Multiple channel phase integrating biofeedback computer
First Claim
1. An apparatus for measuring the electroencephalographic activity of at least two lobes of the brain of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal in response to a combination of amplitude and the in-phase activity of each of the brain lobes comprising:
- a plurality of electrical contacts coupled to the head of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two lobes or areas of the brain, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s head for obtaining at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two lobes or areas of the brain;
at least one amplifier for amplifying said at least two signals;
filter means coupled to said at least one amplifier for filtering the signals to obtain output signals each within a defined frequency range;
a summing amplifier coupled to said filter means for summing the in-phase signals of the defined frequency band of the amplified brain wave activity to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s brain wave activity;
audio signal means coupled to said summing amplifier for producing an auditory signal and modulating the volume of the auditory signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed brain wave activity, so as to present to the trainee an audible signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two lobes or areas of the brain.
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Abstract
Multiple monopolar electrical contacts are applied to the scalp or body, using other points on the body as reference and ground. The brain muscle or other bioelectric waves conducted from each contact, relative to the reference point, are amplified, filtered, and instantaneously analyzed to produce a signal which may be perceived by the person or persons generating the bioelectric waves. This sensory feedback signal simultaneously may communicate to the generating party or parties the ongoing fluctuations in frequency, amplitude, and phase unity among two or more biological rhythms occuring within an individual, couple, or group of persons. The feedback signal may be used as an aid to establish awareness and control over the functions monitored, as an aid to meditation, as an aid to learning to flexibly and easily establish or dissolve the various states of attention and consciousness associated with the signaled characteristics of the monitored brainwaves or muscle potentials and as an aid to communicaton between neural systems within a person, i.e., lobes of the brain, muscle groups or between other nonverbal biological activities of two or more persons being monitored.
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17 Claims
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1. An apparatus for measuring the electroencephalographic activity of at least two lobes of the brain of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal in response to a combination of amplitude and the in-phase activity of each of the brain lobes comprising:
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a plurality of electrical contacts coupled to the head of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two lobes or areas of the brain, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s head for obtaining at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two lobes or areas of the brain; at least one amplifier for amplifying said at least two signals; filter means coupled to said at least one amplifier for filtering the signals to obtain output signals each within a defined frequency range; a summing amplifier coupled to said filter means for summing the in-phase signals of the defined frequency band of the amplified brain wave activity to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s brain wave activity; audio signal means coupled to said summing amplifier for producing an auditory signal and modulating the volume of the auditory signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed brain wave activity, so as to present to the trainee an audible signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two lobes or areas of the brain. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An apparatus for measuring the electroencephalographic activity of at least two lobes of the brain of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal in response to a combination of amplitude and the in-phase activity of each of the brain lobes comprising;
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a plurality of electrical contacts coupled to the head of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two lobes or areas of the brain, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s head for obtaining at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two lobes or areas of the brain; at least one amplifier for amplifying said at least two signals; a summing amplifier coupled to said amplifier for summing the in-phase signals of the amplified brain wave activity to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s brain wave activity; filter means for filtering the summed signals to obtain an output signal within a defined frequency range; audio signal means for producing an auditory signal and modulating the volume of the auditory signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed brain wave activity so as to present to the trainee an audible signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two lobes or areas of the brain.
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8. An apparatus for measuring the electroencephalographic activity of at least two lobes of the brain of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal in response to a combination of amplitude and the in-phase activity of each of the brain lobes comprising:
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a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling to the head of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two lobes or areas of the brain, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s head so as to obtain at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two lobes or areas of the brain; at least one amplifier for amplifying said at least two signals; filter means coupled to said amplifier for filtering each of the signals to obtain output signals each within a defined frequency range; a summing amplifier coupled to said filter means for summing the in-phase signals of the defined frequency band of the amplified brain wave activity to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s brain wave activity; and signal means for producing a tactile signal and modulating the magnitude of the tactile signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed brain wave activity so as to present to the trainee the tactile signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two lobes or areas of the brain.
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9. An apparatus for measuring the electroencephalographic activity of at least two lobes of the brain of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal in response to a combination of amplitude and the in-phase activity of each of the brain lobes comprising:
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a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling to the head of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two lobes or areas of the brain, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s head so as to obtain at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two lobes or areas of the brain; at least one amplifier coupled to said contacts for amplifying said at least two signals; filter means coupled to said amplifier for filtering each of the signals to obtain output signals each within a defined frequency range; a summing amplifier coupled to said filter means for summing the in-phase signals of the defined frequency band of the amplified brain wave activity to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s brain wave activity; and signal means for producing a visual signal and modulating the brightness of the visual signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed brain wave activity so as to present to the trainee the visual signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two lobes or areas of the brain.
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10. An apparatus for measuring the electroencephalographic activity of at least two lobes of the brain of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal in response to a combination of amplitude and the in-phase activity of each of the brain lobes comprising:
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a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling to the head of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two lobes of areas of the brain, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s head so as to obtain at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two lobes or areas of the brain; at least one amplifier coupled to said contacts for amplifying said at least two signals; a summing amplifier coupled to said at least one amplifier for summing the in-phase signals of the amplified brain wave activity to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s brain wave activity; filter means coupled to said summing amplifier for filtering the summed signals to obtain an output signal within a defined frequency range; and signal means coupled to said filter means for producing a tactile signal and modulating the magnitude of the tactile signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed brain wave activity so as to present to the trainee the tactile signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two lobes or areas of the brain.
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11. An apparatus for measuring the electroencephalographic activity of at least two lobes of the brain of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal in response to a combination of amplitude and the in-phase activity of each of the brain lobes comprising:
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a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling to the head of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two lobes of areas of the brain, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s head so as to obtain at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two lobes or areas of the brain; at least one amplifier coupled to said contacts for amplifying said at least two signals; a summing amplifier coupled to said at least one amplifier for summing the in-phase signals of the amplified brain wave activity to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s brain wave activity; filter means coupled to said summing amplifier for filtering the summed signals to obtain an output signal within a defined frequency range; signal means coupled to said filter means for producing a visual signal and modulating the brightness of the visual signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed brain wave activity so as to present to the trainee the visual signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two lobes or areas of the brain.
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12. An apparatus for measuring the bioelectrical activity such as muscle activity of at least two regions of the body of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal corresponding to the amplitude and in-phase activity of each of the regions of the body comprising:
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a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling to the body of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two regions of the body, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s body; at least one amplifier coupled to said contacts for amplifying said at least two signals; filter means coupled to said amplifier for filtering the signals to obtain an output signal within a defined frequency range; a summing amplifier coupled to said filter means for summing the amplified signals to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s bioelectrical activity; and signal means coupled to said summing amplifier for producing a tactile signal and modulating the magnitude of the tactile signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed bioelectrical activity so as to present to the trainee the tactile signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two body regions.
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13. An apparatus for measuring the bioelectrical activity such as muscle activity of at least two regions of the body of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal corresponding to the amplitude and in-phase activity of each of the regions of the body comprising:
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a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling to the body of the subject, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two regions of the body, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s body so as to obtain at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two regions of the body; at least one amplifier coupled to said contacts for amplifying said at least two signals; filter means coupled to said at least one amplifier for filtering the signals to obtain an output signal within a defined frequency range; a summing amplifier coupled to said filter means for summing the amplified signals to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s bioelectrical activity; and signal means coupled to said summing amplifier for producing a visual signal and modulating the brightness of the visual signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed bioelectrical activity so as to present to the trainee the visual signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two body regions.
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14. An apparatus for measuring the bioelectrical activity such as muscle activity of at least two regions of the body of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal correspnding to the amplitude and in-phase activity of each of the regions of the body comprising:
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a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling to the body of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two regions of the body, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s body so as to obtain at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two regions of the body; amplifier means for amplifying said at least two signals; filter means coupled to said amplifier for filtering the signals to obtain an output signal within a defined frequency range; a summing amplifier for summing the amplified signals to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s bioelectrical activity; and audio signal means for producing an auditory signal and modulating the volume of the auditory signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed bioelectrical activity so as to present to the trainee an auditory signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two body regions.
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15. An apparatus for measuring the bioelectrical activity such as muscle activity of at least two regions of the body of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal in response to a combination of amplitude and the inphase activity of each of the regions of the body comprising,
a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling to the body of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two regions of the body, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s body so as to obtain at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two regions of the body; -
at least one amplifier coupled to said contacts for amplifying said at least two signals; a summing amplifier coupled to said at least one amplifier for summing the in-phase signals of the amplified signals to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s bioelectrical activity; filter means coupled to said summing amplifier for filtering the summed signals to obtain an output signal within a defined frequency range; and signal means coupled to said filter means for producing a tactile signal and modulating the magnitude of the tactile signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed bioelectrical activity so as to present to the trainee the tactile signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two regions of the body.
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16. An apparatus for measuring the bioelectrical activity such as muscle activity of at least two regions of the body of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal in response to a combination of amplitude and the in-phase activity of each of the regions of the body comprising,
a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling to the body of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two regions of the body, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s body so as to obtain at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two regions of the body; -
at least one amplifier coupled to said contacts for amplifying said at least two signals; a summing amplifier coupled to said at least one amplifier for summing the in-phase signals of the amplified signals to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s bioelectrical activity; filter means coupled to said summing amplifier for filtering the summed signals to obtain an output signal within a defined frequency range; and signal means coupled to said filter means for producing a visual signal and modulating the brightness of the visual signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed bioelectrical activity so as to present to the trainee the visual signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two regions of the body.
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17. An apparatus for measuring the bioelectrical activity such as muscle activity of at least two regions of the body of a human trainee and providing the trainee with a sensory signal in response to a combination of amplitude and the in-phase activity of each of the regions of the body comprising,
a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling to the body of the trainee, said contacts being disposed adjacent to at least two regions of the body, and to a neutral area of the trainee'"'"'s body so as to obtain at least two signals from said contacts which correspond to each of said at least two regions of the body; -
at least one amplifier coupled to said contact for amplifying said at least two signals; a summing amplifier coupled to said at least one amplifier for summing the in-phase signals of the amplified signals to produce a phase relevant measure of the trainee'"'"'s bioelectrical activity; filter means coupled to said summing amplifier for filtering the summed signals to obtain an output signal within a defined frequency range; and audio signal means for producing an auditory signal and modulating the volume of the auditory signal responsive to the amplitude and phase of the summed bioelectrical activity so as to present to the trainee an auditory signal which reflects the degree of phase parity and amplitude of the signals recorded from said at least two body regions.
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