Guide glasses

• US 8,597,171 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2009
• Issued: 12/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cornfield Electronics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Cornfield Electronics, Inc.
• Inventors: Altman, Mitchell A., Alessi, William
• Primary Examiner(s): Matthews, Christine
• Assistant Examiner(s): LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON
• Application Number:
  US12/606,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20100076253A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,499 Days
• Field of Search: 600/26, 600/27, 600/28, 128897-899
• US Class Current: 600/28
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0011 in a subliminal way, i.e. below the threshold of sensation
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0027 by the hearing sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0044 by the sight 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: A61N 2005/0648 the light being directed to the eyes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0652 Arrays of diodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/0618 Psychological treatment
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted

Abstract

A sound and light machine (SLM) produces sound and light that pulses at brain wave frequencies. The SLM is programmed to induce a particular state of consciousness in a user. The SLM includes a left and a right light emitting diode (LED) (3). The LEDs (3) are configured to be placed in front of the user'"'"'s left and right eyes, respectively, and are programmed to pulse light at a frequency that helps induce the particular state of consciousness in the user. The SLM has a left and a right headphone speaker (4). The speakers (4) are configured to play different tones into right and left ears to produce binaural beats that match the LED pulse frequencies. The SLM also has a microcontroller (5) on circuit board that runs firmware to control the LEDs and headphone speakers.

Claims

1. A sound and light machine (SLM) that produces sound and light pulses at brain wave frequencies that is programmed to induce a particular state of consciousness in a user, while simultaneously providing music to the user, comprising:

a left and a right light emitting diode (LED), the LEDs configured to be placed in front of the user'"'"'s left and right eyes, respectively, and programmed to pulse light at a frequency that helps induce the particular state of consciousness in the user;

a left and a right headphone speaker, the speakers configured to play different tones into right and left ears to produce binaural beats that match the LED pulse frequencies;

a microcontroller on a circuit board, wherein said microcontroller runs firmware to control the LEDs and headphone speakers so as to produce a plurality of dominant brainwave frequencies; and

a plurality of binaural voices corresponding to each of said dominant brainwave frequencies, each of said binaural voices comprising a base tone, a beat tone and an associated LED, said binaural voices configured to produce a melody of said music without interfering with the sound and light pulses at the brainwave frequencies, wherein the base tone is set to a frequency producing said melody, and said beat tone is set to the frequency producing said melody plus a frequency of said brain wave frequencies of the sound and light pulses,

wherein said binaural voices are configured to produce the melody of said music without interfering with the sound and light pulses at the brainwave frequencies by wavelength involution in which an index of each tone is periodically decremented into a waveform array by a value of one original wavelength.

2. The SLM of claim 1, wherein the dominant brain wave frequencies comprise four dominant brainwave frequencies and the binaural voices comprise four binaural voices.

3. The SLM of claim 2, wherein the SLM comprises an eight voice digital synthesizer with embedded binaural capabilities and a synchronized light frame.

4. The SLM of claim 1, further comprising electronics and a battery which are embedded in a flexible housing that is housed in a soft and flexible mask that fits comfortably on a human head so as to cover the user'"'"'s eyes and ears.

5. The SLM of claim 1, further comprising an authoring system (GG.c) that can specify a brain-entrainment session in a text file.

6. The SLM of claim 5, wherein the microcontroller is programmed by a digital file that describes a waveform that applies a session of said brainwave frequencies to the music.

7. The SLM of claim 6, wherein the music comprises pre-calculated 24-bit step values for each note of the song, and pre-calculated 24-bit fading coefficients for each change in binaural intensity of each of said plurality of voices.

8. The SLM of claim 7, further comprising a 20 Mhz 8-bit microprocessor, without a hardware divide, with 8K of ROM and 256 bytes of RAM.

9. The SLM of claim 8, wherein the SLM provides five separate brain entrainment applications.

10. The SLM of claim 9, wherein at least 45 minutes of generated binaural music using a complex waveform are provided at a playback rate of 18 Khz.

11. The SLM of claim 1, further comprising a serial port connector that writes the firmware into the microcontroller so as to permit programming of brain wave frequency sequences in the LEDs and headphone speakers.

12. The SLM of claim 1, further comprising graphics placed over each of said left and right LEDs.

13. The SLM of claim 1, wherein the SLM is programmed to fade sound and/or lights in and out.

14. The SLM of claim 1, wherein the SLM is programmed to handle multiple simultaneous frequencies.

15. The SLM of claim 1, wherein the SLM is programmed to match brain wave types to different colored LEDs and/or binaural base frequencies.

16. The SLM of claim 1, wherein the SLM is programmed to mask the binaural beats with music or other sounds.

17. The SLM of claim 1, wherein the SLM is programmed to help people sleep or wake up.

18. The SLM of claim 17, wherein the SLM is configured to fit in a soft fabric sleep mask and use a light, flexible, rechargeable battery so as to be comfortable for sleeping.

19. The SLM of claim 1, wherein the SLM is programmed to help people meditate.

20. The SLM of claim 1, wherein the SLM is programmed to pulse the LEDs at a frequency selected from the group consisting of 2.2, 6.0, 11.1 and 14.4 Hz, in order to elicit delta, theta, alpha or beta waves, respectively.

21. A method of inducing a particular state of consciousness in a user while simultaneously playing music, comprising providing an SLM according to claim 1;

placing the SLM such that the LEDs are in front of the user'"'"'s eyes and the headphone speakers are near the user'"'"'s ears; and

turning the SLM on to run a sequence of frequencies designed to induce the particular state of consciousness while simultaneously playing generated music.