Sensory monitor with embedded messaging element

• US 6,650,251 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2002
• Issued: 11/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dan Gerrity
• Original Assignee: Dan Gerrity
• Inventors: Gerrity, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): MULLEN, THOMAS J
• Application Number:
  US10/085,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20030160700A1
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 340/963, 340/961, 340/435, 340/901, 340/425.5, 340/945, 345/7, 348/563, 434/236, 434/29, 434/30, 434/35, 434/36, 434/49, 434/157, 600/558, 600/559
• US Class Current: 340/963
• 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 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators

Abstract

A system for measuring human perception at edges of awareness includes a message transmitter providing embedded messages embedded in supraliminal information, a sensory monitor for measuring reaction in an individual to the embedded messages, and a control system connected to the message transmitter, the control system receiving an input from the sensory monitor, the control system including a real-time feedback control loop altering a perceptability of the embedded messages with respect to the supraliminal messages as a function of the sensory monitor input.

Claims

1. A system for measuring human perception at edges of awareness comprising:

a message transmitter providing embedded messages embedded in supraliminal information;

a sensory monitor for measuring reaction in an individual to the embedded messages; and

a control system connected to the message transmitter, the control system receiving an input from the sensory monitor, the control system including a real-time feedback control loop altering a perceptibility of the embedded messages with respect to the supraliminal messages as a function of the sensory monitor input.

2. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the embedded messages and supraliminal messages are visual images.

3. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the perceptibility is controlled by altering at least one of duration, frequency, movement, intensity, color and contrast of the embedded messages.

4. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the perceptibility is controlled by altering at least one of an intensity, color and contrast of the supraliminal message.

5. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the reaction of the individual is a predetermined input to the control system.

6. The system as recited in claim 5 wherein the reaction of the individual includes at least one predetermined hand, eye, foot or body weighting movement or a vocalization.

7. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the reaction occurs within a predetermined time period.

8. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the feedback control loop has a setpoint corresponding to a predetermined reaction.

9. The system as recited in claim 1 further comprising a database of statistical norms for measurement of the perceptibility at predetermined levels.

10. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein the system is a medical diagnostic tool, and the reaction relates to a specific medical abnormality.

11. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the system is a warning system for the individual, the embedded messages disclosing a warning, the reaction indicating acknowledgment of the warning.

12. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the embedded messages are chosen from a predetermined library of symbols.

13. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the message transmitter is a screen.

14. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the sensory monitor includes an aircraft direction controller.

15. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the sensory monitor includes an automobile traction system.

16. A method for providing embedded messages embedded in supraliminal messages comprising the steps of:

providing embedded messages with supraliminal information;

measuring a reaction in an individual to the embedded messages; and

automatically controlling the embedded messages as a function of the reaction using a feedback loop, the feedback loop altering a perceptibility of the embedded messages with respect to the supraliminal messages as a function of the reaction.

17. The method as recited in claim 16 wherein the perceptibility is altered via at least one of duration, frequency, movement, intensity, color and contrast of the embedded messages.

18. The method as recited in claim 16 wherein the embedded messages are displayed within a field of vision of an individual.

19. The method as recited in claim 16 wherein the embedded messages disclose a warning, the reaction indicating acknowledgment of the warning.

20. The method as recited in claim 16 wherein the embedded messages are chosen from a predetermined library of symbols, the library including classes of meanings.

21. The method as recited in claim 16 further comprising selecting the embedded messages from a local database of stored messages, the stored messages being a function of previously measured perceptibility of specific users.