Brain wave-directed amusement device

• US 5,213,338 A
• Filed: 09/30/1991
• Issued: 05/25/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gregory R. Brotz
• Original Assignee: Gregory R. Brotz
• Inventors: Brotz, Gregory R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wysocki, A. Jonathan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim, Helen
• Application Number:
  US07/767,853
• Time in Patent Office: 603 Days
• Field of Search: 84/600, 84/464 R, 84/465, 84/468, 128/731, 128/734, 128/746, 340/700, 340/701, 273/85 G, 273/440, 273/454, 273/460, 273/445, 273/453, 273/161, 437/237
• US Class Current: 273/460
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/291 for electroencephalography [EEG]
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/212 using sensors worn by the player, e.g. for measuring heart beat or leg activity
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/42 by mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/54 involving acoustic signals, e.g. for simulating revolutions per minute [RPM] dependent engine sounds in a driving game or reverberation against a virtual wall
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/26 the game being influenced by physiological parameters A63F2250/1031 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1012 involving biosensors worn by the player, e.g. for measuring heart beat, limb activity
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6081 generating an output signal, e.g. under timing constraints, for spatialization
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/24 Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for video games A63F13/00; computerized gaming systems G07F17/32

Abstract

A game having circuitry for the conversion of a player'"'"'s brain wave intensity to direct the movement of a rotating circular visual display. The game in one embodiment can be played by two players competing with one another and the visual display can include a variety of changing patterns.

Claims

1. A game comprising:

means for detecting brainwave intensity of a player;

means for the conversion of brainwave intensity detected by said detection means to electrical impulses, the intensity of said electrical impulses being proportional to the intensity of said brainwave;

a rotatable circular member having a changing visual display thereon, the changing of said visual display being dependent on the speed of rotation of said rotating circular member; and

means for rotating said circular member with the speed of said rotation being proportional to the intensity of said electrical impulses.

2. The game of claim 1 wherein brainwave intensities are detected from at least two players and said display is activated in proportion to the intensity of said electrical impulses converted from the player producing the more intense brainwaves.

3. The device of claim 2 wherein said means for detecting brain waves includes a brain wave monitor contained on a cap worn on the head of each player.

4. The device of claim 2 wherein an audio generator generates tones, which can be in the form of music, into earphones worn by each player for that player to have changes in brain waves which generate, because of their changes in intensity, various patterns on said visual display.

5. The device of claim 2 with each player having means to interrupt another player'"'"'s brain wave input to disrupt that player'"'"'s brain wave intensity.

6. The game of claim 2 wherein the rotation in one direction of said rotating circular member having a visual display thereon is controlled by the intensity of the electrical impulses of one player and the rotation in the other direction is controlled by the intensity of electrical impulses of the other player with the more intense electrical impulses moving the display in the direction of rotation controlled by the player producing the more intense brainwaves.