91 results about "Focusing attention" patented technology

A system and method associate each of a plurality of computer applications with a corresponding physical location external to the computer and display a given one of the applications when the user focuses attention on the physical location associated with that application. Preferably the display as a view window in a graphical user interface, and the user has means for moving that window relative to the given application. The computer can be a portable and display device can be head mounted. Preferably an input device enables the user to interact with the given application, and preferably the physical locations bring to mind their associated applications. In some embodiments, an identifier, such as a bar code or a coded transmitter, is placed near each of the physical locations to help detect when the user focuses attention on that particular location. The invention also provides a head mounted unit which projects a visual image to the user wearing it. The unit also includes an object detector for generating a signal when pointed at certain objects. The object detector is mounted so a user wearing the unit can point the detector by moving his or her head. Preferably the unit includes a see through window so the user can see his or her physical surroundings. The invention also provides for a computer which includes a display, a device for generating a display object on the display, such as a cursor, and a motion sensor for causing the display object to move within the display in response to motion of the display.

By recognizing visual trigger events to determine start points and / or end points of voice data signals, the negative effects of noise on voice recognition may be significantly minimized. The visual trigger events may be predetermined gestures and / or predetermined postures of a user captured by a camera, which allow a system to appropriately focus attention on a user to optimize the receipt of a voice command in a noisy environment. This may be accomplished through the assistance of visual feedback complementing the voice feedback provided to the system by the user. Since the visual trigger events are predetermined gestures and / or postures, the system may be able to distinguish which sounds produced by a user are voice commands and which sounds produced by the user is noise that in unrelated to the operation of the system.

A gaming system includes one or more input devices, audio output devices, visual display devices, and information processors. At least one visual display device visually depicts a plurality of visual presentations and at least one audio output device renders audio selectively mixed from corresponding audio components of the visual presentations. At least one processor receives and processes information from at least one input device to determine a region of focused attention by the player with respect to the visual display devices. Using the region of focused attention, a corresponding primary visual presentation is determined from the plurality of visual presentations. The corresponding audio components of the plurality of presentations are selectively mixed such that the audio component of the primary visual presentation is dominant on at least one audio output device. The plurality of visual presentations may also be rearranged or altered to visually highlight the primary visual presentation.

Methods and systems implement touch sensors or force sensitive materials disposed on the case of a computing device in order to enable user input gestures to be performed on portions of the device case. The force sensitive elements may generate an electrical signal in response to a gesture, such as a tap, squeeze, swipe or twist. The properties of the generated electrical signal may be compared to various reference templates to recognize particular input gestures. The force sensitive elements may operate in conjunction with more traditional input methods, such as touch-screen display and electromechanical buttons. By enabling user input gestures on the case of computing devices, the various aspects permit one hand operation of the devices including intuitive gestures that do not require the users focused attention to accomplish.; Thus the various aspects may enable users to utilize their computing devices in situations not suitable to conventional user input technologies.

This invention enables targeting, personalized measurement, and management of cognitive skills development by users, clinicians, teachers, and parents. The invention features a game based virtual learning curriculum for targeting and developing the underlying cognitive skills of executive functions. The methods and systems of the invention provide an effective and rapid video game-based training curriculum to improve the cognitive skills such as focused attention, sustained attention, cognitive inhibition, behavioral inhibition, selective attention, alternating attention, divided attention, interference control, novelty inhibition, delay of gratification, inner voice, motivational inhibition, and self-regulation. This curriculum utilizes: (i) each of the cognitive processes that underlie attention control and impulse inhibition; (ii) the identification of measurable and trainable cognitive skills; and (iii) game design and game mechanics that effectively train and enable retention of those skills. The game-based system provides a medical professional, clinician, parent, teacher and user with the ability to measure and manage training of targeted cognitive skills to reach a desired performance goal.

A fashion apparel accessory, such as a garment, having one or more concealed light sources positioned so as to illuminate the skin of the wearer, as opposed to focusing attention on the light sources themselves. A particular embodiment includes concealed light sources proximate to a low-cut neckline of a female's garment, such as brassiere, shirt, or item of lingerie, with the light sources being oriented so as direct illumination across the wearer's chest area in an alluring way, potentially offering multiple color, intensity, direction / control options as well as multiple deployment techniques / devices. A portable power supply is integrated with the garment or accessory and electrically connected to the light sources.

Improved assemblies, systems, and methods provide safeguarding against tissue injury during surgical procedures and / or identify nerve damage occurring prior to surgery and / or verify range of motion or attributes of muscle contraction during reconstructive surgery. Such improved assemblies may be utilized in embodiments of methods according to the present invention allowing, preferably by a single hand, manipulation, carrying, parameter adjustment and / or informational feedback generation from within a surgical field. Single-handed operation and easily identifiable feedback generation is desirable especially where focused attention is required, such as during surgery observed through a microscope.

A system and method for focusing attention to an area of a shared display are described. The method includes associating a substantially transparent window with the location of a cursor to position the cursor within the substantially transparent window and changing the appearance of the cursor to highlight a portion of the display.

This invention enables targeting, personalized measurement, and management of cognitive skills development by users, clinicians, teachers, and parents. The invention features a game based virtual learning curriculum for targeting and developing the underlying cognitive skills of executive functions. The methods and systems of the invention provide an effective and rapid video game-based training curriculum to improve the cognitive skills such as focused attention, sustained attention, cognitive inhibition, behavioral inhibition, selective attention, alternating attention, divided attention, interference control, novelty inhibition, delay of gratification, inner voice, motivational inhibition, and self-regulation. This curriculum utilizes: (i) each of the cognitive processes that underlie attention control and impulse inhibition; (ii) the identification of measurable and trainable cognitive skills; and (iii) game design and game mechanics that effectively train and enable retention of those skills. The game-based system provides a medical professional, clinician, parent, teacher and user with the ability to measure and manage training of targeted cognitive skills to reach a desiredperformance goal.

The invention discloses a cognitive rehabilitation training system. The cognitive rehabilitation training system is characterized by comprising a host, a display, a broadcast device, a sound recording device and a video recording device, wherein the display is communicated with the host; the broadcast device is connected with the host; the sound recording device is connected with the host; the video recording device is connected with the host; a cognitive rehabilitation training system main module is arranged in the host. The cognitive rehabilitation training system disclosed by the invention can be used for training the reactive behavior, logical thinking ability, planar operability, search capability, detail memory, focus attention, computing ability and visual motion coordinating ability of a patient, so that the patient can keep a current cognitive function, the function decline is delayed, the self-care degree of the patient is increased, and the living quality of the patient is improved.

The embodiment of the invention provides a mobile terminal danger early-warning method, and a mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps of: detecting motion change information of a mobile terminal user; based on the motion change information, identifying whether the mobile terminal user is positioned in a dangerous area corresponding to the motion change information or not; if the fact that the mobile terminal user is positioned in the dangerous area corresponding to the motion change information is identified, judging whether the mobile terminal is used by the mobile terminal user or not; and, if the mobile terminal is used by the mobile terminal user, performing early warning based on the dangerous area. By means of the embodiment of the invention, in face of the dangerous area, users can focus attention, pay attention to a surrounding environment, and make a proper response to the environment in time; dangerous problems, such as falling into a pond, falling into a dell and a car accident, due to distraction by operation can be avoided; and thus, the safety when the mobile terminal is operated by users is improved.

The invention discloses a classroom monitoring method and device, a computer device and a storage medium. The classroom monitoring method comprises the steps of collecting a first target face image according to a first time interval, inputting the first target face image into an expression recognition model, and obtaining a first recognition result; if the first recognition result is abnormal, sending a first prompt message to the monitoring terminal; adding a first target face image whose first recognition result is an anomaly to a focus queue, the focus queue including a focus person identification; collecting a second target face image according to a second time interval and a focus person mark in a focus attention queue, inputting the second target face image into the expression recognition model to obtain a second recognition result; if the second recognition result is abnormal, sending a second prompt message to the monitoring terminal. The classroom monitoring method not only ensures the classroom monitoring, but also reduces the calculation of data collection and identification, and improves the overall efficiency.

A wrist roller exercise device is provided which has a roller rod having opposite handle end portions and which has a central portion and has a spool carrier has a central balanced cable connection point. A cable is connected to the cable connection point and also connected to an elevated frame member to secure and hold the carrier at a desired elevation above ground surface. A spool is attached on the central portion of said rod member with the rod member and the spool each being rotatable relative to the spool carrier. The spool also has a rope connection thereon. A rope is provided which has a first rope end attached to the rope connection and a second rope end connected to a weight object of desired mass. The cable supports the weight of the device so that a user can focus attention on forearm, wrist, hand and finger muscles required to wind up the rope and to keep the device balanced on the cable and not on upper arm, shoulder, chest and back muscles which would otherwise be required to hold and suspend the device in the desired elevation above ground surface if not for the cable.

Ultrasonic imaging method and apparatus capable of expressing differences of tissues more clearly by focusing attention on the relationship between characteristics of an object and frequency characteristics of received ultrasonic waves. The apparatus includes an ultrasonic transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves to obtain a detection signal; a frequency component calculating unit for calculating plural frequency components from data based on the detection signal; a tissue discrimination computing unit for obtaining characteristics, which change depending on tissues of the object, based on the calculated plural frequency components; a selector unit for selecting at least one of plural frequency bands corresponding to at least one tissue displayed within one screen in accordance with the obtained characteristics; and an image data generating unit for generating image data representing an ultrasonic image based on intensity of the detection signal in the selected frequency band.

The invention relates to a novel routing vehicle system based on electroencephalogram control. The invention collects the electroencephalogram signal of a user focusing on doing something, then transmits the electroencephalogram signal to a small toy vehicle through a wireless transmission technology, later processes the electroencephalogram signal by using the single chip of the vehicle, finally extracts the property signal of the electroencephalogram signal and matches the property signal with the corresponding specific speed value to realize the speed control of the vehicle. A transmitter of an infrared photoelectric sensor on the vehicle body transmits the infrared light to a map and reflects the signal to a receiver while the infrared light meets white-matrix black lines or black-matrix white lines, then a signal receiver transmits the signal to the single chip, and the single chip controls the rotation speed of the left motor and the right motor of the vehicle after processing by the single chip so as to turn the vehicle left and right. The invention exercises the concentration of the user via the game process, and improves the focusing attention while user plays the game, so that the user can more easily reach the ideal state while doing other works.

When a dual-screen display mode is performed, two images based on two image signals, respectively, are simultaneously displayed in display regions of a display unit. If a presenter desires viewers to focus attention on one of the two images, a projector differentiates display manners of the images to be displayed, between one display region and the other display region. For example, if the presenter desires the viewers to focus attention on one image, the projector performs image processing for causing the other image to be displayed in an unhighlighted manner. As the image processing on this occasion, if the two images are both color images, the projector converts only the other image from the color image to a monochrome image.

A display apparatus includes a sight line detection unit that detects a line of sight of a user by analyzing user video information, an enhancement processing unit that detects an intersection point of the line of sight of the user detected by the sight line detection unit and a video display surface of a monitor as an attention point, which is a point on which the user focuses attention, and performs enhancement processing for the monitor by setting a higher gain amount in stages from a position of a longer distance from the attention point toward a position of a smaller distance, and a display video output control unit that outputs video via the monitor based on the gain amount set by the enhancement processing unit and display video information whose input is received by a display video information input unit.

A method for determining an individual's intensity of focused attention, comprising the steps of: obtaining a representative frontal lobe brainwave signal from at least one first sensor in an electrically connective relation to the individual's frontal lobe; obtaining a representative reference signal from at least one second sensor in an electrically connective relation to a more electrically-neutral location; subtracting the representative reference signal from the representative frontal lobe brainwave signal to produce a difference frontal lobe brainwave signal, and processing the difference frontal lobe brainwave signal to produce an Attention Indicator signal indicative of the individual's intensity of focused attention, where the Attention Indicator signal is inversely proportional to any mathematical transformation of an amplitude measure of the difference frontal lobe brainwave signal; inputting the Attention Indicator signal to a device; and, repeating these steps, as desired. The mathematical transformation can relate to amplitude, power or any linear, logarithmic or exponential transformation thereof.

The invention relates to a language identification method and device, electronic equipment and a storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of computers. The method includes acquiring audio and video files to be identified; performing feature extraction on the audio and video files to obtain a plurality of audio features of the audio and video files; and inputting a plurality of the audiofeatures into a language identification model, screening key audio features from a plurality of the audio features based on an attention mechanism by the language identification model, performing language identification based on the key audio features, and outputting a language identification result, wherein the language identification result is used for indicating the language of the audio and video files. Based on the attention mechanism, the method screens out a small number of the key audio features from a plurality of the audio features, so as to enable the language identification model to focus attention on the key audio features, so that the language of audio and video files can be more accurately and quickly recognized, and the accuracy and efficiency of language identification areimproved.

By focusing attention on SREBP-1 gene, the relationship between this gene and the degree of unsaturation in beef body fat is examined. As a result, it is found out that this gene occurs as an “L-type” gene having a longer fifth intron and an “S-type” gene having a fifth intron shorter by 84 bases than the above one and these genotypes relate to the degree of unsaturation in beef body fat. A method of evaluating the content of unsaturated fatty acids in beef body fat based on these SREBP-1 genotypes is applicable to the evaluation of beef taste, texture and so on and, therefore, is industrially useful.

The invention, which is suitable for the classroom teaching field, provides a classroom recording device and recording method. The classroom recording device comprises a heart rate sensor, a control module, and a storage module. To be specific, the heart rate sensor is used for detecting a heart rate in class. The control module connected with the heart rate sensor is used for receiving the detected heart rate, controlling turning on of a microphone when the detected heart rate is lower than a set heart rate threshold value, identifying whether clear sound exists in the classroom environment, and if so, generating a recording file. The storage module connected with the microphone is used for storing the generated recording file. With the method, a problem of lack of equipment capable of recording a lesson content of a teacher automatically during the period when students can not focus attention on the lesson in the prior art can be solved. Therefore, the trouble of playing all recording content at one time and searching the record can be saved, thereby saving time and improving the playing efficiency of the recording file.

The invention discloses a multi-object real-time data driving general situation display system based on an STK. The system comprises a real-time driving data management module, a situation display management module, a time slice management module, a real-time drive control module and an STK visualization simulation module. The multi-object real-time data driving display mode adopting the time division multiplexing strategy to utilize the interpolation characteristics of an STK Real-Time work mode is provided, the STK multi-3D-window display scheduling strategy is explained according to different overall situation display and focus attention object monitoring needs, and the application of the STK in the real-time simulation field is widened.

The invention discloses a topic category analysis method based on focus attention, which belongs to the technical field of big data. The method comprises the following steps that: a client server and a central server are established, the client server is used for acquiring an original text, and the client server is communicated with the central server through the Internet; and a data preprocessing module, a vector learning module, a feature extraction module, an attention calculation module and a pooling module are established in the central server. The technical problem of secondary topic division under the condition that topic feature differences are not obvious is solved. The local cyclic convolutional network provided by the invention not only can learn the word relationship between the text sequences, but also can extract the keywords and corresponding position information in the text, and a topic category analysis method based on focus attention is adopted, so that a good classification effect can still be obtained when the topic feature difference is not obvious.

A present invention reduces the generation of periodic uneven print density in the image in a main scanning direction. The present invention focuses attention on a fact that, when a printing head including a plurality of nozzle arrays for ejecting different inks is used to print an image and when the same pixel is printed by a combination of nozzle arrays in which an interval in the main scanning direction is relatively short, the displacement of ink impact positions is smaller when compared to a case where the same pixel is printed by a combination of nozzle arrays in which an interval in the main scanning direction is relatively long. Thus, a dot arrangement pattern allocated to the pixel data is selected so that the same pixel is printed by a combination of nozzle arrays in which an interval in the main scanning direction is relatively short.

The invention provides a seat capable of reminding students of focusing attention. The seat comprises a seat body, and the seat body is composed of a seat back 1, a seat cushion 2, a metal seat frame 3, an attention focusing detection device 4, an attention focusing reminding device 5, a connection wire 6 with a protective cover and the like. The seat is characterized in that an existing student seat is used as a main body, a groove is formed in the seat back 1 for installation of an attention focusing detection device 4, a groove is formed in the seat cushion 2 for embedding of the attention focusing reminding device 5, and the attention focusing detection device 4 is connected with the attention focusing reminding device 5 through the connection wire 6 with the protective cover, thus the seat capable of reminding the students of focusing attention is prepared.

The invention relates to a method for displaying and regulating broadcast information or mobile television information as well as position service equipment. The method comprises the following steps of: S1, determining a current position; S2, determining an administrative region which the current position belongs to according to the current position; S3, looking up the broadcast information or the mobile television information corresponding to the administrative region according to a corresponding relation between the administrative region and the administrative region stored in the position service equipment and the broadcast information or the mobile television information; and S4, displaying the looked-up broadcast information or mobile television information. In the invention, through establishing the corresponding relation between the administrative region and the broadcast information or the mobile television information, a user of the position service equipment in a certain administrative region can conveniently acquire the frequency of a local wireless broadcasting station or the channel of a local mobile television in time when wanting to listen to the local wireless broadcasting station or watch the local mobile television; the operation is simple, and the user can focus attention, therefore, the user driving or walking safety is ensured.

The invention relates to vision testing equipment, in particular to vision testing equipment for ophthalmology department and convenient to move. The vision testing equipment is convenient for flexible moving, can display symbols on a visual chart and is conducive to a testee in focusing attention. The vision testing equipment comprises a bottom plate, supporting legs, a support, a box, a first bearing seat, a first rotating shaft, a roller, the visual chart, a motor and a worm, the supporting legs are arranged on front, rear, left and right sides of the lower portion of the bottom plate, thesupport is connected in the middle of the upper side of the bottom plate, and the top end of the support is connected with a box. The defect that visual charts are generally fixed on walls, thereby being inconvenient for flexible movement and the defect that complex symbols in the whole visual charts are prone to distraction of the testee are overcome, so that convenience is brought to flexible movement, the symbols on the visual chart can be displayed respectively, and convenience is brought to the testee to focus attention.