# US 8,465,289 B2 · Training assisting apparatus, training assisting method, and training assisting program stored on a computer readable medium > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,465,289 B2 - Document ID: US8465289B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 12/294,933 - Filed: 2007-03-26 - Published: 2010-07-15 - Granted: 2013-06-18 - Earliest claimed: 2006-03-28 - Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation - Applicants: Hirokazu Kameyama; Shuji Ono - Inventors: Hirokazu Kameyama; Shuji Ono - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8465289B2 ## CPC - A61B 5/16: Devices for psychotechnics (using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00); Testing reaction times {; Devices for evaluating the psychological state} - A61B 5/165: {Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety} - A61M 21/00: Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis - A61M 2021/005: {images, e.g. video} - A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D) - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} ## Abstract An examinee is subjected to an image or a sound suitable for the examinee's overcoming his worries in accordance with change in a physical state of the examinee. The training assisting apparatus according to the present invention is at training assisting apparatus for assisting an examinee in overcoming the examinee's worries by displaying a training image, including: a display section that displays the training image; a display ratio storage section that stores a change quantity of a display ratio of the training image displayed on the display section, in association with a physical state of the examinee; a physical state acquiring section that acquires the physical state of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display section; a display ratio extraction section that extracts the change quantity of the display ratio of the training image stored in the display ratio storage section in association with the physical state of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring section; and a display control section that changes the display ratio of the training image displayed on the display section, in accordance with the display ratio of the training image extracted by the display ratio extraction section. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A training assisting apparatus for assisting an examinee in overcoming the examinee's worries by displaying a training image on a display section, comprising: a physical state acquiring section including a sensor that acquires a heart rate of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display section; and a display control section controls the display section which includes a display screen to display the training image such that a change quantity of at least one of a combination ratio of the training image, a superimposing degree of the training image and the number of simultaneously displayed training images toward a negative direction is larger, in association with a case where a change quantity per unit time of the heart rate, acquired by the physical state acquiring section, towards a positive direction is larger further comprising an examinee's line-of-sight measurement section that detects a direction of line of sight of the examinee, wherein the display control section controls the display section to display the training image by causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight of the examinee such that a change quantity of the speed of causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight measured by the examinee's line-of-sight measurement section toward a negative direction is larger, in association with a case where a change quantity per unit time of the heart rate, acquired by the physical state acquiring section, towards a positive direction is larger; and wherein the display control section controls the display section to display the training image by stopping causing the training image to follow the direction of line of sight of the examinee, in association with a case where a change quantity per unit time of the heart rate, acquired by the physical state acquiring section, exceeds a predetermined rate indicating that the examinee is feeling extraordinary fear. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The training assisting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the display section displays the training image by inserting the training image to a motion picture that is not a training image. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The training assisting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the display section displays a combination of the training image and the non-training image. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The training assisting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the display section displays the training image by superimposing the training image on a non-training image. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The training assisting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: an image-capturing section that captures an image of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display section, the physical state acquiring section acquires the motion of the examinee, by analyzing the image of the examinee captured by the image-capturing section, and a display ratio extraction section extracts the change quantity of the display ratio of the training image in association with the motion of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring section. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The training assisting apparatus as set forth in claim 5, wherein the physical state acquiring section acquires the change quantity per unit time of the motion of the examinee, by analyzing the image of the examinee captured by the image-capturing section, and the display ratio extraction section extracts the change quantity of the display ratio of the training image in association with the change quantity per unit time of the motion of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring section. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The training assisting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: a biological information measurement section that measures biological information of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display section, wherein a display ratio storage section stores the change quantity of the display ratio of the training image displayed on the display section, in association with biological information of the examinee being the physical state of the examinee, the physical state acquiring section acquires the biological information of the examiner measured by the biological information measurement section, and a display ratio extraction section extracts the change quantity of the display ratio of the training image that the display ratio storage section stores in association with the biological information of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring section. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The training assisting apparatus as set forth in claim 7, wherein the display ratio storage section stores the change quantity of the display ratio of the training image displayed on the display section, in association with a change quantity per unit time of the biological information of the examinee, the physical state acquiring section acquires the change quantity per unit time of the biological information of the examinee measured by the biological information measurement section, and the display ratio extraction section extracts the display ratio of the training image that the display ratio storage section stores in association with the change quantity per unit time of the biological information of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring section. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The training assisting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: a sound playback section that plays back sound that corresponds to the training image displayed on the display section; a sound change quantity storage section that stores a change quantity of an information quantity of the sound played back by the sound playback section, in association with the physical state of the examinee; a sound change quantity extraction section that extracts the change quantity of the information quantity of the sound that the sound change quantity storage section stores in association with the physical state of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring section; and a sound change control section that changes the information quantity of the sound played back by the sound playback section, in association with the change quantity of the information quantity of the sound extracted by the sound change quantity extraction section. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The training assisting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: a change quantity storage section that stores a larger change quantity as a change quantity of at least one of the combination ratio of the training image, the superimposing degree of the training image and the number of simultaneously displayed training images toward a negative direction, in association with a case where a change quantity per unit time of the heart rate of the examinee, acquired by the physical state acquiring section, toward a positive direction is larger; and an extraction section that extracts the change quantity of at least one of the combination ratio of the training image, the superimposing degree of the training image and the number of simultaneously displayed training images that the change quantity storage section stores in association with the heat rate of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring section, wherein the display control section controls the display section to display the training image, in accordance with the change quantity of at least one of the combination ratio of the training image, the superimposing degree of the training image and the number of simultaneously displayed training images extracted by the extraction section. ### Claim 11 A training assisting apparatus for assisting an examinee in overcoming the examinee's worries by displaying a training image, comprising: a display section that displays the training image on a display screen; an image-capturing section that captures an image of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display section; an examinee's line-of-sight measurement section that detects a direction of line of sight of the examinee based on the image of the examinee captured by the image-capturing section; and a display control section that controls the display section to display the training image on the display screen by causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight of the examinee measured in the examinee's line-of-sight measurement section; a physical state acquiring section including a sensor that acquires, as a physical state of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display section, at least one of a heart rate of the examinee and the number of times of blinks of the examinee; a following speed change quantity storage section that stores a larger change quantity as a change quantity of the speed of causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight toward a negative direction, in association with a case where a change quantity of the physical state of the examinee, acquired by the physical state acquiring section, per unit time toward a positive direction is larger; and a following speed extraction section that extracts the change quantity of the speed of causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight of the examinee that the following speed change quantity storage section stores in association with the physical state of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring section, wherein the display control section controls the display section to display the training image by causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight of the examinee, in accordance with the change quantity of the speed of causing the training image to follow extracted by the following speed extraction section, wherein the following speed change quantity storage section stores information indicating to display the training image without moving the training image, in association with a predetermined physical state indicating that the examinee is feeling extraordinary fear, the following speed change quantity extraction section extracts the information indicating to display the training image without moving the training image stored in the following speed change quantity storage section, if the physical state of the examine acquired by the physical state acquiring section is the predetermined physical state, and the display control section controls the display section to display the training image based on the information indicating to display the training image without moving the training image extracted by the following speed change quantity extraction section. ### Claim 12 A training assisting method for assisting an examinee in overcoming the examinee's worries by displaying a training image, comprising: using one or more processors to perform: a display step of displaying the training image on a display section; an image-capturing step of capturing an image of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display section; an examinee's line-of-sight measurement step of detecting a direction of line of sight of the examinee based on the image of the examinee captured in the image-capturing step; and a display control step of controlling the display section to display the training image by causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight of the examinee measured in the examinee's line-of-sight measurement step; a physical state acquiring step of acquiring, as a physical state of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display step, at least one of a heart rate of the examinee and the number of times of blinks of the examinee; a following speed change quantity storage step of storing a larger change quantity as a change quantity of the speed of causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight toward a negative direction, in association with a case where a change quantity of the physical state of the examinee, acquired by the physical state acquiring step, per unit time toward a positive direction is larger; and a following speed extraction step of extracting the change quantity of the speed of causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight of the examinee that the following speed change quantity storage step of storing in association with the physical state of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring step, wherein the display control step of controlling the display step of displaying the training image by causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight of the examinee, in accordance with the change quantity of the speed of causing the training image to follow extracted by the following speed extraction step, wherein the following speed change quantity storage step stores information indicating to display the training image without moving the training image, in association with a predetermined physical state indicating that the examinee is feeling extraordinary fear, the following speed change quantity extraction step extracts the information indicating to display the training image without moving the training image stored in the following speed change quantity storage step, if the physical state of the examine acquired by the physical state acquiring step is the predetermined physical state, and the display control step controls the display section to display the training image based on the information indicating to display the training image without moving the training image extracted by the following speed change quantity extraction step. ### Claim 13 A non-transitory computer readable medium storing thereon a training assisting program for a training assisting apparatus that assists an examinee in overcoming the examinee's worries by displaying a training image, the training assisting program causes the training assisting apparatus to function as: a display section that displays the training image; an image-capturing section that captures an image of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display section; an examinee's line-of-sight measurement section that detects a direction of line of sight of the examinee based on the image of the examinee captured by the image-capturing section; and a display control section that controls the display section to display the training image by causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight of the examinee; a physical state acquiring section that acquires, as a physical state of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display section, at least one of a heart rate of the examinee and the number of times of blinks of the examinee; a following speed change quantity storage section that stores a larger change quantity as a change quantity of the speed of causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight toward a negative direction, in association with a case where a change quantity of the physical state of the examinee, acquired by the physical state acquiring section, per unit time toward a positive direction is larger; and a following speed extraction section that extracts the change quantity of the speed of causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight of the examinee that the following speed change quantity storage section stores in association with the physical state of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring section, wherein the display control section controls the display section to display the training image by causing the training image to follow the direction of the line of sight of the examinee, in accordance with the change quantity of the speed of causing the training image to follow extracted by the following speed extraction section, wherein the following speed change quantity storage section stores information indicating to display the training image without moving the training image, in association with a predetermined physical state indicating that the examinee is feeling extraordinary fear, the following speed change quantity extraction section extracts the information indicating to display the training image without moving the training image stored in the following speed change quantity storage section, if the physical state of the examine acquired by the physical state acquiring section is the predetermined physical state, and the display control section controls the display section to display the training image based on the information indicating to display the training image without moving the training image extracted by the following speed change quantity extraction section.