225 generated by the control module 220. In general, it will be noted that the term "signal" mentioned above refers to an electrical quantity - current or voltage allowing cause the control of the power module, and in particular PWM modulation for supplying power to the LED 231. This is only a particular embodiment, it being understood that it will be possible to substitute for the "control signal 225" any "control information", for example a logic information stored in a register and transmitted as has been said by any appropriate means to the power module 210 for the purpose of controlling the emission power of the light beam. The control signal can therefore be transmitted on different supports depending on whether it is a signal or information. These supports may be a bus type communication line coupling the control module and the power module or a simple electronic circuit for transferring a voltage or control intensity. In a particular embodiment, it can even be envisaged that the two control and power modules are integrated in the same module or integrated circuit. A person skilled in the art will therefore easily understand that when referring to a "control signal 225", indistinctly includes the embodiments using an electrical control quantity - current or voltage - as well as the embodiments in which the control is performed by means of logical information transmitted within the power circuit. For this reason, the following will be used indistinctly as signal or control information. In general, the components that make up the power module 210 - switches and circuits - are well known to those skilled in the art and the presentation will be deliberately lightened in this regard for the sake of brevity. Similarly, the reader will be referred to the general works dealing with various aspects of MLI modulation (or PWM). Returning to FIG. 2, it can be seen that the control module 220 comprises a processor 221 as well as volatile memories 222 of the RAM and non-volatile type (flash, EEPROM) 223 as well as one or more input circuits. In addition, the headlamp further comprises the transceiver module 240 providing a bidirectional link with the mobile information processing system 300. In a preferred embodiment, the transmitter and the receiver will be compatible with the Bluetooth standard, preferably with the Bluetooth 4.0 low energy standard. In another embodiment, the WIFI or IEEE802.11 standard will be adopted instead. We can also imagine the presence of these two standards at once to have a master-slave Bluetooth type of communication between the lamp and its associated mobile information processing system, and an ad-hoc network communication under WIFI between all lamps and mobile information processing systems.
[0007] The transceiver module 240 comprises a baseband unit 241 coupled to a receiver 243 and to a transmitter 242. Finally, the headlamp comprises a battery module 250 having a controller 252 and a battery 251. Of a in general, the control module 220 can access each of the other modules present in the lamp, and in particular to the power module 210, the transceiver module 240 and the battery module 250. This access may take various forms, either by means of specific circuits and / or conductors or set of conductors forming a bus. By way of illustration, the link 225 is shown in FIG. 2 in the form of a driver while a real data / address / command bus 226 is used for the exchange of information between the control module 220. , the battery module 250 and the transmitter / receiver module 240. However, this is only a particular embodiment, it being understood that a person skilled in the art may make various modifications and / or adaptations as appropriate to take into account the specific requirements of the intended application. By accessing the different modules making up the headlamp, the control module 220 can both read and collect information contained in each of these modules and / or conversely, come to transfer information, data and / or commands, such as this will become clearer in the rest of the presentation. Thus, the control module 220 can send to the power module a control signal as represented by the signal transmitted on the link 225 and, more generally, can read the current value of the supply current of the diode. 231 transiting via the conductors 232 (via circuits and / or bus not shown in the figure).
[0008] Similarly, the control module 220 can access the battery module 250 via the bus 226 to read either the different voltage values (depending on the charging or discharging cycle in progress) at the terminals thereof and / or the value of the intensity delivered in order to be able to calculate a state of charge (SOC or State Of Charge in the Anglo-Saxon literature). Various methods exist in the state of the art for calculating the remaining state of charge of the battery according to various measurements made, some requiring storage of the measured data in the non-volatile memory Flash 223 for purposes of averaging or updating. 'integration. These methods, well known to those skilled in the art, are applied by the processor 221 according to specific algorithms adapted to determine the state of charge remaining in the battery. According to the embodiment of FIG. 2, the receiver 243 and the transmitter 242 that make up the module 240 are respectively responsible for processing the signal received from the mobile device 300 via the uplink as well as the signal to be transmitted thereto via the downlink. The baseband unit 241 performs the processing of information packets for the lamp or its mobile information processing system. For this purpose, the baseband unit 241 may be required to carry out various processes, in series or in parallel, on the digital representation of the signal received by the receiver 243 and to be transmitted by the transmitter 242, and in particular, operations filtering, statistical calculation, demodulation, coding / decoding channel to make the communication robust to noise, etc ... Such operations are well known in the field of signal processing, particularly when it comes to isolate a particular component of a signal, likely to carry digital information, and it will not be necessary here to burden the description of the description. Once detected, these packets are transferred to the processor 221 within the control module 220. The processor 221 is thus responsible for interpreting the received packets as well as for formatting packets for transmission in a format specific to the standard used. Thus in the case of the Bluetooth Low Energy standard, these packets will have a structure around the standardized Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) that will not be detailed here. Depending on the interpretation of the data bits included in the received packets, the processor will reconstruct any information or commands received on the downlink from the mobile information processing system 300. Having interpreted this information or commands, the processor 221 will then relay or convert this information or command to the module concerned. Thus in the basic embodiment, the processor 221 identifies commands to the attention of the power module 210 to change the light intensity and in response to this identification is able to generate control information on the driver 225 to destination of the power module 210 so that the latter proceeds to change the light intensity generated by the lighting unit 230. In addition, the processor 221 can also identify read requests issued by the processing system of the associated mobile information 300 so that the headlamp sends some parameters on the uplink. These requests can be a request for state of charge of the battery or the value of the current light power. In this case, the processor 221 will retrieve the necessary information directly from the module concerned and after making any additional calculations on this information to obtain the final required information (in the case of the state of charge for example as one as seen above), will format a corresponding data packet for transmission by the transceiver module 240. As is well known to those skilled in the art and applied in a number of standards in telecommunications, the communication between the headlamp and the mobile information processing system can be done in the context of acknowledgments or non-acknowledgments sent in response to each packet correctly or incorrectly detected and known as Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ ) in the Anglo-Saxon language. This ARQ mode thus makes it possible to ensure good reception of the data packets in both directions of communication and to avoid any break in communication.
[0009] It is clear that Figure 2 describes a basic embodiment, and that many other embodiments are possible and within the reach of a person skilled in the art. For example, in a more sophisticated mode, other modules may be added within the headlamp and these modules will also be coupled to the processor 221 via the bus 226 for example. These modules will then also be able to exchange data or commands with the associated mobile information processing system 300 in uplink or downlink. Thus, the upstream and downlink data / control channels can advantageously be used to convey data. data information / commands concerning a possible "electric zoom" control device (as will be seen more specifically with the second embodiment described hereinafter) but also a brightness sensor, an image sensor, a loudspeaker / microphone module, another power module for auxiliary LEDs that can also be integrated into the existing power module 210, etc. The headlamp is thus in bidirectional communication with an information processing system. associated mobile 300, for example a mobile phone or smartphone. This mobile information processing system 300 furthermore has, as can be seen in FIG. 3, reciprocal communication means comprising a transmitter 330 and a receiver 320 serving respectively for the downlink and the uplink, of a central processor 310 and a dedicated application 350 stored in memory (not shown) and allowing the exchange of information with the headlamp, and in particular the control of the latter using CPU time of said processor 310. The central processor 301 of the mobile system 300 is in connection with the multiple modules present on the latter, such as a GPS 340 shown in Figure 3. The dedicated application 350 started on the mobile information processing system 300 serves to coordinate the different features and exchanges communication with the headlamp 100 while providing a user-friendly interface with the user by means of which The latter can either enter operating parameters, or come directly order the headlamp or select different options for the features offered. The application 350 can thus, thanks to this bidirectional connection between the headlamp 100 and the system 300 access all the parameters of the lamp and, conversely, come and set and control most of the features of the latter. In this embodiment which has just been described, the application 350 will be able to conveniently control the light power generated by the lamp, from a minimum value which will correspond in practice to the extinction of the lamp up to a maximum value which will correspond to to the maximum light output permitted by the latter. Alternatively, it is provided in this first embodiment a switch not shown in Figure 2, in a conventional form such as a ring to be rotated at the lamp or a more conventional switch. This switch allows the user to directly control the switching on or off of the lamp, independently of any communication exchange with the device 300 so that, in the absence of such communication, the lamp behaves in a completely conventional way according to a so-called "autonomous" mode. But this certainly does not exclude the possibility of adding a more sophisticated control mode actively involving the mobile system 300. Indeed, as soon as the lamp 100 is turned on, the processor 221 initializes the transceiver module 240 in the purpose of establishing a connection with the mobile information processing system 300, to allow more sophisticated modes of operation for the implementation of a more efficient regulation or the provision of new features. The so-called "autonomous" mode will be restored as soon as a connection break with the processing system 300 will occur, either deliberately on the initiative of the wearer, or during a loss of connection between the lamp and its device. associated mobile processing. Thus, the lamp 100 can independently respond to a "manual" operating mode, under the sole command of the control button (and / or any other internal switch or internal control device), or remotely based on the two downlinks and rising. In a preferred embodiment, the lamp is provided with a manual switch controlling the extinction of the communication module 240, and causing the autonomous operation of the lamp. Finally, for the sake of saving energy, it will be useful to minimize the emission operations of the headlamp. Therefore, an operating mode is preferred where the lamp sends information on the uplink only on request received from the mobile information processing system 300 or when a critical value under surveillance is exceeded, such as, for example the fall of the state of charge of the battery below a predetermined threshold, or a measurement of brightness lower than another predetermined threshold. As can be seen, the first embodiment takes advantage of the computing power made available by the device 300, and offers the possibility of multiple new features. For this purpose, and for the purpose of illustrating these numerous possibilities of new functionalities, a first scenario is now described in which the computing power of the device 300 and its associated communication functionalities (database access, GPS etc ...) are used to control the parameters of the light beam and specifically the power delivered by the LED which is a function of the supply current flowing via the conductor 232.
[0010] First usage scenario: In this first scenario, the lamp 100 receives power downlinks from the associated mobile device 300 and, conversely, transmits on the uplink information representative of the state of charge of the battery 251. In a particular embodiment, this information will be periodically transmitted by the lamp 100 (and in particular the processor 221) to the device 300. Alternatively, it may be provided that this information will be transmitted in response to a specific request from the device 300 received via the downlink. This is only a non-limiting example of requests that may be transmitted by the device 300. Other requests may be considered, including a request to obtain any operating parameter of any lamp, such as, for example, the current luminous power, the supply current of the LED 231, or any data generated by a specific sensor contained in the lamp, such as for example optical sensors (of the photodiode, phototransistor, CCD or other type) , an image sensor (infra-red sensor type Passive Infra-red Sensor, analog camera with its optical system or other) or various other sensors (accelerometers etc ...). All these parameters mentioned, and many others, can thus be usefully transmitted to the mobile data processing device 300 via the uplink to be properly processed, especially within a sophisticated control loop taking advantage of the high power. of calculation present in the mobile device 300, to finally result in an adjustment command returning to the headlamp via the downlink. Moreover, these two specific modes can be combined by providing periodic transmission of significant parameters of the operation of the lamp (power, diffusion angle, battery state, etc.) or in response to specific requests from the device 300, or even when the predetermined situation is detected (battery charge below a threshold, etc.). To illustrate the great flexibility of the proposed solution and the multitude of new possibilities of features thus offered to the user of the headlamp, it is now described how such an exchange of data and instructions can be used to develop a new feature to ensure a duration of autonomy of the headlamp. More specifically, it is intended to ensure that the lamp will be able to provide light at least for a specific time or value of autonomy. This precise time is either a value that the user has previously defined as a prerecorded parameter on the dedicated application 350 running on the mobile phone 300 (in the embodiment considered). Thus the application 350 allows the user to enter as parameter a desired time autonomy, for example the estimated duration of an excursion in hours or minutes or even more simply a value directly extracted from a personal library of the user. In another embodiment, the application 350 can itself calculate this autonomy value according to GPS data as the entire path to be achieved and the speed of progression and can adjust this value continuously depending on the evolution of the person on said course. Alternatively, this parameter value can be directly calculated from information stored on a remote server and downloaded by the application 350. From all this information available within the mobile data processing device 300, and which can be suitably processed by means of sophisticated and complex algorithms thanks to the high computing power available within the device 300, the application 350 can then calculate the autonomy time required according to this path, of personal data concerning the user (average speed, form, statistical data related to previous excursions etc ...) and possibly other factors such as time, weather, lunar situation (moon phase, sunrise and sunset) and / or brightness room. This autonomy time will be adjusted continuously by the application taking into account the same factors also adjusted as well as the position of the user on this course and the average speed of the user among others. Note that this autonomy value Taut- Once this autonomy value Taut calculated, the application 350 turning in the mobile phone 300 then proceeds to calculations or additional estimates concerning other operating parameters of the lamp 100, while first the current state of charge of the battery, which will be noted Crestant (t) and possibly other factors such as the time, the weather, the lunar situation (phase of the moon, sunrise and sunset ) and / or the ambient brightness (the ambient brightness can be obtained via the brightness sensor of the particular embodiment). Once all these parameters are known, the application is able to calculate or estimate possible corrections to be made continuously to the operation of the lamp 100 and in particular as regards the power of the emitted beam or the power supply current. the LED 231. The application 350 may also be limited to calculating an average power value delivered by the power module and noted Pm, based on these data, and transmit this average value at regular intervals to the headlamp, which is then instruct to follow this average value while guaranteeing a certain autonomy of operation. In general, the dedicated application 350 can implement various algorithms - simple or sophisticated - to precisely fix the operating parameters (power, diffusion) of the lamp 100. It is clear that multiple algorithms more or less elaborate can be designed in order to guarantee the autonomy time of the fixed headlamp fixed or to get closer to it as best as possible, which may depend on the computing power made available within the mobile telephone 300, or the quality and the quantity additional information available for the application 450. The most basic of them is to obtain depending on the remaining state of charge Crestant (t) and the remaining battery time to be provided (Taut - t), the average power delivered by the power module to follow Pm. "T" is the autonomy time already elapsed. Since the state of charge can be considered as the remaining energy, we have a relation of the type: Pm = a * KV (Crestant (t) / (-fault - t)) for a lead-acid battery, where a is a variable taking into account the energy ratio used by the lamp for the lighting function alone and which will be optimized to be the closest to 1, and k is known as the Peukert constant and reflects the non-linearity of the capacity according to the intensity or power supplied. Because of the other modules present on the lamp, a will be less than 1. A person skilled in the art can clearly adapt the formula to a Li-Ion battery. This calculated value Pm is directly associated by the dedicated application 350 with a signal of corresponding command which is then transmitted to the lamp by the transmitter 330. In the embodiment described, this control signal transmitted via the down channel is, upon reception by the lamp 100, detected and directly applied to the power module 210 via the control signal 225, which can thus adjust the light output of the headlamp. But the computing power of the mobile device 300 can be used not only to come to adjust the brightness of the light beam, but also any other parameter as will now be seen with the second embodiment in which the remote control within the device 300 bearing on both the power of emission and the geometry of the light beam, opening the way to a real offshoring out of the lamp characteristics of the lighting of the same lamp. 2) Second Embodiment: Controlling the Power and Anal Distribution via the Downlink FIG. 4 illustrates a second more sophisticated embodiment of a headlamp 400 in which the computing power set to the device by the device 300 makes it possible to come to regulate not only the emission power of the beam of the LED but also the geometry of this same beam. The lamp 400 here again comprises a power module 410 - similar to the module 210 previously described - for supplying power to a lighting module 430 under the control of a control module 420, having access to a battery module 450 (similar to to module 250 described above) as well as to a transceiver module 440 (similar to module 240 described above). As previously, the lighting unit 430 comprises a single LED 433 having its power supply circuit 432 connected to the power module 410. In this second embodiment, clearly, we can also consider several LEDs for obtaining a beam of strong light. The LED (s) can be associated with a proper focal optics 433 for ensuring a collimation of the generated light beam, in particular so as to produce a luminous flux which, in this second embodiment, will be particularly narrow to come then passing through a light beam geometry control device 434 for adjusting the scattering angle of the light beam so as to generate a useful "zoom" effect to the lamp wearer. Preferably, the device 434 controlling the geometry of the light beam is an electro-optical device based on a layer or film PDLC (liquid crystals dispersed in polymers) which consists of the implementation of liquid crystals by dispersion heterogeneous within a polymer matrix. This PDLC film 434 can advantageously replace the protective glass usually arranged in front of the LEDs, and comprises two electrodes 436 and 437 intended to receive a bias potential Vc transmitted by conductors 435.
[0011] As mentioned above, the optic 433 is set to generate a particularly narrow collimated beam, so that the combination of this optic 434 with the electro-optical scattering device 434 then makes it possible to produce, by means of a single LED, a large configuration of beams with different geometries. It is thus possible to produce a first narrow and long beam (with an angle of less than 10 °) shown in FIG. 4 by the reference numeral 101 or, on the contrary, a short and wide beam 102 having a larger diffusion angle (30). or 50 degrees). And all the intermediate values are possible simply by setting a control potential Vc to the appropriate value. With this particularly advantageous arrangement, a portable lamp having a great versatility is obtained, since it is possible at the same time to control not only the light power, but also various beam configurations that can be used for new functions (ambient light). - lantern - dawn simulator alarm clock). Preferably, the power supply of the LEDs 431 via the circuit 432 is carried out by the power module 410 under the control of an information or a control signal 425 which is generated, similarly to the first one. embodiment, by the control module 420. The power module 410 includes components similar to those described in the presentation of the module 210 so that it will not be necessary to revisit these developments. It suffices to recall once again that it will be possible to refer indistinctly to a control signal or control information to specify how the control module 420 controls the power module by determining the power supply of the power module. the LED 431. However, in this second embodiment, the control module 420 is also used to generate a second signal or a second control information intended to adjust the diffusion coefficient of the visible beam projected by the lamp. For this purpose, the control module comprises, as previously in the first embodiment, a processor 421 associated with volatile memories 422 (RAM) and non-volatile (flash, EEPROM) 423 as well as one or more circuits d input / output 424 which will now be able to serve, in this specific embodiment, come to generate the control potential Vc for adjusting the scattering angle of the beam via the film PDLC 234. For the sake of simplicity it is schematized in FIG. 4, the generation of the control potential Vc via the input I / O output circuit 424, under the control of the processor 421. In practice, it is necessary to envisage the generation of a potential having a fairly high value (several tens of volts), which may require the use of a specific controller to generate such voltages, which controller will be composed of suitable electronic circuits ("boost" type converters) controlled via the output input circuit 424 which can come to read and write a digital information representative of the analog voltage Vc to generate. Such adaptations are clearly within the reach of a person skilled in the art who can adapt the diagram illustrated in FIG. 4 to any particular embodiment. The portable lamp 400 furthermore comprises a transceiver module 440 equipped with a baseband unit 441 communicating with a Tx transmission unit 442 and an Rx reception unit 443 respectively allowing the uplink and the downlink with the device. Mobile 300. As previously, the transmitter 442 and the receiver 443 will be compatible with the Bluetooth standard, preferably with the standard Bluetooth 4.0 low energy or, alternatively, with the standard WIFI or IEEE802.11. Finally, as in the first embodiment, the headlamp 400 comprises a battery module 450 having its battery 451 and its controller 452. Here again, in this second embodiment, the control module 420 can access each of the other modules present in the lamp, and in particular the power module 410, the transceiver module 440 and the battery module 450. With this access, the processor 420 can communicate on the uplink and downlink any useful parameter, and in particular the information representative of the transmission power of the lamp but also information relating to the diffusion angle applied by the electro-optical device 434. Thus, in the uplink direction, the control module 420 can transmit device 300 and its application 350 the information relating to the transmission power of the lamp and the beam applied. This information can then be conveniently processed by the mobile device 300 thanks to the significant computing power that it contains, and come to make any correction, periodically or in real time, concerning the power of the lamp and the diffusion angle to apply. The exchange of information between the headlamp 400 and the mobile data processing device 300 can occur, either periodically at the initiative of the lamp or on responses to requests generated by the device 300. The application 350 can thus thanks to this bidirectional connection between the headlamp 100 and the system 300, access all the parameters of the lamp and, conversely, adjust and control most of the functions of the latter, not only to adjust the light output generated by the lamp. lamp but also the angle of diffusion to be applied to the light beam. This control of the operating parameters of the lamp can be implemented by extending, if necessary, the scenarios described in connection with the first embodiment above, in order to allow the application 350 to calculate the overall operating parameters. of the lamp including the power and the angle of diffusion from various information available to the application (state of charge of the battery, duration of excursion, profile of the user, GPS data, current time, weather data etc. ...) And as for the first embodiment, this bi-directional link can be disabled as needed to allow the autonomous mode of operation of the lamp.
[0012] The second embodiment which has just been described shows that the architecture proposed in the present invention is not only intended to allow to come and control a single parameter of the headlamp but can, on the contrary, be used to control the entire operation of the headlamp. This shows the great interest in offsetting the regulation of the operation of the lamp within the external device 300, for example the mobile phone of the lamp holder, in order to benefit from all the computing power available. within it and multiple information that can be stored and even downloaded. But this does not exhaust the possibilities of adaptation of the present invention and we will now show, with a third embodiment, the advantages that can be obtained by combining the proposed solution with lighting said " dynamic "or" reactive "developed by the plaintiff and operating internally to the lamp for example). 3) Third Embodiment: Integration with "Dynamic" or "Reagent" Lighting With this third embodiment, we now consider the coexistence of two control loops for the power and the geometry of the beam a first internal regulation loop which operates according to the conventional technique of "reactive" or "dynamic" lighting as developed by the applicant company, and a second external regulation loop operating according to the principles described above and involving the mobile phone 300. FIG. 5 illustrates this third embodiment in which, for the sake of brevity and simplification, the same reference numerals have been retained for the constituents which remain unchanged with respect to the second embodiment. FIG. 5 thus illustrates a headlamp 500 according to the third embodiment which comprises, in addition to the modules 410, 430, 440 and 450 already present in the second embodiment and which are not described further, a module of FIG. command 520 and an optical sensor 560 which is a photodiode type sensor, phototransistor, CCD operating in the visible range and / or infrared, and possibly combined with its associated controller. The optical sensor 560 measures the ambient brightness possibly combined with the illumination received after reflection on obstacles close to the light beam emitted by the LED and delivers an output current depending on the illumination to which it is subjected. The output current is substantially a linear function of the illumination captured in Lux. For more details on the optical sensor, reference is made to patent application WO2009 / 133309 of the applicant and already mentioned above. For its part, the control module 520 comprises a processor 521 associated with volatile memory (RAM) 522, non-volatile memory (FLASH, ROM) 523 and input / output units I / O 524 which communicate via an address, data and control bus 526 with the various modules present in the lamp, including the sensor 560, but also the transmission / reception module 440 and the battery module 450 already described in connection with the second embodiment. With this arrangement, the control module 520 can access the information captured by the sensor 560 and derive information representative of the light reflected on the illuminated object. This information has a great utility in an "autonomous" operation of so-called "reactive" or "dynamic" lighting, since it allows the control module 520, via more or less sophisticated control algorithms that will not be described here. to fix and regulate not only the transmission power of the lamp (via the information or control signal transmitted on the link 425) but also the diffusion angle that must be applied and which is defined by the bias potential Vc (generated by the I / O module 524) which will be applied to the PDLC film 434. As can be seen, the third embodiment is entirely suited to the implementation of so-called "dynamic" or "reactive" lighting, which is known to be of great interest since it not only makes it possible to reduce power consumption. of the lamp to a minimum - by reducing the lighting to what is necessary when the illuminated object is close to the sensor 560 - but also increases the comfort of use by avoiding the glare situation (for example by ordering a short and wide beam with reduced power when the lamp holder faces another user). Beyond these advantages resulting from the "dynamic" lighting, the third embodiment which is illustrated in FIG. 5 further makes it possible to replace, add or combine with the already existing internal control loop, an additional regulation possibility - Higher level - which will be performed under the control of the device 300. Indeed, as for the first two embodiments, the control module 520 can take advantage of the existence of two uplinks and downlinks established with the mobile device 300 so as to transmit to the latter, according to the uplink, any information representative of the operation of the lamp and in particular the power transmitted, the diffusion angle applied but also any characteristic parameter of the internal control loop already used. Conversely, the downlink can now be used to come to exchange, not only power control values and / or diffusion but also any other parameters that may come to modify or refine the "dynamic" regulation process to be applied by the lamp , and in particular to jointly adjust the power and the diffusion coefficient of the device 434 by modifying the voltage Vc. Thus, various achievements are possible. Either the external regulation loop implemented within the device 300 will be substituted for the inner loop, or it will come in addition to enrich and refine the already existing internal loop. In this way, the PDLC film becomes either completely transparent when a high voltage Vc is applied, causing no scattering of the light beam, or diffuse when no voltage is applied, then scattering the light beam in all directions. We can thus pass on a simple command of a beam focused to a diffuse beam. As in the case of the second embodiment, a so-called pointed LED will preferably be used, that is to say producing a narrowest possible light beam in combination with such a PDLC film. As seen in the figure, it is the I / O unit 524 that allows the generation of the bias voltage Vc. Or, in the case where this is useful, the specific PDLC controller (not shown in the figure) controlled by the module 524 which generates the potential Vc desired. The electronic circuits making it possible to produce such a controller, in particular based on "boost" type voltage converters, are well known to a person skilled in the art and will not be described more precisely. Suffice it to say that the controller PDLC is both connected to the device 434 (PDLC film) and the processor 521 via the module 524. The controller PDLC receives an instruction from the processor 521 and applies the corresponding voltage across the layer or In a particular embodiment, the PDLC controller is also able to respond to a request issued by the processor 521 and to transmit in response the current value of the voltage across the PDLC film of the device 434. Thus, as can be seen, the mobile information processing system 300 can control (ie read values or send commands for new values) to all the modules present, by sending read or command requests which will be interpreted by the processor 521 and converted into control signals and then routed to the corresponding module. The structural elements of the third embodiment having been described in relation to FIG. 5, it is now possible to focus more specifically on the benefits provided by such an embodiment, particularly in terms of new functionalities. For this purpose, it seems useful first of all to summarize the various parameters controllable by the mobile information processing system 300 as well as the messages related to this parameter in both uplink and downlink: Uplink Link Downlink Charge state of the representative value of the battery read request the charge state transmitted the charge state Optical sensor Representative value of the read request of the luminosity the measured luminosity transmitted Luminous power Value representative of. Query command the luminous power of transmitted light power. . Query of the light output. Coefficient of Diffusion Representative value of the. Command request diffusion coefficient of the diffusion coefficient. . Query for reading the diffusion coefficient. Second scenario of use: It will now be described more specifically an embodiment of this operation of the lamp mode "dynamic" or "reactive" as described in the patent application WO2009 / 133309 of the applicant, to put highlight how one can increase the performance and efficiency of the lamp. Overall, the headlamp will modify, through the mobile information processing system, both its light power and the diffusion coefficient of the PDLC layer in response to measurements made by the optical sensor. The dedicated application on the mobile information processing system 300 will therefore receive on the uplink, either periodically at the initiative of the lamp or on request, the measured brightness values and transmit on the downlink of the control commands. regulation of light output and diffusion coefficient. This remote control functionality from the dedicated application offers multiple advantages, particularly in terms of the complexity of the implementation algorithms, the flexibility of its operation. First, the dedicated application can selectively obtain a value of the ambient brightness and the brightness induced by the reflection of the lamp before controlling the values of light power and diffusion coefficient. In order to obtain the value of the ambient luminosity, the dedicated application will send via the mobile information processing system first a command to extinguish the lamp (luminous power at zero) followed almost simultaneously by a brightness reading control. It will of course be possible to replace these two control emissions by a specific command for reading ambient brightness that the processor 521 of the lamp will interpret as a sequential list of actions to be performed: 1) turn off the LED 431 2) measure the brightness on the sensor 560 3) restore the power of the LED to its value before extinction and 4) transmit on the uplink the brightness value measured by the sensor. Having subsequently obtained a brightness value without extinguishing the lamp by a simple brightness reading control, the dedicated application can, by comparing the two values, obtain a value of induced light reflection and thus an indication of the proximity of illuminated objects. reflective. By having these two brightness values as input parameters, the dedicated application is able to decide at the same time the appropriate light output and diffusion coefficient. The dedicated application can also use additional data such as the mode of use (jogging mode, caving mode ...) and GPS data. A typical example is when the user of the lamp shines a short distance away from another person's face. The dedicated application will then measure a high value of light reflection (light of the lamp reflected by the face) and in response will control the lamp significantly reduce its light output while increasing the diffusion coefficient of the controllable PDLC diffuser in order to expand the beam. If on the other hand no light reflection is measured, then it will be wise to increase the light diffusion coefficient or even reduce the light power. It is also clear that according to the current mode of use, the headlamp must behave differently: Thus in jogging mode, the risks of mutual glare are low, and it will be good to increase the reaction time of the lamp. On the other hand, the ambient luminosity is subject to great variations (in the city, under trees ...) and should therefore be measured more regularly. GPS data can also help prevent changes in situation (from city to country ...) or simply to allow to come to expand the light beam when the lamp holder is approaching a junction that must call his attention for avoid any misplacement. In a particular embodiment, the lamp further incorporates an electronic compass that will allow the transmission, on the uplink, information corresponding to the direction towards which the wearer of the lamp. The mobile device receives this information and, in combination with the GPS data and the preprogrammed route diagram, can transmit appropriate control information via the downlink to enable the generation of an appropriate alert signal, especially when the carrier of the lamp arrives at a junction and, apparently, looks in the wrong direction. The warning signal may be a flashing of the lamp or a significant drop in light intensity when the carrier of the lamp inadvertently looks in the wrong direction in the bifurcation considered. This is clearly only a particular example showing the great synergy resulting from the combination of the lamp with the mobile device, via the two uplinks and downlinks. In caving mode, however, these changes in ambient brightness will be less frequent, and the risk of mutual glare more important. The dedicated application can therefore reduce the frequency of ambient light measurements and decrease the reaction latency of the lamp. Thus we see all the enrichments and additional granularity that such an embodiment can bring to the operation of a "dynamic" or "reactive" lamp originally introduced by the applicant. First of all, being able to simultaneously obtain a value of ambient brightness as well as periodic brightness values combined with GPS data and the programmed operating mode, the application has multiple input parameters that will allow it to to better determine the situation of adequate illumination for the user. Finally the fact of being able to control both the light power and the diffusion coefficient of the electrically controllable diffuser PDLC brings an additional granularity to the lamp and enriches the possible lighting palette. Addition to the first use scenario: The ambient light (by lamp extinguishing) and current measurement (lamp lit) measurements that have been explained above can of course enrich all other operating scenarios such as guaranteed autonomy mentioned above. Thus, the ambient luminosity measurement can be used to calculate, in addition to the other parameters mentioned in the first scenario, a reference luminous power to be respected (either as average power or as maximum power). The current brightness measurements (ie lamp on) are then used to complete the "dynamic" or "reactive" mode of the headlamp by adjusting the light output according to this reference value. Third scenario of use: In this third scenario, a method will be used to take advantage of the coupling between the headlamp and the mobile information processing system to generate an alert situation, in particular in an emergency situation or during an emergency. the detection of an incident. The risk of accident is indeed increased in low light situation and when an accident occurs, it is then essential to allow the location of the person to rescue. We will see in the following how the lamp and the mobile information processing system can advantageously share successive tasks.
[0013] FIG. 6 represents a diagram allowing a better understanding of the succession of steps carried out: The scenario begins with a step 610 of detection of emergency situation by the mobile information processing system. Such a situation can be detected from GPS data showing immobility of the person beyond a predefined time. It can also be initiated by the user on the dedicated application. In order to avoid any false alarm, the application may allow for an instantaneous course the cancellation of the alarm procedure by the user, by first attracting the attention of the user to the dedicated application. One way to attract this attention is, for example, to let the mobile information processing system vibrate or to emit a ringing tone. After the lapse of this reaction time, and without any reaction from the user, the method engages a step 620 during which, the mobile information processing system 300 will generate an alert command on the link going down to the headlamp. This alert command may contain an emergency lighting command for the headlamp. This command may contain a light power control and a broadcast control, respectively for the power module 410 and the device 434. It may further contain a flashing frequency value to be applied. Then, in a step 630, this alert command is received by the lamp. Once detected by the transceiver module the command is interpreted by the processor 521 of the lamp 500, and the various parameters contained in this command are applied to the corresponding modules. Thus, the lamp will flash at the indicated frequency while applying the light power and the diffusion coefficient which have been prescribed by the mobile treatment device in communication with the headlamp.
[0014] The establishment of an ARQ type repetition protocol mentioned above may lead to the repetition of step 620 if no ACK reception acknowledgment is received after a given time, or if a non-acknowledgment NACK is received by the mobile information processing system from the headlamp. During a step 640, which may be anterior, posterior or simultaneous to steps 620 and 630, an alert SMS and / or an alert call containing if available GPS data may be issued by the processing system mobile information. The process described in Figure 6 can be used in various applications. This is particularly the case when step 610 results from the detection of a travel incident, when for example the GPS data collected by the device 300 show that the carrier of the lamp is lost or away from a pre-defined route in advance. In this case, step 620 will then be used to generate an alert command on the downlink, which will then be received by the control module 520 in order to generate an alert flash, with a given frequency , so as to inform the wearer of the lamp that he is wrong on the way or that he is about to go astray ... These two examples show the great interest that we can find to relocate the parameters of the lamp (power, diffusion angle), within the mobile device 300. But even more powerful features are possible by integrating the lamps in a collective group constituting a real network of lamps, as we will see with the fourth embodiment. 4) Fourth embodiment: the network of headlamps This fourth embodiment illustrated in FIG. 7 focuses on the network functionalities offered by the bidirectional communication means present on the lamp. In fact, the lamp gains in functionality not only by communicating with its mobile information processing system but also by communicating within a larger network of ad-hoc type that can include several lamps (a lamp 800 is illustrated in FIG. Figure 6) and several associated information processing systems. The fourth mode is illustrated in FIG. 7, in which a headlamp 700 is seen which comprises, in addition to the modules 410, 430, 450 and 560 already described in relation to the third embodiment, the elements of which retain their numerical references. a first transceiver module 750 comprising a baseband module 751 and two transmission and reception modules 752 and 753 preferably operating under the IEEE 802.11 standard, a subcomponent of which is known as Wireless LAN. This standard allows ad-hoc network communication. In a particular embodiment, the headlamp will comprise a second transceiver module 740 comprising its baseband module 741 and its two transmission and reception modules 742 and 743 operating under the Bluetooth standard and preferably the Bluetooth 4.0 standard. low energy. This second transceiver module under Bluetooth 740 will be dedicated to the communication between the headlamp and its dedicated mobile information processing system, while the first module under W-LAN will be for communications between headlamps and processing systems mobile information present in the created ad-hoc network.
[0015] In addition to these two transceiver modules 740 and 750, the lamp 700 further comprises a control module 720 comprising a processor 721 with its volatile memory RAM 722 and non-volatile memory 723 associated and input-output circuits 724, which is capable of to interface all the existing modules in this fourth embodiment, and in particular the two transmitter / receiver models 740 and 750 so as to be able, on the one hand, to read the parameters and information stored therein, but also, on the other hand, on the other hand, to enter therein information and control parameters intended to control the operation of its modules under the control of the mobile communication device 300. Thus, it is very advantageous to obtain a lamp capable of communicating not only with the mobile device 300. and thus benefit from the computing power present in the latter - but also with other lamps of the same type, such as the lamp 800 so as to c to create a collective network of lamps to pool the different information and resources available. Thus, the lamp 700 is no longer only in communication with its dedicated information processing system 300 but is also in communication with other headlamps such as the illustrated lamp 800 and other image processing systems. 596, 598 and 599. The major difference with the previous embodiments lies in the multiplicity of data packet transmitting and receiving entities. In an ad-hoc network, each member entity (both headlamps and mobile information processing systems) receives a network identifier. Each packet transmitted on the network contains in a header the identifier of both the sending entity and the destination entity of the message. Group identifiers may be provided for multicast or broadcast communication where an issuing entity addresses multiple destination entities.
[0016] The processor 721 should therefore firstly for each detected packet identify the entity issuing the packet and the destination entity of this packet. If the package is not intended for it, the processor 721 will reissue this packet, ie relay it. The lamp then plays the role of transmission relay. It can thus be seen that by these methods of retransmission or re-routing of packets, a much larger range of network can be reached, which can cover a procession of lamp carriers. If the package is indeed intended for it, the processor 721 will then, as has been seen above, interpret the message contained in it and implement it. In order to avoid control conflicts between transmitting entities, the lamp will always prioritize, in a specific embodiment, messages from its dedicated information processing system. Of all the other lamps and all other mobile information processing systems, a mobile information processing system may in certain scenarios be configured as the master node of the ad-hoc network and the commands sent by this master node will supplant all other orders received. The dedicated application 350 on the mobile information processing system 300 dedicated to the headlamp 700 has ad-hoc network configuration functionality between all lamps and all other mobile information processing systems. . Each network entity then receives its network identifier and group identifiers can be created. To illustrate the great flexibility of this embodiment, we will describe more precisely examples of new features enabled by this new embodiment. Fourth usage scenario: The fourth scenario concerns a lighting control based on a measured distance between two entities of the network. Taking the concrete example of a night walk with several participants who follow one another, we see that each lamp will have different lighting needs depending on the position of the wearer within the entire procession. In particular, the lamp at the head of procession will have to provide more power to illuminate in front of it a dark area while each lamp behind it will only have to light the space between it and the lamp in front of it. It therefore makes sense to provide a functionality to calculate the distance between two lamps in order to regulate the light output according to this distance. There is shown in Figure 8 a diagram for better understanding the sequence of steps occurring. The method begins with a step 810 of position recognition. Either the position of each of the lamps follows an order set in advance and therefore each lamp knows if it has another lamp in front of it or not, and if so it knows the network identifier of this lamp. Either the dedicated application obtains this relative position by exchanging GPS data between the different mobile information processing systems. If the headlamp at the end of this step is in the first position, ie does not have a headlamp in front of it, it works according to the second scenario mentioned above (advanced dynamic mode operation using the internal and external loops of regulation) If on the other hand the lamp is recognized as having another headlamp in front of it - which it knows the identifier at the end of this first step - the method continues with a step 820, during which, the method determines permanently the distance separating these two lamps. This distance measurement can be done either by the exchange of GPS data between the two mobile information processing systems dedicated to these two lamps but this turns out to be a complex method in calculation, or it may be possible to use a simpler method of measuring received signal power (known as RSSI measurement in English) on the packets regularly issued for this purpose by each lamp. Thus our lamp 700 knows at the end of step 810 the identifier of the lamp in front of it. It will therefore identify the packets emitted by this lamp and measure on each of these packets the received power (the RSSI). Based on this measured RSSI and knowledge of the transmit power (the same assumed for each lamp), the attenuation due to propagation can be determined. This attenuation then makes it possible to estimate the propagation distance and therefore the distance between the two lamps. This step may be carried out either in the lamp or in the mobile information processing system which may advantageously make available its computing power for this purpose. Then the process continues with a step 830, during which either the lamp processor or the dedicated application on the mobile information processing system will calculate a light power and an appropriate diffusion coefficient and, if the appropriate, transmit corresponding commands on the downlink of the lamp considered. Thus, at the end of this step 830, the luminous power and the diffusion coefficient of the lamp are modified by taking into account the distance between the two lamps, or any other appropriate parameter. As can be seen, it is thus possible to optimize both the lighting of each of the lamps while saving the power and therefore the battery of each of the lamps. Complement to the first three scenarios of use: A particularly remarkable corollary to the third scenario that has just been described stems from the possibility of introducing the notion of guarantee of group autonomy. Thus, by these multiple communications within the array of headlamps, driven or not by their associated data processing devices, it is no longer guaranteed only the autonomy of a single lamp but the autonomy of a complete group of lamps . It is thus desired to guarantee that during a value of autonomy of x guaranteed hours, none of the lamps of this group will be in a critical situation with regard to the battery charge.
[0017] This scenario is close to the first scenario but now it is a matter of coordinating all the lamps. In this advanced scenario, two additional parameters have to be taken into account: the arrangement of lamps and the distance between lamps. In order to save the battery of the lamp at the head of procession, it will be wise to issue commands to switch the order of lamps so that each of the lamps relays in the first position. Thus according to all the parameters of the first scenario plus the relative position of the lamps and the distance between each of the lamps as calculated in the fourth scenario, each dedicated application or a single dedicated application and designated as master will calculate the luminous power to provide, the diffusion coefficient as well as the possible permutation of the order of each of the lamps and transmit these commands to each of the lamps. The second scenario of the "dynamic" or "reactive" mode can also be enriched by this network functionality by judiciously combining the second and fourth scenario above. Thus the control of light power and diffusion coefficient calculated and sent on the downlink can be determined according to an additional parameter being the estimated distance between the two lamps. Thus, depending on the estimated distance between the two lamps, the ambient brightness as well as periodic brightness values combined with GPS data and the programmed operating mode, the application has multiple input parameters that allow it to to better determine the situation of adequate illumination for the user. The third emergency scenario can also be enriched by these network features. Thus here we come to modify the step 402 exposed above or the control message issued by the mobile information processing system will be for all lamps and not just the dedicated lamp. Thus all members of the network will be informed of the emergency situation of one of their members and can act accordingly, especially as the GPS coordinates of this member in an emergency will be communicated to them.
[0018] As can be seen, the possibilities of applications are many, and one can evoke, as so many examples and different possibilities, the following fields of application: Management - management of a hardware park of lamps or a fleet of lamps (communities, guides, rental companies, etc.) - energy management (adaptation of power to the course - guaranteed autonomy - sharing and distribution of energy within the fleet) Health: - physical conditions; performance; - physiological information coach, coach, - heart rate, stress management emergency call ... Events and competitions: - network lamps; race starts - arrival detection communications between lamps Echanqe and sharing - social network updated advices - alerts - forum news profile courses, good tips help, mutual help Human-machine dialogue voice-activated lamp - hands-free - gesture codes applications in medicine Photo-video - colors - background music according to the field light according to the music - andy warhol beats - evenings white balance, 65536 colors - photo-video accessory - flash And also some additional functions: alarm clock (dawn simulator, light atmosphere, yoga relaxation, help with falling asleep) GPS lamp (plotter location, course learning, guidance, geo-catching, geolocation) weather station lamp (wind speed, hygrometry, climate change) These different fields of application certainly not exhausting all the possibilities offered by the invention.

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Claims (29)
[0001]
REVENDICATIONS1. A portable lamp comprising first bidirectional wireless communication means for exchanging commands, parameters and / or configuration data with at least one mobile information processing system (300), comprising: - means for establishing a downlink for transmitting said commands, parameters and / or configuration data to the lamp; means for establishing an uplink for transmitting commands, parameters and / or configuration data of the lamp to said mobile information processing system.
[0002]
2. Portable lamp according to claim 1 characterized in that it comprises additional bidirectional communication means for communication with at least one other lamp located in a local neighborhood.
[0003]
3. Portable lamp according to claim 2, characterized in that the additional bidirectional communication means are organized in an ad-hoc network in which each of the lamps and the mobile system or systems receive an identifier.
[0004]
4. Portable lamp according to claim 3, characterized in that said ad-hoc network uses group addresses for addressing simultaneously multiple lamps and / or mobile systems belonging to the same group.
[0005]
5. Portable lamp according to claim 4 wherein said uplink and / or downlink transmissions are intended for all devices of the same group.
[0006]
6. Portable lamp according to claim 4 characterized in that the group addresses are used for the transmission of a group control generated by said mobile system and transmitted to all the lamps of said group.
[0007]
7. Portable lamp according to claim 1 characterized in that it comprises means for detecting the state of charge of the battery, said state being transmitted to said mobile system (300) via the uplink.
[0008]
8. A portable lamp according to claim 1 characterized in that it comprises a photosensor for generating a brightness information, said information being transmitted to said mobile system (300) via the uplink.
[0009]
9. Portable lamp according to claim 8 characterized in that said photosensor operates in the visible range and / or infra-red.
[0010]
10. A portable lamp according to claim 1 wherein the uplink is for transmitting power information and / or information representative of the geometry of the beam.
[0011]
11. A portable lamp according to claim 1 characterized in that it comprises means for controlling the brightness of the lamp, said control means being controlled by a first information received from said mobile system via the downlink.
[0012]
12. A portable lamp according to any one of claims 1, characterized in that it comprises beam geometry control means generated by the lamp, said geometry control means being controlled by a second piece of information received from said mobile system ( 300) via the downlink.
[0013]
13. Portable lamp according to claim 12 characterized in that the lamp comprises a diffusing device electrically controlled by means of said second information received from the mobile system.
[0014]
14. Portable lamp according to claims 11 and 12, characterized in that said first and second information are dependent on the distance between the lamp and a lamp located in a vicinity, said distance being determined by means of an estimate of the RSSI signal received from this neighboring lamp.
[0015]
15. Portable lamp according to claim 1, characterized in that the first bidirectional communication is based on a Bluetooth or Wifi communication.
[0016]
16. Portable lamp according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said portable lamp is a headlamp having one or more LEDs.
[0017]
A method of controlling the operation of a portable lamp, said method comprising the steps of: - establishing bidirectional and wireless communication between the lamp and a mobile information processing system, comprising a downlink to the lamp and an uplink to said mobile information processing system; said downlink being for transmitting said commands and / or configuration data to the lamp; and said uplink being for transmitting operating parameters of the lamp to said mobile information processing system.
[0018]
18. The method of claim 17 characterized in that it comprises the steps: - detection of the state of charge of the battery of the lamp; - Transmission to said mobile system of the state of charge of the battery.
[0019]
19. The method of claim 17, characterized in that it comprises the steps: - detection of the brightness present in front of the lamp by means of a photosensor; - Transmission to said mobile system of information representative of said brightness captured by the photosensor.
[0020]
20. The method of claim 17 characterized in that the brightness of the lamp is controlled by a first information received from said mobile system via the downlink.
[0021]
21. The method of claim 17 characterized in that the geometry of the beam generated by the lamp is controlled by a second information received from said mobile system via the downlink.
[0022]
22. The method as claimed in claim 17, characterized in that the bidirectional communication means are organized according to an ad-hoc network in which each of the lamps as well as the mobile system or systems receive an identifier, said ad-hoc network using group addresses. allowing to simultaneously address several lamps belonging to the same group.
[0023]
23. The method according to claims 17 and 20, characterized in that said mobile system uses the state of charge of the battery supplied by the lamp and generates said first information according to said state of charge so as to guarantee a predefined autonomy time. for the lamp.
[0024]
24. The method according to claims 22 and 23, characterized in that said mobile system receives the state of charge of the battery supplied by each lamp of said group and generates said first information for each of the lamps of said group as a function of said states of charge. to guarantee a predefined autonomy time for the whole group.
[0025]
25. The method of claims 19 to 21 characterized in that said mobile system uses the brightness information provided by the lamp to generate said first and second information.
[0026]
26. The method of claim 17 characterized in that said mobile system (300) detects an emergency situation and transmits on the downlink to the lamp an alert command controlling the generation of a light alarm signal.
[0027]
27. The method of claim 26 characterized in that the emergency situation results from the exploitation of GPS data determine a bifurcation to attract the attention of the user of the lamp or to inform the latter that it is moving away a predetermined path.
[0028]
28. Computer program comprising programming code intended to be stored in said mobile system (300), said program being intended for carrying out the methods of claims 17 to 27.
[0029]
29. Mobile processing system characterized in that it is adapted to the implementation of the method or processes defined in claims 17 to 27.

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