Screen Color Matching for Lighting Scene Ambiance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing lighting systems often interfere with the intended light scene and fail to enhance the user experience, particularly in commercial settings like hotel rooms, where the system should contribute to the overall ambiance while providing light.
Innovation Solution
A control unit for a lighting system with a user interface that includes a screen, which allows users to select a light scene and determines settings for the light sources, and also displays content on the screen that complements the scene, enhancing the ambiance by matching or contrasting colors and conveying the desired emotional state, such as relaxation, and providing additional information like recommendations based on time, location, and weather.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a screen is used to display user interface and information, then user interaction and information provision are improved, but the screen emits light that interferes with the intended light scene and ambiance
Solution Approach 1:
The screen dynamically adjusts its color output to match the colors of the selected light scene. When a user selects a light scene with specific colors, the screen modifies its displayed content colors to harmonize with the scene, ensuring the screen becomes part of the ambiance rather than interfering with it.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the lighting parameters of the screen based on the selected light scene. The control unit receives information about the light scene's color characteristics and adjusts the screen's light emission parameters accordingly, transforming the screen from a fixed light source into an adaptive element that contributes positively to the overall lighting atmosphere.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If the screen displays content that matches the light scene colors, then the screen blends into the environment, but the visibility of information on the screen may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The screen employs dynamic contrast adjustment and local dimming techniques to maintain information visibility while blending with the light scene. The system continuously adapts the display parameters based on the light scene context, using dynamic brightness modulation and contrast enhancement to ensure information remains readable despite color matching requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that translates information content into visually adapted forms. The control unit processes the information to be displayed and modifies its visual representation to harmonize with the light scene while preserving readability, acting as a mediator between the information content and the ambient lighting requirements.
3Adaptability or versatility
If additional content like recommendations and information is displayed on the screen, then user experience is enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The screen serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a user interface for controlling the lighting system, displays informational content like recommendations and weather data, and functions as an ambient lighting element that contributes to the light scene. By making the screen multi-functional, the system avoids adding separate devices for each function, thereby managing complexity while enhancing versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the user interface function, information display function, and ambient lighting function into a single integrated screen component. Rather than having separate displays and lighting elements, the system merges these functions into one unified device that performs all roles, reducing overall system complexity while providing enhanced adaptability and user experience.
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AI summary
A lighting system comprising light sources for illuminating an area and a control unit adapted to control the light sources. The control unit has a user interface allowing a user to select a light scene. The user interface has a screen for displaying information to the user. The control unit is adapted to control the user interface to display selected content on the screen, which content is selected such that light emitted from the screen during display of the content contributes to the selected light scene. When the screen is used in this way, i.e. as a part of the light scene created by the lighting system, the screen enhances the light scene and the risk of the screen interfering with the light scene is reduced, resulting in an improved user experience.