Lighting Synchronization via Cloud Audio-Image Processing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current lighting solutions fail to synchronize audio, image, and lighting effectively, resulting in an insufficient user experience for multimedia content with rich video and audio information.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that includes audio-image information acquisition and processing software, a cloud server, and lighting devices to analyze and process audio and screen image information, encapsulating it into synchronization control instructions, and controlling lighting devices to achieve synchronized audio and image control through predetermined strategies, using modules like strategy control, screen acquisition, audio acquisition, and data framing, with communication protocols like Wi-Fi LAN, Wi-Fi WAN, and ZIGBEE mesh for multiple lighting devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If current lighting control methods are used to extract screen colors or music features, then lighting can be controlled based on multimedia content, but audio, image, and lighting cannot achieve synchronization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesynchronization of audio, image, and lightingVSAvoidsystem complexity for achieving synchronization
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the synchronization control into separate modules: audio information acquisition module, image information acquisition module, and control instruction generation module. Each module independently processes its respective data type, then the control server integrates them to generate synchronized control instructions, avoiding the need for a monolithic complex system while achieving reliable synchronization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A control server acts as an intermediary between the audio-image playback device and the lighting device. The control server receives audio and image information, processes them independently, and generates synchronized control instructions that coordinate both audio and visual elements with lighting effects, thereby achieving synchronization without direct complex interaction between all components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If audio and image information are processed separately, then processing is simpler, but synchronization between lighting, audio, and image cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesynchronization of lighting with audio and imageVSAvoidprocessing efficiency of audio and image information
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing of audio and image information separately before integration. The audio information acquisition module extracts features in advance, and the image information acquisition module processes visual data independently. This preliminary separate processing maintains high processing efficiency while enabling subsequent synchronized control through the control server.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The control server dynamically integrates audio and image information based on real-time playback state. It adjusts the timing and coordination of control instructions according to the multimedia content's audio and visual characteristics, achieving synchronization that adapts to varying content requirements while maintaining processing efficiency through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11553577B2System and method for achieving synchronized audio and image control of lighting
Publication Date: 2023.01.10 SHENZHEN LINKLITE SMART LIGHTING CO LTD
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AI summary

A system and method for achieving synchronized audio and image control of lighting is provided. The system includes: audio-image information acquisition and processing software of an audio-image playback device for achieving acquisition, analysis, and processing of audio and screen image information, and encapsulating the audio and screen image information into a synchronization control instruction according to a predetermined control strategy; a cloud server; and a lighting device for receiving the synchronization control instruction transmitted from the audio-image information acquisition and processing software to separate out audio and screen image color control instructions, and controlling colors and rhythm changes of a lamp according to a predetermined control strategy.