User Terminal Light Control for Charging Interface Illumination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current USB charging plugs lack automatic lighting, making it difficult to connect them to mobile devices in dim environments, potentially leading to incorrect insertion and potential damage.
Innovation Solution
A light control method and apparatus for user equipment that detects environmental parameters such as magnetic field strength, distance, and brightness near the charging interface, enabling a lighting device to provide auxiliary lighting when necessary, ensuring successful connection and charging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If a USB plug with light transmission enclosure and internal light source is used, then the plug can provide lighting and decoration when connected to a terminal, but the plug cannot automatically emit light when not connected to a terminal, making it difficult to connect in dim environments
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects environmental parameters (brightness, distance, magnetic field) and activates lighting without user intervention. The user terminal or charger plug self-determines when lighting is needed based on sensor data, eliminating the need for manual light control while ensuring illumination is provided during connection operations in dim environments.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses sensors to continuously monitor environmental parameters (ambient brightness, distance between plug and interface, magnetic field strength) and adjusts lighting activation accordingly. This feedback mechanism ensures lighting is automatically enabled when connection conditions are detected, resolving the contradiction between having light available and enabling easy connection operation.
2Ease of operation
If environmental parameters are detected and lighting is automatically controlled based on battery level and environment, then sufficient ambient lighting is provided for connection, but the device complexity increases due to additional sensors and control logic
Solution Approach 1:
The user terminal performs multiple functions: it serves as both the device being charged and the controller for the lighting system. The existing processor and sensor infrastructure of the user terminal is leveraged to control the charger plug's lighting, eliminating the need for a separate dedicated control device and reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting control functionality is merged into the user terminal's existing operational system. The same processor that manages charging also manages lighting control, and sensors already present in the user terminal (or added to it) are used for environmental detection, combining multiple functions into a single integrated system rather than adding separate independent subsystems.
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
The solution provides sufficient ambient lighting for connecting the charger plug to the mobile device, reducing the risk of incorrect insertion and damage, and allows for customizable lighting based on battery level and service information.
Implementation Method 1
detecting a magnetic field strength near the charging interface of the user equipment
Implementation Method 2
detecting a brightness of light near the charging interface
Implementation Method 3
enabling a lighting device disposed near the charging interface
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AI summary
The present invention provides a light control method and apparatus for a user equipment, and a user terminal, where the light control method for a user equipment includes: detecting an environmental parameter near a charging interface of the equipment, where the environmental parameter is at least one of: magnetic field strength near the charging interface of the user equipment, a distance between the charging interface of the user equipment and a charger plug, and brightness of light near the charging interface of the user equipment; and enabling a lighting device disposed near the charging interface when the environmental parameter falls within a preset parameter range. According to embodiments of the present invention, it may be implemented that when a mobile phone is connecting to a charger plug, lighting is provided for a user according to an environmental parameter near a charging interface of a user equipment.