Management of physiological and psychological state of an individual using images personal image profiler

• US 6,293,904 B1
• Filed: 10/29/1999
• Issued: 09/25/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CareStream Health Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Fedorovskaya, Elena A., Patton, David L., Fredlund, John R., Mir, Jose M., Prabhu, Girish V., Parks, Peter A., Miller, Paige, Blazey, Richard N., Horwitz, Cecelia M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dvorak, Linda C. M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROLLINS, ROSILAND STACIE
• Application Number:
  US09/429,975
• Time in Patent Office: 697 Days
• Field of Search: 600/513, 600/544, 600/26, 600/27, 600/28, 128/898, 434/236
• US Class Current: 600/26
• 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 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7257 using Fourier transforms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/70 relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing

Abstract

A method of generating a personal image profile based on an individual'"'"'s physiological and cognitive state compromising: presenting a master set of images to an individual wherein each image in the master set is characterized by a set of scene and image related classifiers that are relevant to producing an effect on an individual; measuring and recording one or more of said individual'"'"'s physiological parameters while viewing a presented image; measuring the individual'"'"'s cognitive state from cognitive responses to each presented image; and generating a personal image profile of the individual based on combining the physiological and cognitive measures from said measuring steps, said personal image profile including image classifiers for identifying activating or deactivating images for said individuals.

Claims

1. A method of generating a personal image profile based on an individual'"'"'s physiological and cognitive state compromising:

presenting a master set of images to an individual wherein each image in the master set is characterized by a set of scene and image related classifiers that are relevant to producing an effect on an individual;

measuring and recording one or more of said individual'"'"'s physiological parameters while viewing a presented image;

measuring the individual'"'"'s cognitive state from cognitive responses to each presented image; and

generating a personal image profile of the individual based on combining the physiological and cognitive measures from said measuring steps, said personal image profile including image classifiers for identifying activating or deactivating images for said individuals.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the image classifiers of said master set of images include one of more of the following categories, landscapes, people'"'"'s activity, people'"'"'s expressions, people'"'"'s identity, animals, lighting, color, direction of light, direction of gaze, direction of motion, distance.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said measuring of said physiological parameters includes measuring of one or more of body temperature, heart rate, skin conductance response, EMG signals, EEG signals, blood pressure, eye saccades.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said measuring of said cognitive state includes measuring one or more of the cognitive feeling scales of detached to attached, unhappy to happy, calm to excited.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said personal image profile includes one or more of the following image classifiers which identify personal activating or deactivating images, landscapes, people'"'"'s activity, people'"'"'s expressions, people'"'"'s identity, animals, lighting, color, direction of light, direction of travel, distance.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said personal image profile is used to create one or more sets of images from a database, the created image set evoking desired reactions of the person.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein a created set of images is presented to said individual to produce a desired reaction to help manage, modify or maintain current physiological or psychological state.