Gesture-Based Lighting Arrangement for Electronic Device Image Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices lack the capability to dynamically generate images based on user-defined lighting arrangements, limiting the application of image processing techniques in capturing and editing images.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device equipped with a touch display, memory, and processing circuitry that allows users to input gestures to modify images by identifying gesture shapes and positions, determining corresponding lighting information, and generating new images with applied lighting effects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If gesture-based lighting arrangement input is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that translates simple gesture inputs into complex lighting arrangement configurations. The processor acts as a mediator between the user's simple drawing gesture and the sophisticated lighting control system, automatically interpreting the gesture's spatial characteristics and mapping them to appropriate lighting parameters without requiring the user to directly configure complex settings.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service operation where the lighting arrangement configuration is automatically generated based on the gesture input. The processor autonomously analyzes the gesture shape, position, and spatial relationships to determine lighting parameters, eliminating the need for manual configuration of complex lighting settings while maintaining operational simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If dynamic lighting effect generation is implemented, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveadaptabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic lighting effect generation where the lighting arrangement is not fixed but adapts in real-time based on the user's gesture input. The system dynamically determines lighting parameters such as position, intensity, and configuration based on the spatial characteristics of the gesture, allowing the lighting effects to be flexible and adaptable to different user intentions without requiring pre-programmed fixed configurations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes lighting parameters dynamically based on gesture characteristics. The processor analyzes the gesture's spatial parameters (position, shape, size) and automatically adjusts corresponding lighting parameters (light position, intensity, distribution pattern), enabling versatile lighting effects through parameter transformation rather than through complex structural modifications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250130704A1Electronic device for generating image based on lighting arrangement and method thereof
Publication Date: 2025.04.24 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device disclosed herein may perform operations of: displaying a first image, receiving a gesture input to the first image, identifying a shape of the gesture input and a position on the first image of the gesture input, identifying, based on the gesture input, space information of the first image, determining, based on the space information, lighting information corresponding to the shape and position, and generating a second image by applying, based on the space information, the lighting information to the first image.