Management of physiological and psychological state of an individual using images overall system

• US 6,306,077 B1
• Filed: 10/29/1999
• Issued: 10/23/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CareStream Health Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Mir, Jose V., Fedorovskaya, Elena A., Patton, David L., Fredlund, John R., Surve, Swatee N., Schaefer, Laurie, Prabhu, Girish V., Parks, Peter A., Miller, Paige, Blazey, Richard N., Horwitz, Cecelia M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dvorak, Linda C. M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kearney, R.
• Application Number:
  US09/430,580
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• Field of Search: 434/236, 434/237, 434/238, 128/898, 600/26, 600/27
• US Class Current: 600/26
• 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 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7257 using Fourier transforms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/70 relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing

Abstract

A method of managing a physiological or psychological state of an individual using images comprising: determining an individual'"'"'s direction or preference for a state management session; based on the determination, deciding whether a current set of images selected through a personal image profile session, will achieve the desired management effect; if the current set are deemed satisfactory, presenting the set of images to the individual to achieve management of the individual'"'"'s state.

Claims

1. A method of managing a physiological or psychological state of an individual using images comprising:

determining an individual'"'"'s direction or preference for a state management session;

based on the determination, deciding whether a current set of images selected through a personal image profile session, will achieve the desired management effect; and

if the current set is not deemed satisfactory, creating a new set of images based on a personal image profile session wherein a master set of images classified according to a therapeutic imaging classification system, are presented to the individual, and using biometric and cognitive analysis of the presented images, generating a new personal image profile which is used to create said new set of images from an image database.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said determining step is effected by personal choice of the individual.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said determining step is effected by the measurement of selected physiological parameters of the individual.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein said physiological parameters are measured by means of sensors carried by the individual in a portable biometric device.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein said measured physiological parameters include one or more of, EMG, EEG, heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance response, skin temperature, eye saccades.