RFID systems for automatically triggering and delivering stimuli

• US 20050280544A1
• Filed: 05/17/2004
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David J. Mishelevich
• Original Assignee: David J. Mishelevich
• Inventors: Mishelevich, David J.
• Granted Patent: US 7,248,171 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 47/00 Smokers' requisites not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/16 Devices for psychotechnics using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4839 combined with drug delivery
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3603 Control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0717 the sensor being capable of sensing environmental conditions such as temperature history or pressure

Abstract

Systems using RFID tags to identify subjects or objects using RFID readers located on a subject or in a suitable enclosure with associated host computers, stimulus generators and associated output devices are provided. The interactions can generate immediate or delayed stimuli involving one or more output types as well as recording of events.

Claims

1. A method for generating stimuli comprising:

(a) detecting the presence of a Radio-Frequency ID (RFID) tag located on an entity using an RFID reader interfaced to a host computer,

(b) sending a control signal to a stimulus generator by and at a time and type determined by said host computer when the criteria incorporated in said host computer are met, and

(c) delivering the generated stimulus to the subject via an output device driven by said stimulus generator.

2. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 comprising:

(a) detecting the presence of a Radio-Frequency ID (RFID) tag located on an object using an RFID reader located on the subject interfaced to a host computer located on the subject,

(b) sending a control signal to a stimulus generator located on the subject by and at a time and type determined by said host computer when the criteria incorporated in said host computer are met, and

(c) delivering the generated stimulus output to the subject via an output device located on the subject where said stimulus output means selected from the group consisting of electrical, audio including speech, odor, light, heat, cold, mechanical, injection of a medicament, injection into the mouth of a substance causing taste, and delivery of an object.

3. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 comprising:

(a) detecting the presence of a Radio-Frequency ID (RFID) tag located on an object using an RFID reader located in an enclosure separate from the subject interfaced to a host computer located in said enclosure,

(b) sending a control signal to a stimulus generator located in said enclosure by and at a time and type determined by said host computer when the criteria incorporated in said host computer are met, and

(c) delivering the generated stimulus output to the subject via an output device located on the subject and interfaced to the stimulus generator using a communications means where said stimulus output means selected from the group consisting of electrical, audio including speech, odor, light, heat, cold, mechanical, injection of a medicament, injection into the mouth of a substance causing taste, and delivery of an object, and said communications means selected from the group consisting of wired and wireless.

4. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 comprising:

(a) detecting the presence of a Radio-Frequency ID (RFID) tag located on an object using an RFID reader located in an enclosure separate from the subject interfaced to a host computer located in said enclosure,

(b) sending a control signal to a stimulus generator located on said subject by and at a time and type determined by said host computer interfaced to said stimulus generator using a communications means when the criteria incorporated in said host computer are met and where said communications means selected from the group consisting of wired and wireless, and

(c) delivering the generated stimulus output to the subject via an output device located on the subject where said stimulus output means selected from the group consisting of electrical, audio including speech, odor, light, heat, cold, mechanical, injection of a medicament, injection into the mouth of a substance causing taste, and delivery of an object.

5. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 comprising:

(a) detecting the presence of a Radio-Frequency ID (RFID) tag located on a subject using an RFID reader located in an enclosure separate from the subject interfaced to a host computer located in said enclosure,

(b) sending a control signal to a stimulus generator located in said enclosure by and at a time and type determined by said host computer interfaced to said stimulus generator using a communications means when the criteria incorporated in said host computer are met and where said communications means selected from the group consisting of wired and wireless, and

(c) delivering the generated stimulus output to the subject via an output device located in said enclosure separate from the subject where said stimulus output means selected from the group consisting of electrical, audio including speech, odor, light, heat, cold, mechanical, injection of a medicament, injection into the mouth of a substance causing taste, and delivery of an object.

6. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 comprising:

(a) detecting the presence of a Radio-Frequency ID (RFID) tag located on a subject using an RFID reader located in an enclosure separate from the subject interfaced to a host computer located in said enclosure,

(b) sending a control signal to a stimulus generator located in said enclosure by and at a time and type determined by said host computer when the criteria incorporated in said host computer are met, and

(c) delivering the generated stimulus output to the subject via an output device located on said subject interfaced to said stimulus generator using a communications means and where said communications means selected from the group consisting of wired and wireless where said stimulus output means selected from the group consisting of electrical, audio including speech, odor, light, heat, cold, mechanical, injection of a medicament, injection into the mouth of a substance causing taste, and delivery of an object.

7. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 comprising:

(a) detecting the presence of a Radio-Frequency ID (RFID) tag located on a subject using an RFID reader located in an enclosure separate from the subject interfaced to a host computer located in said enclosure,

(b) sending a control signal to a stimulus generator located on said subject by and at a time and type determined by said host computer when the criteria incorporated in said host computer are met using a communications means between said host computer and said stimulus generator and where said communications means selected from the group consisting of wired and wireless, and

(c) delivering the generated stimulus output to the subject via an output device located on said subject where said stimulus output means selected from the group consisting of electrical, audio including speech, odor, light, heat, cold, mechanical, injection of a medicament, injection into the mouth of a substance causing taste, and delivery of an object.

8. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein stimulus generator and output device are combined.

9. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein RFID identification means are placed on one or a plurality of subjects and one or more or a plurality of objects.

10. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein means of type of stimulus selected from the group consisting of aversive and appetitive.

11. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein subject selected from the group consisting of human, animal, robot, and autonomous agent.

12. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein means of variation of stimulus selected from the group consisting of level, timing and pattern.

13. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein means provides for multiple simultaneous stimuli where said multiple simultaneous stimulations selected from the group consisting of varying level, varying type, varying timing, and varying pattern.

14. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein means provides for multiple serial stimulations where said multiple serial stimulations selected from the group consisting of varying level, varying type, varying timing, and varying pattern.

15. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein means of stimulus delivers the stimulus with timing selected from the group consisting of immediate and after a delay.

16. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein host computer means also records the events.

17. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein there is a means for the subject to adjust the level of the stimulus.

18. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein the means is selective as to which subject gets or which subjects get feedback.

19. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein the means is selective as to which subject'"'"'s events recorded.

20. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein the means is selective as to what is the triggering object.

21. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein the means is selective as to when the system is enabled versus disabled.

22. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein means causes stimulation to occur immediately based on the analysis of short-term patterns.

23. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein means of stimulation occurs at a later point in time after detection of RFID-tagged events based on pattern analysis of logged events.

24. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein means of delivered feedback selected from the group consisting of computer display, hardcopy, light display, odor generation, mechanical pressure, sound pattern, and speech.

25. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein the RFID tag means has write capability and data are recorded for later analysis.

26. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein host-computer means is interfaced to another computer with which said host computer works in concert.

27. The method for generating stimuli in claim 1 wherein means of long-distance identification is used via GPS or other remote means.