Display-Synced Lighting Control for Immersive Scene Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing lighting apparatuses lack the ability to automatically adjust light emission based on environmental changes or content displayed on a connected display device, failing to create immersive and atmosphere-enhancing lighting experiences.

Innovation Solution

A lighting apparatus equipped with a processor that communicates with a display device to determine and adjust light color and brightness based on the content's scene, using image processing and index information to synchronize lighting with the display's content, including control over multiple light sources and gradation adjustments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional lighting apparatuses operate based on passive user input only, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to environmental changes deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadaptability to environmental changesVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The lighting apparatus receives information about the displayed content from the display device and uses this feedback to automatically adjust its light emission characteristics, creating a closed-loop system that adapts to environmental changes without requiring complex manual controls

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs automatic scene analysis and lighting adjustment without requiring user intervention. The processor autonomously determines scene characteristics and controls the lighting module to match the displayed content, enabling the device to serve itself in adapting to environmental conditions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If lighting apparatus does not automatically adjust light color and brightness, then ease of operation is improved, but immersive atmosphere creation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimmersive atmosphere creationVSAvoidease of operation

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The processor acts as an intermediary that communicates with the display device to obtain content information and translates this information into appropriate lighting adjustments, enabling automatic immersive atmosphere creation without requiring direct user operation of the lighting controls

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If lighting apparatus performs detailed image processing to determine scene color and brightness, then measurement precision is improved, but use of energy deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescene color and brightness determination precisionVSAvoidenergy consumption for image processing

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs image processing selectively - it processes image data to determine scene characteristics when content is being displayed, rather than continuously processing all incoming data. This partial action approach achieves sufficient measurement precision for lighting control while reducing overall energy consumption compared to constant full-scale image processing

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12628256B2Lighting appartus and method of controlling the same

Publication Date: 2026.05.12 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A lighting apparatus including a lighting module configured to emit light; and at least one processor configured to determine a color and a brightness of a current scene of content displayed on a display apparatus, and to control the lighting module to emit, in a space in which the display apparatus is located, light with a color and brightness corresponding to the determined color and brightness of the current scene of the content.