Stress control system

• US 6,540,663 B1
• Filed: 06/05/2000
• Issued: 04/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Ricard, Laurent, Vau, Jean-Marie
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaver, Kevin
• Assistant Examiner(s): WINGOOD, PAMELA LYNN
• Application Number:
  US09/586,862
• Time in Patent Office: 1,030 Days
• Field of Search: 600/300, 600/26, 600/27, 600/28, 600/587, 600/589, 600/390, 600/391, 455/304-466, 379/90-1-1
• US Class Current: 600/27
• 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 5/165 Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0027 by the hearing sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0044 by the sight sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 21/02 for inducing sleep or relaxation, e.g. by direct nerve stimulation, hypnosis, analgesia for massage A61H; electrotherapy A61N, e.g. applying alternating or intermittent electric currents for producing anaesthesia A61N1/36021
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3553 remote, e.g. between patient's home and doctor's office
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2210/04 Skin
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/50 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724092 Interfacing with an external cover providing additional functionalities
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

The system comprises a server capable of sending images to a cellphone fitted with a display screen and sensors for generating a signal dependent on user'"'"'s physiological parameters. The series of images supplied by the server is according to the user, by the prior acquisition of a user profile and at least one item of physiological data for this user transmitted by the sensor, so as to change unconsciously the user'"'"'s psychophysiological state.

Claims

1. A control system for a user'"'"'s psychophysiological state, comprising:

a) a remote server supplied with;

a1) a remote communication system to exchange digital data;

a2) a digital database to represent and store images; and

a3) an interference engine to determine which digital data representing images to transmit;

b) a mobile client incorporated in a case and linked to said server, said mobile client supplied with;

b1) at least one sensor attached to the case, said sensor being in contact with the user and being linked to an electronic transmission unit so as to supply a signal, relating to at least one item of the user'"'"'s physiological data, to said inference engine; and

b2) a display for digital data communicated from said server, whereby said digital data comprises a series of images supplied by said server being related to said user and said physiological data.

2. A method for utilizing a cellphone capable of being linked to a digital data network to control an individual'"'"'s psychophysiological state, comprising the steps of contacting the user'"'"'s skin with sensors in said cellphone to generate a signal representing at least one item of the user'"'"'s physiological data, and showing a series of images on a display on said cellphone, said series of images being selected according to said user and said physiological data.

3. A transformation kit for a cellphone capable of being linked to a digital data network in a control system for evaluating an individual'"'"'s psychophysiological state, said kit comprising a combination in kit form including at least one sensor intended to make contact with the user'"'"'s skin and generate a signal representing said individual'"'"'s psychophysiological state, and a socket adapted so as to be able to transmit the signal from said at least one sensor to said cellphone.

4. A kit according to claim 3, comprising in addition an adaptation circuit to transform an analog signal coming from said sensor into a digital signal.