Biomedical device for treating by virtual immersion

• US 7,946,974 B2
• Filed: 11/10/2006
• Issued: 05/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olivier Lordereau
• Original Assignee: Olivier Lordereau
• Inventors: Lordereau, Olivier
• Primary Examiner(s): Marmor, II; Charles A
• Assistant Examiner(s): DORNA, CARRIE R
• Application Number:
  US12/084,736
• Publication Number:
  US 20090137860A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,656 Days
• Field of Search: 600 26- 28, 128897-898
• US Class Current: 600/27
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0027 by the hearing sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/005 images, e.g. video
• 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

Abstract

The invention relates to a biomedical device comprising computing means, immersion means for dipping a patient in a virtual intelligent environment, an interface for controlling the computing means, operating the immersion means and for collecting results of related medical means and different means for obtaining said results. The inventive device is characterized in that the computing means are used for controlling the immersion means in such a way that virtual three-dimensional therapeutic environments comprising a virtual person in the form of the patient, a closed three-dimensional envelop emitting at a determined light frequency which envelops the person and any scenery in which the virtual person and the closed radiating envelop thereof are located for receiving a determined psycho-neuro-immunologic response, which is positive for the organism, are formed. In particular the inventive method consists in progressively increasing the light frequency of the closed envelop and of the person receiving said radiation.

Claims

1. A biomedical method, comprising:

immersing a patient in a three-dimensional therapeutic virtual environment, wherein the environment includes;

a dé

cor,

a virtual character representing the patient and being located in the dé

cor;

an envelope having a closed three-dimensional shape, radiating at a given light frequency, the envelope being controlled to appear in the dé

cor so that to envelop the virtual character;

radiating the dé

cor at a light color of green; and

shifting the light color of the dé

cor from green to blue and then shifting the light color of the dé

cor from blue to violet in order to obtain a given psycho-neuro-immunological response that is positive for the patient.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the closed envelope and the character are radiating according to predetermined stages in which the frequency of the color light waves is increased.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the immersion means are arranged to represent the virtual character whose gender is that of the patient.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein, the device being intended to ease the pain of phantom limbs, the interface is arranged to control the computing means so as to amputate the limb of the character, and the computing means are then arranged to represent the character with an amputated limb using the immersion means.

6. The device according to claim 1, arranged to greatly ease pain, including that of a chronic character.

7. The device according to claim 1, arranged to accelerate the healing process.

2. A biomedical device, comprising:

immersion means used to immerse a patient in a virtual intelligent environment, computing means arranged to control the immersion means,

an interface used to control the computing means, wherein the computing means create three-dimensional therapeutic virtual environments that include;

a dé

cor,

a virtual character representing the patient and being located in the dé

cor;

an envelope having a closed three-dimensional shape, radiating at a given light frequency, the envelope being controlled to appear in the dé

cor so that to envelop the virtual character;

the dé

cor radiating according to predetermined stages in which the frequency of the color light waves of the dé

cor is increased, in order to obtain a given psycho-neuro-immunological response that is positive for the patient.

8. A biomedical device, comprising:

an immersion device operable to create three-dimensional therapeutic virtual environment for a patient, wherein the virtual environment includes;

a dé

cor;

a virtual character representing the patient and being located in the dé

cor;

an envelope having a closed three-dimensional shape, radiating at a given light frequency, the envelope being controlled to appear in the dé

cor so that to envelop the virtual character;

wherein the dé

cor radiates at a color shifting from green to blue and then from blue to violet in order to obtain a given psycho-neuro-immunological response that is positive for the patient;

a computer operably connected to the immersion device and configured to control the immersion device; and

an interface operably connected to the computer and configured to receive input regarding the patient.

9. A biomedical method, comprising:

immersing a patient in a three-dimensional therapeutic virtual environment, wherein the environment includes;

a dé

cor;

a virtual character representing the patient and being located in the dé

cor;

an envelope having a closed three-dimensional shape, radiating at a given light frequency, the envelope being controlled to appear in the dé

cor so that to envelop the virtual character;

radiating the dé

cor at a given light frequency; and

increasing the light frequency in order to obtain a given psycho-neuro-immunological response that is positive for the patient.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprises increasing the light frequency from green to blue and then to violet.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein it is used to ease pain or to treat pain, including that of a chronic character.

12. The method of claim 10 further comprises representing the virtual character with an amputated limb.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein it is used to accelerate a healing process.

14. The method of claim 9 further comprises representing the virtual character as gender of the patient.

15. The method of claim 9 further comprises radiating the closed envelope and the virtual character at the given frequency and progressively raising the light frequency of the closed envelope and the virtual character.