Electronic device and hypnosis method utilizing the same

• US 8,430,806 B2
• Filed: 06/09/2010
• Issued: 04/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industrial Company Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industrial Company Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ni, Yuan, Yu, Hong-Yan
• Primary Examiner(s): Matthews, Christine
• Assistant Examiner(s): LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON
• Application Number:
  US12/797,491
• Publication Number:
  US 20110160524A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,056 Days
• Field of Search: 600 26- 28, 600508-513, 600/544, 600/545, 600/547, 128897-899
• US Class Current: 600/28
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0027 by the hearing 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: A61M 2205/50 with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/005 Parameter used as control input for the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/10 Electroencephalographic signals

Abstract

An electronic device and hypnosis method includes setting a hypnosis volume level and a playing duration of the electronic device. An audio file is played in response to the electronic device being activated, and a brain wave frequency of a user is determined. The electronic device and hypnosis method further includes analyzing the brain wave frequency to determine if the user is in a sleeping state, and playing the audio file for the playing duration at the hypnosis volume level.

Claims

1. A hypnosis method using an electronic device, the method comprising:

defining a frequency band of brain waves of a user to determine whether the user is in a sleeping state;

setting a switch-off command of the electronic device;

setting a hypnosis volume level and a playing duration of the electronic device;

playing an audio file at an original volume level in response to the electronic device being activated;

determining a brain wave frequency according to brain wave signals of the user collected by a brain wave sensor;

analyzing the brain wave frequency according to the defined frequency band, to determine whether the user is in the sleeping state;

playing the audio file at the hypnosis volume level and enabling a timer of the electronic device to start timing the playing duration when the user is in the sleeping state; and

in response to the playing duration elapsing, stopping playing the audio file, and sending the switch-off command to the brain wave sensor to stop collecting the brain wave signals of the user.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the analyzing step comprises:

determining that the user is in the sleeping state when the brain wave frequency is within the defined frequency band.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the collecting step comprises:

collecting the brain wave signals of the user by one or more electrodes of the brain wave sensor; and

sending the brain wave signals to the electronic device.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

setting a switch-on command of the electronic device.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

sending the switch-on command to the brain wave sensor to start collecting the brain wave signals of the user.

6. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions capable of being executed by a processor to perform a hypnosis method using an electronic device, the method comprising:

defining a frequency band of brain waves of a user to determine whether the user is in a sleeping state;

setting a switch-off command of the electronic device;

setting a hypnosis volume level and a playing duration of the electronic device;

playing an audio file at an original volume level in response to the electronic device being activated;

determining a brain wave frequency according to brain wave signals of the user collected by a brain wave sensor;

analyzing the brain wave frequency according to the defined frequency band, to determine whether the user is in the sleeping state;

playing the audio file at the hypnosis volume level and enabling a timer of the electronic device to start timing the playing duration when the user is in the sleeping state; and

in response to the playing duration elapsing, stopping playing the audio file, and sending the switch-off command to the brain wave sensor to stop collecting the brain wave signals of the user.

7. The storage medium as claimed in claim 6, wherein the analyzing step comprises:

determining that the user is in the sleeping state when the brain wave frequency is within the defined frequency band.

8. The storage medium as claimed in claim 6, wherein the collecting step comprises:

collecting the brain wave signals of the user by one or more electrodes of the brain wave sensor; and

sending the brain wave signals to the electronic device.

9. The storage medium as claimed in claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

setting a switch-on command of the electronic device.

10. The storage medium according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

sending the switch-on command to the brain wave sensor to start collecting the brain wave signals of the user.