Patent ID: 8992232
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: A61B,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method for using an interactive computer interface to dynamically reflect how one or more user-selectable conditions and severity of those conditions can affect a user's vision, the method comprising: receiving user input at a computing device that identifies a condition that can affect vision; using a camera associated with the computing device to capture a plurality of images that are streaming video images captured in real-time by the camera associated with the computing device; displaying the plurality of images as they are captured by the computing device, without modification, such that the plurality of images are displayed in a manner that reflects how the plurality of images would generally appear to a user when vision of the user is not yet affected by the identified condition; displaying an interface control that is operable to receive user input for modifying a severity of the condition; receiving user input at the interface control that selects a severity of the condition; and in response to selection of the severity, dynamically modifying the plurality of images as they are being captured in real-time by the camera associated with the computing device, to display an altered version of the plurality of images that reflects an impact of the condition at the selected severity, the altered version of the plurality of images being displayed in such a manner as to reflect how the plurality of images would appear to the user if the user's vision was affected by the condition at the selected severity.