An illumination system includes: a first luminaire that is of an internal lighting type and includes a light emitter that emits first illumination light having a color simulating a sky; and a second luminaire that is of a projection type and includes a projector that projects, on an object, second illumination light having a color simulating sunlight. The first luminaire and the second luminaire are disposed in a same space, and the first luminaire is disposed higher with respect to a floor than a projection area created on the object by the second illumination light.

An illumination apparatus that is to be disposed in a recess formed in a part of a building includes: a light-emitting module that includes a board and a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on the board; a light diffuser that has translucency and covers the light-emitting module; and a specular reflector that is disposed between the light-emitting module and the light diffuser. The light-emitting module emits light toward the light diffuser, and the specular reflector reflects light from the light diffuser.

An illumination system includes: a first luminaire that emits first illumination light having a color simulating a sky; a second luminaire that is disposed in a same space as the first luminaire, the second luminaire projecting, on an object, second illumination light simulating sunlight to create a sunny portion on the object; and a controller that causes the first luminaire to emit the first illumination light according to an environment reproduction condition.

An illumination apparatus includes: a case having an opening portion; a light source disposed in the case and including a plurality of light-emitting elements; a light diffuser which is disposed in the opening portion, and diffuses and transmits light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting elements; and a controller that controls light emission from the light source. The controller: controls light emission from the plurality of light-emitting elements to project an image on the light diffuser, the image changing with time; and when changing the light emission from the plurality of light-emitting elements changing the image, controls the light emission from the light source to keep a change in at least one of (i) a light amount, (ii) a color temperature, and (iii) a spectral distribution of light emitted from the illumination apparatus within a predetermined range.

An artificial and an artificial skylight is provided. In particular a device is provided that includes a collimating lens having a focal plane and a focal point. The focal plane is flat or curved dependent on given optical properties of the lens. The device further includes a sheet having a lens-facing front side and an opposing back side. The sheet is semi-transparent and has an image thereat, at least at the lens-facing front side. The image is located at about the focal plane of the lens. The device further includes at least one lamp located at the back side of the sheet, the sheet being between the collimating lens and the at least one lamp. The at least one lamp is configured to emit light towards the back side of the sheet, at least a portion of the light transmitted through the sheet towards the collimating lens.

The present invention discloses a projector, including: a fastening base; an electric motor assembly, and a light source assembly, component are fastened to the fastening base; a first optical element, driven by the electric motor assembly, the first optical element is selected from at least one of the following types of optical elements: slides, condensing lenses or corrugated pieces; and light emitted by the light source assembly passes through the first optical element; and a second optical element, located above the first optical element, wherein the first optical element is located in a range of 1F-2F of the second optical element; and the second optical element is selected from at least one of the following types of optical elements: multi-section lenses, convex lenses or irregular elongated lenses.

The present disclosure discloses a rotary type star projection lamp with an audio playing and atmosphere set-off functions, and belongs to the technical field of star projection lamps. The rotary type star projection lamp includes a lamp house and a base, wherein a top end of the lamp house is connected with a cover plate; the cover plate is provided with a star lampshade and two cloud lampshades; a side wall of an inner bottom of the lamp house is connected with a drive motor; an output end of the drive motor is connected with a chain wheel assembly through a drive shaft; and a star light scattering sheet and two cloud light scattering sheets are respectively arranged above the chain wheel assembly.

A system for illuminating an environment with light that simulates natural light includes: a first light source which emits a beam of visible light; a diffused-light generator delimited by an inner surface, which receives the light beam, and an outer surface, the diffused-light generator being at least partially transparent to a long wavelength component of the beam of visible light. The diffused-light generator transmits diffused light from a short wavelength component of the beam of visible light, through the outer surface, the correlated color temperature of the transmitted light being lower than the CCT of the visible diffused light. The lighting system includes a dark box which hosts the first light source and is optically coupled to the environment via the diffused-light generator.

A lighting apparatus, in particular in the form of ceiling spots, with a perforated panel having at least one aperture for light to pass through, as well as a lens arranged so as to be concealed behind the perforated panel to emit a bundle of light beams that narrows on its way from the lens to the perforated panel, passes through the aperture for light to pass through, and broadens again after leaving the perforated panel. The lens is shaped in such a manner that a direct beam portion and/or direct light portion emitted without reflection from the lens and an indirect beam portion and/or indirect light portion emitted with reflection from the lens have essentially identical beam angles, and each essentially completely make up and/or fill out the overall bundle of light beams emitted by the lens.

A method for simulating, at an instant, the illumination of an indoor scene observed by a camera and being illuminated by outdoor light, the method comprising: a first preliminary phase including: obtaining a reflectance map of the scene elaborating normalized radiosity maps for the contribution of the sky and the ground, a second phase carried out within a first given duration from the instant including: obtaining the position of the sun, obtaining a normalized radiosity map for the contribution of the sun, a third phase, including: acquiring an image of the scene, determining brightness scale parameters for the ground, the sky, and the sun. The disclosure also proposes tracking the camera position.