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Video display apparatus

  • US 5,896,164 A
  • Filed: 02/12/1996
  • Issued: 04/20/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/20/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Video display apparatus for monitoring one or more user parameters of a user, the apparatus comprising:

  • a television display apparatus having an input for an audiovisual signal and a screen display for viewing by the user;

    a pre-recorded audiovisual medium having contained thereon a signal to be displayed on said screen display and at least one pre-recorded code signal;

    a reproduction apparatus for reproducing from said medium a composite audiovisual signal;

    a user parameter sensor apparatus for sensing electrodermal activity of a user and generating a signal representative of said electrodermal activity;

    a signal modifying device connected to and interposed between said reproduction apparatus, said television display apparatus, and said user parameter sensor apparatus, the signal modifying device further having a means for detecting said at least one pre-recorded code signal and a means for modifying an output signal sent to the television display device by the insertion of an image over at least part of said screen display, said image being dependent on said signal from said parameter sensor apparatus in combination with said at least one pre-recorded code signal; and

    a screen display modifier for deleting part of the image on said screen display wherein the part of the image deleted is responsive to said signal from said parameter sensor apparatus in combination with said at least one pre-recorded code signal.

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