INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20110063442A1
• Filed: 05/07/2009
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lubrizol Advanced Materials Incorporated (Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated), Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Van De Sluis, Bartel Marinus, Aarts, Ronaldus Maria
• Application Number:
  US12/992,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20110063442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 11/06 Means for bringing about special optical effects

Abstract

The invention relates to an interaction system and method for automatically generating a soundscape and lighting, which are adapted to an action of a viewer of displayed items, in order to attract the attention of the viewer to one or more of the displayed items, such as products presented in a shop or displayed in a shopping window. A basic idea of this invention is refining interactivity by triggering the generation of a lighting and soundscape upon detection of a certain viewer or user action and to adapt the generated lighting and soundscape to the viewer or user action. The invention provides in an embodiment an interaction system (10) comprising—at least one detector (12) being adapted to detect an action of at least one viewer (14) showing interest in displayed items (16) and—a controller (18) being adapted to control a light (20) and sound (22) system in response to information received from the at least one detector such that a soundscape and lighting adapted to the detected action is generated.

Claims

1. An interaction system (10) comprising

at least one detector for detecting an action of at least one viewer relative to one or more displayed items (16) and

a controller for controlling at least one of a light (20) and sound (22) system in response to information received from the at least one detector such that a soundscape and lighting adapted to the detected action is generated.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the detector is a camera (12) being arranged for monitoring an area (24) with the at least one viewer (14) standing before and viewing the displayed items (16).

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the controller analyzes video information received from the camera (12) for characteristics of the at least one viewer and to adapt the control of the light and sound system to the result of the analysis.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the detector detects as an action of a viewer one or more of the following:

a gazing of the viewer at a displayed item;

a touching of a displayed item by the viewer;

a pointing of the viewer to a displayed item.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the light and sound system (20, 22) in response to information received from the at least one detector (12) such that the generated soundscape and/or lighting is spatially limited to a viewer.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the light and sound system (20, 22) in response to information received from the at least one detector (12) such that the generated lighting and/or soundscape is related to the item, in which a viewer shows interest.

7. A shop interaction system comprising

a light system (20) with several light units (21) being arranged to illuminate items to be displayed,

a sound system (22) with a loudspeaker array (23) being adapted to create a spatial controllable soundscape, and

an interaction system (10) of claim 1.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of controlling further comprises the controlling of the light and sound system in response to information received from the at least one detector such that the generated soundscape and/or lighting is spatially limited to a viewer.

8. An interaction method comprising the acts of

detecting an action of at least one viewer showing interest in displayed items (S10) and

controlling a light and sound system in response to information received by the detecting of an action such that a soundscape and lighting adapted to the detected action is generated (S12).

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the act of detecting comprises a monitoring of an area with the at least one viewer standing before and viewing the displayed items (S14) and comprises analyzing video information received from the monitoring for characteristics of the at least one viewer (S16).

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the act of controlling adapting the controlling of the light and sound system to the result of the analysis of the video information.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the act of detecting comprises one or more of the following acts:

detecting a gazing of the viewer at a displayed item;

detecting a touching of a displayed item by the viewer;

detecting a pointing of the viewer to a displayed item.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the act of controlling further comprises the controlling of the light and sound system in response to information received from the at least one detector such that the generated lighting and/or soundscape is related to the item, in which a viewer shows interest.

14. A computer program enabled to carry out the method according to claim 8 when executed by a computer.

15. A record carrier storing a computer program according to claim 14.