Patent ID: 9675291
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A system for modifying a psychophysiological state of a subject comprising: a sensor configured to detect a psychophysiological measure of the subject; a processor configured to process the detected psychophysiological measure so as to provide a signal indicative of the psychophysiological state of the subject; a motive source coupled to the processor and configured to output a haptic stimulus according to a pattern that mimics a desired respiration pattern to gradually guide the subject to a desired psychophysiological state, wherein the desired respiration pattern is a regular or repeated pattern that gradually slows over time; and a television configured to output an output stimulus being at least one or any combination of an audio stimulus and a visual stimulus to the subject, the output stimulus being derived from an audio-visual data signal provided by the television for displaying a content on the television, wherein the processor is further configured to modulate the audio-visual data signal in real time based on the signal indicative of the psychophysiological state of the subject, wherein the television comprises a display arranged in a split-screen configuration comprising plural definable parts, wherein the processor is further configured to display a portion of the content in an unaltered state in a first screen part of the split-screen display, and to display a further portion of the content in an altered state including distortions of characteristics of the content in a second screen part of the split-screen display in response to the modulated audio-visual data signal, and wherein the motive source is further configured to provide feedback to the subject to follow the desired respiration pattern to reduce the distortions of the content displayed in the second screen part as the psychophysiological state of the subject gets closer to the desired psychophysiological state, and wherein the processor gradually restores the content displayed in the second screen part to the unaltered state to match the unaltered state of the content displayed in the first screen part in response to the subject changing the psychophysiological state to the desired psychophysiological state.