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US 11,445,971 B2Granted
Brainwave actuated apparatus
AssigneeInteraxon Inc.
InventorSteve Mann
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Abstract
A brainwave actuated apparatus has a brainwave sensor for outputting a brainwave signal, an effector responsive to an input signal, and a controller operatively connected to an output of said brainwave sensor and a control input to said effector. The controller is adapted to determine characteristics of a brainwave signal output by said brainwave sensor and based on said characteristics, derive a control signal to output to said effector.
Claims16
A brainwave actuated apparatus, comprising:
- a brainwave sensor for outputting brainwave signals;
- an effector responsive to an input signal to provide biofeedback to a user;
- a controller operatively connected to an output of the brainwave sensor to receive the brainwave signals and a control input to the effector, said controller adapted to:
- determine brainwave characteristics of the brainwave signal output by said the brainwave sensor, the characteristics indicative of a brain state of the user;
- determine that the brain state of the user is a sleep state;
- and
- derive a control signal to provide biofeedback stimulus by the effector based at least in part on the brain state, wherein the control signal is configured to provide the biofeedback stimulus to entrain a desired brain state and the biofeedback stimulus is in a range of desired brainwave entrainment and phase locked with the brainwave characteristics of the user, in a phase locked loop.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- determining brainwave characteristics of brainwave signals output from a brainwave sensor, the characteristics indicative of a brain state of a user;
- determining that the brain state of the user is a sleep state;
- and
- determining a control signal to provide a biofeedback stimulus from an effector to the user based at least in part on the brain state,
- receiving additional brainwave signals tuned to a range of frequencies corresponding to the biofeedback stimulus for brainwave entrainment, wherein the biofeedback stimulus is output in a phase locked loop with the brainwave signals tuned to the range of frequencies.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.