Integrated Luminaire Audio-Visual Control for Surround Sound Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Connected lighting systems lack integrated dynamic control of audio and visual elements, limiting their ability to provide enhanced user experiences through coordinated audio and visual effects.
Innovation Solution
The integration of light sources, visual feedback response sources, and speakers in luminaire systems, enabled by processors and communication interfaces, allows for dynamic control and synchronization of audio and visual outputs, including surround sound capabilities and interactive user interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If light sources and speakers are integrated in luminaire systems, then audio and visual control capabilities are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates light sources, visual feedback response sources, and speakers into a single luminaire system, combining previously separate audio and lighting devices into one unified unit. This merging enables coordinated audio-visual control while reducing the need for multiple separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The luminaire system is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: providing general lighting, delivering surround sound audio, generating visual feedback responses, and enabling interactive user interfaces. This multi-functionality allows a single device to replace multiple separate devices.
2Reliability
If multiple luminaires are coordinated for surround sound output, then audio output quality is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The surround sound system divides audio output across multiple luminaires, with each luminaire responsible for specific audio components (e.g., front left, front right, rear channels). This segmentation allows high-quality multi-channel audio while distributing the complexity across individual manageable units.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates visual feedback response sources that provide visual confirmation of audio system operation and coordination. This feedback mechanism helps users verify proper system configuration and operation, reducing the perceived complexity of managing multiple coordinated luminaires.
3Ease of operation
If visual feedback response sources are added to luminaires, then user interaction is enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Visual feedback response sources provide real-time visual confirmation of system operation, user input recognition, and audio-visual coordination. This feedback enhances user interaction by making system status and responses immediately visible, improving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The luminaire system automatically coordinates audio and visual outputs without requiring manual configuration of each component. The system self-manages the synchronization and coordination between light sources, visual feedback sources, and speakers, reducing the operational complexity for users.
Data Source
AI summary
A lighting system includes a first luminaire. The first luminaire includes a first light source that generates a first light output. The first luminaire also includes a first visual feedback response source that generates a first visual feedback response output. Additionally, the first luminaire includes a first speaker that generates a first audio output. Further, the lighting system includes a second luminaire. The second luminaire includes a second light source that generates a second light output and a second visual feedback response source that generates a second visual feedback response output. Furthermore, the second luminaire includes a second speaker that generates a second audio output. The second audio output is different from the first audio output such that the first speaker and the second speaker output different audio components of a multichannel audio protocol output.