Content-Aware Environmental Lighting Behind Video Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video display devices lack the ability to intelligently control environmental lighting to enhance the presentation of content items, failing to leverage image and audio recognition to provide immersive and informative lighting effects.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that controls environmental lighting based on image and audio recognition, using triggers such as object, facial, and sound patterns to enhance visual and emotional effects, provide warnings, and assist in parental control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If video display devices provide environmental illumination to shine light on a wall behind the television, then the visual presentation is enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions (image recognition, audio recognition, lighting control) into an integrated system that operates through a unified control mechanism. The system merges content analysis with environmental lighting control, allowing the video display device to automatically adjust lighting based on recognized objects, scenes, and audio elements without requiring separate complex control systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The environmental lighting system is designed to perform multiple functions: enhancing visual presentation, providing contextual information about content, supporting parental control through content awareness, and creating immersive experiences. This multi-functional approach allows a single lighting system to replace what would otherwise require multiple separate features or devices.
2Illumination intensity
If the system uses image and audio recognition to control environmental lighting, then the visual and emotional effects are enhanced, but the use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs periodic scanning and recognition of image and audio content at strategically determined intervals rather than continuous monitoring. The control system activates lighting effects at specific moments when content changes or reaches significant points, creating a rhythmic pattern of analysis and action that reduces overall energy consumption while maintaining effective visual and emotional enhancement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts lighting parameters (intensity, color, duration) based on the recognized content characteristics. By changing lighting parameters to match the emotional tone and visual content, the system achieves enhanced visual and emotional effects with optimized energy usage - brighter lighting only when content warrants it, dimmer or off when content is less demanding.
3Adaptability or versatility
If environmental lighting provides warnings of upcoming images and sounds, then parental control is improved, but the loss of information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of upcoming content through image and audio recognition to predict future scenes and potential parental control needs. By recognizing patterns and elements in advance, the system can provide early warnings about upcoming content (such as violent scenes, inappropriate material, or age-restricted content) before the actual content appears, allowing parents to take preventive action without missing any information about what is being watched.
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AI summary
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for intelligent control of video display backlighting that provides environmental lighting illumination of an area behind a video display device, such as on a wall behind a video display. The environmental lighting illumination may be based on recognizing images (e.g., objects, patterns, faces, colors, etc.) in video content being displayed via the video display device, recognizing audio (e.g., words, sounds, voices, etc.) in audio content being output in association with video content being displayed via the video display device, and/or recognizing other triggers such as commands associated with video content.