Device for Diagnosing Brain Disease
AssigneeNatsume Research Institute, Co., Ltd.
InventorsWataru KURASHIMA, Kouichi KIKUCHI
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Abstract
To provide a device which can diagnose a brain disease by observing a pupil diameter. A device for diagnosing a brain disease, equipped with a display image control section (3), an imaging section (5) and a judgment section (7), wherein the display image control section (3) can vary a display image displayed on a display section on the basis of a first pattern, the imaging section (5) can take an image of the pupil of a user who watches the display image, and the judgment section (7) can determine whether or not the user is affected with a brain disease using a pattern of the time-dependent change in the size of the pupil of the user which is imaged by the imaging section and the first pattern.
Claims9
A device for diagnosing a brain disease, comprising:
- a display image control unit that changes a display image displayed on a display unit based on a first pattern that varies based on a predetermined time pattern;
- a photographing unit that photographs a pupil of a user who visually recognizes the display image;
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- a determination unit that determines whether the user has a brain disease using information relating to a pattern of time-dependent changes in size of the pupil of the user photographed by the photographing unit and relating to the predetermined time pattern of the first pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.