Autonomic Nerve Visualization via Spatial Positioning and Color Coding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image display systems for autonomic nerve states, either through graphs or textual descriptions, fail to provide an intuitive understanding of the balance and activity levels of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves.
Innovation Solution
An image display apparatus that visualizes the predominance levels and activity magnitude of autonomic nerves by positioning and sizing figures along axes, with overlapping areas displaying deeper colors to represent dominance and balance, allowing users to intuitively understand the state of autonomic nerves.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If graphs are used to display action levels of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves, then information is provided in visual form, but the user cannot readily figure out the state of autonomic nerves in an intuitive manner
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the traditional graph-based information presentation into a two-dimensional spatial representation where figures are positioned along a horizontal axis indicating predominance (sympathetic on left, parasympathetic on right) and sized according to activity magnitude. This dimensional transformation allows users to intuitively grasp autonomic nerve states through spatial relationships rather than interpreting graph data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs color coding where warmer colors (red, yellow, orange) represent sympathetic nerve dominance and cooler colors (blue, green) represent parasympathetic nerve dominance. This color dimension provides an additional intuitive cue for users to quickly understand the state of autonomic nerves without needing to analyze graph data.
2Loss of information
If sentences describing autonomic nerve states are displayed, then detailed information is provided, but the user needs to read and cannot readily figure out the state in an intuitive manner
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of reading and interpreting text with a visual perception system. Instead of requiring users to read sentences and process linguistic information, the system presents processed visual data where the state of autonomic nerves is directly perceivable through figure position, size, and color, eliminating the time required for reading and interpretation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of information presentation from textual description to visual parameters (position, size, color). This parameter transformation allows the same information to be conveyed more efficiently, enabling users to grasp the state of autonomic nerves at a glance rather than requiring reading time.
3Loss of information
If traditional graph displays are used, then data is presented, but the balance and dominance relationship between sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves is not intuitively clear
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses asymmetric positioning of figures along the horizontal axis to represent the balance relationship between sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. Figures are positioned relative to a center point, with leftward position indicating sympathetic dominance and rightward position indicating parasympathetic dominance. This asymmetric spatial arrangement makes the balance relationship immediately visible, unlike symmetric graph displays.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a spatial dimension to represent the balance relationship, where the horizontal position of figures indicates the predominance side and the distance from center indicates the degree of dominance. This spatial dimension provides precise visual information about the balance state that traditional graphs cannot convey intuitively.
Data Source
AI summary
An image display apparatus includes a display section (display unit) that displays an image, an information acquisition section that acquires predominance levels of sympathetic nerves and parasympathetic nerves and an activity magnitude of the autonomic nerves based on the biological information, an image generation section that generates the biological state image in which a figure having a size according to the acquired activity magnitude of the autonomic nerves is set along a first axis, along one side of which the predominance level of the sympathetic nerves is set with respect to a reference point and along the other side of which the predominance level of the parasympathetic nerves is set with respect to the reference point, in a position according to the acquired predominance levels of the sympathetic nerves and the parasympathetic nerves.