US 9,691,289 B2Granted

Monotonous game-like task to promote effortless automatic recognition of sight words

AssigneeBrightstar Learning

InventorsJose Roberto Kullok, Saul Kullok

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Abstract

System and methods are provided to promote effortless automatic recognition of common sight words. A subject performs a game-like task that generates novel non-verbal visual stimuli that triggers visual attention shifts that enhance foveal and parafoveal recognition of non-verbal and verbal stimuli laterally presented in the right or left visual field. The present invention engages a shared motor-perceptual-cognitive neural network involving oculomotor, visuo-motor and selective executive cognitive behaviors on both brain hemispheres. The present invention has applications to a wide range of non-verbal pre-orthographic visual processes and early lexical processes, not only contributing to enabling reading fluency to dyslexics, reluctant and slow readers, but also to beginning readers. The present invention has wide applications in learning disabilities and normative individuals learning to read.

Claims78

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for producing interactive visuo-motor and/or interactive oculomotor non-verbal stimuli in a subject, the method comprising:

displaying a first visualization of first and second graphical objects on a display communicatively coupled with one or more processors, the first graphical object having a first color, and the second graphical object comprising a pathway having a geometric wave form and a graphical reference marker equidistant from a left and a right borderline of the pathway, wherein the pathway is defined by a parameter;
receiving, via an input device communicatively coupled with the one or more processors, a command from a user to change a display position of the first graphical object, wherein the command is based on visuo-motor voluntary control of the user;
changing a display position of the first graphical object on the display according to an application of kinematical predefined rules to the command from a first display position to a second display position;
determining, on the one or more processors, a new value of the parameter based on a normalized performance score for the user, wherein the form of the pathway defined by the second graphical object changes based on the normalized performance score for the user, wherein the normalized performance score for the user is determined based on the second display position of the first graphical object relative to the graphical reference marker;
determining, on the one or more processors, a second visualization of the first and second graphical objects, based at least on the second display position of the first graphical object, and the pathway defined by the determined new value of the parameter,
wherein the second visualization of the first graphical object comprises a second color of the first graphical object, the second color being selected based on an idle time of the subject compared with a predetermined idle threshold time value, the idle time being determined based on aggregation of a plurality of time gaps between arrival times of consecutive interrupts received at the one or more processors from the input device;
and
displaying, on the display, the second visualization of the first and second graphical object.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage device having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for producing interactive visuo-motor and/or interactive oculomotor non-verbal stimuli in a subject, execution of which, by a computing device, causes the computing device to perform operations comprising:

displaying a first visualization of first and second graphical objects on a display communicatively coupled with one or more processors, the first graphical object having a first color, and the second graphical object comprising a pathway having a geometric wave form and a graphical reference marker equidistant from a left and a right borderline of the pathway, wherein the pathway is defined by a parameter;
receiving, via an input device communicatively coupled with the one or more processors, command from a user to change a display position of the first graphical object, wherein the command is based on visuo-motor voluntary control of the user;
changing a display position of the first graphical object on the display according to an application of kinematical predefined rules to the command from a first display position to a second display position;
determining, on the one or more processors, a new value of the parameter based on a normalized performance score for the user, wherein the form of the pathway defined by the second graphical object changes based on the normalized performance score for the user, wherein the normalized performance score for the user is determined based on the second display position of the first graphical object relative to the graphical reference marker;
determining, on the one or more processors, a second visualization of the first and second graphical objects, based at least on the second display position of the first graphical object, and the pathway defined by the determined new value of the parameter,
wherein the second visualization of the first graphical object comprises a second color of the first graphical object, the second color being selected based on an idle time of the subject compared with a predetermined idle threshold time value, the idle time being determined based on aggregation of a plurality of time gaps between arrival times of consecutive interrupts received at the one or more processors from the input device;
and
displaying, on the display, the second visualization of the first and second graphical object.

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A system for producing interactive visuo-motor and/or interactive oculomotor non-verbal stimuli in a subject, the system comprising:

one or more processors configured to process a plurality of instructions;
and
a memory configured to store the plurality of instructions comprising instructions for:
displaying a first visualization of first and second graphical objects on a display communicatively coupled with one or more processors, the first graphical object having a first color, and the second graphical object comprising a pathway having a geometric wave form and a graphical reference marker equidistant from a left and a right borderline of the pathway, wherein the pathway is defined by a parameter;
receiving, via an input device communicatively coupled with the one or more processors, a command from a user to change a display position of the first graphical object, wherein the command is based on visuo-motor voluntary control of the user;
changing a display position of the first graphical object on the display according to an application of kinematical predefined rules to the command from a first display position to a second display position;
determining, on the one or more processors, a new value of the parameter based on a normalized performance score for the user, wherein the form of the pathway defined by the second graphical object changes based on the normalized performance score for the user, wherein the normalized performance score for the user is determined based on the second display position of the first graphical object relative to the graphical reference marker;
determining, on the one or more processors, a second visualization of the first and second graphical objects, based at least on the second display position of the first graphical object, and the pathway defined by the determined new value of the parameter,
wherein the second visualization of the first graphical object comprises a second color of the first graphical object, the second color being selected based on an idle time of the subject compared with a predetermined idle threshold time value, the idle time being determined based on aggregation of a plurality of time gaps between arrival times of consecutive interrupts received at the one or more processors from the input device;
and
displaying, on the display, the second visualization of the first and second graphical objects.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/326,675Filed 15 Dec 2011 · us provisional application
Priority: 22 Dec 2010
Published: US 2012/0164618 A128 Jun 2012
Granted: 27 Jun 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification28 codes

G09B 5/00
Electrically-operated educational appliances
A61B 5/0022
Characterised by features of the telemetry system: monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
A61B 5/162
Devices for psychotechnics ; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state: testing reaction times
A61B 5/163
Devices for psychotechnics ; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state: by tracking eye movement, gaze, or pupil change

Family

Application61/425,845Us provisional application · filed 22 Dec 2010
Application61/429,265Us provisional application · filed 3 Jan 2011
Application61/524,887Us provisional application · filed 18 Aug 2011
US 2012/0164618 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 Jun 2012
US 9,691,289 B2This patent

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