Portable RF Lighting Device with Hierarchical Zone Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing LED wristbands and handheld glow sticks require extensive pre-programming of lighting sequences and memory storage for intricate events, limiting flexibility for improvisational changes and increasing memory burden, which restricts the ability to adapt to real-time events or subtle color changes.
Innovation Solution
The interactive lighting effect portable light illuminating device uses a memory with nested hierarchical zone codes, an RF receiver, and a controller to respond to RF data bursts for dynamic color and zone assignments, allowing for real-time changes and reduced memory overhead through wireless data transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If pre-programmed LED illumination light control sequences are stored in memory for each venue event, then lighting performance for sophisticated events can be achieved, but memory overhead and data storage requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the lighting control sequences from the portable devices (wristbands/glow sticks) and stores them externally in a computer system. The portable devices only retain minimal identification information, while the actual illumination patterns are transmitted on-demand via RF communication during the event. This extraction eliminates the need for large memory capacity in each portable device.
Solution Approach 2:
The computer system serves as a universal storage and control center that can manage lighting sequences for multiple different venue events. Instead of each portable device needing dedicated memory for every possible event, a single centralized system handles all events, making the solution universally applicable across different scenarios.
2Reliability
If all lighting control sequences are pre-programmed into memory, then complete control over lighting changes is achieved, but flexibility for improvisational or surprise lighting changes is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from static pre-programmed sequences to dynamic real-time control. The computer system can generate and transmit lighting control sequences on-the-fly during the event, allowing for improvisational changes, surprise moments, and real-time adaptations to unexpected situations without being constrained by pre-defined patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The RF communication system acts as an intermediary between the computer control system and the portable lighting devices. This intermediary enables real-time transmission of control signals, allowing the computer to dynamically adjust lighting patterns during the event without requiring the portable devices to have pre-programmed sequences.
3Measurement precision
If each subtle color change has a separate pre-programmed entry in memory, then precise color control is achieved, but data overhead for memory increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts detailed color control data from the portable devices and stores it externally in the computer system. Instead of each device storing extensive color palette information, the computer holds the comprehensive color control sequences and transmits only the necessary instructions during the event, dramatically reducing local memory requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The computer system creates and manages copies of lighting control sequences for different events and scenarios. Rather than each portable device needing its own complete set of color control data, the computer generates appropriate copies or segments of control sequences and transmits them as needed, efficiently managing data storage across the system.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables flexible, dynamic, and improvisational lighting effects on a mass scale without pre-programmed sequences, allowing for seamless integration of surprise events and efficient data management, with improved scalability and reduced memory requirements.
Implementation Method 1
Both the illuminating LED wristbands and the handheld glow sticks can be remotely controlled wirelessly under radio frequency signal broadcasts, by using a RF transmitter
Implementation Method 2
In recent years, some wristbands have added interactive lighting effect functionality using a small battery and integrated LEDs
Data Source
AI summary
Portable light illuminating device with RF receiver along with interactive lighting effect control system with RF transmitter via wireless data transmissions are provided. RF data burst are captured to illuminate LEDs disposed in portable light illuminating device selectively in accordance with illuminating color and zone assignment data and matching nested hierarchical zone codes, which can be assigned for seating location within one seating zone, several seating zones, and segment within one seating zone. Improvisational manual illuminating color control change for any zone assignment for color control signal can be generated and converted to set of RGB color codes as well as color control signals extracted from sound track using color show control software from PC/laptop can be encoded and sequenced using lighting controller to be transmitted to wireless RF transmitter for broadcasting as data burst. DMX controller and PC/Laptop can also be part of the interactive lighting effect control system.