# US 2024/0203282 A1 · Cognitive function testing device and storage medium

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- Number: US 2024/0203282 A1
- Document ID: US20240203282A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 18/591,996
- Filed: 2024-02-29
- Published: 2024-06-20
- Earliest claimed: 2022-06-20
- Assignees: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Miki OKUGAWA; Yuka SUZUKI; Hideyuki KOBAYASHI
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20240203282A1

## CPC

- G09B 7/02: of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student
- G09B 19/00: Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass (teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26)
- G09B: EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B)

## Abstract

A cognitive function testing device includes: a controller configured to execute a questioning process of outputting a first word to be memorized to an examinee, prompting the examinee to repeat the first word, and detecting a second word from a repeated voice of the examinee, an answer reception process of prompting the examinee to utter a word memorized by the examinee through the questioning process, and detecting a third word from an utterance voice of the examinee, and a result output process of outputting a result of determination based on the first word, the second word, and the third word.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A cognitive function testing device, comprising:
a controller configured to execute
a questioning process of outputting a first word to be memorized to an examinee, prompting the examinee to repeat the first word, and detecting a second word from a repeated voice of the examinee,
an answer reception process of prompting the examinee to utter a word memorized by the examinee through the questioning process, and detecting a third word from an utterance voice of the examinee, and
a result output process of outputting a result of determination based on the first word, the second word, and the third word.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The cognitive function testing device according to claim 1, wherein
in the determination, the controller determines that an answer is correct when the third word matches the first word.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The cognitive function testing device according to claim 1, wherein
in the determination, the controller determines that an answer is correct when the third word matches the second word.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The cognitive function testing device according to claim 3, wherein
in the questioning process, in response to the detected second word being different from the first word, the controller prompts the examinee to re-repeat the first word, and in a case where the second word is detected from a re-repeated voice of the examinee, the controller determines that an answer is correct when the third word matches the second word in the determination.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The cognitive function testing device according to claim 4, wherein
in a case where the second word is not detected from the re-repeated voice of the examinee, the controller does not determine that an answer is correct when the third word matches the second word in the determination.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The cognitive function testing device according to claim 1, wherein
the controller is configured to
sequentially execute the questioning process for a plurality of the first words, and
select, in a plurality of the questioning processes, based on the second word detected in a first questioning process, the first word in a second questioning process subsequent to the first questioning process.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The cognitive function testing device according to claim 6, wherein
the controller is configured to select the first word in the second questioning process from words different from the second word detected in the first questioning process.

### Claim 8 (depends on 6)

The cognitive function testing device according to claim 6, wherein
the first word in the plurality of the questioning processes is set in advance, and
the controller is configured to change the first word in the second questioning process to a word that is different from the second word detected in the first questioning process and that is in the same category as the first word set in advance in the second questioning process.

### Claim 9 (depends on 6)

The cognitive function testing device according to claim 6, wherein
when the second word detected in the first questioning process is different from the first word, the controller selects the first word in the second questioning process from a plurality of word candidates based on the number of characters of the word candidate.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The cognitive function testing device according to claim 1, wherein
the controller is configured to
store history information based on a detection result of the second word in a past test in association with the examinee, and
select the first word in the questioning process based on the history information.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The cognitive function testing device according to claim 1, wherein
the controller is configured to execute a training process between the questioning process and the answer reception process to reproduce content that applies a load on cognition of the examinee.

### Claim 12

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a cognitive function testing program for causing a processor of a cognitive function testing device to execute
a questioning process of outputting a first word to be memorized to an examinee, prompting the examinee to repeat the first word, and detecting a second word from a repeated voice of the examinee,
an answer reception process of prompting the examinee to utter a word memorized by the examinee through the questioning process, and detecting a third word from an utterance voice of the examinee, and
a result output process of outputting a result of determination based on the first word, the second word, and the third word.
