LIGHT CONTROL PICTURE FRAME

• US 20090122086A1
• Filed: 10/24/2005
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Santbergen, Martijn A.B., Diederiks, Elmo M.A., Gutta, Srinivas V.R.
• Application Number:
  US11/577,759
• Publication Number:
  US 20090122086A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/690
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/165 following a pre-assigned programmed sequence; Logic control [LC]
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/17 Operational modes, e.g. switching from manual to automatic mode or prohibiting specific operations

Abstract

A light control picture frame system and method including a processor (300) responsive to a user input signal (350), generating a display signal (352), and generating a transmitter signal (354); a picture frame display (304) responsive to the display signal (352); a user input device (312) generating the user input signal (350) responsive to a user; and a light signal transmitter (308) responsive to the transmitter signal (354).

Claims

1. A light control picture frame comprising:

a processor 300, the processor 300 being responsive to a user input signal 350, generating a display signal 352, and generating a transmitter signal 354;

a picture frame display 304, the picture frame display 304 being responsive to the display signal 352;

a user input device 312, the user input device 312 generating the user input signal 350 responsive to a user; and

a light signal transmitter 308, the light signal transmitter 308 being responsive to the transmitter signal 354.

2. The light control picture display of claim 1 wherein the processor 300 comprises:

a display controller 302, the display controller 302 being responsive to the user input signal 350, generating the display signal 352, and generating a color scheme signal 360; and

a light controller 306, the light controller 306 being responsive to the color scheme signal 360 and generating the transmitter signal 354.

3. The light control picture display of claim 2 wherein the display controller 302 has a sampler 314, the sampler 314 generating the color scheme signal 360 responsive to at least a portion of a picture.

4. The light control picture display of claim 1 wherein the picture frame display 304 is selected from the group consisting of a liquid crystal display, an e-ink display, an organic light-emitting diode display, a polymer light-emitting diode display, a touch screen display, a resistive touch screen display, a capacitive touch screen display, and a surface acoustic wave touch screen display.

5. The light control picture display of claim 1 wherein the picture frame display 304 is responsive to the display signal 352 to display a color-index, the color index being selected from the group consisting of a color list, a color wheel, a color picker, a sampled picture display, and a picture sampling display.

6. The light control picture display of claim 1 wherein the user input device 312 is selected from the group consisting of a cursor control 326, an option selection control 328, and a mode selection control 310.

7. The light control picture display of claim 1 wherein the user input device 312 is the picture frame display 304.

8. The light control picture display of claim 1 further comprising a memory 316 operably connected to the processor 300.

9. The light control picture display of claim 1 wherein the processor 300 further comprises a sampler 314 for determining a color scheme.

10. The light control picture display of claim 1 wherein the light control signal 105 is selected from the group consisting of a photonic signal, a radio wave signal, power line signal, and a wired signal.

11. The light control picture display of claim 1 further comprising an interface selected from the group consisting of a digital camera interface 218, a digital memory card interface 220, a modem 222, and a printer interface 224.

12. The light control picture display of claim 1 further comprising a frame receiver 330 responsive to a frame control signal 366 and generating a receiver signal 364, the receiver signal 364 being provided to the processor 300.

13. A method of light unit control, the method comprising:

providing a picture frame display 502;

displaying a color index on the picture frame display 504;

selecting a color scheme from the color index 506; and

generating a light control signal in response to the color scheme 508.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the providing a picture frame display 502 comprises providing a picture frame display selected from the group consisting of a liquid crystal display, an e-ink display, an organic light-emitting diode display, a polymer light-emitting diode display, a touch screen display, a resistive touch screen display, a capacitive touch screen display, and a surface acoustic wave touch screen display.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein the displaying a color index on the picture frame display 504 comprises displaying a color index selected from the group consisting of a of a color list, a color wheel, a color picker, a sampled picture display, and a picture sampling display.

16. The method of claim 13 further comprising selecting a light control picture frame mode 402 and displaying a picture on the picture frame display when the light control picture frame mode is a picture display mode 406.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising displaying light control options on the picture frame display when the light control picture frame mode is a light control mode.

18. The method of claim 16 further comprising displaying display control options on the picture frame display when the light control picture frame mode is a display control mode.

19. The method of claim 13 wherein the color index is a picture sampling display and the selecting a color scheme from the color index 506 comprises selecting at least a portion of the picture sampling display and generating the color scheme from the portion of the picture.

20. The method of claim 13 further comprising storing pictures in memory.

21. The method of claim 20 further comprising flagging certain of the pictures for display on the picture frame display.

22. The method of claim 21 further comprising displaying the flagged pictures in a slide show format.

23. A system of light unit control, the system comprising:

a picture frame display;

means for displaying a color index on the picture frame display;

means for selecting a color scheme from the color index; and

means for generating a light control signal in response to the color scheme.

24. The system of claim 23 further comprising means for selecting a light control picture frame mode and means for displaying a picture on the picture frame display when the light control picture frame mode is a picture display mode.

25. The system of claim 23 further comprising means for displaying light control options on the picture frame display when the light control picture frame mode is a light control mode.

26. The system of claim 23 further comprising means for displaying display control options on the picture frame display when the light control picture frame mode is a display control mode.

27. The system of claim 23 wherein the color index is a picture sampling display and the means for selecting a color scheme from the color index comprises means for selecting at least a portion of the picture sampling display and means for generating the color scheme from the portion of the picture.

28. The system of claim 23 further comprising means for storing pictures.

29. The system of claim 28 further comprising means for flagging certain of the pictures for display on the picture frame display.

30. The system of claim 29 further comprising means for displaying the flagged pictures in a slide show format.

31. A method of controlling a light unit comprising:

providing a picture;

sampling a characteristic of the picture; and

generating a light control signal in response to the characteristic.

32. The method of claim 31 wherein the characteristic is selected from the group consisting of color, brightness, intensity, hue, saturation, and luminosity.