Color Picking Device Aperture Ambient Light Shielding

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing color lighting devices struggle to accurately match the lighting environment due to complex and vulnerable color picking devices that are easily influenced by ambient light, resulting in monotonous light emission.

Innovation Solution

A color picking device with a simple structure integrating a light emitting module and a color receiving module, featuring a reflective cup for focused light distribution, a convex lens for parallel light entry, an aperture for ambient light shielding, and multiple convex lenses for aberration correction, ensuring accurate color acquisition.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If complex color picking devices are used to acquire color information, then color acquisition capability is improved, but device complexity increases and reliability decreases due to vulnerability to ambient light

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor acquisition accuracyVSAvoidcolor picking device structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The color picking device is segmented into distinct functional modules: light emitting module, color receiving module, lens assembly, and aperture. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function optimally while simplifying the overall structure and improving reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an aperture as an intermediary element between the lens assembly and the color receiving module. This aperture acts as a spatial filter that blocks ambient light while allowing reflected light from the target object to pass through, thereby improving color acquisition accuracy without complicating the device structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If color picking devices are equipped to acquire external object color, then lighting device adaptability is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates due to ambient light interference

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelighting environment matchingVSAvoidacquired color accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The aperture serves as a spatial filter that selectively transmits light from the target object while blocking ambient light from surrounding areas. This intermediary element ensures that the color receiving module only detects reflected light from the illuminated surface, maintaining high measurement precision while enabling adaptability to different lighting environments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The light emitting module directs light locally onto the target object surface, and the aperture creates a localized field of view for the color receiving module. This local quality approach ensures that color acquisition is performed on a specific illuminated area, preventing ambient light from other regions from interfering with the measurement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Device complexity

If simple color picking device structure is used, then device complexity is reduced, but measurement precision worsens due to inability to shield ambient light

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor picking device structureVSAvoidcolor acquisition accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The aperture is a simple structural element that acts as an effective intermediary to block ambient light. Despite its simplicity, it provides precise spatial filtering that maintains high measurement precision while keeping the overall device structure simple and reliable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces complex mechanical light shielding systems with a simple aperture structure combined with optical focusing. This substitution achieves the same ambient light rejection function with much simpler mechanics, maintaining measurement precision without increasing device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

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 device effectively acquires the color of illuminated objects with high resolution and precision, eliminating distortion from ambient light, allowing for dynamic color adjustment of lighting devices to match the environment.

Implementation Method 1

the first convex lens focuses the light being diffusely reflected by the target object and then entering the color receiving module into parallel light

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight focusing: Lens

Implementation Method 2

the aperture shields the interference of surrounding ambient light

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight blocking: Filter (optical)

Implementation Method 3

the concave lens diffuses the light to eliminate the aberration

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight diffusion: Lens

Implementation Method 4

the second convex lens focuses the light to make the light incident on the sensing element

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight focusing: Lens

Implementation Method 5

a reflective cup for focused light distribution

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight reflection: Reflection

Data Source

PatentEP3572716B1Color acquisition apparatus and remote control capable of color acquisition
Publication Date: 2023.08.23 OPPLE LIGHTING CO LTD
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AI summary

A color picking device (100) and a color picking remote controller are provided. The color picking device (100) is configured to acquire a color of a target object, which includes: a substrate (1); a light emitting module (2), configured to emit white light toward the target object, the light emitting module (2) including a light source (21) and a light distribution element (22) configured to collect light emitted by the light source (21), the light source (21) being located on the substrate (1); a color receiving module (3) disposed on the substrate (1), configured to receive light reflected by the target object and having the color of the target object after the target object being illuminated by the white light, the color receiving module (3) including a first housing (31), a lens assembly (33) disposed in the first housing (31) for light distribution and a sensing element (34) for receiving light color, the sensing element (34) being located on the substrate (1), the lens assembly (33) including a first convex lens (331), an aperture (332), a concave lens (333) and a second convex lens (334) coaxially arranged from top to bottom along a top of the first housing (31). The color picking device has a simple structure and can acquire a color of an illuminated object accurately.