Interactive Vase Lighting With Flower Color Synchronization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional decorative devices fail to dynamically change their color in response to the color of flowers placed in them, limiting their ability to enhance the aesthetic effect of flower arrangements and provide interactive spatial decoration.

Innovation Solution

A vase-shaped device equipped with a color sensor, light-emitting devices, and a control processing unit that detects the flower's color and adjusts the lighting output accordingly, while a light wall sculpture receives and responds to these color signals to synchronize its lighting with the vase, creating a dynamic and interactive flower arrangement display.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional decorative devices use fixed lighting, then the device structure is simple, but the aesthetic effect cannot dynamically adapt to flower colors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaesthetic adaptability to flower colorVSAvoiddevice structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses a color sensor to detect the flower's color and feeds this information back to the control unit, which then adjusts the LED lighting accordingly. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables the decorative device to dynamically adapt to different flower colors while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces complex mechanical adjustment mechanisms with electronic sensing and control systems. The color sensor and microcontroller automatically adjust the lighting parameters based on detected flower color, eliminating the need for manual mechanical adjustment while achieving adaptive aesthetic effects.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a color sensor and control system are added to detect flower color, then the aesthetic effect is enhanced, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor detection and synchronization capabilityVSAvoidcomponent quantity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control unit serves multiple functions: it processes color sensor data, controls the LED lighting parameters, and coordinates with the light wall sculpture. By making the control unit multi-functional, the patent reduces the need for separate dedicated components for each function, thereby enhancing color detection capability while limiting the increase in overall device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines the color sensor, control unit, and LED lighting system into an integrated decorative device. The control unit merges the functions of signal processing, color analysis, and lighting control, while the light wall sculpture is coordinated with the vase device through unified control, reducing the need for separate complex systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Illumination intensity

If real-time color synchronization is implemented between vase and light wall, then the spatial decoration effect is enhanced, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor synchronization effectVSAvoidsystem integration
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control unit acts as an intermediary between the color sensor and the LED lighting system, processing the color information and generating appropriate control signals. This intermediary function simplifies the system integration by providing a centralized control point that coordinates all components, enabling real-time color synchronization between the vase device and light wall sculpture without requiring complex direct connections between all components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

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

The solution enables real-time color synchronization between the vase and the light wall, enhancing the aesthetic appeal of flower arrangements by dynamically reflecting the flower's color, thereby creating an immersive and interactive spatial decoration experience.

Implementation Method 1

a color sensor configured to obtain data on a color of the flower by using light emitted by the first light-emitting device and reflected from the flower

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight reflection: Reflection

Implementation Method 2

a first light-emitting device configured to illuminate a flower put in the vase-shaped device

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight emission: Light Emitting Diode

Data Source

PatentUS8884528B2Vase-shaped device, light wall device, and system
Publication Date: 2014.11.11 MUROMURA SACHIKO
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AI summary

An objective is to provide a vase-shaped device, a light wall device, and a system which accentuate the beauty of flowers by implementing “interactive flower arrangement” in which the color of the vase-shaped device and that of a space around the vase-shaped device change according to the color of the arranged flowers so as to entertain users. To achieve the above objective, provided is a vase-shaped device including light-emitting devices as an output unit configured to output a signal as controlled.