Patent ID: 11925464
Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. An evaluation apparatus comprising:
a display screen; and
an arithmetic processing device includes a microprocessor, which executes processes of a gaze point detecting unit, a display control unit, an area setting unit, a determining unit, a calculating unit, and an evaluating unit, wherein,
the gaze point detecting unit detects a position of a gaze point of a subject observing the display screen;
the display control unit causes the display screen to display an image including a specific object and a comparison object different from the specific object, and an instruction information instructing or prompting a user to memorize the specific object;
the area setting unit sets a specific area corresponding to the specific object, a comparison area corresponding to the comparison object, movement area corresponding to the area where a display form of the specific object is changed, and an instruction area corresponding to the instruction information;
the determining unit determines, based on the position of the gaze point, whether the gaze point is present in the specific area, whether the gaze point is in the comparison area, whether the gaze point is presented in the movement area, whether the gaze point is present in the instruction area, during a display period in which the image is displayed on the display screen;
the calculating unit calculates gaze point data based on a determination result of the determining unit; and
the evaluating unit obtains evaluation data of the subject based on the gaze point data, wherein
the display control unit performs a first display operation to change a display form of the specific object during a period in which the specific object and the comparison object are displayed on the display screen and then performs a second display operation to display the specific object in the display form before it was changed in the first display operation and the comparison object on the display screen, and
the display control unit, in the second display operation, causes instruction to be displayed so as to prompt the subject to memorize the specific object whose display form was changed in the first display operation,
and the evaluating unit calculates an evaluation data such that an evaluation value is smaller when presence time of the gaze point in the specific area is longer, the evaluation value is larger when presence time of the gaze point in the comparison area is longer, the evaluation value is larger when presence time of the gaze point in the movement area is longer, and the evaluation time is smaller when presence time of the gaze point in the instruction area is longer so as to evaluate cognitive dysfunction and brain dysfunction of the subject.