Window Treatment Fabric Simulation via Graphical Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies lack the ability to effectively simulate the characteristics of window treatment fabrics and control devices in a user environment, making it difficult for users to visualize and understand their effects before installation.
Innovation Solution
The described solution involves displaying an image on a user device with a graphical representation of window treatment fabric or control devices, allowing users to simulate the color, openness factor, and other characteristics of these elements. This simulation can be adjusted based on user input, enabling users to visualize how these components would function in their space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If existing technologies are used, then no simulation capability is provided, but users cannot visualize and understand the effects of window treatment fabrics and control devices before installation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates visual copies of window treatment fabrics and control devices through graphical representations displayed on user devices. These graphical representations replicate the appearance, color, and transparency characteristics of actual physical products, allowing users to view simulated effects without handling real materials or installing physical devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an image processing system as an intermediary between the user and the physical window treatment fabrics/control devices. This system captures images of the space, processes them by applying transparency and color adjustments, and displays the results, serving as a mediator that enables visualization without direct interaction with physical products.
2Loss of information
If graphical representations with transparency effects are displayed, then users can visualize openness factor, but the image processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes to image data by adjusting transparency levels, color properties, and brightness to simulate different openness factors of window treatment fabrics. By modifying these visual parameters of the captured images, the system enables users to understand how different fabric openness factors would affect the appearance of the space.
3Loss of information
If color temperature simulations are provided for lighting devices, then users can understand ambiance effects, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements color changes in the displayed images to simulate different color temperature settings of lighting devices. By adjusting the color balance and temperature of the visual representation, users can observe how different lighting color temperatures would affect the ambiance and appearance of the space, providing intuitive understanding without requiring physical lighting changes.
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AI summary
Characteristics of a window treatment fabric, a control device, and/or a lighting control system may be simulated for being installed in a space. A graphical representation of the window treatment fabric may be overlaid on an image being displayed on a display of a user device. A graphical representation of the control device may be overlaid on the image being displayed on the user device. A change in color temperature settings over a time of day may be simulated for lighting devices installed in a lighting control system in a space. A color graph may be overlaid on the image displayed on the user device that is configured with different color temperature values at a corresponding time of day and images may be displayed to reflect the corresponding color temperature values.