Psychophysiological Touch Screen Stress Analyzer

• US 20130324805A1
• Filed: 08/06/2013
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thorad, LLC
• Original Assignee: Phillip R. Sprague
• Inventors: Sprague, Phillip R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,847,778 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• 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 5/4884 inducing physiological or psychological stress, e.g. applications for stress testing

Abstract

The Psychophysiological Touch Screen Stress Analyzer is capable of capturing information on how a person emotionally reacts to a series of verbal, visual, or written stimulus when the person touches the touch screen computer monitor in response to the stimulus.

Claims

1. A system for analyzing emotional stress of a subject, the system comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store executable programmed modules and information;

a processor communicatively coupled with the non-transitory computer readable medium and configured to execute programmed modules stored therein;

a computer monitor communicatively coupled with the processor and configured to display information to a subject;

a touch input device communicatively coupled with the processor and configured to receive an input from the subject;

a survey module stored in the non-transitory computer readable medium and executable by the processor, the survey module configured to provide a series of questions on the computer monitor and store in the non-transitory computer readable medium responses to said series of questions received from the subject via said touch input device; and

an analysis module configured to analyze each response to said series of questions and determine a muscle tremor reaction pattern calculated by a pressure value and a time duration value of the responses received from the subject, the analysis module further configured to calculate an emotional reaction of the subject to each question based on said muscle tremor reaction pattern, and compare the calculated emotional reaction of a first portion of questions in said series of questions to the calculated emotional reaction of a second portion of questions in said series of questions.