921 results about "Consciousness" patented technology

A user-friendly reliable process is provided to help diagnose (assess) and treat (rehabilitate) impairment or deficiencies in a person (subject or patient) caused by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or other neurocognitive disorders. The economical, safe, effective process can include: generating and electronically displaying a virtual reality environment (VRE) with moveable images; identifying and letting the TBI person perform a task in the VRE; electronically inputting and recording the performance data with an electronic interactive communications device; electronically evaluating the person's performance and assessing the person's impairment by electronically determining a deficiency in the person's cognitive function (e.g. memory, recall, recognition, attention, spatial awareness) and / or motor function (i.e. motor skills, e.g. balance) as a result of the TBI or other neurocognitive disorder.

A cloud enablement aggregation proxy (CEAP) receives and processes audit data from audited resources before such data is stored in a database. The CEAP manages log data for resources hosted in a multi-tenant shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., a compute cloud). A method for managing log data begins by the proxy aggregating and normalizing log information received from a plurality of the resources. The aggregated and normalized log information is then parsed to identify a tenant associated with each of a set of transactions. For each of the set of transactions, the CEAP annotates log data associated with the tenant and the particular transaction to include a tenant-specific identifier. An optional tenant separation proxy (TSP) separates the annotated log data on a per tenant basis prior to storage, and the tenant-specific log data may be stored in per tenant data structures or dedicated tenant log event databases to facilitate subsequent compliance or other analysis.

An interactive automatic system and technique for measuring and training of mental ability. In the illustrative embodiment, the invention is implemented on a computer which automatically presents a variety of visual and auditory stimuli. The system then measures reaction to the stimuli, adjusts certain stimulus parameters, and provides scores in response thereto. The scores are tabulated and displayed for analysis. In particular embodiments, the invention tests for physical reaction time, perceptual awareness thresholds, attention level, speed, efficiency and capacity of information processing by the brain and elementary cognitive processes, including memory, memory access and decision-making speed. The invention measures, identifies and quantifies noise in the subject's brain and elementary cognitive processing system, and the information exchange rate between the subject's left and right brain hemispheres. The inventive system compiles a history of the test scores, renders an overall performance rating, and delivers comments based on the subject scores. The complexity of the tests are adjusted based on the scores to optimally challenge cognitive capacities, thereby rendering more accurate evaluations of cognitive capacity, and optimizing learning of desired improvements in perceptual, physical and mental response speeds and efficiencies.

Systems and methods of employing experimental tasks, neurological and physiological recording devices, and a sequenced process of data acquisition and analysis to produce measurements of pre-verbal and pre-conscious brain processes. An array of measurement devices are connected non-invasively to an individual (the subject). The subject experiences one or more external stimuli via any combination of senses, including visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and / or gustatory. Experimental tasks, data acquisition, analysis, and / or presentation steps are processed to ascertain the subject's pre-verbal and pre-conscious responses to the external stimuli, including attentional triggering, emotional valence and arousal, interest, engagement, and activation of higher cognitive processes such as memory, preference formation, and decision making.

Social media network environment for topics of information to impact social measurements, bringing generational awareness to improve community cultural and economic values. The network environment is a platform for sharing knowledge relating to fashion media, model media, and dress code media “FMDC” for human observations. The platform extracts database information and analyzes queried occurrences to identify stored patterns for communications through a centralized system, providing substance of things hoped for, revealing the evidence of things not commonly seen, which is CHANGE. CHANGE is embraced for sustainable cultural independence, for by CHANGE the society receives good reports that things which are seen were not spiritually made of things which do appear, but are made through creative minds and discoveries that may lead to economic growth, not as a means of inquiry, but rather as a dimension of social sustainability to gracefully improve corporate and community cultural interest through economic vision.

Methods and systems incorporating non-linear dynamic (NLD) analysis such as entropy or other complexity analysis monitoring continuous or evoked signals from a biological subject are presented, where such a system comprises of processing steps including: a) the combination of a biological signal evoked as a result of patient stimulation presented to a biological subject and a non-linear analysis method capable of capturing temporal changes in signal order or regularity; b) any combination of processed evoked or continuous central nervous or peripheral physiological mechanisms b) a means to generate a measure indicative of a patient's level of anaesthesia and consciousness depth (A&CD), sedation or sleep / wake state. Methods and systems incorporating a NLD analysis means to improve the discrimination between different signals origins including any combination of: a) central nervous system (CNS), b) peripheral control or nervous system (PNS), c) autonomic control or nervous system (ANS), d) arousals, and e) artifacts.

An augmented reality system provides enhanced situational information to personnel located within an environment. A tracking system obtains viewpoint information corresponding to a real-time view of said environment. A processing system receives information from one or more sensors. Information includes sensor location information and status information about the environment and personnel therein. The processing system generates graphics using the sensor location information and the viewpoint information. Graphics include visual representations of said status information. A display displays the generated graphics on a display at a supervisor station that is outside of said environment such that graphics are superimposed on the real-time view.

Described embodiments include a system that includes a monitoring agent, configured to automatically monitor usage of a computing device by a user, and a processor. The processor is configured to compute, based on the monitoring, a score indicative of a cyber-security awareness of the user, and to generate an output indicative of the score.

A system and method for scheduling, and reminding people receiving care (PRC) about upcoming events uses a remote computer-based interface that allows a Caregiver at a remote location to schedule the events for the PRC. The PRC has in their residence (or other location) a device that prompts the PRC, by an audio and / or video prompt, so as to “nudge” the PRC, asking whether they intend to participate in a pre-scheduled event. A man-machine interface, such as a two input keypad containing one button labeled “yes” and another button labeled “no”, the remote Caregiver is able to monitor the responses of the electronic “nudges” offered by the system to the PRC. In turn, the device used by the remote Caregiver accumulates the responses and creates a history of the level of activity the person has indicated in which they wish to participate.

A method and apparatus to monitor the neurologic state of a patient undergoing general anesthesia is provided. Previous automated systems to monitor the neurologic state of a patient undergoing general anesthesia involve a significant time delay between the patient's true hypnotic state and the computed indices. The present invention reduces this time delay by using a different analysis technique applied to spontaneous EEG. A wavelet decomposition and statistical analysis of the observed EEG is conducted and compared to reference data to provide a numerical indicator. In addition, this indicator is more consistent with the patient's loss of consciousness indicated by the loss of count event than previous systems.

The present invention discloses an architecture of an embedded internet robot system controlled by brain waves, wherein the brain-computer interface and the internet robot system cooperate with the alertness level detection technology and the instruction translation technology, and thereby, the user can control a distal-end robot purely via consciousness activities and can interact with the environment as if there were an entity representing the user's consciousness appearing in the distal end. The seriously disabled person can regain his expressive ability via the present invention. Further, the present invention can also be applied to a multi-player interactive game system.

Social media network environment for topics of information to impact social measurements, bringing generational awareness to improve community cultural and economic values. The network environment is a platform for sharing knowledge relating to fashion media, model media, and dress code media “FMDC” for human observations. The platform extracts database information and analyzes queried occurrences to identify stored patterns for communications through a centralized system, providing substance of things hoped for, revealing the evidence of things not commonly seen, which is CHANGE. CHANGE is embraced for sustainable cultural independence, for by CHANGE the society receives good reports that things which are seen were not spiritually made of things which do appear, but are made through creative minds and discoveries that may lead to economic growth, not as a means of inquiry, but rather as a dimension of social sustainability to gracefully improve corporate and community cultural interest through economic vision.

The present invention concerns a system and method for assigning a number of terms (1.4, 1.5) and objects that are on at least two levels (1.1, 1.2) on a mobile device (3) of a user. Through this knowledge, the perception of the corresponding terms and objects is additionally promoted. Thanks to the system and method described here, terms (1.4, 1.5) from different valuation levels are presented to the user who has to assign them. These terms (1.4, 1.5) can only be assigned if the user has sufficient information about the terms (1.4, 1.5). The result of the assignment product (4) is thus a measure of the knowledge of the user in question. Companies and organization can use this system and method to determine their degree of awareness and, through suitable incentives for the users, massively increase their name recognition respectively that of their products and / or services by increasing the specific perception.

Vehicles, including autonomous vehicles, which receive external data from sources other than the sensors on the vehicles, analyze such external data and alter the driving behaviors of the vehicles based on the external data are disclosed. External data may be gathered from other vehicles, news feeds, social networking posts or may comprise data about previously observed behaviors of other vehicles or drivers. Such external data may include locations of and / or information regarding other vehicles, traffic signs and or signal lights, on or off ramps, road hazards, road conditions, traffic conditions, vehicular or pedestrian congestion, etc. In other aspects, systems for adjusting vehicle settings based on driver preferred settings are disclosed.

A medical device, such as an infusion pump, obtains a contextual awareness of its operation by communicating with centralized patient records and or other medical equipment communicating with a common patient, and / or provides real time advisory information, at care point or remotely. A protocol obtained by the medical device from a protocol server provides context-aware protocols and necessary predicate information for those protocols. This predicate information may be discovered by the medical device communicating with electronic medical records and the associated medical equipment.

The present invention discloses only required personal information in an emergency. A personal information display screen displays a face image display area 141, a passenger position display area 142, an interior image display area 143, a front image display area 144, a rear image display area 145, a personal information display area 146, and a display end button 147. For example, when an accident occurs and a rescue team arrives at the scene of the accident, a display section of an on-vehicle apparatus displays not only passengers' face images but also required information such as their names, addresses, and blood types which is permitted to be disclosed. This enables emergencies to be dealt with both promptly and correctly even if such a serious accident as causes all the passengers to lose consciousness occurs. The present invention is applicable to the on-vehicle apparatus.

A medical pump for delivering medicament through an IV line to a patient may provide for awareness of the operator and operator authority limiting access by any individual to particular tasks of procedure review, pump programming, pump loading, patient set up, pump operation, and the like associated with the treatment provided by the medical pump. Identifying the operator allows the assignment of particular authority levels to the operators to ensure proper operation of the medical pump, and / or proper operators have made the necessary review to perform the necessary set up of the medical pump facilitating collaborative healthcare delivery. A record of operator intervention and authority levels may be logged to permit an automatic checklist process by the medical pump. Authentication process and pump operation parameters can be communicated through Near Field Communication (NFC).

A method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy is provided. The method includes receiving cardiac data and determining a cardiac index based upon the cardiac data. The method includes determining an increased risk of death associated with epilepsy if the indices are extreme, issuing a warning of the increased risk of death and logging information related to the increased risk of death. Also presented is a second method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy comprising receiving at least one of arousal data, responsiveness data or awareness data and determining an arousal index, a responsiveness index or an awareness index, where the indices are based on arousal data, responsiveness data or awareness data respectively. The second method includes determining an increased risk of death related to epilepsy if indices are extreme values, issuing a warning of the increased risk of death and logging information related to the increased risk of death. A computer readable program storage device is also provided. Also provided is a method for receiving body data, determining a cardiac, an arousal, a responsiveness, or a kinetic index, determining an increased or increasing risk of death over a first time window relating to a patient with epilepsy and issuing a warning and logging relevant information.

In one or more embodiments, driver awareness may be calculated, inferred, or estimated utilizing a saliency model, a predictive model, or an operating environment model. An awareness model including one or more awareness scores for one or more objects may be constructed based on the saliency model or one or more saliency parameters associated therewith. A variety of sensors or components may detect one or more object attributes, saliency, operator attributes, operator behavior, operator responses, etc. and construct one or more models accordingly. Examples of object attributes associated with saliency or saliency parameters may include visual characteristics, visual stimuli, optical flow, velocity, movement, color, color differences, contrast, contrast differences, color saturation, brightness, edge strength, luminance, a quick transient (e.g., a flashing light, an abrupt onset of a change in intensity, brightness, etc.).

The present invention describes a method and apparatus to localize the electrical signals measured from a subject's scalp surface, preferably in near-real time, and to generate dynamic three-dimensional information of the electrical activity occurring within the cerebral cortex of the brain. In the preferred embodiment, it can produce images that can be immediately inspected and analyzed by an operator in near-real time, resulting in a powerful new cortical imaging modality, which we denote as Dynamic Electrocortical Imaging (DECI). The present invention involves the use of a computer, an electroencephalographic (EEG) amplifier, EEG electrodes, and custom software. It can measure healthy and diseased cortical events and states in both conscious and unconscious subjects. This is useful, as it allows for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of cortical disorders, while also furthering the understanding of the human brain and lending use to additional non-medical applications such as in entertainment, education, lie-detection and industry. The invention in one embodiment is implemented using software in conjunction with readily available EEG hardware. Furthermore, this same method can be applied to pre-existing data and when doing so, EEG hardware is not required. Having a practical near-real time 3D imaging system brings a far more accessible technology to doctors, researchers, individuals, and private clinics to better diagnose, monitor, treat and understand many of the conditions and abnormalities of the brain.

A computer-based method includes receiving a video feed of a surgical procedure; identifying a current step of the surgical procedure using the video feed and an electronic surgical database; and determining an expected next step of the surgical procedure. A similarity of the expected next step with the actual next step of the surgical procedure may be determined, and an alert and / or surgical guidance may be provided based on the similarity (or lack of). A system for surgical-guidance is disclosed, the system having a storage unit with an electronic surgical database; a surgery image identification unit for analyzing a video feed to determine characteristic data; a mapping unit for matching a database record based on the characteristic data; an alignment unit for mapping matched database records with a stored surgical procedure; and a surgery prediction unit for determining a predicted next surgical step.

The invention provides a wearable human abnormity monitoring and alarming system and a working method thereof; the wearable human abnormity monitoring and alarming system comprises a wearable device which is used for acquiring real-time activities and heart rate conditions of a wearer and for judging whether alarming is implemented or not, wherein the wearable device is provided with a three-axis acceleration sensor, a heart rate sensor, a clock module, a vibrator, a help button, a storage battery module, a first wireless signal receiving and transmitting module and a control module; the wearable device is also provided with an application gateway which is used for storing data acquired by the wearable device and for achieving information interaction with related mobile terminals, wherein the application gateway is provided with a second wireless signal receiving and transmitting module, a data storage module, a processing and control module and a mobile or wired communication module. The wearable device can be used for judging whether the problem of sudden consciousness loss with the symptom of abnormal heart rate occurs or not through heart rate when the wearer is continuously immovable, and can be used for transmitting alarming and help information to related mobile terminal users through the application gateway, so as to rescue timely.

The invention relates to a system and method for enhancing the identification of soft-skill, self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence learning needs, the development of and monitoring of improvement in self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attributes. A method comprises establishing a baseline measurement of self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attributes in the individual by presenting the individual a series of self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence specific questions or statements requiring multiple choice or graded responses and recording the responses; identifying from the baseline measurement specific self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attributes in need of improvement; optionally communicating the specific self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attribute improvement needs identified to the individual or a teacher or coach thereto; providing to and / or facilitating the individual one or a plurality of self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence raising exercises or learning modules designed to address the self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attribute improvement needs of the individual; establishing a revised measurement of self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attributes in the individual by presenting the individual a series of self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence specific questions or statements requiring multiple choice or graded responses and recording the responses; and comparing the revised measurement with the baseline measurement and reporting any change.

Direction-conscious information sharing is disclosed. User input specifying information to be shared and a direction relative to the sender device is received. A recipient device is identified as being located in a target area in the specified direction relative to the sender device. The specified information is sent to the identified recipient device, including data to allow the receiving device to generate a notification indicating a direction of the sender device relative to the recipient device.

The invention discloses an electrical appliance recognition method. The method is characterized in that: an electrical appliance is recognized according to a matching result of current characteristic parameter values. The invention further provides a household user carbon emission metering system applying the method. The metering system comprises a bus voltage sampling module, a bus current detection module, a phase detection module, a signal conditioning module, an amplitude detection module, an electrical appliance recognition module and a carbon metering module, wherein the bus voltage sampling module is connected with the input ends of the phase detection module, the signal conditioning module and the amplitude detection module respectively; the bus current detection module is connected with the input end of the signal conditioning module; the output ends of the phase detection module, the signal conditioning module and the amplitude detection module are connected with the input end of the electrical appliance recognition module; and the output end of the electrical appliance recognition module is connected with the carbon metering module. In the system, carbon emission is metered on the basis of accurate recognition of the electrical appliance, so that people are helped to set up the consciousness of energy saving, emission reduction and low-carbon consumption and correct incorrect power utilization habits.

A system and method for modeling, controlling and analyzing electrical grids for use by control room operators and automatic control provides a multi-dimensional, multi-layer cellular computational network (CCN) comprising an information layer; a knowledge layer; a decision-making layer; and an action layer; wherein each said layer of said CCN represents one of a variable in an electric power system. Situational awareness / situational intelligence is provided therefrom so that the operators and grid control systems can make the correct decision and take informed actions under difficult circumstances to maintain a high degree of grid integrity and reliability by analyzing multiple variables within a volume of time and space to provide an understanding of their meaning and predict their states in the near future where these multiple variables can have different timescales.

The invention provides an automobile traffic safety simulation driving education training system which enables students to experience safety risks in the daily traffic environment and grasp disposal skills in an emergency state on the basis of a basic training driving technique and enhances the safe driving awareness of the students. The automobile traffic safety simulation driving education training system provided by the invention is characterized by comprising a display component, a sound effect component, a control component, a selection input component, a signal acquisition and processing component, a main control computer component, a cockpit component and a multi-DOF (degree of freedom) moving component, wherein a complicated traffic environment safe driving training module, a typical dangerous state safe-driving training module, a severe weather condition safe-driving training module and a safety comparison driving training module are arranged in the main control computer component; the main control computer component is respectively connected with the display component, the sound effect component and the multi-DOF moving component; the control component is integrated in the cockpit component; the control component and the selection input component are connected with the signal acquisition and processing component; and the signal acquisition and processing component isconnected with the main control computer component.

A method and system for an awareness service is provided. One or more collaborative contexts can be set for a first user within a set of users using the awareness service. One or more subsets of users can be defined within the set of users corresponding to the one or more collaborative contexts, respectively. Furthermore, a level of availability can be defined for the first user with respect to each of the subset of users. Next, an online status can be published on the awareness service for the first user. The online status can display an availability message to a second user. And, the availability message can have the highest level of availability selected from a group consisting of every level of availability defined for the first user with respect to every subset of users that includes the second user.