Adaptive Lighting Management for User Vision Profiles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for managing lighting in visual examination processes cause user fatigue, leading to potential errors due to inadequate lighting adaptation to individual visual perception and task requirements.

Innovation Solution

A dynamic and automatic lighting management method using a main and secondary lighting device with electroluminescent elements, controlled by a processing unit that adjusts lighting properties based on user vision profiles and object characteristics, including light spectrum, intensity, orientation, and diffusion, and re-evaluates for fatigue and visual difficulties.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional lighting control methods are used to ensure adapted lighting of the zone of interest, then the lighting can be adjusted to some extent, but the lighting does not adapt precisely to individual visual perception and task requirements, causing user fatigue and loss of concentration

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelighting adaptation to visual perceptionVSAvoiduser concentration and error risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The lighting system dynamically adjusts lighting properties (intensity, spectrum, orientation) in real-time based on user vision profiles and detected task requirements, transforming static conventional lighting into an adaptive system that responds to individual user needs and prevents fatigue

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that monitor user visual perception characteristics and task demands, then automatically adjust lighting parameters to maintain optimal viewing conditions, creating a closed-loop control system that prevents user fatigue and concentration loss

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If the lighting system is made more complex to adapt to individual visual perception profiles and task requirements, then lighting precision and user comfort improve, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelighting configuration precisionVSAvoidlighting control system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The lighting system automatically configures and adjusts itself based on pre-stored vision profiles and real-time task analysis, eliminating the need for manual intervention and reducing operational complexity while maintaining high precision lighting adaptation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

User vision profiles and lighting preferences are pre-configured and stored in the system database before actual use, allowing the system to quickly retrieve and apply appropriate settings without complex real-time decision-making, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The solution effectively adapts lighting to enhance user concentration and accuracy by optimizing lighting conditions according to individual visual perception and task demands, reducing fatigue and error risks.

Implementation Method 1

a main lighting device and a secondary lighting device both provided with electroluminescent elements

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectroluminescence: Electroluminescence

Data Source

PatentUS11219110B2System and method for managing a lighting of a zone of interest comprising at least one object liable to be manipulated by a user
Publication Date: 2022.01.04 ETA SA MFG HORLOGERE SUISSE
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AI summary

A method for managing a lighting of a zone of interest including at least one object liable to be manipulated by a user, the lighting being carried out by a main lighting device and a secondary lighting device both provided with electroluminescent elements, the method including identifying the user and/or the object; configuring the lighting of the zone of interest according to the profile of the identified user relative to vision and/or at least one characteristic of the identified object, the step including generating an instruction for controlling the lighting properties of the main lighting device and/or of the secondary lighting device according to criteria of visual perception of the object by the user; controlling the main lighting device and/or the secondary lighting device according to the instruction for controlling the lighting properties.