Lighting System Synchronizing Light Levels With Images
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional lighting systems fail to intuitively create an artificial atmosphere that corresponds to desired images, such as natural scenes, which can enhance aesthetics and health effects by synchronizing illumination levels with displayed images, lacking a user-friendly method to associate specific light levels with images and adjust them dynamically.
Innovation Solution
A lighting system with an input device and system controller that uses scripts to associate light levels with images, allowing users to select and modify illumination levels and corresponding images simultaneously, using a graphical user interface to control light sources and image renderers, enabling dynamic and synchronized adjustments of light and image attributes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional lighting systems are used to provide illumination, then basic lighting function is achieved, but the ability to create intuitive artificial atmosphere corresponding to desired images is lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines lighting control with image display by integrating a display device with the lighting system. The controller synchronizes illumination levels with displayed images, merging two separate functions (lighting and visual display) into a unified atmosphere creation system that enhances both adaptability and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting system is designed to perform multiple functions: providing basic illumination, creating atmosphere through synchronized images, and offering user-friendly control via graphical interface. This multi-functionality allows a single system to address various user needs without requiring separate devices.
2Adaptability or versatility
If lighting systems synchronize illumination levels with displayed images, then aesthetic and health effects are enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The controller serves as an intermediary that manages the synchronization between lighting and image display. By centralizing control functions in a dedicated controller, the system achieves complex synchronized operation without proportionally increasing overall system complexity, as the controller handles multiple tasks through integrated design.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical control with electronic control through a graphical user interface. Users interact with the system through software-based controls rather than physical switches or dimmers, allowing sophisticated light-image synchronization to be managed through intuitive digital interfaces rather than complex mechanical adjustments.
3Ease of operation
If manual control methods are used for adjusting lighting, then simple operation is maintained, but dynamic and synchronized adjustments of light and image attributes are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides self-service functionality by automatically synchronizing image display with lighting adjustments. When users control lighting parameters, the system automatically coordinates the corresponding image display without requiring manual intervention for each parameter, maintaining operational simplicity while dramatically improving adjustment efficiency and coordination.
Data Source
AI summary
A lighting system (100) includes at least one controllable light source (125) configured to provide a light having at least one attribute; an image renderer (135) configured to render at least one image; and a system controller (110) configured to select the image in corresponding to the selected attribute. The system controller (110) may be configured to receive at least one script associated with different light attributes such as different light intensity or brightness levels, and to change the image in response to changes of the light attribute in accordance with the script.