KR20170089505A - Light theraphy providing method and server - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for providing light therapy is performed in a light therapy providing server connected with a light control terminal controlling at least one light group including each light which can adjust at least one among brightness, chroma, and color. The method for providing light therapy comprises the following steps: (a) receiving a light group profile through the light control terminal; (b) determining a current context; and (c) generating a light therapy recipe based on the current context, and controlling each of the at least one light group through the light control terminal. Therefore, the method and the server for providing light therapy can provide light therapy according to the current context including at least one among the condition of an individual user, weather, and music.

Description

LIGHT THERAPY PROVIDING METHOD AND SERVER

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a light therapy providing technique, and more particularly, to a light therapy providing method and a server capable of providing light therapy according to a current context including at least one of an individual user's state, .

Light therapy is usually exposed to the benefits of bright light everyday. It is usually used for the purpose of light therapy, and it is used to stimulate neurons in the eye using light waves to alleviate various mental stresses.

However, the conventional light therapy uses a light therapy method which is passively programmed according to the set value of the light for a predetermined purpose, and as such, the optimal light therapy service adaptively to various users' Is difficult to provide.

Recently, light therapy devices have been developed to have a positive effect on the user's sleeping state, and the device can adjust the intensity of light by adjusting Lux based on one color (eg blue or white) . In this way, products that are currently on the market offer light therapy according to one purpose, that is, uniformity, without considering personalization.

Korean Patent No. 10-0693758 relates to an intelligent emotional lighting system and includes an on-off switch for outputting an on-off signal according to a user's operation, a basic mode switch for outputting a preset basic mode signal, A plurality of designated mode switches for outputting a signal, a natural mode switch for outputting a preset natural mode signal, and a time setting button for inputting a rising time, a sleeping time and a user specified time; A direct illuminating unit comprising a plurality of side illuminators arranged in a checkered pattern on a ceiling of a room, and an indirect lighting unit comprising a plurality of sub illuminators installed on an inner wall of the room, An emotion illumination unit for driving the illuminator in a preset color and illumination state; And a controller for outputting one of a basic mode instruction signal, a designation mode instruction signal and a natural mode instruction signal to the emotional illumination unit in response to the on-off signal and the mode signal outputted from the operation unit, And an intelligent emotional illumination system.

 Korean Patent No. 10-0250017 relates to an emotional illumination audio system, and relates to an emotional illumination audio system to which an emotional color and an audio function are added to an existing illumination stand, , Which can not be sensed, to induce advanced sensibility and to enjoy a life of higher quality.

Korean Registered Patent No. 10-0693758 (Registered on March 3, 2007) Korean Registered Patent No. 10-0250017 (registered on December 29, 1999)

An embodiment of the present invention relates to a light therapy providing method and server capable of providing light therapy according to a current context including at least one of an individual user's state, weather, and music.

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a light therapy providing method and a server that allow a user to define a context in real time and thereby enable light therapy according to the light therapy, and a user can directly set a context.

An embodiment of the present invention is to provide a light therapy providing method and a server that can provide more efficient light therapy by setting different contexts to each lighting equipment desired by a user.

In embodiments, the light therapy delivery method is performed in a light therapy delivery server coupled to a light control terminal that controls at least one light group, each light including light capable of adjusting at least one of brightness, saturation, and hue . The method comprises the steps of: (a) receiving a light group profile via the light control terminal; (b) determining a current context; and (c) generating a light therapy recipe based on the current context, And controlling each of the at least one light group through a terminal.

The step (a) may include receiving a light group profile including a light group identifier, a light set, and a write attribute for each of the at least one light group, the light group profile being configurable via a user terminal.

Wherein the step (b) calculates importance of at least one context element that is recognized by the write control terminal and each of which corresponds to one of individual user state, weather and music, and the most important N (N is a natural number) And determining the current context by combining the context elements. The step (b) may further include calculating, for each of the at least one context element, the importance based on the distance between the previous attribute vector and the current attribute vector. The step (b) may further include calculating the current context by weighting and adding weights to each of the most important N context elements.

The step (c) may include mapping the current context to a light therapy recipe defining a light pattern formed by combining at least one of lightness, saturation, and hue of the at least one light group. The step (c) includes the steps of extracting at least one mutual influence context element included in the current context and synthesizing a light pattern for each extracted at least one mutual influence context element to generate the light therapy recipe .

In embodiments, the light therapy provision server is coupled to a light control terminal that controls at least one light group, each light including light capable of adjusting at least one of brightness, saturation, and hue. Wherein the server comprises a context determination unit for determining a current context of a light group profile receiving unit that receives a light group profile via the write control terminal and a light therapy recipe generation unit for generating a light therapy recipe based on the current context, And a light group control unit for controlling each of the one light group.

The disclosed technique may have the following effects. It is to be understood, however, that the scope of the disclosed technology is not to be construed as limited thereby, as it is not meant to imply that a particular embodiment should include all of the following effects or only the following effects.

The light therapy providing method and server according to an embodiment of the present invention can provide light therapy according to the current context including at least one of the state, weather, and music of individual users.

The light therapy providing method and the server according to the embodiment of the present invention can define the context in which the user changes in real time so that the light therapy can be performed according to the context and the user can directly set the context.

The light therapy providing method and the server according to an embodiment of the present invention can provide more efficient light therapy by setting different contexts to each lighting equipment desired by the user.

1 is a view for explaining a light therapy providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing the light therapy providing server of FIG.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a life therapy providing method performed by the light therapy server shown in FIG. 1;
FIGS. 4A to 4D are diagrams for explaining a process of mapping a light and a context performed by the light therapy providing system shown in FIG. 1. FIG.
5A and 5B are diagrams illustrating a light therapy recipe generated by the light therapy providing system shown in FIG. 1 to control a light group.

The description of the present invention is merely an example for structural or functional explanation, and the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the embodiments described in the text. That is, the embodiments are to be construed as being variously embodied and having various forms, so that the scope of the present invention should be understood to include equivalents capable of realizing technical ideas. Also, the purpose or effect of the present invention should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention, since it does not mean that a specific embodiment should include all or only such effect.

Meanwhile, the meaning of the terms described in the present application should be understood as follows.

The terms "first "," second ", and the like are intended to distinguish one element from another, and the scope of the right should not be limited by these terms. For example, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component.

It is to be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected to the other element, but there may be other elements in between. On the other hand, when an element is referred to as being "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that there are no other elements in between. On the other hand, other expressions that describe the relationship between components, such as "between" and "between" or "neighboring to" and "directly adjacent to" should be interpreted as well.

It is to be understood that the singular " include " or "have" are to be construed as including the stated feature, number, step, operation, It is to be understood that the combination is intended to specify that it does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, or combinations thereof.

In each step, the identification code (e.g., a, b, c, etc.) is used for convenience of explanation, the identification code does not describe the order of each step, Unless otherwise stated, it may occur differently from the stated order. That is, each step may occur in the same order as described, may be performed substantially concurrently, or may be performed in reverse order.

All terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Commonly used predefined terms should be interpreted to be consistent with the meanings in the context of the related art and can not be interpreted as having ideal or overly formal meaning unless explicitly defined in the present application.

1 is a view for explaining a light therapy providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the light therapy providing system 100 includes at least one light group 110, a light control terminal 112, and a light therapy providing server 120, which can be connected through a network.

At least one of the light groups 110 may be classified into a group having the same light pattern and may correspond to a unit that can be controlled by the light therapy providing server 120 and each may control at least one of brightness, And a light source. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, at least one light group 110 may correspond to four light groups 110a, 110b, 110c, and 110d that reflect four segments. For example, the compartments may be classified into a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen, and a study room depending on their use, and the first to fourth light groups 110a, 110b, 110c, and 110d may be classified into a bedroom, a living room, .

The light control terminal 112 may be connected to the light therapy providing server 120 and may control at least one light group 110 in cooperation with the light therapy providing server 120. The light control terminal 112 corresponds to a client computing device connected to the light therapy providing server 120, and may be implemented, for example, as a desktop, a notebook, a tablet PC, or a smart phone.

The light therapy providing server 120 determines the current context and controls the light group 110 through the light control terminal 112 to provide light therapy. Here, the context may include subjective or objective conditions that may affect light therapy, for example, the subjective state may include the emotions of the individual user, and the objective state may be the light control terminal 112 The weather of the located space and the music in the space where the light control terminal 112 is located. Hereinafter, the light therapy providing server 120 will be described with reference to FIG.

2 is a block diagram showing the light therapy providing server of FIG.

2, the light therapy providing server 120 includes a light group profile receiving unit 121, a context determining unit 122, a light group controlling unit 123, a communication unit 124, a memory unit 125, and a control unit 126 And may be connected to the write control terminal 112 via a network to control the respective write groups 110. [

The write group profile receiving unit 121 can receive the write group profile via the write control terminal 112. [ Here, the write group profile may be set by connecting a user terminal, such as a smart phone, to the write control terminal 112 and may include a write group identifier (e.g., group 1, group 2, group 3, group 4, ), A light set belonging to each group (for example, G1, G2, G3, ..., Gn), and a light group attribute (for example, properties depending on the use of a compartment, such as living room, living room, study room, and kitchen). For example, a write group profile may contain information in each of at least one light group 110, e.g., {[Group 1, (G1, G2), Living Room], [Group 2, (G1) Group 3, (G1), study room], [group 4, (G1, G2, G3), kitchen]}.

The context determination unit 122 can determine the current context. Here, the current context includes at least one context element recognized by the write control terminal 112. In one embodiment, the at least one contextual element may correspond to one of an individual user status, weather, and music. The context determination unit 122 calculates the importance of at least one context element. In one embodiment, the importance may indicate a priority between at least one context element, and the context element that has changed most significantly from the previous one may have the highest priority. When the importance of each of at least one context element is calculated, the context determining unit 122 may determine the most important N (N is a natural number) context element, and determine the current context by combining the N context elements.

For example, the user state may represent the emotion of the user inferred through at least one of the biometric information of the user such as the user's facial expression and the heart rate, and may be expressed by a user emotion vector grouping a plurality of emotion elements. For example, the user state may be expressed as a user emotion vector {degree of depression, degree of excitement, degree of stress, degree of fatigue}.

For example, the weather may indicate the weather environment of the space where the light control terminal 112 is located, and may be expressed as a weather environment vector clustered with a plurality of weather elements. For example, the weather can be represented by a weather environment vector {temperature, humidity, wind velocity, wind direction, rainfall amount, snowfall amount}.

For example, the music may represent the genre of music recognized at the light control terminal 112 and may be represented by a music genre vector clustered of a plurality of acoustic elements. For example, music can be expressed as a music genre vector {genre, speed, rhythm}.

The context determination unit 122 may calculate the distance between the previous attribute vector and the current attribute vector for each of at least one context element in the importance calculation process and calculate the importance in proportion to the distance. That is, the context determination unit 122 obtains the previous attribute vector previously stored in the memory unit 125 for each of at least one context element, calculates the difference between the previous attribute vector and the current attribute vector, Can be calculated in order of greatest importance.

The context determining unit 122 may assign a weight to each of the most important N context elements, and may calculate a current context by summing the weights. For example, the context determination unit 122 compares the difference between the previous attribute vector for each context element and the current attribute vector, and calculates the importance in the descending order of the distance difference between the vectors. The context determination unit 122 assigns weights (? 1,? 2, ...,? N) proportional to the difference between the previous attribute vector and the current attribute vector to each of the most important N context elements, multiplies each context element, Context elements can be summed to yield the current context.

The light group control unit 123 can generate a light therapy recipe based on the current context and control each of the at least one light group 110 through the light control terminal 112. [

In one embodiment, the write group control unit 123 may map the current context to a light therapy recipe defined by a light pattern formed by combining at least one of brightness, saturation, and hue of at least one light group 110 . Here, the light pattern defines a change in at least one of intensity and hue of periodic light of at least one light group 110.

The write group control unit 123 extracts at least one mutual influence context element included in the current context. Here, the mutual influence context element is a derived or disassembled entity (i. E., A value obtained by weighting each of the most important N context elements, multiplied by each context element, and summing each context element) N correspondence context elements. The write group control unit 123 can reflect the state of the user n reflected by the weather through these calculations. The light group control unit 123 can generate a light therapy recipe by synthesizing light patterns relating to each of at least one mutual influence context element. Here, the composition may correspond to a vector sum as a sum about each of the at least one mutual influence context element. The light group control unit 123 combines at least one mutual influence context element included in the current context, that is, a light pattern value for each individual user, a light pattern value for weather, and a light pattern value for music, You can create a light therapy recipe.

The communication unit 124 may be connected between the write group profile receiving unit 121 and the write control terminal 112 of the write group 110 via the network.

The memory unit 125 stores the current context determined by the context determination unit 122, and the light therapy recipe generated based on the current context may be stored.

The control unit 126 controls the overall operation of the light therapy providing server 120 and controls the control flow or data between the write group profile receiving unit 121, the context determining unit 122, the write group control unit 123, You can control the flow.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a life therapy providing method performed by the light therapy server shown in FIG. 1;

3, the light group profile receiving unit 121 of the light therapy providing server 120 can receive the light group profile via the light control terminal 112 (step S310). Here, the write group profile may be set by connecting a user terminal, such as a smart phone, to the write control terminal 112 and may include a write group identifier (e.g., group 1, group 2, group 3, group 4, ), A light set belonging to each group (for example, G1, G2, G3, ..., Gn), and a light group attribute (for example, properties depending on the use of a compartment, such as living room, living room, study room, and kitchen).

The context determining unit 122 of the light therapy providing server 120 can determine the current context (step S320). The context determination unit 122 calculates the importance of at least one context element. When the importance of each of at least one context element is calculated, the context determining unit 122 may determine the most important N (N is a natural number) context element, and determine the current context by combining the N context elements. The context determination unit 122 may calculate the distance between the previous attribute vector and the current attribute vector for each of at least one context element in the importance calculation process and calculate the importance in proportion to the distance. The context determining unit 122 may assign a weight to each of the most important N context elements, and may calculate a current context by summing the weights.

The light group control unit 123 of the light therapy providing server 120 can generate a light therapy recipe based on the current context and control each of the at least one light group 110 through the light control terminal 112 (Step S330). The light group control unit 123 can map the current context to a light therapy recipe defined by a light pattern formed by combining at least one of lightness, saturation, and hue of at least one light group 110. The write group control unit 123 extracts at least one mutual influence context element included in the current context. The light group control unit 123 can generate a light therapy recipe by synthesizing light patterns relating to each of at least one mutual influence context element.

FIGS. 4A to 4D are diagrams for explaining a process of mapping a light and a context performed by the light therapy providing system shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 4A, a user can inquire a controllable light (or illumination) in a specific space desired by the user through a user terminal. As shown in FIG. 4A, when the user selects a living room, the light therapy providing server 120 displays 11 lights that can be controlled to the user terminal. Here, the light therapy providing server 120 can automatically search for the position of the inquired light, and can be manually grouped by mapping with space or other concepts according to user selection, or can be used by using the individual light as it is .

Referring to FIGS. 4B and 4C, the user selects three lights to be controlled among the eleven lights displayed on the user terminal, and lights the selected three lights G1, G2 and G3.

4D, the three lights G1, G2 and G3 selected by the user can be grouped into respective light sections, that is, spaces (for example, bedrooms, living rooms, study rooms) have. The three lights selected by the user can map the context based on the group as shown in FIG. 4D, and can map the context for each of the lights.

5A and 5B are diagrams illustrating a light therapy recipe generated by the light therapy providing system shown in FIG. 1 to control a light group.

Referring to FIGS. 5A and 5B, the light therapy providing server 120 can inquire contexts such as a user's state (stress, emotion, fatigue, excitement) and weather, and based on the lightness of at least one light , Saturation and color can be adjusted to provide light therapy.

Referring to FIG. 5A, the light therapy provision mode provides various illumination modes such as emotional illumination (or light), fatigue illumination, excitation illumination, weather illumination, and music illumination, and various light therapies can be provided according to each mode have. The user can set the context according to each space, group, and light. For example, if the user maps the context based on the user's emotions to the living room, the light in the living room can be provided with the light therapy according to the change of the emotion of the user. Here, the light therapy according to the user's emotions can be expressed as [Table 1]. Table 1 shows the light therapy for the user's emotions by adjusting the hue, saturation and brightness of the light.

The information needed to control the light, such as color, saturation, and brightness, must be predefined for the light's value, the pattern function to control the light, the exposure time, and so on. You can control the light group. For example, if five light bulbs are mapped in the living room and the living room is set to respond to the user's emotions, if the user's emotions are happy and happy (see Table 1), then Yellow (Hue: 19663 / Brightness : 254 / Saturation: 254) By providing a color light, you can keep your current emotion more efficiently and for a long time.

Therefore, the light therapy providing method and the server can provide the light therapy according to the current context including at least one of the state, the weather, and the music of the individual user, and the user can define the context in which the real time is changed, In addition to setting the context directly, the user can set different contexts for each lighting device desired by the user, thereby providing more efficient light therapy.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims And changes may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

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Claims (8)

A light therapy providing method performed by a light therapy providing server connected to a light control terminal for controlling at least one light group each including light capable of adjusting at least one of lightness, saturation and color,
(a) receiving a write group profile via the write control terminal;
(b) determining a current context; And
(c) generating a light therapy recipe based on the current context and controlling each of the at least one light group through the light control terminal.
The method of claim 1, wherein step (a)
Receiving a light group profile that can be set via a user terminal and includes a light group identifier, a light set, and a write attribute for each of the at least one light group.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b)
Wherein each of the plurality of context elements is recognized by the light control terminal and each of the plurality of context elements is associated with at least one context element corresponding to one of the individual user state, weather, and music, and the most important N (N is a natural number) And determining the current context as the current context.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein step (b)
Further comprising the step of calculating the importance of each of the at least one context element based on a distance between a previous attribute vector and a current attribution vector.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein step (b)
Further comprising the step of calculating the current context by weighting and summing each of the most important N context elements. ≪ Desc / Clms Page number 19 >
2. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c)
And mapping the current context to a light therapy recipe defining a light pattern formed by combining at least one of lightness, saturation, and hue of the at least one light group.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein step (c)
Further comprising the step of extracting at least one mutual influence context element included in the current context and synthesizing a light pattern for each extracted at least one mutual influence context element to generate the light therapy recipe The method of providing light therapy.
A light therapy providing server connected to a light control terminal for controlling at least one light group each including light capable of adjusting at least one of lightness, saturation and hue,
A light group profile receiver for receiving a write group profile via the write control terminal;
A context determining unit for determining a current context; And
And a light group control unit for generating a light therapy recipe based on the current context and controlling each of the at least one light group through the light control terminal.

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