Visible Light Data Packets for Luminance Control and Reliable Decoding

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing VLC systems face challenges in ensuring both luminance adjustability and communication reliability, particularly in scenarios requiring stable and reliable illumination and communication services.

Innovation Solution

A method involving luminance control through partial source information transmission, where a second information sequence is used for luminance control, ensuring imperceptible luminance changes and improving communication reliability by enabling the receive end to restore original source information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If partial source information is transmitted for luminance control, then luminance adjustability is improved, but communication reliability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveluminance adjustabilityVSAvoidcommunication reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines source information transmission with channel information transmission into a unified data packet structure. The data packet includes both the first information sequence (channel information for error correction) and the second information sequence (partial source information for luminance control), allowing simultaneous achievement of luminance adjustability and communication reliability through integrated transmission

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The data packet structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: it transmits channel information for error correction, transmits partial source information for luminance control, and enables the receiver to restore original source information. This multi-functional design resolves the contradiction by making a single transmission mechanism serve both luminance control and reliability enhancement purposes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Illumination intensity

If additional information sequences are transmitted for luminance control, then luminance adjustability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveluminance control capabilityVSAvoidtransmission system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The information to be transmitted is segmented into two distinct sequences: the first information sequence for channel information and error correction, and the second information sequence for partial source information and luminance control. This segmentation allows the system to manage complexity by organizing different functional information into separate, clearly-defined components within the data packet

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12542608B2Information transmission method and communication apparatus
Publication Date: 2026.02.03 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

This application provides information transmission methods and apparatuses. In an implementation, a method comprising determining a data packet, wherein the data packet comprises a first information sequence and a second information sequence, the first information sequence comprises source information, the second information sequence comprises partial source information of the source information for performing luminance control on a light source, and outputting the data packet by using the light source.