Patent ID: 6875181
Filing Date: 2005-04-05
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A mentation test apparatus comprising: a display means for displaying images by electronic control; a transparent touch panel overlaid on a screen of the display means; an image control means for randomly disposing and displaying a given number of targets to be pointed to in a prescribed order on the screen by controlling the display means, and for erasing the targets that have been pointed to in a correct order when a test subject points to the targets by pressing a position corresponding to each target on the touch panel in a prescribed order; a time counter for measuring a search response time required by the test subject for searching each of the targets in a correct order and the search response time required by the test subject for searching the given number of targets in correct sequential order, and a processing means for calculating the mentation of the test subject based on the search response times measured by the time counter and the sequential order.