Method and System of Indicating a Condition of an Individual

• US 20080045805A1
• Filed: 11/30/2005
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lam Lossos, Oded Sarel, Yoram Levanon
• Original Assignee: Lam Lossos, Oded Sarel, Yoram Levanon
• Inventors: Lossos, Lam, Levanon, Yoram, Sarel, Oded
• Application Number:
  US11/720,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20080045805A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• 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 5/164 Lie detection
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/165 Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices

Abstract

A system and method of indicating a condition of a tested individual, wherein sounds generated during testing the individual are processed to define a match with predefined criteria, wherein at least part of the received sounds are not discernible to human ears and at least some of the sounds are generated when the individual is mute.

Claims

1-53. -53. (canceled)

54. A method of indicating a condition of a tested individual, the method comprising:

receiving sounds generated during testing the individual; and

processing some or all of the received sounds within a predefined frequency range, so as to define a match with predefined criteria;

wherein some or all of the received sounds are not discernible by the human ear and at least some of said received sounds are generated when the individual is either mute or speaking.

55. The method in accordance with claim 54, wherein the individual is mute or during inter-word silences.

56. The method in accordance with claim 54, wherein the individual is speaking.

57. The method in accordance with claim 54, wherein the predefined frequency range comprises two or more sub-bands;

possibly wherein each frequency component in the second sub-band has a frequency that is a multiple of a corresponding frequency component in the first sub-band; and

58. The method in accordance with claim 57 wherein said range comprises at least two sub-band being substantially one octave apart from another sub-band.

59. The method in accordance with claim 54, wherein the processing includes comparing a respective response of corresponding frequency components that have frequency ratios substantially equal to multiples of two.

60. The method of claim 55, where the first and second sub-bands have frequencies that lie substantially within a range of 16-32 Hertz and 32-64 Hertz, respectively and the processing comprises comparing a respective response of corresponding frequency components that have frequency ratios substantially equal to multiples of two.

61. The method in accordance with claim 54, wherein the non-discernible sounds are selected from the group consisting of infrasonic, ultrasonic and a combination thereof.

62. The method in accordance with claim 54, wherein the predefined criteria is one or more of the group of (i) a personalized pattern of the individual and the condition of the tested individual is characterized by a discrepancy in matching the pattern to test data;

and, (ii) baseline and the condition of the tested individual is characterized by a discrepancy between the baseline and test data.

63. The method in accordance with claim 62 wherein said at least one criteria is selected from the group consisting of (i) hidden intent, (ii) emotion, and (iii) thinking activity.

64. The method in accordance with claim 54, being performed in response to an indication selected from the group consisting of:

the individual knowing of the testing, individual unknowing of the testing, polygraph testing, border control testing, voice recognition, inspecting effectiveness of a medicine or treatment, psychological investigation, testing trustworthiness, analyzing stress, and a combination thereof.

72. A computer program comprising computer program code operating on a computer for performing the method of claim 54.

73. A computer program as claimed in claim 72, embodied on a computer readable medium.

65-1. The method in accordance with claim 65, wherein the individual is speaking.

66-2. The system in accordance with claim 65, wherein the predefined frequency range comprises one or more sub-bands.