EEG glasses (electroencephalographic eyewear)

• US 9,968,297 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2017
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medibotics, LLC
• Original Assignee: Medibotics, LLC
• Inventors: Connor, Robert A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weston, Tiffany
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, THO Q
• Application Number:
  US15/464,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20170188947A1
• Time in Patent Office: 420 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0468 Built-in electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/291 for electroencephalography [EEG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/369 Electroencephalography [EEG] devices for psychotechnics A61B5/16
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6803 Head-worn items, e.g. helmets, masks, headphones or goggles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6814 Head
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/015 Input arrangements based on nervous system activity detection, e.g. brain waves [EEG] detection, electromyograms [EMG] detection, electrodermal response detection

Abstract

This invention comprises EEG glasses (electroencephalographic eyewear) with a side section of an eyewear frame which spans forward and upward onto a portion of the person'"'"'s forehead and then curves back downward to connect to the front section of the eyewear frame. These EEG glasses (electroencephalographic eyewear) further include a flexible protrusion which is attached to the side section and an electromagnetic energy sensor which collects data concerning electromagnetic brain activity, wherein the flexible protrusion holds the electromagnetic energy sensor.

Claims

1. A pair of eyeglasses which collects data concerning electromagnetic energy from a person'"'"'s brain comprising:

a front portion of a frame of the pair of eyeglasses which is configured to be worn on the person'"'"'s head and to span from one eye to the other eye across a portion of the front of the person'"'"'s face;

at least one optical lens which is configured to be worn within 6″

of one of the person'"'"'s eyes and which is attached to or an integrated part of the front portion of the frame of the pair of eyeglasses;

at least one side portion of the frame of the pair of eyeglasses which is attached to or an integrated part of the front portion of the frame of the pair of eyeglasses and which is configured to be worn on or around one of the person'"'"'s ears, wherein a middle section of the side portion of the frame of the pair of eyeglasses is shaped like a conic section;

an electromagnetic energy sensor which is attached to or an integrated part of the middle section of the side portion of the frame of the pair of eyeglasses and which is configured to receive electromagnetic energy from the person'"'"'s brain; and

a control unit with which the at least one electromagnetic energy sensor is in electromagnetic communication.