207 results about "Physiological reaction" patented technology

Systems and methods selectively stimulate components of the pudendal nerve away from the sacral root to evoke desired physiologic responses in persons who lack the ability to otherwise produce these responses—e.g., maintain continence and / or produce micturition, and / or provide male / female sexuality responses, and / or provide bowel responses. The systems and methods use a multiple electrode array, or individual electrodes, placed on, in, or near the pudendal nerve. The electrode array, or individual electrodes, in association with a pulse generator, provide selective stimulation of individual fascicles within the pudendal nerve, to achieve different physiologic responses.

A method, apparatus, and system for affecting neuromodulation based upon an evoking signal applied to a patient's body. An internal and / or external evoking and / or therapeutic signal is applied to a first target portion of a patient's body. Data relating to a physiological response resulting from the internal and / or external evoking and / or therapeutic signal is received. A neurotransmission characteristic of the patient's body is determined based upon the data relating to the physiological response. At least one parameter defining an electrical therapeutic signal provided by an implantable medical device is controlled based upon the determined neurotransmission characteristic to treat a disorder.

A method of transferring a gene to vertebrate cells is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing microprojectiles, the microprojectiles carrying polynucleic acid sequences, the sequences comprising, in the 5' to 3' direction, a regulatory sequence operable in the tissue cells and a gene positioned downstream of the regulatory sequence and under the transcriptional control thereof; and (b) accelerating the microprojectiles at the cells, with the microprojectiles contacting the cells at a speed sufficient to penetrate the cells and deposit the polynucleic acid sequences therein. Preferably, the target cells reside in situ in the animal subject when they are transformed. Preferred target cells are dermis or hypodermis cells, and preferred genes for insertion into the target cells are genes which code for proteins or peptides which produce a physiological response in the animal subject.

The invention discloses a dynamic inspecting system for human body character, which comprises at least one or one set of minisize sensor on an underlay and a calculating part for each wearer. The calculating part is connected with the minisize sensor to jointly form the wearing type inspecting device. An inspecting and controlling center is provided, which is connected with the calculating part wirelessly or through cable communications. The invention, for continuously inspecting with a plurality kinds of sensors as physiology, activity, environment and psychology, etc, not only can collect affairs of low probability, but also can inspect the change of physiological reaction and physiological cadence during daily life such as activity, rest and sleeping and under environment condition and psychological factor, which is impossible for common inspecting equipment and method used for general surgery and hospital; on the other hand, by continuously inspecting the psychological signals and measuring the scene in daily life and then combining the two kinds of information, the invention is significantly for sport, health care and improvement of living quality.

The present invention provides methods and devices for the knowledge-based discovery and optimization of differences between cell types. In particular, the present invention provides visual servoing optical microscopy, as well as analysis methods. The present invention provides means for the close monitoring of hundreds of individual, living cells over time: quantification of dynamic physiological responses in multiple channels; real-time digital image segmentation and analysis; intelligent, repetitive computer-applied cell stress and cell stimulation; and the ability to return to the same field of cells for long-term studies and observation. The present invention further provides means to optimize culture conditions for specific subpopulations of cells.

The invention provides a thermal comfort degree evaluating system based on environmental parameters and human body physiological parameters. The thermal comfort degree evaluating system comprises an input module, an operation module and an output module, the input module comprises a sensor collecting unit, a positioning unit and a data input unit, the sensor collecting unit is used for collecting the environmental parameters and the human body physiological parameters, the positioning unit is used for detecting geographic position of an individual, the data input unit is used for enabling the individual to manually input parameters, the operation module is used for operation according to environment types input by the data input unit to acquire comfort degree evaluating results, and the output module is used for giving adjusting suggestion information according to the comfort degree evaluating results of the operation module. By the thermal comfort degree evaluating system, one-to-one judgment on thermal comfort degrees of different individuals in a same objective environment can be realized, and pertinent suggestions can be provided, so that the defect of shortage of a thermal comfort degree evaluating system based on individual objective physiological reaction due to the fact that environment thermal comfort degree and human body thermal comfort degree are not differentiated is overcome.

An interactive playstation controller includes a housing; a linear button set, a mode-switching digital button set, a battery pack, a cable connector and a physiological reaction sensing button set disposed on an exterior of the housing; and an integrated circuit embedded in the housing. The physiological reaction sensing button set includes a heartbeat signal sensor, a humidity sensor, a grip strength sensor and a voice sensor so as to momentarily sense body and physiological condition variations of a player when he or she is playing a game, and the sensed variations are fed back to a game host. Then, a program in the host properly responds with the sensed variations so as to achieve the object and the effect of man-machine interaction.

The invention provides novel methods for treating disease based upon the medicinal use of lipids and phospholipids covalently bound to physiologically acceptable monomers or polymers. Phosphatidylethanolamine moieties conjugated to physiologically acceptable monomers and polymers (PE conjugates) manifest an unexpectedly wide range of pharmacological effects, including stabilizing cell membranes; limiting oxidative damage to cell and blood components; limiting cell proliferation, cell extravasation and (tumor) cell migratory behavior; suppressing immune responses; and attenuating physiological reactions to stress, as expressed in elevated chemokine levels. The surprisingly manifold pharmacological properties of the PL-conjugates allow for the invention, disclosed herein, of novel methods for the treatment of a diverse range of disease states, including obstructive respiratory disease, including asthma; colitis and Crohn's disease; central nervous system insult, including blood brain barrier compromise, ischemic stroke, and multiple sclerosis; contact dermatitis; psoriasis; cardiovascular disease, including ischemic conditions and prophylaxis for invasive vascular procedures; cellular proliferative disorders, including anti-tumor vasculogenesis, invasiveness, and metastases; anti-oxidant therapy; hemolytic syndromes; sepsis; acute respiratory distress syndrome; tissue transplant rejection syndromes; autoimmune disease; viral infection; and hypersensitivity conjunctivitis. The therapeutic methods of the invention include administration of phosphatidylethanolamine bound to carboxymethylcellulose, heparin, hyaluronic acid, polyethylene glycol, and Polygeline (haemaccel). Disclosed herein are also new compounds comprised of phospholipid moieties bound to low molecular weight monomers and dimers, including mono- and disaccharides, carboxylated disaccharides, mono- and dicarboxylic acids, salicylates, bile acids, and fatty acids.

The invention provides an emulsion composition which comprises heat sensitizers, film-forming agents, moisturizing type grease and a proper amount of water, wherein the mass ratio of the heat sensitizers, the film-forming agents and the moisturizing type grease is (0.001-5):(0.01-20):(0.1-5). The invention further provides a wet tissue utilizing the emulsion composition. The film-forming agents and the moisturizing type grease contained in the emulsion composition can mitigate cold simulation caused by continuous volatilization of moisture, and the heat sensitizers contained in the emulsion composition can perform physiological reaction with hot sense organs of the human body and generate continuous hot feeling. Therefore, the wet tissue utilizing the emulsion composition is especially suitable for being used in the low-temperature environment, and solves the problem of skin simulation caused by coldness when used in the low-temperature environment.

A mind-body correlation data evaluation apparatus includes a stimulation providing section which provides stimulation to motivate an action of a subject, a physiological response data collecting section which collects physiological response data of the subject, a subjective rating and action rating data collecting section which collects subjective rating data and action rating data of the subject, a control and calculating section which evaluates a mind-body state of the subject based on the stimulation, and at least one of the physiological response data, the subjective rating data, and the action rating data, and a data feed-back section which feeds back to the subject at least the mind-body state of the subject.

An automated infant massager system that monitors an infant's physical, physiological and behavioral response to the massage and can adjust the intensity of the massage and massager duration settings based on the responses of the infant and / or information from a user, preferably autonomously. A processor, which is operatively associated with the infant massager, coordinates overall operations and functions of the infant massager, as well as receiving information regarding the infant's physical, behavioral, and physiological responses to the massage. The user input through the remote receiver transmitter, and / or an associated bar code / radio-frequency identification (RFID) scanner, and / or direct communications with the processor may be employed. In a further embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of infant massaging units are controlled in network fashion by means of a processor and router, thereby permitting one or more infant massagers to be controlled by one or more users and allows one or more automated infant massagers to communicate and interface with electronic medical record (EMR) systems.

The invention discloses a moderate skin cream containing multiple kinds of pure natural plant extracts. A pure natural green tea extract, a liquorice root extract, a rosmarinus officinalis leaf extract, a scutellaria baicalensis root extract, a chrysanthemum extract and a centella asiatica extract are added in raw materials of the skin cream, and all have effects of resisting inflammation and adjusting immunity; the skin cream is capable of completely inhibiting a dozen of inflammatory factors, rapidly stopping skin inflammations caused by various reasons and inhibiting malignant linkage physiological reactions in all stages of the inflammations, has an effect of sephalosprins and is safe without side effects, also has cooperative effects of resisting oxidization, soothing and preserving moisture, and especially has a remarkable clinical effect for nursing of sensitive skin and skin of infants; and the six kinds of selected pure natural plant extracts are added in the skin cream, so that the symptoms such as inflammation and allergies caused by factors such as climate, environment and stimulating substances of the infants can be greatly reduced, the tender and lovely skin of the infants is protected, and thus the moderate skin cream is suitable for being used by the infants.

Novel humanized immunoglobulins and active fragments thereof which are specifically reactive to Fas ligand are provided, and a site on Fas ligand which is important to inhibit apoptosis induced by the Fas-Fas ligand interaction against Fas-expressing cells is demonstrated. The novel humanized immunoglobulins and active fragments thereof which are specifically reactive to Fas ligand are prepared from hybridomas which produce monoclonal antibodies specifically reactive to Fas ligand, via recombinant DNA techniques. The humanized immunoglobulins can inhibit the physiological reactions between Fas ligand and Fas such as apoptosis. Further, identification of the site which is on Fas ligand and responsible for apoptosis induction allows creation of recombinant proteins or peptides which are specifically reactive to the amino acids within the site so as to inhibit apoptosis, and to find new therapeutic or diagnostic agents.

A method and system and for screening and indicating individuals with hidden intent, wherein the system comprises: a) a working place for fulfillment of at least one stated assignment; b) a stimuli exposure block configured to exposure at least one stimuli to said working place within at least one exposure timeframe while said timeframe is contemporary with individual's fulfillment of at least one stated assignment and said stimulus does not require an active direct reaction from the individual and is intended to cause a psycho-physiological reaction; c) sensors and measuring tools block configured to register individual's psycho-physiological characteristics giving rise to registered parameters; and a processor configured to compare the registered parameters or derivatives thereof with a test criterion and to facilitate indication of hidden intent in case of predefined discrepancy.

The invention relates to a facial feature based driver attention state detection method. The detection method is characterized by comprising the following steps of performing PERCLOS based driver fatigue state detection; performing blink frequency based driver fatigue state detection; performing sight line distribution based driver attention distraction state detection; and sending out early warning for driver fatigue and attention distraction state, wherein the early warning for fatigue or attention distraction state is carried out continuously for a certain time to avoid frequent switching between different states; the early warning priority is as follows: fatigue driving is greater than attention distraction that is greater than normal driving; and the attention state of the driver can be accurately detected through the physiological reaction characteristics of the driver, and early warning is sent out for driver fatigue and the attention distraction state; collection and extraction of the facial features of the driver are not included; the sampling efficiency of the adopted driver facial feature collection and extracting system is fHz; and the frequency for reading the driver facial feature is f<0> Hz.

The invention relates to a water quality online biological safety alarm method, comprising that using the object aquatic life with multiply motions as instructor, using differential fiber and three-dimension spatial technique to online detect the motion change of aquatic life before reaching a first pressure threshold (t1+t2), to evaluate the water condition biological system quality, to realize water quality safety biological safety alarm, that using the motion change or physiological reaction of the aquatic life to represent water quality. The inventive method can overcome the defects of traditional water quality online detect method which can only periodically detect at key point and fail to real-time detect water, therefore, the invention is based on differential filter and three-dimension spatial technique to detect the motion change of aquatic life, to real-time, online and on-site detect quality.

A method of changing psychological stress indices by evaluating manifestations of physiological change in the human voice wherein the utterances of a subject under examination are formatted as electrical signals and processed to alter selected characteristics which have been found to change with psycho-physiological state changes, such that the resultant output data signals are perceptually unchanged yet display none of the undesired physiological response characteristics. Apparatus for performing changes of this type includes a data input port, means for spectral alteration and a data output port.

The invention relates to a naked eye three-dimensional display device and method through combination of visual fatigue detection. The device mainly is composed of an infrared binocular camera, an eye image analysis unit, an eye space position feedback unit, an eye visual area adjustment unit, a left and right view display and adjustment unit, an eye fatigue detection unit and a video output unit. According to the method, space coordinates of eyes are positioned in real time through adoption of an eyeball tracking technology; eye position movement is tracked in real time and subpixels of corresponding liquid crystal raster image are rearranged through adoption of a programmable logic array technology, thereby changing an optimum viewpoint area, the image crosstalk in an eye watching process is effectively reduced, and the viewing experience of a user is improved. Through application of the technologies, an eye fatigue state of the user in the viewing process is detected, measured and evaluated in real time, and the bad physiological reaction degree of the user is judged, thereby prompting the user to take measures to prevent or mitigate visual fatigue timely.

Provided are methods for reducing food consumption, and methods for altering behavioral, neurological, psychological, or physiological responses to a food portion, mainly for use by an obese or overweight user, or by a user at risk of weight gain. Also provided are user-interactive systems and apparatuses for employing such methods.

The invention relates to a method for controlling operation of an indoor air conditioner according to human physiological reaction. The method includes the steps that the states of a human body are judged; comfortable shell temperature is selected according to the moving states; whether the human body is in a comfortable interval of the comfortable state or not is determined according to the selected comfortable shell temperature related to the moving states of the human body; skin temperature of the human body is real-timely measured; and control strategies of the air conditioner are determined according to two working conditions of summer and winter. By means of the method for controlling operation of the indoor air conditioner according to human physiological reaction, the temperature of the air conditioner can be controlled to be close to the required temperature in certain physiological state period of the human body, a user can feel more comfortable, and resource wastes are avoided.

This invention relates to the control method and devise for the irrigation on it's stem, and fix the optic inductor on the top of stem, and install the inductor on the root of the plants to test the water in soil, and then, put the data get from diameter size measure equipment optic inductor water test inductor into the diameter variety index compute unit and water analyze units. Compare the changed quantity and the diameter variety index, compare the sun radiation addition per day and average sun radiation j n season, compare the water amount in soil, and lest water amount in soil, then to decide whether to five the irrigation. Consist the diameter size measure equipment optic inductor, diameter size measure equipment optic inductor, water test inductor, diameter variety index compute unit and water analyze units, irrigation equipment control unit, alternating pump deductor and pipe electro magnetism value, and we get the irrigation control device. This device can feed back the information of water needed by plants, saved water shortage, get more compensation for the plants and stimulate the root of plants is good to the growth of plants.

The invention discloses an automobile fatigue driving remote monitoring and real-time prompting system including a monitoring center server, a plurality of monitoring center computers and a plurality of vehicle-borne monitoring terminals. Each vehicle monitoring terminal includes a driver physiological reaction feature detecting unit, a driver operation behavior detecting unit, a processor module, a power source module, a data storage module and an Ethernet interface circuit module, wherein a wireless network card is connected to the Ethernet interface circuit module, the driver physiological reaction feature detecting unit includes a brain wave detector, an infrared camera, a pupil meter and a position sensor, the driver operation behavior detecting unit includes an angle sensor and a stroke sensor, the input end of the processor module is connected with a clock module, a video signal data acquisition circuit module and a signal modulation circuit module, the output end of the processor module is connected with an LCD display module, a voice prompting module and an alarm lamp. The automobile fatigue driving remote monitoring and real-time prompting system provided by the invention is convenient in use and operation, high in working reliability, complete in functions and convenient in promotion and use.

An apparatus for monitoring neural response and / or providing treatment includes an electrical stimulator configured to apply electrical stimulation, and one or more processors configured to analyze stimulation response. The one or more processors can be further configured to operate the electrical stimulator, adjust the electrical stimulation, and determine one or more wound characteristics based at least in part on at least one of the electrical stimulation or the stimulation response, e.g. a movement of a patient, a color absorption characteristic, or other physiological responses. An indication of the one or more wound characteristics can be provided.

Disclosed is a respiration leading system which can leads a living body to respire so that relaxation is effectively induced without any physiological load even if a respiration exercise feedback is not employed. This system comprises a control unit and a sense-stimulating unit. The control unit makes the sense-stimulating unit change the output energy for stimulating a sense of the living body so that the living body is induced to inhale and exhale as a physiological reaction. The energy change is done within the range of a respiration period x(sec) and a parameter y defined as 2 sec<x<12 sec and 0.85<y<1.45 (a region x≦4 sec and y≧1.3 is excluded). The parameter y is a ratio of exhaling time to inhaling time. The energy output in the first half period corresponding to either inhaling or exhaling and the energy output in the latter half corresponding to the other, induce the living body to respire.

A method for therapeutically affecting the circulation of blood in a person in combination with or with medication to treat a medical condition includes the steps of administering a composition for treating a circulatory condition, providing a source of high pressure air in fluid communication with a plurality of air pressure actuated valves, each of the valves mounted on, and in fluid communication with, an inflatable bladder disposed within a cuff removably attached about at least one of the feet, calves, thighs, buttocks of the person; providing a source of low pressure air in fluid communication with said plurality of valves, wherein a constant pressure is exerted against said valves; and controlling inflation of said bladders in a predetermined sequence, magnitude of inflation pressure and period of time during a cardiac cycle of the person and as a function of said person's physiological reaction to said composition.

A method of detecting lie detection including the steps of first conditioning the subject to produce an involuntary physiological response triggered when the subject provides false statements; and secondly asking the subject to state whether each of series of statements presented to the subject are true. As the subject answers, the subject is monitored for the conditioned involuntary response. Detecting whether the subject is providing false statements is based on whether the involuntary response is observed during these answers. A system (19) for lie detection includes a computing device (21), a controlled (40), and at least one conditioning interface (42, 44).

The invention provides pregnant woman milk powder capable of restraining early pregnancy reaction and a preparation method thereof. The milk powder based on 100 parts by weight comprises the following raw materials in part by weight: 320-400 parts of milk, 25-30 parts of skimmed milk powder, 7-22 parts of whey protein powder, 1-4 parts of purple perilla seed oil, 1.5-2.5 parts of ginger, 0.5-1.2 parts of fructo-oligosaccharide, 0.5-2.4 parts of galacto-oligosaccharides, 0.2-0.7 parts of DHA (Docosahexaenoic Acid) powder, 0.1-0.25 parts of soyabean lecithin and 0.008-0.02 parts of bifidobacterium. The pregnant woman milk powder has the beneficial effects that early pregnancy vomiting and other physiological reactions can be reduced or dispelled, and the comprehensive nutritional supplement is provided for pregnant women to ensure various nutrients necessary for fetus growth and development; and the milk powder can simultaneously dispel the fishy smell of the DHA powder and the hot taste of the ginger so as to be more easily received by the pregnant women.