US 6,520,905 B1 · Management of physiological and psychological state of an individual using images portable biosensor device

Abstract

A method of classifying an individual's personal preference for an image, comprising: viewing an image for a period of time; and ranking the image on a scale extending between a “detached” feeling and an “attached” feeling, where “detached” is a feeling of not being able to personally connect to the object or situation depicted in the image, and “attached” is a feeling of a personal connection to the object or situation depicted in their image.

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Dependent claims

A method of monitoring the physiological state of an individual in order to alert the individual to perform physiological and psychological state management comprising:

providing a portable device worn by an individual, said device having at least one sensor for monitoring a physiological state of an individual carrying the device;
recording at least one sensed physiological state over a period of time;
analyzing the recorded physiological data to predict the individual's psychological and physiological state;
and
alerting the individual if the predicted state is determined to require management of said state wherein said recording, analyzing and alerting are carried out by a further device worn by said individual.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

09/429,967Filed 29 Oct 1999 · continuation

Priority

26 Feb 1998

Granted

18 Feb 2003

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

A61B 5/486
Other medical applications: biofeedback
A61B 5/16
Measuring for diagnostic purposes ; Identification of persons: devices for psychotechnics ; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the…
A61B 5/7264
Details of waveform analysis: classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems…
G16H 30/40
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical images: for processing medical images, e.g. editing

Management of physiological and psychological state of an individual using images portable biosensor device

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Management of physiological and psychological state of an individual using images portable biosensor device

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