Biofeedback based personal entertainment system
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorLonnie D Mandigo
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Abstract
A personal entertainment system calibrated and controlled by the biological or physiological condition of a user is disclosed. The entertainment system includes a media player; a sensor operative to detect biological parameters and generating a control signal in response to the detected parameters, the sensor being operably coupled to the media player; and a processing element which associates the control signal to at least one type of media preference, and causes the media player to provide media stimuli based on the control signal. Thus the media stimuli provided by the entertainment system is specific to the individual preferences and detected condition of the user.
Claims21
A personal entertainment system, comprising:
- a media player;
- a sensor operative to detect biological parameters of a user and generating a control signal in response to the detected parameters, the sensor being operably coupled to the media player;
- and
- a processing element which associates the control signal to at least one type of media preference according to a user preference table that cross-references the detected biological parameters with the user's mood rind at least one type of media preference;
- and causes the media player to provide media stimuli based on the control signal.
A method of operating a personal entertainment system, comprising:
- monitoring a user;
- detecting measurable physiological conditions of the user in response to media stimuli and converting the detected conditions into a control signal, the control signal representing the physiological condition of the user;
- associating the control signal with at least one type of media stimuli preference according to a user preference table that cross-references the detected biological parameters with an identifier for the user's mood and at least one type of media stimuli preference;
- and
- providing the user with media stimuli in response to the control signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.