Elastic Lamp with Color Detection and Self-Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional mood lights have limited color options and require complex control systems, making it difficult for users to create desired atmospheres and often restrict the choice of color, leading to increased time and cost in setup and operation.
Innovation Solution
An elastic lamp with a color detecting unit and light emitting unit, integrated into a deformable body, allowing users to intuitively change the color to match the environment or object by pressing the lamp, which includes a processing unit, switch, and optional wireless transmission for synchronizing color with other lamps.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If a complex control system is used to enable mood lights to actively detect and adjust colors, then the lamp can independently determine and adjust light color, but the device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mood light performs self-detection of ambient color and self-adjustment of emitted light color without requiring external control signals. The control unit automatically activates the color detecting unit and adjusts the light emitting unit based on detected color information, enabling the lamp to serve itself and eliminate the need for complex centralized control systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical control systems with electronic detection and control mechanisms. The color detecting unit uses optical sensors to detect ambient color, and the control unit processes this information electronically to adjust the light emitting unit, substituting mechanical control with electronic fields and signals.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple lamps are used to create desired atmosphere, then more color options are available, but the time and cost for setup and configuration increase
Solution Approach 1:
Each mood light independently detects ambient color and adjusts its own emitted color without requiring manual configuration or synchronization with other lamps. This self-service capability eliminates the time-consuming process of configuring multiple lamps, as each unit autonomously adapts to the environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the lighting system into independent, autonomous units, each capable of independent color detection and adjustment. This segmentation allows multiple lamps to operate independently without requiring centralized control or coordination, reducing setup time while maintaining color variety.
3Ease of operation
If conventional mood lights with fixed color options are used, then the control system is simpler, but the user cannot achieve desired color matching with the environment
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit continuously monitors the ambient environment through the color detecting unit and automatically adjusts the light emitting unit's color output based on detected color information. This feedback mechanism enables intuitive operation where the lamp automatically matches the environment without requiring user input or complex control interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The mood light autonomously performs color detection and adjustment without requiring user intervention. The control unit automatically activates detection, processes color information, and adjusts the light output, making the operation intuitive and eliminating the need for complex user interfaces or manual color selection.
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
Enables independent operation of mood lights to adjust colors actively, reducing the need for complex control systems, saving costs and providing a user-friendly, intuitive method to match light colors with environments or objects, and simplifying the setup process for multiple lamps.
Implementation Method 1
The material of the elastic body includes a foaming material, and the pores of the foaming material allow the light to pass through
Implementation Method 2
the processing unit enables the color detecting unit to detect a color of an object and thereby generates a color signal
Implementation Method 3
the light emitting unit includes a light-emitting diode (LED) and preferably, a red-green-blue (RGB) LED
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AI summary
An elastic lamp with variable colors (1) includes an elastic body (11), a switch (12), a processing unit (13), a color detecting unit (14), and a light emitting unit (15). The switch, the color detecting unit and the light emitting unit are coupled to the processing unit. The light emitting unit is disposed in the elastic body and can be controlled to emit lights with variable colors. When the switch is turned on based on the deformation of the elastic body, the processing unit enables the color detecting unit to detect the color of an object and thereby generates a color signal (SL). Based on the color signal, the processing unit enables the light emitting unit to emit a light corresponding to the color signal.