Dynamic Lighting Controller with Graphical Image Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting technologies lack a user-friendly interface for creating dynamic light effects, which involve changing light settings over time, whereas users desire to create both dynamic and static lighting scenarios using controllable lighting devices.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and controller that render a graphical representation of lighting devices within an image, allowing users to input commands for movement, color changes, and adjustments, generating lighting control commands to control the lighting devices based on pixel color information, enabling the creation of dynamic light effects through user input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a user interface allows selection of color from an image for static lighting, then color accuracy is improved, but the ability to create dynamic light effects deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the static color selection interface into a dynamic one by enabling the graphical representation to move across the image. The lighting device transitions from static color output to dynamic light effects that change over time as the graphical representation traverses different positions, each associated with different color information from the image.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-processes the image to associate color information with multiple positions before the user interaction. When the user activates movement, the lighting device already has a pathway of color information ready to follow, enabling seamless dynamic transitions without real-time processing delays.
2Ease of operation
If the graphical representation moves autonomously across the image, then ease of operation is improved, but control precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides visual feedback by displaying the movement of the graphical representation across the image on the user interface. This allows users to monitor the autonomous movement and understand the corresponding lighting changes in real-time, maintaining control precision through visual confirmation while keeping operation simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The graphical representation autonomously moves across the image without requiring continuous user input for positioning. The system self-manages the traversal path and timing, reducing operational complexity while maintaining precise control through pre-defined position-color associations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system supports multiple images and adjustments, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting device is designed to handle multiple images and various adjustment parameters through a unified interface framework. The same graphical representation and movement mechanism work across different images and adjustment scenarios, providing versatile functionality without proportionally increasing interface complexity.
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AI summary
A controller (100) for creating a dynamic light effect and controlling a lighting device (120) according to the dynamic light effect, the controller comprising:a user interface (104) for receiving user input,a display unit (108),a processor (106) for rendering, on the display unit (108), a graphical representation of the lighting device in an area of an image at a first position, the first position being associated with first color information, and for setting, upon receiving a first user input via the user interface (104), the graphical representation in a first state, wherein the graphical representation moves across the area of the image from the first position to a plurality of subsequent positions over a period of time, the plurality of subsequent positions being associated with subsequent color information, and for generating one or more lighting control commands (110) based on the first color information and the subsequent color information, anda communication unit (102) for communicating the generated one or more lighting control commands (110) to the lighting device (120), so as to control the light output of the lighting device (120) according to the first color information and the subsequent color information subsequently over the period of time. A corresponding computer implemented method for for creating a dynamic light effect is also claimed.