System and Method for Providing and Aggregating Biosignals and Action Data

• US 20130317382A1
• Filed: 05/28/2013
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EMOTIV Inc.
• Original Assignee: Emotiv Lifesciences, Inc.
• Inventors: Le, Tan
• Granted Patent: US 9,867,548 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/544
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/24 Detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/375 using biofeedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7285 for synchronising or triggering a physiological measurement or image acquisition with a physiological event or waveform, e.g. an ECG signal A61B6/5205, A61B6/541, A61B8/5207, A61B8/543 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A method and system for providing and aggregating bioelectrical signal data comprising: providing a stimulus configured to prompt an action in both a first user and a second user; at a first biosignal detector and a second biosignal detector, automatically collecting a first bioelectrical signal dataset from the first user as the first user performs the action and a second bioelectrical signal dataset from the second user as the second user performs the action; generating a first anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset from the first bioelectrical signal dataset and a second anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset from the second bioelectrical signal dataset; coupling the first and the second anonymized bioelectrical signal datasets with an action tag characterizing the action; and generating an analysis based upon the first the second anonymized bioelectrical signal datasets. An embodiment of the system comprises a biosignal detector and a processor configured to implement an embodiment of the method.

Claims

1. A method for providing and aggregating bioelectrical signal data, using a first biosignal detector and a second biosignal detector, the method comprising:

providing a stimulus to a first user and to a second user, wherein the stimulus is configured to prompt an action in both the first user and the second user;

at the first biosignal detector, automatically collecting a first bioelectrical signal dataset from the first user as the first user performs the action;

at the second biosignal detector, automatically collecting a second bioelectrical signal dataset from the second user as the second user performs the action;

generating a first anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset from the first bioelectrical signal dataset and a second anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset from the second bioelectrical signal dataset;

coupling the first and the second anonymized bioelectrical signal datasets with an action tag characterizing the action; and

generating an analysis based upon the first the second anonymized bioelectrical signal datasets.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a stimulus comprises providing the stimulus at a first mobile device of the first user and providing the stimulus at a second mobile device of the second user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a stimulus comprises automatically providing the stimulus in synchronization with additional biosignal data collected from at least one of the first user and the second user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein automatically collecting a first bioelectrical signal dataset from the first user as the first user performs the action and automatically collecting a second bioelectrical signal dataset from the second user as the second user performs the action comprise automatically detecting when the first user and the second user initiate performance of the action, automatically detecting when the first user and the second user terminate performance of the action, and collecting the first and the second bioelectrical signal dataset between initiation and termination of the action for each of the first user and the second user.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein automatically detecting comprises automatically detecting at a sensor system configured to receive at least one of biosignal data and environment data.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a second stimulus configured to prompt a second action in both the first user and the second user;

at the first biosignal detector, automatically collecting a first repeat bioelectrical signal dataset from the first user as the first user performs the second action; and

at the second biosignal detector, automatically collecting a second repeat bioelectrical signal dataset from the second user as the second user performs the second action.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising generating a comparative analysis based upon at least two of the first bioelectrical signal dataset, the second bioelectrical signal dataset, the first repeat bioelectrical signal dataset, and the second repeat bioelectrical signal dataset.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the stimulus is identical to the second stimulus.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein generating an analysis comprises generating a comparative analysis characterizing a demographic group comprising the first user and the second user.

10. A method for providing and aggregating bioelectrical signal data, using a biosignal detector, the method comprising:

defining a first action and a second action;

at the biosignal detector, automatically collecting a first bioelectrical signal dataset from a first user as the first user performs the first action and automatically collecting a second bioelectrical signal dataset from the first user as the first user performs the second action;

generating a first anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset from the first bioelectrical signal dataset and a second anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset from the second bioelectrical signal dataset;

coupling the first anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset with a first action tag characterizing the first action and the second anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset with a second action tag characterizing the second action;

generating an analysis based upon the first and the second anonymized bioelectrical signal datasets.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein defining the first action and the second action comprise providing a first stimulus configured to prompt the first action by the user and providing a second stimulus configured to prompt the second action by the user.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein automatically collecting a first bioelectrical signal dataset from a first user as the first user performs the first action comprises automatically detecting when the first user initiates performance of the first action, automatically detecting when the first user terminates performance of the action, and collecting the first bioelectrical signal dataset between initiation and termination of the first action.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising collecting a baseline bioelectrical signal dataset, and normalizing at least one of the first bioelectrical signal dataset and the second bioelectrical signal dataset using the baseline bioelectrical signal dataset.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising adjusting an environment of the user based upon the analysis.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the first action is substantially identical to the second action.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein generating an analysis comprises generating a comparison between the first bioelectrical signal dataset and the second bioelectrical signal dataset based upon signal analysis and data mining.

17. A system for providing and aggregating bioelectrical signal data comprising:

a stimulus transmission module configured to automatically transmit a stimulus to a first user and a second user, wherein the stimulus prompts an action in the first user and the second user;

a first biosignal detector configured to collect a first bioelectrical signal dataset from the first user as the user performs the action;

a second biosignal detector configured to collect a second bioelectrical signal dataset from the second user as the user performs the action; and

a processor comprising;

a receiver configured to receive the first and the second bioelectrical signal datasets,

an anonymizer configured to transform the first bioelectrical signal dataset and the second bioelectrical signal dataset into a first and a second anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset,

a coupler configured to couple the first anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset with an action tag characterizing the action, and to couple the second anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset with the action tag, and

an analyzer configured to generate an analysis based upon the first and the second anonymized bioelectrical signal dataset.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein at least one of the first biosignal detector and the second biosignal detector comprises a sensor system configured to automatically sense an indicator of the action.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the sensor system comprises at least one of a GPS sensor, an accelerometer, and an optical sensor.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the first biosignal detector and the second biosignal detector comprise personal electroencephalogram signal collection devices.