Simplified Visual Screening Check on Television
OwnerSatoshi Ishiguroinventor
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Abstract
A television based visual screening method involves sequentially presenting a plurality of numbers of varying size on a television display; receiving a plurality of signals from a remote controller as a result of a user input from a keypad of the remote controller; determining if the signals received from the remote controller match the displayed numbers; deriving a measure of the user's vision from the matching of the received signals with the displayed numbers; and displaying a result indicative of the measure of the user's vision from the measure. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
Claims23
A visual screening method, comprising:
- on a television display, displaying an array of numbers arranged in rows and columns of numbers, where each of the rows contains numbers of a similar size and where the size of the numbers in each row differs from the size of numbers in each of the other rows;
- sequentially highlighting a plurality of the numbers displayed on the television display in order to prompt a user input;
- for each of the sequentially highlighted numbers, receiving a signal from a remote controller as a result of a user input to a number pad of the remote controller;
- determining if each of the received signals matches the displayed numbers;
- deriving a measure of the user's vision from the matching of the received signals with the displayed numbers;
- and
- displaying a result indicative of the measure of the user's vision from the measure.
A visual screening method, comprising:
- sequentially presenting a plurality of numbers of varying size on a television display;
- receiving a plurality of signals from a remote controller as a result of a user input from a keypad of the remote controller;
- determining if the signals received from the remote controller match the displayed numbers;
- deriving a measure of the user's vision from the matching of the received signals with the displayed numbers;
- and
- displaying a result indicative of the measure of the user's vision from the measure.
A television device that provides visual screening, comprising:
- a television receiver device having a display;
- a control processor that controls at least a portion of the operation of the television receiver device, said processor further carrying out a visual screening function comprising:
- sequentially presenting a plurality of numbers of varying size for display on the television receiver's display;
- receiving a plurality of signals from a remote controller as a result of a user input from a keypad of the remote controller;
- determining if the signals received from the remote controller match the displayed numbers;
- deriving a measure of the user's vision from the matching of the received signals with the displayed numbers;
- and
- causing the television receiver's display to display a result indicative of the measure of the user's vision from the measure.
A television device that provides visual screening, comprising:
- a television receiver device having a display;
- a control processor that controls at least a portion of the operation of the television receiver device, said processor further carrying out a visual screening function comprising:
- presenting a vision test program for selection by a user on a television cross media bar menu system;
- receiving a user input selecting the vision test program;
- sequentially presenting a plurality of numbers of varying size for display on the television receiver's display;
- where the sequential presentation is carried out by highlighting numbers selected from a plurality of numbers displayed on the television display, where the numbers are arranged on the display in a grid array having rows and columns and where each of the rows of the grid array carries numbers of similar size;
- receiving a plurality of signals from a remote controller as a result of a user input from a keypad of the remote controller;
- determining if the signals received from the remote controller match the displayed numbers;
- deriving an approximate visual acuity measure of the user's vision from the matching of the received signals with the displayed numbers;
- and
- causing the television receiver's display to display the visual acuity measure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.