Lighting Design Platform for Searchable Fixture Rendering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting design workflows are inefficient due to a fragmented market with limited and inaccurate information about lighting products, leading to suboptimal results and underutilization of intelligent lighting features in installations.
Innovation Solution
A platform that utilizes automated search engines, machine learning, and near-field illumination characterization to facilitate the design, acquisition, installation, and operation of lighting installations, enabling the coordination of intelligent lighting fixtures and providing a visual representation of lighting spaces with adjustable parameters for desired collective lighting effects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If designers use physical samples to evaluate lighting fixtures, then they can directly observe lighting effects, but the process takes days or weeks and produces suboptimal results
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates digital replicas (photorealistic renderings) of physical lighting samples that can be viewed remotely. The system captures images of physical lighting fixtures in controlled environments and generates realistic digital representations that preserve all visual characteristics, allowing designers to evaluate lighting effects without physically visiting sample locations. This copying approach maintains measurement precision while eliminating time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-captures and stores photorealistic images of lighting fixtures in various conditions before designers need to evaluate them. By performing the lighting evaluation setup and image capture in advance, the system makes lighting data immediately accessible to designers, eliminating the need for time-consuming on-site evaluations while preserving evaluation accuracy.
2Loss of information
If designers travel to sample closets to characterize fixtures, then they can obtain accurate lighting information, but the process is inefficient and limits access to lighting products
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a digital intermediary system that acts as a mediator between physical lighting fixtures and designers. The system captures photorealistic images of lighting products in controlled environments and makes them accessible through a digital platform. This intermediary approach preserves complete lighting information while dramatically improving accessibility, allowing any designer to view any lighting product without physical travel.
Solution Approach 2:
By creating comprehensive digital copies of lighting fixtures with all their visual and technical characteristics, the system makes lighting product information universally accessible. The photorealistic renderings preserve all relevant lighting information (color temperature, intensity, distribution patterns) while eliminating geographical and temporal barriers to accessing lighting products.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the lighting market remains fragmented with multiple suppliers, then product variety is maintained, but information about lighting products becomes limited and inaccurate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal digital platform that can accommodate and standardize information from multiple lighting suppliers while maintaining product variety. The system uses consistent photorealistic rendering methods and standardized data structures to represent diverse lighting products from different manufacturers. This universal approach preserves the benefits of market fragmentation (product variety) while eliminating the information quality problems through standardized capture and presentation methods.
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AI summary
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.