AMBIENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE AMBIENT SYSTEM

• US 20100066911A1
• Filed: 12/05/2007
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2006
• 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: Grotenhuis, Mark Johannes Hendrikus, Kater, Bram
• Application Number:
  US12/517,576
• Publication Number:
  US 20100066911A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/602
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2827 Reporting to a device within the home network; wherein the reception of the information reported automatically triggers the execution of a home appliance functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources

Abstract

A method of controlling an ambient system (1) including a presentation apparatus (6-8, 16,17) for rendering a media signal and an ambience control system (2) for adjusting at least one perceptible aspect of ambient conditions prevailing in an environment of the presentation apparatus, includes selecting one of a set of media signals available for rendering based upon a mood to which the ambience control system has been set to adjust the at least one perceptible aspect of the ambient conditions. The method further includes obtaining respective measures of at least one characteristic of a plurality of the available media signals and making the selection using a mapping of the at least one characteristic to data representative of a mood space.

Claims

1. Method of controlling at least one ambient device (4,5) for adjusting at least one perceptible aspect of ambient conditions, the method comprising the steps of

obtaining, based on a desired value of the at least one perceptible aspect, target settings for controlling the at least one ambient device (4,5),

selecting one of a set of media signals available for rendering via a presentation apparatus (6-8, 16, 17), based upon data representative of the desired value, and

obtaining respective measures of at least one characteristic of the set of the media signals, for the selection of the media signal using data indicating a relationship between the at least one characteristic and the data representative of the desired value.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising steps of

obtaining the desired value of the at least one perceptible aspect based upon mood data representative of a user'"'"'s mood, and

wherein the data indicating the relationship comprise are representative of a mapping of the at least one characteristic to data representative of a mood space.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining comprises a step of receiving, from at least one user control (12), respective input signals representative of the desired adjustment of the at least one perceptible aspect of the ambient conditions.

4. Method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of adjusting the at least one perceptible aspect based upon the desired value prior to the selection of media signal.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein the media

signals include at least a video component, the presentation apparatus includes a display device (6) and the at least one ambient device (4,5) are comprised in an ambient lighting system (4).

6. Method according to claim 5, wherein the measure of at least one characteristic is representative of a dominant colour within at least a section of the video component of the media signal.

7. Method according to claim 1, including processing the selected one of the media signals to modify at least one aspect, perceptible when rendered, of the media signal based upon the desired value.

8. Method according to claim 1, wherein the selected one of the available media signals is obtained from a server system (25) via a network link.

9. Method according to claim 1, including sending a message carrying data for verification to a server system (26);

and

receiving the selected one of the available media signals upon verification of the data by the server system (26).

14. Computer program including a set of instructions capable, when incorporated in a machine readable medium, of causing a system having information processing capabilities to perform a method according to claim 1.

10. A control device (2) for controlling at least one ambient device (4,5) for adjusting at least one perceptible aspect of ambient conditions, the control device being configured to

obtain, based on a desired value of the at least one perceptible aspect, target settings for controlling the at least one ambient device (4,5),

select one of a set of media signals available for rendering via a presentation apparatus (6-8, 16, 17), based upon data representative of the desired value, and

obtain respective measures of at least one characteristic of the set of the media signals, for the selection of the media signal using data indicating a relationship between the at least one characteristic and the data representative of the desired value.

11. Ambient system comprising

a presentation apparatus (6-8,16,17) for rendering one or more media signals, and the control device (2) of claim 10.

12. The ambient system of claim 11,

wherein the control system is configured to

obtain the desired value of the at least one perceptible aspect based upon mood data representative of a user'"'"'s mood, and

select the media signal using a mapping of the at least one characteristic to data representative of a mood space.

13. Ambient system according to claim 11, configured to carry out a method of controlling at least one ambient device (4,5) for adjusting at least one perceptible aspect of ambient conditions, the method comprising the steps of

obtaining, based on a desired value of the at least one perceptible aspect, target settings for controlling the at least one ambient device (4,5),

selecting one of a set of media signals available for rendering via a presentation apparatus 16-8, 16, 17), based upon data representative of the desired value, and

obtaining respective measures of at least one characteristic of the set of the media signals, for the selection of the media signal using data indicating a relationship between the at least one characteristic and the data representative of the desired value.