Lighting arrangement
View Patent ↗The present disclosure relates to a lighting arrangement, which comprises at least one light source, with at least one camera and a control system, wherein the colour and/or colour temperature of the light source is variable and the camera records images of a region illuminated by the light source. According to the disclosure, the control system controls the lighting arrangement such that the light source illuminates the illuminated region successively with light of a different colour and/or colour temperature, wherein the control system separately evaluates and/or outputs a first image recorded in a first colour and/or colour temperature of the lighting.
1 . A lighting arrangement, which comprises at least one light source, with at least one camera and a control system, wherein the color and/or color temperature of the light source is variable and the camera records images of a region illuminated by the light source, wherein the control system controls the lighting arrangement such that the light source illuminates the illuminated region successively with light of a different color and/or color temperature, wherein the control system separately evaluates and/or outputs at least a first image recorded in a first color and/or color temperature of the lighting, wherein the light source is controlled in one operating mode such that the light source illuminates the region with a main lighting color and/or color temperature and switches from this main lighting color and/or color temperature for a period of time to the first color and/or color temperature, and wherein during this period of time at least one image is recorded in a color and/or color temperature other than the main lighting color and/or color temperature, including in the first color and/or color temperature, and the at least one image is evaluated and displayed separately.
2 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the control system controls the light source in at least one operating mode in such a way that the change in the color and/or color temperature takes place so quickly that this is not perceptible for the human eye when looking directly at the illuminated region.
3 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein a main lighting color and/or color temperature, which is perceptible for the human eye and with which the light source illuminates the region, can be set manually.
4 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the light source is an LED light source, wherein the LEDs of the LED light source are operated in a pulsed manner by means of the control system.
5 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein the control system controls the lighting arrangement in at least one operating mode such that during the recording of the image, the color and/or color temperature of the pulses does not change and/or that the pulses occurring during the recording of an image yield a desired color and/or color temperature on average.
6 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the control system controls the lighting arrangement in at least one operating mode such that illumination takes place successively with a plurality of different colors and/or color temperatures, wherein the control system separately evaluates and/or outputs several images recorded in respectively different and/or color temperatures of the lighting.
7 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 6 , wherein a switch takes place in each case from a main lighting color and/or color temperature to one of the different colors and/or color temperatures and back again.
8 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein in one operating mode, an image is presented on a display of the lighting arrangement, which image shows the illuminated region in a color and/or color temperature of the lighting other than the color and/or color temperature of the light source, which is perceptible during the presentation of the image when looking directly at the illuminated region.
9 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein in one operating mode, several images are presented on a display of the lighting arrangement, which images show the illuminated region in a respectively different color and/or color temperature of the lighting, and/or wherein in one operating mode at least one image is presented on the display, which image shows the illuminated region in illumination that is changing in its color and/or color temperature.
10 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 9 , wherein the lighting arrangement is controlled such that in the event of a change in a color and/or a color temperature of the lighting of an image presented on the display, a color and/or color temperature of the lighting perceived when looking directly at the illuminated region does not change and/or at least another image presented on the display reproduces the region with illumination of which the color and/or color temperature does not change.
11 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein a desired main lighting color and/or color temperature with which the light source illuminates the region in normal operation can be set by an operator on the basis of images displayable on a display with a respectively different color and/or color temperature of the lighting.
12 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 11 , wherein the separately output and/or evaluated image is updated continuously and/or is updated at points in time predetermined by the control system and/or is produced and/or updated on the basis of a signal produced by a manual input of an operator.
13 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein an evaluation of recorded images in at least one operating mode takes place by means of the control system such that information from at least two of the images recorded in illuminations of a different color and/or color temperature are integrated into a resulting image.
14 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the resulting image is presented on a display and/or wherein the evaluation of the images is carried out by means of structure detection.
15 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one camera is a 2D camera for recording a 2D image of the illuminated region, and/or wherein the at least one camera is a 3D camera for recording a 3D image of the illuminated region.
16 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one light source is at least one surgical lamp or at least one endoscopy light source.
17 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 16 , wherein the lighting arrangement has at least one operating mode, in which images recorded by means of an endoscopy camera of a region illuminated by means of the endoscopy light source can be presented on a display by means of the control system, wherein individual images of the endoscopy camera recorded in a respectively different color and/or color temperature can be integrated into one another by means of the control system in a resulting image.
18 . The lighting arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the period of time is so short that on direct observation of the illuminated region, a perceived color and/or color temperature does not change due to the switch and is less than 200 ms.
19 . A method for operating a lighting arrangement, wherein the lighting arrangement comprises at least one light source, at least one camera and a control system, wherein the method comprises changing the color and/or color temperature of the light source and comprises the recording of images of a region illuminated by the light source by means of the camera, wherein the method comprises the following steps:
control of the lighting arrangement by means of the control system so that the light source illuminates the illuminated region successively with light of a different color and/or color temperature, including a main lighting color and/or color temperature and a first color and/or color temperature; and
separate evaluation and/or outputting of at least a first image recorded in a first color and/or color temperature of the lighting, wherein the first image is recorded in a color and/or color temperature other than the main lighting color and/or color temperature.
20 . A software with commands for executing a method according to claim 19 and/or a software of the lighting arrangement of claim 14 with commands for integrating information from at least two images recorded in illuminations of a different color and/or color temperature into a resulting image.