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| 20120108997 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A SUBJECT'S ATTENTION LEVEL A device and method for generating a representation of a subject's attention level. The device comprises means for measuring brain signals from the subject; means for extracting temporal features from the brain signals; means for classifying the extracted temporal featu... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108998 | THERAPY CONTROL BASED ON A PATIENT MOVEMENT STATE A movement state of a patient is detected based on brain signals, such as an electroencephalogram (EEG) signal. In some examples, a brain signal within a dorsal-lateral prefrontal cortex of a brain of the patient indicative of prospective movement of the patient may be ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120029379 | Mind strength trainer An assortment of algorithms, procedures and associated device-hardware to condition human mind on causality between a specific state of mind and an externally generated stimuli, including a procedure to collect (310) bio signals underlying specific mental moods, ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110307079 | MULTISCALE INTRA-CORTICAL NEURAL INTERFACE SYSTEM Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to collect neuro data from an organ, such as a brain. Spikes may be detected using raw neuro data collected from the organ. The spikes may be sorted. Underlying neuronal firing rates may be estimated using the sorted spikes. T... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110282234 | Sequential Low Energy Neurofeedback Treatment The dominant brain wave frequencies of a patient are measured by an electroencephalogram (EEG) with a plurality of leads over the head and scalp. In a process for low energy neuro-feedback, the therapeutically beneficial low power RF field is sequentially applied via th... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110224572 | Brain machine interface Artificial control of a prosthetic device is provided. A brain machine interface contains a mapping of neural signals and corresponding intention estimating kinematics (e.g. positions and velocities) of a limb trajectory. The prosthetic device is controlled by the brain... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110213266 | Closed Loop Neural Activity Triggered Rehabilitation Device And Method A closed loop, neural activity triggered rehabilitation device and method are provided for facilitating recovery of a patient from the effects of a sensory motor disability. The device includes a sensor system positionable adjacent the brain of the patient. The sensor s... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110152710 | ADAPTIVE BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE DEVICE Disclosed herein is an adaptive brain-computer interface device. The brain-computer interface device includes a stimulus generation unit, a signal collection unit, a preprocessing unit, an analysis unit, and a stimuli sequence determination unit. The stimulus generation... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110054342 | SYSTEM & METHOD FOR ANALYZING ELECTRO-ENCEPHALOGRAPHY DATA WITH PAIR RANKING, COMBINED SCORE COMPARISONS, AND POOLED DATA ANALYSIS A system and method for analyzing EEG data. The system comprises data from at least one or all of the 19 (or more) standard scalp locations, a computing device operable to calculate deviance for the data, and a single score for each of a plurality of scalp sites based o... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110015539 | METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING, TRAINING, EXERCISE AND REGULATION A computer assisted method comprising: measuring activity of one or more internal voxels of a brain; employing computer executable logic that takes the measured brain activity and determines one or more members of the group consisting of: a) what next stimulus to commun... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100280403 | RAPID SERIAL PRESENTATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Embodiments of the disclosed technology provide reliable and fast communication of a human through a direct brain interface which detects the intent of the user. An embodiment of the disclosed technology comprises a system and method in which least one sequence of a plu... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100145414 | BIOMIMETIC NEUROSTIMULATION DEVICE A neuromimetic device includes a feedforward pathway and a feedback pathway. The device operates in parallel with a suspect neural region, coupled between regions afferent and efferent to the suspect region. The device can be trained to mimic the suspect region while th... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100145176 | Universal Electrode Array for Monitoring Brain Activity Methods of monitoring brain activity signals in a patient are described, including the steps of identifying a lobe or lobes of the patient's brain in which the patient's seizures originate; selecting an electrode array from a plurality of predetermined dispersed electro... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100137734 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE (BMI) CONTROL USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING A Brain Machine Interface (BMI) agent (110) is provided, that when operatively coupled to a subject during a mental task by the subject to control a prosthetic device (130), monitors one or more states (125) of neural activity of the subject, receiv... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100094156 | System and Method for Biofeedback Administration A biofeedback system for administration of electroencephalographic (EEG) neurofeedback training includes a plurality of electrodes sensors for placement on the head of a trainee and a switching head box comprising a plurality of contacts each of which connects to one el... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100063411 | Calibration systems and methods for neural interface devices A system and method for a neural interface system with integral calibration elements may include a sensor including a plurality of electrodes to detect multicellular signals, an interface to process the signals from the sensor into a suitable control signal for a contro... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100049076 | RETRIEVING MENTAL IMAGES OF FACES FROM THE HUMAN BRAIN Methods, systems and computer program products for retrieving mental images of faces from the human brain. An exemplary embodiment includes a method for retrieving mental images of faces from a human brain, the method including generating an image on a screen, measuring... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100036276 | Neurofeedback System An apparatus and process for low energy neurofeedback includes computer and display means on a general purpose computer to calculate and display dominant brain wave frequencies as measured by an electroencephalogram. The general purpose computer is also operative to com... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100016753 | Systems and Methods for Portable Neurofeedback Systems and methods for portable neurofeedback are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a neurofeedback system includes sensors for capturing, recording and transmitting brain electrical activity; and a portable device for receiving, processing and displaying in real-tim... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090318826 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF NEUROLOGICAL FEEDBACK SYSTEMS TO CONTROL PHYSICAL OBJECTS FOR THERAPEUTIC AND OTHER REASONS A method and apparatus using brainwaves to control real objects is provided. The method and apparatus comprise using sensors to detect the brain's electrical signals and transmit at least two brainwaves to an apparatus that converts the brainwaves into a format usable b... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090318827 | BODY-BASED MONITORING OF BRAIN ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY Apparatus and methods for monitoring electrical activity within the brain of a person (“brainwaves”) employing electrodes or other sensors connected or placed proximate to portions of the body below the head to develop raw signals. The raw signals are filtered to pr... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090270755 | PEDOMETER FOR THE BRAIN The claimed subject mater provides systems and/or techniques that provide biometric feedback monitoring of brain activity. The system includes mechanisms that obtain indication of brain activity associated with an individual which can be utilized to ensure that the indi... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090259137 | DETERMINATION OF BIOSENSOR CONTACT QUALITY A method of assisting a user in bringing a plurality of EEG electrodes into proper contact with the user's scalp includes receiving a signals from EEG electrodes, determining a state of contact with the user's scalp, and displaying a representation of the user's scalp a... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259138 | AUTOMATIC BIO-SIGNAL SUPERVISING SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL CARE The present invention discloses an automatic bio-signal supervising system for medical care. The automatic bio-signal supervising system utilizes a head-mounted bio-signal acquisition device, wore upon the user's head, to acquire the bio-signals, convert them into the d... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090209845 | METHOD TO OPTIMIZE INTERACTIVE PRODUCTS BASED ON THEIR FUNCTIONAL NEURAL IMPACT Described herein are methods of optimizing an interactive media (e.g., a videogame) based on a brain activity criterion, as well as interactive media optimized or incorporating these methods. Brain activity may be measured using imaging techniques, such as an fMRI image... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090187235 | Device for physiotherapeutic treatment of diseases of various etiology The present invention is aimed at improving efficiency of therapeutic action. The above technical effect is achieved in a device for physiotherapeutic treatment of diseases of various etiology comprising a control unit 1 connected to a color action unit 30, | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090187114 | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM INTERFACE SYSTEM AND ACTIVATION APPARATUS An electroencephalogram interface is activated by utilizing a biological signal, in particular a steady-state visual evoked potential, from a user. An electroencephalogram interface system (1) includes a biological signal detection s... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090171232 | Drowsiness detection system A drowsiness detection system is disclosed. The way of detection is by an EEG detection circuit to detect brain waves of a human brain for getting an EEG signal. The EEG signal is sent to a micro-controller circuit to generate a control signal. In accordance with the co... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090137924 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESHING HUMAN AND COMPUTER COMPETENCIES FOR OBJECT CATEGORIZATION The subject disclosure relates to a method and system for visual object categorization. The method and system include receiving human inputs including data corresponding to passive human-brain responses to visualization of images. Computer inputs are also received which... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090118636 | Multi-Channel, Multi-Variate Whole-Head Normalization Using Live Z-Scores A method of whole-brain EEG neurofeedback training of a trainee using live Z-scores from 4 channels of EEG signals to acquire 248 Z-scores from 6 simultaneous interconnectivity paths. The feedback system is endowed with the ability to establish training targets and to u... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090099474 | System and method for combined bioelectric sensing and biosensory feedback based adaptive therapy for medical disorders A system and method for adaptive therapeutic intervention to effect real-time changes in the behavioral profile of an individual to facilitate the effectiveness of combined bioelectric sensing and biosensory based therapy for specific disorders. The system and method in... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090088659 | Biological Sensing With Haptic Feedback Systems and methods as described the present disclosure are capable of generating haptic feedback in response to sensing a biological signal from a vertebrate. A method according to one embodiment, among others, includes detecting a neural signal from a vertebrate. The ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090069707 | METHOD TO IMPROVE NEUROFEEDBACK TRAINING USING A REINFORCEMENT SYSTEM OF COMPUTERIZED GAME-LIKE COGNITIVE OR ENTERTAINMENT-BASED TRAINING ACTIVITIES This invention consists of a neurofeedback training system that utilizes EEG activity based goals to help motivate trainees to learn to produce and sustain desirable EEG activity by enabling them to earn “game play” time. The method provides positive behavioral rein... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090062682 | Patient Advisory Device A patient advisory device (“PAD”) and its methods of use. The PAD may be configured to alert the patient about an estimated brain state of the patient. In preferred embodiments, the PAD is adapted to alert the patient of the patient's brain state, which corresponds ... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090054802 | SUNGLASS TYPE SLEEP DETECTING AND PREVENTING DEVICE The present invention relates to a sunglasses type device for detecting and preventing sleep and a method for detecting and preventing sleep.... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090005698 | Method and device for controlling motion module via brainwaves A method for controlling motion module via brainwaves uses brainwaves to control and drive a motion module. The motion module can perform motions in a plurality of motion modes. The method for controlling motion module via brainwaves includes: firstly, obtaining a plura... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080281221 | Method and Apparatus for Encouraging Physiological Change Through Physiological Control of Video Devices The present invention concerns a method and system for encouraging physiologic change through physiological display control of video devices. The system includes interfacing an output from a physiologic acquisition device with a junction box that is capable of controlli... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080234598 | Implantable Systems and Methods for Identifying a Contra-ictal Condition in a Subject Systems and methods of monitoring a subject's neurological condition are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes the steps of analyzing a physiological signal (such as an EEG) from a subject to determine if the subject is in a contra-ictal condition; and if t... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080208074 | Methods and Systems for Characterizing and Generating a Patient-Specific Seizure Advisory System A method of developing a brain state advisory system including the following steps: deriving a brain state advisory algorithm; applying the brain state advisory algorithm to patient EEG data to identify occurrences of the target patient brain state (such as, e.g., a pro... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080183096 | Systems and Methods for Identifying a Contra-ictal Condition in a Subject The invention provides a method of monitoring a subject's neurological condition. In some embodiments, the method includes the steps of analyzing a physiological signal (such as an EEG) from a subject to determine if the subject is in a contra-ictal condition; and if th... | 07/31/2008 |
