Biomedical Device for Treating by Virtual Immersion

• US 20090137860A1
• Filed: 11/10/2006
• Published: 05/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olivier Lordereau
• Original Assignee: Olivier Lordereau
• Inventors: Lordereau, Olivier
• Granted Patent: US 7,946,974 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/27
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0027 by the hearing sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/005 images, e.g. video
• CPC Class Codes: 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

Abstract

The invention relates to a biomedical device comprising computing means, immersion means for dipping a patient in a virtual intelligent environment, an interface for controlling the computing means, operating the immersion means and for collecting results of related medical means and different means for obtaining said results. The inventive device is characterized in that the computing means are used for controlling the immersion means in such a way that virtual three-dimensional therapeutic environments comprising a virtual person in the form of the patient, a closed three-dimensional envelop emitting at a determined light frequency which envelops the person and any scenery in which the virtual person and the closed radiating envelop thereof are located for receiving a determined psycho-neuro-immunologic response, which is positive for the organism, are formed. In particular the inventive method consists in progressively increasing the light frequency of the closed envelop and of the person receiving said radiation.

Claims

1. A biomedical device including computing means, immersion means used to immerse a patient in a virtual intelligent environment, an interface used to control the computing means, to control the immersion means, and to collect the results of connected medical means, and the miscellaneous means to obtain these results, this device being characterised by the fact that the computing means are arranged to control the immersion means, thereby to create three-dimensional therapeutic virtual environments that include a virtual character representing the patient, a closed three-dimensional envelope radiating at a given light frequency that envelopes the said character, a decor of some kind in which the virtual character is located, as well as the closed envelope radiating according to predetermined stages of a process, in order to obtain a given psycho-neuro-immunological response that is positive for the organism.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the said process includes a progressive raising of the said light frequency of the closed envelope and of the character that receives the said radiation.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the immersion means are arranged to represent a virtual character whose gender is that of the patient.

4. The device according to claim 1, arranged to greatly ease pain, including that of a chronic character.

5. The device according to claim 3, wherein, the device being intended to ease the pain of phantom limbs, the control interface is arranged to control the computing means so as to amputate the limb of the said character, and the computing means are then arranged to represent the character with an amputated limb using the immersion means.

6. The device according to claim 1, arranged to accelerate the healing process.