Amusement system using living body measurement by light, head setter for the amusement system, and program for use in the amusement system

• US 6,657,183 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2001
• Issued: 12/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi, Oonuma, Mitsuru, Maki, Atsushi, Koizumi, Hideaki, Nakata, Hironari, Ohashi, Kosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Porta, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): YAM, STEPHEN K
• Application Number:
  US09/939,601
• Publication Number:
  US 20020100867A1
• Time in Patent Office: 826 Days
• Field of Search: 250/227.25, 250/573-575, 250/227.11, 250/222, 600/323, 600/310, 600/544, 600/545, 356/40, 356/41, 463/36
• US Class Current: 250/221
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• 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 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1012 involving biosensors worn by the player, e.g. for measuring heart beat, limb activity
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/807 Role playing or strategy games

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an amusement system that can be used and enjoyed by different persons without using the brain continuously and with little feeling of fatigue and which permits setting a probe at any spot on the head of the subject. The amusement system includes irradiators for irradiating the subject with light, light detectors for detection of the light that has been emitted from said irradiator and which has propagated through the living body, signal processors for processing the signal of light intensity detected by said detector and display units that show the processing results from the signal processor. The range of display of a change in intensity of said transmitted light according to the results of a test task carried out on said living body.

Claims

1. An amusement system using living body measurement by light, said system comprising:

a light irradiator for irradiating a living body of a player with light;

a light detector for detecting the light that has been emitted from said irradiator and which has propagated through the living body, wherein said irradiator and detector are placed on the living body;

a signal processor for processing the signal of light intensity detected by said detector; and

a display unit for displaying the processing results from the signal processor on a screen;

wherein arrangements are so made as to set the range of displaying, on the screen of said display unit, a change in intensity of said transmitted light according to the results of a test task carried out on said living body, whereby said amusement system allows the player to play a game using an object displayed on the screen of said display unit,

wherein said light irradiator and said light detector are installed in a head setter to be placed on the living body, said head setter having an optical fiber holder provided with at least a pair of optical fibers, one for irradiation and the other for detection, and a flexible resin part provided with a guide that enables the optical fiber holder to move in a specific direction, the optical fiber holder being detachably provided on the guide of said flexible resin part.

2. The amusement system using living body measurement by light of claim 1, wherein the range of displaying the change in the intensity of said transmitted light displayed on the screen of said display unit is decided on the basis of the maximum value and minimum value of the intensity of said transmitted light that is detected.