Ambience lighting system for a display device and a method of operating such an ambience lighting system

1. An ambience lighting system for a display device, comprising:

at least one light source mounted at the periphery or at the rear side of the display device for emitting an ambience light onto a wall behind the display device;

an input means for receiving color information indicating the color of the wall; and

a processor for adjusting the color of the emitted ambience light to the received color information of the wall such that the light reflected from the wall towards a viewing area of the display device matches substantially the screen colors of the display device;

wherein the processor adjusts the color of the emitted ambience light in accordance with instructions selected from the group consisting of:

a pre-defined set of rules, including a look-up table, which link the received color information of the wall to the color to be emitted by the at least one light source; and

determining a color point opposite the received input color, the determining being made in accordance to a reference whitepoint value, and calculating a matrix with an updated whitepoint value based on the opposite color point for the color to be emitted by the at least one light source, the matrix containing said adjusted color information.

2. An ambience lighting system according to claim 1 , wherein the input means is manually operated by a user which, during a setup phase of the ambience lighting system, selects the color of the wall.

3. An ambience lighting system according to claim 1 , wherein the received color information is obtained from an automatic wall color detection system.

4. A display device comprising an ambience lighting system as claimed in claim 1 .

5. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the display device is selected from the group consisting of at least one of:

a LCD device;

a plasma device;

an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device; and

a projection screen.

6. A method of operating an ambience lighting system for a display device including at least one light source mounted at the periphery or at the rear side of the display device for emitting an ambience light onto a wall behind the display device, comprising:

receiving color information indicating the color of the wall; and

adjusting the color of the emitted ambience light to the received color information of the wall such that the light reflected from the wall towards a viewing area of the display device matches substantially the screen colors of the display device;

wherein adjusting the color of the emitted ambience light comprises steps selected from the group consisting of:

adjusting the color in accordance to a pre-defined set of rules, including a look-up table, which link the received color information of the wall to the color to be emitted by the at least one light source; and

determining a color point opposite the received input color, the determining being made in accordance to a reference whitepoint value, and calculating a matrix with an updated whitepoint value based on the opposite color point for the color to be emitted by the at least one light source, the matrix containing said adjusted color information.

7. A method according to claim 6 , wherein the step of receiving color information comprises:

displaying at least a part of a color triangle representing the color domain of the at least one light source; and

receiving an input from a user indicating the color of the wall by selecting a color point on the displayed color triangle part.

8. A computer program product for instructing a processing unit to execute the method step of claim 6 when the product is run on a computer device.