Quantifying stress reduction and medical treatment as a result of colored light therapies

• US 6,007,569 A
• Filed: 11/18/1998
• Issued: 12/28/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Barbara G. Frenkel, Richard E. Frenkel
• Original Assignee: Barbara G. Frenkel, Richard E. Frenkel
• Inventors: Frenkel, Richard E., Frenkel, Barbara G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dvorak, Linda C. M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kearney, Rosiland
• Application Number:
  US09/195,586
• Time in Patent Office: 405 Days
• Field of Search: 607/88, 607/90, 607/91, 607/94, 600/26, 600/27, 600/544, 600/545, 600/300, 600/485, 600/524, 128/905
• US Class Current: 607/88
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0044 by the sight sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 21/00 Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0663 Coloured light

Abstract

The present invention features an apparatus for quantifying the effects that colored light therapies and treatments have upon an individual. The apparatus features an imagescope console that bathes a patient in different light colors, patterns, sequences, hues, tints, etc. A physiological monitoring unit monitors the bodily functions of the individual as the various colored light treatments are applied. A computer analyzes the monitored data, and produces a printout, or an electrostressogram, which details the quantitative effects of the light therapies. The electrostressogram can be faxed or otherwise transmitted to medical offices, and/or satellite communicated from spacecrafts and interplanetary space station to Earth for screening, preventing, diagnosing, and treating medical illnesses caused by stress.

Claims

1. A colored light-therapy apparatus for quantitatively measuring the effects that colored light has upon the relief of stress in an individual, comprising:

colored light-bathing means including a mirror for applying colored light onto an individual, through colored light treatments or colored light therapy to said individual;

sensing means disposed adjacent said individual for sensing the effects that said colored light treatments or colored light therapy have upon said individual, and for generating signals indicative of physiological changes in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy;

physiological monitoring means connected to said sensing means for receiving said generated signals from said sensing means, said physiological monitoring means monitoring the physiological changes in said individual in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy, and generating data with respect to said physiological changes; and

a programmable computer, connected to said physiological monitoring means and said colored light-bathing means, for analyzing the generated data from the physiological monitoring means and for providing a physiological analysis of the individual in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy, as well as for controlling said colored light being applied to said individual.

2. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 1, further comprising facial expression-change recording means disposed adjacent said individual, for recording changes in facial expression of said individual, in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy.

3. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 1, further comprising pupillary-change recording means disposed adjacent said individual for recording changes in pupils of said individual, in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy.

4. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a printer connected to said computer for providing a record of said physiological analysis.

5. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 1, further comprising an input means disposed adjacent to, and operatively connected to, said colored light-bathing means for changing characteristics of said light being applied onto said individual.

6. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein said computer is operatively connected to said colored light-bathing means for controlling colored light-bathing sequences applied onto said individual.

7. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein said sensing means comprises a glove containing electrodes, for attachment to said individual.

8. A colored light-therapy apparatus for quantitatively measuring the effects that colored light has upon the relief of stress in an individual, comprising:

colored light-bathing means including a mirror for applying colored light onto an individual, through colored light treatments or colored light therapy to said individual;

sensing means disposed adjacent said individual for sensing the effects that said colored light treatments or colored light therapy have upon said individual, and for generating signals indicative of physiological changes in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy;

physiological monitoring means connected to said sensing means for receiving said generated signals from said sensing means, said physiological monitoring means monitoring the physiological changes in said individual in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy, and generating data with respect to said physiological changes; and

a programmable computer, connected to said physiological monitoring means, for analyzing the generated data from the physiological monitoring means, and for providing a physiological analysis of the individual, in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy.

9. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 8, further comprising facial expression-change recording means disposed adjacent said individual for recording changes in facial expression of said individual, in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy.

10. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 8, further comprising pupillary-change recording means disposed adjacent said individual for recording changes in pupils of said individual, in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy.

11. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 8, further comprising a printer connected to said computer for providing a printout of said physiological analysis.

12. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 8, further comprising an input means disposed adjacent to, and operatively connected to, said colored light-bathing means for changing characteristics of said colored light being applied onto said individual.

13. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 8, wherein said computer is operatively connected to said colored light-bathing means for controlling said colored light-bathing of said individual.

14. A colored light-therapy apparatus for quantitatively measuring the effects that colored light has upon the relief of stress in an individual, comprising:

colored light-bathing means including a mirror for applying light onto an individual, through colored light treatments or colored light therapy to said individual;

sensing means disposed adjacent said individual for sensing the effects that said colored light treatments or colored light therapy have upon said individual, and for generating signals indicative of physiological changes in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy;

physiological monitoring means connected to said sensing means for receiving said generated signals from said sensing means, said physiological monitoring means monitoring the physiological changes in said individual in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy, and generating data with respect to said physiological changes;

a programmable computer, connected to said physiological monitoring means, for analyzing the generated data from the physiological monitoring means, and for providing a physiological analysis of the individual, in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy; and

recording means connected to said programmable computer for providing a record of said physiological changes in said individual, in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy.

15. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 14, further comprising facial expression-change recording means disposed adjacent said individual for recording visual changes in facial expression of said individual, in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy.

16. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 14, further comprising pupillary-change recording means disposed adjacent said individual for recording changes in pupils of said individual, in response to said colored light treatments or colored light therapy.

17. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 14, wherein said recording means includes a printer connected to said computer, for providing a printed record of said physiological analysis.

18. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 14, further comprising an input means disposed adjacent to, and operatively connected to, said colored light-bathing means for changing characteristics of said colored light being applied onto said individual.

19. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 14, wherein said computer is operatively connected to said colored light-bathing means for controlling said colored light-bathing of said individual.

20. The colored light-therapy apparatus in accordance with claim 14, wherein said sensing means comprises a glove containing electrodes, for attachment to said individual.