Performance Directing System for Stadium Lighting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to systematically control multiple lighting devices in environments like sports stadiums or concert halls, making it difficult to create unified lighting patterns and achieve desired cheering effects, and also struggle to provide remote audiences with an immersive experience by synchronizing lighting effects between the performance hall and remote locations.

Innovation Solution

A performance directing system that uses a control console device to generate control data for cheering lighting devices in a performance hall, synchronizing this data with remote devices using a data processing device, which includes smart devices with image playback and remote communication functions, to ensure synchronized control and immersive experiences for both in-hall and remote audiences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple lighting devices are individually controlled in a performance hall, then each device can operate independently, but it becomes difficult to create systematic lighting patterns and achieve unified cheering effects

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveindividual control flexibilityVSAvoidsystematic control complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple individually controlled lighting devices into a unified system controlled by a single control console. The control console aggregates control signals for multiple lighting devices, enabling systematic control while maintaining individual device functionality. This resolves the contradiction by combining individual control capabilities with centralized systematic management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The control console is designed with universal control capabilities that can manage various types of lighting devices simultaneously. It provides multi-functional control interfaces and protocols that work across different device types, enabling both individual and collective control modes within a single system framework.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If cheering lighting devices are controlled only in the performance hall, then in-hall audiences can experience synchronized lighting effects, but remote audiences cannot experience the same cheering effects

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvein-hall experience consistencyVSAvoidremote audience accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The control console acts as an intermediary that receives performance data and generates control signals that are then transmitted to lighting devices both in the performance hall and at remote locations. This intermediary function enables synchronized lighting effects across geographically distributed locations, allowing remote audiences to experience the same cheering effects as in-hall audiences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Speed

If control data is transmitted in real-time for synchronized lighting effects, then lighting can be synchronized with performance, but playback delays cause misalignment between lighting effects and performance timing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol data transmission speedVSAvoidtiming synchronization precision
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The control console performs preliminary processing of performance data to generate control signals in advance. By pre-processing the data and anticipating timing requirements, the system can compensate for transmission delays and ensure that lighting effects are synchronized with performance timing despite the time required for data transmission and processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11974381B2System and method for directing performance
Publication Date: 2024.04.30 CHOI JI SUN
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AI summary

Disclosed is a performance directing system that simultaneously controls cheering lighting devices of audiences by linking a performance hall and a remote place. According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, it is possible to identically implement and provide performance directing effects on audience seats of a performance hall to audiences at a remote place. Accordingly, audiences at the remote place may have the same experience as watching a performance at an actual performance site.