Color Disc Control for Precise Multi-Light Color Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart terminal technologies are inefficient in controlling multiple lighting devices, requiring manual adjustment of brightness and color for each device, and lack a user-friendly interface for professional users aiming to create precise color effects.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that generate a color disc using initial color points, allowing for efficient configuration of lighting devices by obtaining and processing hue, saturation, and color temperature parameters to produce a color disc with multiple color points, enabling direct color adjustment across multiple devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual parameter adjustment is used for each lighting device, then individual device control is achieved, but control efficiency deteriorates when multiple devices are involved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple lighting devices into a single control group managed by a smart terminal. The control system integrates device management, color disc generation, and parameter adjustment into one unified interface, allowing simultaneous control of multiple devices without manual individual adjustment, thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart terminal is designed with multi-functional capabilities including device pairing, color disc generation, color point selection, and simultaneous parameter adjustment across multiple lighting devices. This universal control system eliminates the need for separate control operations for each device, improving control efficiency while reducing adjustment time.
2Ease of operation
If traditional operation interface is used, then basic control is available, but professional users requiring precise color control find it difficult to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the color configuration process into distinct functional modules: color disc generation, initial color point selection, color point adjustment, and parameter application. Each module presents specialized controls appropriate to its function, allowing professional users to access precise color control tools while maintaining an organized, manageable interface structure that doesn't overwhelm the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating a color disc with multiple pre-calculated color points covering the desired color range. This preliminary color disc serves as a foundation that professional users can then refine by selecting and adjusting specific color points, combining automated preparation with manual precision control in a user-friendly workflow.
3Productivity
If automated color disc generation is implemented, then control efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The smart terminal performs self-service by automatically generating the color disc with multiple color points based on user-selected parameters. The system autonomously calculates color coordinates, generates the visual color disc interface, and prepares color point data for selection, eliminating the need for manual computation or complex external tools while maintaining high configuration efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The color disc serves as an intermediary visual interface between the user's high-level color selection intent and the low-level device control parameters. It translates abstract color choices into concrete color point coordinates that can be applied to lighting devices, simplifying the user interaction model while enabling precise control without exposing the underlying system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of configuring a color to be displayed by a lighting device includes: in response to determining that a target color disc mode of a plurality of preset color disc modes is set by a user, obtaining one or more initial color points according to a preset color point selection strategy for the target color disc mode; generating a color disc based on the one or more initial color points, wherein the color disc comprises a plurality of color points, and each of the plurality of color points corresponds to a color; and performing color configuring on the lighting device by using the plurality of color points included in the color disc.