Keyboard Lighting Synchronization with GUI Cell Colors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Information handling systems lack a seamless method to reflect on-screen visuals onto hardware lighting, such as keyboard input devices, which can enhance user experience and interaction by synchronizing visual cues with lighting effects.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a color adjustment computing module that partitions graphical user interface images into cells, determines predominant colors for each cell, and adjusts the color output of an array of lights on a keyboard input device to match these colors, ensuring synchronization and enhancing visual feedback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the keyboard input device includes an array of lights for providing lighting effects, then the user experience and visual feedback are enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The array of lights is divided into multiple cells corresponding to different regions of the display device. Each cell can be independently controlled to reflect the predominant color of its corresponding display region, enabling synchronized lighting effects without requiring complete control of the entire light array at once
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the keyboard lighting array are assigned different lighting characteristics based on the display content. Each cell of lights corresponds to a specific cell of the display and reflects the predominant color of that region, creating localized visual feedback that matches the on-screen visuals
2Reliability
If the array of lights is partitioned into cells corresponding to display cells, then the synchronization between on-screen visuals and lighting is improved, but the control complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Both the display device and keyboard lighting array are segmented into corresponding cells. This segmentation enables a direct mapping between display regions and lighting regions, simplifying the synchronization process by maintaining a one-to-one correspondence between cells
Solution Approach 2:
The predominant color of each display cell is determined and used to adjust the color output of the corresponding lighting cell. This parameter-based approach allows for automatic synchronization by changing the lighting color parameter to match the display content without requiring complex control algorithms
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for providing, for display, an image on a GUI; partitioning the GUI into two or more cells, each cell of the GUI corresponding to a portion of the image; determining, for each cell of the two or more cells of the GUI, a predominant color of the cell of the GUI based on the portion of the image that corresponds to the cell of the GUI; partitioning an array of lights of a keyboard input device that corresponds to the display device into two or more cells, each cell of the array of lights corresponding to a particular cell of the cells of the GUI; adjusting, for each cell of the array of lights, a color output of the lights of the cell of the array of lights based on the predominant color of the corresponding cell of the GUI.