Method for scripting multimedia content
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of modifying sales space layouts and multimedia content associations with lighting networks in retail environments, requiring significant adaptability and technical expertise, leads to high costs and potential abandonment of data transmission technologies like LiFi and VLC due to ergonomic and training challenges for sales teams.
Innovation Solution
A method and system using a portable terminal with a software module to create a configurable graphical interface for scripting multimedia content with lighting networks, allowing users to intuitively arrange virtual lighting points and associate multimedia content without extensive training, using imperceptible light modulation for data transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data transmission technology (LiFi/VLC) is added to lighting networks for multimedia content delivery, then consumer services and information delivery are enhanced, but system complexity and operational difficulty increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the physical sales space using graphic objects that mirror the actual lighting points and shelving units. This virtual representation allows users to configure multimedia content associations without directly manipulating the complex lighting network, thereby reducing operational difficulty while maintaining enhanced service capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a portable terminal as an intermediary device between the user and the lighting network. This terminal handles the complex tasks of detecting lighting points, receiving identification data, and managing multimedia content associations, shielding users from the underlying system complexity while enabling versatile content delivery
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional sales teams are required to operate and modify the lighting-multimedia system, then operational flexibility is maintained, but training costs and operational errors increase due to lack of technical expertise
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables sales teams to perform self-service operations through intuitive graphic interfaces on portable terminals. Users can independently detect lighting points, configure virtual representations, and associate multimedia content without requiring specialized training or external IT support, thereby maintaining operational flexibility while dramatically improving ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex technical operations with simplified graphical interactions. Instead of requiring users to manually configure lighting network parameters or understand signal processing, the system uses visual drag-and-drop interfaces and automatic detection mechanisms that any user can operate regardless of technical background
3Manufacturing precision
If external specialized operators are called to modify the system, then technical accuracy is ensured, but deployment costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system empowers end users to perform all configuration and modification tasks independently using portable terminals with intuitive interfaces. This eliminates the need to engage external specialized operators, thereby maintaining configuration accuracy through guided workflows while dramatically reducing deployment and operational costs
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
Enables easy, intuitive scripting of physical sales spaces with multimedia content, reducing the need for specialized training and external operators, lowering costs, and simplifying the adaptation of sales space layouts to various events and seasons.
Implementation Method 1
the emission of the identification datum is carried out by modulation of the luminous flux (light) emitted by the lighting point. Preferably, the light is visible light but the light modulation is at a frequency such that the light modulation is imperceptible to a user
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AI summary
This method for scripting a physical space intended to be illuminated by a network (12) of lighting points (14), in which each lighting point (14) is configured to emit identification data via light that it transmits, the method being intended to be implemented by a portable terminal (50) equipped with a graphic display screen. It includes the steps of generation by the portable terminal (50) of a graphic interface for the display on the screen of a graphic medium with at least two dimensions virtually delimiting the physical space, of reception by the portable terminal ( 50) of the identification data of one of the lighting points (14) when the terminal (50) is moved inside the light of this lighting point (14), generation by the portable terminal ( 50), on the graphic medium and on receipt of the identification data, of a configurable virtual graphic object, associated with the lighting point (14), called “graphic lighting object”.