Patent ID: 8938447
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: G06F,H04N,H05B

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling an ambient characteristic of at least one ambient device, the method comprising acts of: providing an ambient control system connected to a database having a plurality of files including multimedia content having a specific ambiance and a textual description of the ambiance, the database is selected from one or more locally and network connected databases; receiving a textual description of a desired ambiance as an input from an operator of the ambient control system; compiling a list of files of the plurality of files based on a match between the received textual description and the textual description of the files by dividing each file into regions and obtaining localized values for each region as part of a plurality of ambient parameters; for each file in the list of files creating an association between the received textual description and the average values of the plurality of ambient parameters including region information of the ambient parameters; and controlling the ambient characteristic of the at least one ambient device based on the association and selecting the multimedia content to display in a room based on the association, wherein the ambient characteristic includes background sound, and scent.