Dynamic Lighting Control for Sensitivity Zones
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Solution Overview
Problem
Certain dynamic lighting patterns can cause discomfort or harm to individuals, such as triggering motion sickness or epilepsy, and there is a need to mitigate these effects while allowing others to fully experience the lighting effects.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for controlling illumination that involves obtaining information about dynamic lighting effects, determining a modifying lighting pattern to attenuate specific light variation characteristics, and selectively outputting this pattern to target areas using a combination of light outputs from luminaires, allowing for reduced exposure to certain light effects for sensitive individuals while maintaining the full experience for others.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If dynamic lighting effects are applied to create engaging experiences, then the entertainment value and visual impact are improved, but certain individuals may experience discomfort or harm such as motion sickness or epilepsy triggers
Solution Approach 1:
The control area is divided into multiple target portions, with each portion receiving customized lighting treatment. The system segments the audience area into zones based on sensitivity information, allowing different lighting patterns to be applied to different segments simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
Different lighting characteristics are applied to different spatial locations within the control area. Sensitive individuals receive attenuated lighting with reduced light variation characteristics, while other areas maintain full dynamic lighting effects, creating local quality differences based on viewer sensitivity.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If lighting patterns are modified to reduce light variation characteristics for sensitive individuals, then the adverse effects are attenuated, but the full lighting experience is lost for those individuals
Solution Approach 1:
The system obtains sensitivity information about individuals before applying lighting effects, allowing preliminary classification of audience members. This enables the system to pre-determine which individuals need attenuated lighting and apply appropriate modifications in advance, ensuring they still experience the lighting show without adverse effects.
Solution Approach 2:
A control system acts as an intermediary between the dynamic lighting effects and the audience. This intermediary processes lighting control signals, analyzes sensitivity information, and selectively modifies lighting patterns for specific target portions, mediating between the full lighting experience and the needs of sensitive individuals.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If selective lighting control is implemented for different target portions, then individual needs are accommodated, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting control system dynamically adjusts lighting patterns based on real-time or pre-obtained sensitivity information. The system can change which target portions receive attenuated lighting and modify light variation characteristics dynamically, allowing flexible adaptation to different audience compositions without requiring fixed infrastructure changes.
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AI summary
A method and apparatus for modifying a dynamic lighting effect, where that effect is considered or deemed unfavourable, by obtaining information of the dynamic lighting effect for at least part of a an area illuminated by said effect; determining, based on the obtained information, a modifying lighting pattern to modify the effect of said dynamic lighting, and controlling one or more luminaires to output the modifying lighting pattern selectively to a target portion of the illuminated area.