Binocular Vision Training Apparatus Using Dynamic Parameter Oscillation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current treatments for binocular vision disorders such as decompensated phoria, strabismus, and amblyopia are limited in effectiveness and flexibility, often requiring frequent visits to specialists and are not well-suited for home use or providing dynamic perceptual motor learning.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that manipulate vision parameters for each eye, such as focus, brightness, and image position, to provide perceptual motor learning by oscillating or fluctuating these parameters within a controlled range, helping the brain align visual impressions and improve binocular vision without conscious effort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional treatments for binocular vision disorders are used, then some improvement may be achieved, but the treatment effectiveness is limited and requires frequent specialist visits
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables patients to perform binocular vision training at home independently through automated feedback mechanisms. The processing unit automatically adjusts vision parameters and provides real-time feedback, eliminating the need for continuous specialist supervision and enabling self-directed therapy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates automated feedback mechanisms where the processing unit monitors patient performance and dynamically adjusts vision parameters during training sessions. This closed-loop feedback system ensures treatment effectiveness while reducing the need for frequent specialist visits.
2Adaptability or versatility
If static vision therapy is provided, then treatment can be simple, but it does not provide dynamic perceptual motor learning
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically manipulates vision parameters including focus, brightness, and image position during training sessions. These parameters are continuously adjusted based on patient performance and training progression, providing adaptive perceptual motor learning rather than static exercises.
Solution Approach 2:
The processing unit systematically varies multiple vision parameters during therapy sessions. By changing focus distance, brightness levels, and image positions in controlled sequences, the system creates dynamic training stimuli that engage perceptual motor learning while maintaining manageable system complexity.
3Productivity
If vision parameters are manipulated close to the boundary value where binocular vision disappears, then training intensity is high, but binocular vision may be lost
Solution Approach 1:
The processing unit continuously monitors patient responses and automatically adjusts vision parameters to maintain training intensity within safe boundaries. The system provides real-time feedback and prevents parameter manipulation from exceeding the individual patient's tolerance threshold, ensuring binocular vision is maintained while maximizing training efficiency.
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AI summary
An apparatus and method are disclosed that provide for establishing and/or improving binocular vision by adaptation of perceptual motor learning for the visual system of a patient suffering of a binocular vision disorder. The apparatus has a set of two units, one for respectively eye, for manipulation of a vision parameter of the visual presentation, e.g. picture, movie, image. To control the visual presentation on respectively unit a processing unit is connected. The processing unit is adapted to determine a boundary value of a first and/or second vision parameter for the first and/or second manipulation of the first and second unit, where binocular vision disappears for the patient. Furthermore, the processing unit controls at least one vision parameter by manipulating, including oscillating or fluctuating, it within a first range, the first range having a maximum value that is less than the boundary value, for the perceptual motor learning.