Patent ID: 8979263
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: A61B,A61H,G09B

Abstract:
1. Computer-readable storage media containing computer readable code which, when loaded into a computer system having a processing system and a user interface including a display, causes a method to be implemented which helps remediate a cognitive defect of a subject, the method comprising in the order recited: displaying to the subject on the display: a background which includes a pattern which has visibly lighter portions and darker portions that visibly vary in luminance across a spatial dimension at multiple spatial frequencies; and a test pattern which has a lighter portion and a darker portion moving in one or more directions within the boundaries of the background; receiving a communication from the subject through the user interface indicating the direction or directions in which the test pattern appears to the subject to have moved; and repeating the displaying and the receiving steps associated with the background and the test pattern a plurality of times.