System and method of providing service for enhancing attention on internet

• US 20020120208A1
• Filed: 02/21/2002
• Published: 08/29/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Back-Hwan Cho, Dong Joo Kang, Dong-Pyo Jang, In-Young Kim, Jae-Seok Kim, Jang Han Lee, Jeong-Hun Ku, Sun-Il Kim
• Original Assignee: Back-Hwan Cho, Dong Joo Kang, Dong-Pyo Jang, In-Young Kim, Jae-Seok Kim, Jang Han Lee, Jeong-Hun Ku, Sun-Il Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Sun-Il, Lee, Jang Han, Kang, Dong Joo, Cho, Back-Hwan, Ku, Jeong-Hun, Jang, Dong-Pyo, Kim, In-Young, Kim, Jae-Seok
• Application Number:
  US10/078,421
• Publication Number:
  US 20020120208A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/545
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/375 using biofeedback

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method and system of network psychiatric diagnosis and therapy for patients suffering from attention deficit disorder.

The present invention comprises a biofeedback sensor for evaluating the status and progress of the trainee'"'"'s exercise.

Claims

1. A method of providing a network psychiatric therapy to a trainee for enhancing the attention of the trainee sitting in front of a computer terminal, comprising steps of:

(a) presenting psychiatric exercise contents for enhancing the trainee'"'"'s attention at the trainee'"'"'s terminal visiting the home page of a host server;

(b) sending a bio-feedback data including the trainee'"'"'s brain waves from the trainee'"'"'s terminal to the host server while the trainee performs the psychiatric exercise by enjoying the contents on the web; and

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(c) updating psychiatric exercise contents for the trainee in accordance with the analysis on the current bio-feedback data of the trainee as well as the progress data of the trainee'"'"'s exercise and thereby providing the analysis data to the trainee on the web.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said network comprises of either one or the combinations from the group of Internet, cable television network, satellite communication network, wireless communication network, and PSTN.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said step (b) further comprises steps of:

(a) storing said biofeedback data and the trainee'"'"'s progress report at a database; and

(b) having a trainer get an access to the data about the trainee for the analysis and advice.

4. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said contents comprise a three-dimensional virtual reality or a two-dimensional animation.

5. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said biofeedback data of the trainee'"'"'s brain wave comprises either one or the combination from the group of an SMR-wave, a beta wave, and a theta wave.

6. The method as set forth in claim 4 wherein said two-dimensional animation comprises either one or the combination from the group of attention, sustained attention, selective attention, attention shift, and scattered attention, while the subject comprises either one or the combination from the group of a visual comparison module, auditory comparison module, memory comparison module, and attention shifting module.

7. A network therapy system for psychiatric treatment comprising:

(a) a host server providing psychiatric exercise contents for enhancing attention to a trainee'"'"'s terminal visiting the homepage and receiving a bio-feedback data and a progress report of the trainee'"'"'s psychiatric exercise from the terminal;

(b) a trainee'"'"'s computer terminal displaying the contents to said trainee and sending the bio-feedback data including the trainee'"'"'s brain wave data to said host server;

(c) a database server storing the progress record of the trainee'"'"'s exercise and the bio-feedback data;

(d) a trainer'"'"'s computer terminal wherein said trainer provides the prescription or the advise either on-line or off-line upon the analysis of the data of the trainee; and

(e) a network that connects said trainee'"'"'s computer terminal, said host server, said database server, and said trainer'"'"'s computer terminal.

8. The system as set forth in claim 7 wherein said network comprises of either one or the combinations from the group of Internet, cable television network, satellite communication network, wireless communication network, and PSTN.