US 8,576,340 B1Granted

Ambient light effects and chrominance control in video files

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsAdam Li, Megan Farrell, Aixin Liu, Djung Nguyen

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Abstract

Methods and systems for controlling ambient light effects associated with video content are provided. The method includes providing a receiving device configured to parse an incoming video file. The video file includes at least one track specifying at least one ambient light effect associated with at least one portion of the video file. The at least one track includes chrominance control data specifying at least one light color to be generated by the at least one lighting device. The method also includes parsing the video file at the receiving device to separate the track specifying the ambient light effect and the chrominance control data and sending a command to at least one lighting device to generate the ambient light effect specified in the track and the chrominance control data.

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Dependent claims

A method of producing an ambient light effect, the method comprising:

providing a receiving device configured to parse an incoming video file;
receiving the video file at the receiving device, the video file including at least one track specifying at least one ambient light effect associated with at least one portion of the video file, the at least one track including chrominance control data specifying at least one light color to be generated by at least one lighting device in communication with the receiving device;
parsing the video file at the receiving device to separate the at least one track specifying the at least one ambient light effect;
sending a command from the receiving device to the at least one lighting device specified in the at least one track to generate the at least one ambient light effect specified in the at least one track;
and
causing the at least one lighting device specified in the at least one track and receiving the command to generate the at least one light color specified by the chrominance control data when the at least one portion of the video file associated with the at least one ambient light effect is displayed.

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