(57) Systems, methods, software, and data structures that provide dynamic ambient lighting
synchronized to a video program being watched in a premise are described herein. A
video program may be associated with a predefined lighting scheme that specifies or
identifies a time sequenced set of lighting effects (e.g., flashing police lights,
sunrise, explosion, etc.) that are to be performed by the dynamic ambient lighting
system time-synchronously with the video program. Components of the dynamic ambient
lighting system may extract the lighting scheme from video data, parse the lighting
scheme into individual lighting effects, and then control a single-color or multicolor
light source associated with each of a plurality of light channels (e.g., front right,
rear right, front left, rear left, center, and burst channel, among others) based
on time sequenced lighting primitives defined by each lighting effect. Light sources
may be wirelessly controlled, e.g., using an IEEE 802.15.4 or ZigBee-compliant wireless
system.
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