Patent ID: 8162846

Claim:
A method of enabling assessment and/or treatment of vestibular-function in a human subject, comprising: providing a goggle-like frame structure configured for securing to a subject's head in a non-relative-motion condition therewith, wherein the frame structure includes an eye-enclosing, ambient light-excluding housing, and further includes one or more tensive bands extending from the housing and configured to securely grip a portion of the subject's head; providing one or more image-capture devices coupled in a non-relative-motion condition with the housing, wherein the one or more image-capture devices is/are configured to obtain, within a darkened environment of the housing, imagery of a visually-observable oculo-vestibular response to a vestibular response-evoking stimulus administered to the subject; providing circuitry operably coupled with the one or more image-capture devices, the circuitry being configured to convert the imagery to computer-readable vestibular response data; and providing a computing device specially configured with correlation instructions which, when executed by the computing device, correlate the vestibular response data with subject spatial orientation-indicating data and to display to a user a viewable representation of the correlated data via a display device operably coupled with the computing structure.