Passenger cabin, lighting arrangement and operating method

Abstract

A lighting arrangement for a passenger cabin of an aircraft is provided. The lighting arraignment has a display surface for displaying image content, at least two luminaires in a lighting environment of the display surface and a control unit. The luminaires radiate light in accordance with at least one lighting parameter. In the control unit, each luminaire is assigned part of the display surface as an evaluation region and a mapping rule. The mapping rule assigns image content of the evaluation region values of the lighting parameters. The control unit, for each of the luminaires, assigns the image content of its evaluation region values of its lighting parameters using the mapping rule and actuates the luminaires with the values with regard to the assigned lighting parameters. A passenger cabin having the lighting arrangement and a method for actuating the luminaires are also provided.

Claims

1. A lighting arrangement for a passenger cabin of an aircraft, comprising: a display surface on which image content is able to be depicted, wherein the display surface has at least two surface portions for depicting respective content portions of the image content, wherein said content portions of the image content are generated only by projectors, at least two luminaires are situated by arrangement as intended in the same lighting environment of the display surface for radiating light, separate and distinct from the image content and radiating light of the display surface produced solely by the projectors, and in accordance with at least one changeable lighting parameter, and a control unit in which each of the luminaires is assigned at least part of the display surface as an evaluation region, wherein, in said evaluation region, each of the luminaires is assigned a mapping rule, wherein the mapping rule assigns an image content to the evaluation region as values of the luminaire lighting parameters, and wherein the control unit is configured, for each of the luminaires, to assign the image content of the evaluation region values of the lighting parameters using the mapping rule, to actuate each of the luminaires with the values of the assigned lighting parameters and to control and harmonize the radiating light of the luminaire with the radiating light of the display surface being radiated by the respective content portions of the image content, thereby controlling and harmonizing the lighting of the luminaires with the image of the display, which display image is produced solely by the projectors, wherein the image content provided by the projectors is independent of the lighting of the luminaires, wherein at least one of the evaluation regions is placed freely in the display surface to evaluate only the image content produced by the projectors and the control unit includes a configuration database in which the at least one evaluation region, the mapping rules and the assignment to the luminaires is changeably stored, and wherein the luminaires only produce radiating light which does not contribute to the image content which is produced solely by the projectors.

2. The lighting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to assign at least one of the lighting parameters using the currently depicted image content and to actuate the luminaires in question with the current lighting parameter.

3. The lighting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the content portions is generated by a light source during operation, and the control unit has an interface to the light source in order to receive the image content from the light source.

4. The lighting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the surface portions is a section of the surface of the passenger cabin that is illuminated by a dedicated projector as a light source.

5. The lighting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the surface portions is a surface of a screen as light source.

6. The lighting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation region has a rectangular shape.

7. The lighting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the lighting parameter is a brightness (H) and/or a colour coordinate (F) of the light radiated by the luminaire during operation.

8. The lighting arrangement according to claim 7, wherein the value of the lighting parameter, brightness (H), is the average of all of the brightnesses (H) in the evaluation region and/or the value of the lighting parameter, colour coordinate (F), is the value of the centre point of all of the colour coordinates (F) in the evaluation region.

9. The lighting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the lighting environment is the display surface itself and/or the lighting environment is a region directly adjoining the display surface and/or a distance range of at most two metres from the display surface.

10. The lighting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the image content is a panoramic image and the respective content portion is a section of the panoramic image.

11. A passenger cabin, having the lighting arrangement according to claim 1 and having the display surface, wherein the luminaires are arranged in the lighting environment of the display surface.

12. A method for actuating at least two luminaires of a passenger cabin of an aircraft having a display surface on which image content is depicted, wherein the display surface has at least two surface portions and a respective content portion of the image content is depicted on each of the surface portions, wherein the luminaires are arranged in a lighting environment of the display surface, wherein the method is performed using a passenger cabin according to claim 11.

13. A method for actuating at least two luminaires of a passenger cabin of an aircraft having a display surface on which image content is depicted, wherein the display surface has at least two surface portions and a respective content portion of the image content is depicted on each of the surface portions, wherein the luminaires are arranged in a lighting environment of the display surface, wherein the method is performed using a lighting apparatus according to claim 1.

14. The lighting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to assign at least one of the lighting parameters using defined image content and to actuate the luminaires in question with the corresponding lighting parameter.

15. A method for actuating at least two luminaires of a passenger cabin of an aircraft having a display surface on which image content is depicted, wherein the display surface has at least two surface portions and a respective content portion of the image content is depicted on each of the surface portions, wherein the luminaires are arranged in the same lighting environment of the display surface and wherein said content portions of the image are generated solely by projectors, wherein the luminaires radiate light separate and distinct from the image content and radiating light of the display surface produced solely by the projectors and, in accordance with at least one changeable lighting parameter, in which: each of the luminaires is assigned at least part of the display surface as an evaluation region, wherein each of the luminaires is assigned a mapping rule, wherein the mapping rule assigns an image content of the evaluation region as a value of the lighting parameter, wherein for each of the luminaires, the image content of the evaluation region is assigned values of the lighting parameters using the mapping rule, and actuating each of the luminaires with the values of the assigned lighting parameters and controlling and harmonizing the radiating light of the luminaire with the radiating light of the display surface being radiated by the respective content portions of the image content produced solely by the projectors, thereby controlling and harmonizing the lighting of the luminaires with the image of the display, which display image is produced solely by the projectors, wherein the image content provided by the projectors is independent of the lighting of the luminaires, wherein at least one of the evaluation regions is placed freely in the display surface to evaluate only the image content produced by the projectors and the control unit includes a configuration database in which the at least one evaluation region, the mapping rules and the assignment to the luminaires is changeably stored, and wherein the luminaires only produce radiating light which does not contribute to the image content which is produced solely by the projectors.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) Further features, effects and advantages of the invention become apparent from the following description of one preferred exemplary embodiment of the invention and the appended figures. In the figures, in each case in a schematic diagram:

(2) FIG. 1 shows a passenger cabin of an aircraft having a display surface and luminaires in a perspective illustration,

(3) FIG. 2 shows a lighting arrangement according to the invention in a basic overview,

(4) FIG. 3 shows part of an alternative lighting arrangement according to the invention in a basic overview.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

(5) FIG. 1 shows a cutout of a passenger cabin 2 of an aircraft, not shown in more detail, namely essentially its ceiling region with ceiling panels 4 and luggage compartments 6. Luminaires 8 (here strip luminaires) in the form of cabin lighting or ceiling lighting are in each case arranged between the panels 4 and the luggage compartments 6 (indirectly, therefore not directly visible in FIG. 1). Some of the panels 4 in this case form a display surface 10 on which image content 12, here a panoramic image of a cloudy sky, is currently being displayed.

(6) The display surface 10 in this case has three surface portions 14a-c, which each depict a content portion 16a-c of the image content 12. Each of the content portions 16a-c is generated by one of three projectors, not visible in FIG. 1. The surface portions 14a-c are thus respective sections of the surface of the passenger cabin 2 (of the panels 4) that are illuminated by in each case one of the projectors in order to display the respective content portion 16a-c.

(7) The luminaires 8 are positioned in a lighting environment 18 of the display surface 10. The lighting environment 18 is in this case that region at a maximum distance of 30 cm from the display surface 10 and indicated by a dashed line.

(8) The luminaires 8 are part of a lighting arrangement 20 and emit light 22 (indicated symbolically here only by an arrow) during active operation.

(9) FIG. 2 symbolically shows the lighting arrangement 20 for the passenger cabin 2 from FIG. 1 in detail. The passenger cabin 2 has, as explained above, the display surface 10 with the surface portions 14a-c, on which the content portions 16a-c are depicted, which combine to form the image content 12. The lighting arrangement 20 additionally comprises a total of twenty-four luminaires 8 that are grouped into respective groups of four, wherein in each case three groups of four form one of the two strip luminaires indicated in FIG. 1. The luminaires 8 are all situated in the lighting environment 18 of the display surface 10. Each of the luminaires 8 in each case radiates light 22 (again depicted symbolically here by an arrow) during active operation. The light 22 in this case has lighting parameters 24, here a particular brightness H and a colour in the form of a colour coordinate F.

(10) The lighting arrangement 20 additionally contains a control unit 26. In the control unit 26, each of the luminaires 8 is assigned part of the display surface 10 as evaluation region 28. The assignment is indicated symbolically as a double-headed arrow in FIG. 2. In the control unit 26, each of the luminaires 8 is additionally assigned a mapping rule 30. The mapping rule 30 assigns image content 12 (the portion thereof) in the respective evaluation region 28 of the respective luminaire 8 a value of the respective lighting parameters 24 for the respective luminaire 8. In the example, a value for the brightness H and a value for the colour coordinate F is therefore assigned to each individual luminaire 8. For the sake of clarity, this is illustrated explicitly for just a single luminaire.

(11) The control unit 26 performs the corresponding assignment, and thus determines, in the example, for each luminaire 8, its values for the brightness H and the colour coordinate F, and actuates the respective luminaire 8 with the corresponding values in terms of brightness H and colour coordinate F.

(12) The assignment between luminaire 8 and evaluation region 28 is able to be defined freely in this case. The evaluation regions 28 are able to be defined freely in terms of number, aspect ratio, size and position. The evaluation algorithm (mapping rule 30) is able to be defined freely. In the example, the centre point of the colour coordinate in the evaluation region 28 is determined as value of the colour coordinate F. The average brightness in the evaluation region 28 is determined as value for the brightness H. The arrangement of the lighting elements (both of the display surface 10 and of the luminaires 8) is independent of the arrangement of the projected images, since an assignment takes place. The lighting parameters 24 may selectively be determined in real time or through calculation in advance. The lighting arrangement 20 is able to be scaled with respect to the projection surfaces, that is to say to the display surfaces 10, to the evaluation regions 28 and to the actuated luminaires 8.

(13) The content portions 16a-c are generated in the example by in each case one light source 32, here a respective projector, per surface portion 14a-c. To determine or to receive the image content 12 (or the respective portions of the overall image content 12) within the evaluation regions 28, the control unit 26 has an interface 34 to the light sources 32.

(14) The evaluation regions 28 (or their size, position, etc.), the mapping rules 30 for all of the luminaires 8 and the respective assignments of these elements to the luminaires 8 are stored in a configuration database 36 (indicated by a dashed frame) of the control unit 26.

(15) FIG. 3 once again shows the lighting arrangement 20 from FIG. 2, the control unit 26 being omitted for the sake of simplicity. In this case, the surface portions 14a-c are configured in an alternative design as three surfaces of three screens as a respective light source 32. Applied to FIG. 1, three screens are thus recessed into the panels 4 as light sources 32, whose surfaces form the surface portions 14a-c. The content portions 16a-c are the image information depicted on the screens.

(16) In this case, the “lighting elements” in the form of the groups of four luminaires 8 do not correspond to the surface portions 14a-c, as is the case in FIG. 2.

(17) In FIG. 3, in addition to the twenty-four luminaires 8 of the lighting arrangement 20, which are thus arranged in alternative groups of four here, a further eight luminaires 8 are also provided, which thus form “protruding” lighting elements (illustrated by dashed frames). These may be controlled independently of the luminaires 8 of the lighting arrangement 20, and thus independently of the image content 12.

LIST OF REFERENCE SIGNS

(18) 2 Passenger cabin 4 Panel 6 Luggage compartment 8 Luminaire 10 Display surface 12 Image content 14a-c Surface portion 16a-c Content portion 18 Lighting environment 20 Lighting arrangement 22 Light 24 Lighting parameter 26 Control unit 28 Evaluation region 30 Mapping rule 32 Light source 34 Interface 36 Configuration database H Brightness F Colour coordinate