Lighting Control System Personalized Comfort Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional lighting systems fail to consider individual user preferences, leading to uncomfortable wake-up experiences despite being in the same environment.

Innovation Solution

A lighting control system that includes a storage for parameters, a light emitter, and a controller which selects and adjusts parameters based on user feedback to generate a comfortable lighting environment, allowing users to input their comfort level and adjust settings accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional lighting systems use fixed lighting parameters, then the system is simple to operate, but it cannot provide personalized comfortable environments for different users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system obtains user feedback on comfort levels and uses this information to adjust lighting parameters. The controller receives user input about comfort and automatically modifies lighting conditions to achieve optimal personalization without requiring complex manual configuration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The lighting system automatically adjusts parameters based on user feedback without requiring users to manually configure complex settings. The system serves itself by learning from user responses and autonomously optimizing lighting conditions for different users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If the lighting system adjusts parameters based on user feedback, then it provides comfortable personalized environments, but it requires obtaining and processing user input

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironment customizationVSAvoidoperation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where users provide comfort level input and the controller automatically adjusts lighting parameters. This maintains ease of operation by using simple user input (comfort selection) while achieving sophisticated environmental customization through automatic parameter adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system stores multiple lighting parameters for different users, then it can provide personalized environments, but it increases data storage requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser-specific customizationVSAvoiddata storage volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system stores lighting parameters organized by user identity, with each user having their own set of preferred parameters. This allows personalized customization for each user while efficiently managing storage by maintaining separate parameter sets only where needed rather than storing all possible combinations for all users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10433391B2Lighting control system and lighting control method
Publication Date: 2019.10.01 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD
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AI summary

A lighting control system includes: a storage which stores a plurality of parameters; a light emitter which emits light in a predetermined mode according to the plurality of parameters; a controller which selects two or more parameters from among the plurality of parameters stored in the storage to generate a group of parameters including the two or more parameters selected; and an obtainer which obtains an instruction from a user. The light emitter emits light at a predetermined time in a mode according to the group of parameters generated by the controller, and when the obtainer obtains a degree of comfort selected from among feeling options each indicating a feeling of the user, the controller generates a new group of parameters by changing, according to the degree of comfort, one or more parameters among the two or more parameters included in the group of parameters.