Brain Activity Monitoring System for Automatic Asymmetry Rebalancing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for balancing brain activity, such as those relying on neuro-feedback and EEG biofeedback, are limited by precision, speed, and require mindful attention, failing to effectively address asymmetries between brain lobes without user volition.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising pairs of channels to measure brain electromagnetic energy, translate it into digital form, and use asymmetry determination algorithms to identify threshold differences, coupled with a correlation algorithm to generate acoustical stimuli that mirror dominant brain wave frequencies, allowing the brain to rebalance without user attention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If neuro-feedback and EEG biofeedback methods are used to balance brain activity, then brain symmetry can be improved, but the methods require mindful attention and user volition, reducing ease of operation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrain symmetryVSAvoiduser attention requirement
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables the brain to rebalance itself automatically through acoustical mirroring stimuli without requiring mindful attention or user volition. The brain naturally responds to the mirrored acoustical representation of its own electromagnetic energy profiles, allowing self-correction of asymmetries between corresponding lobes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If traditional neuro-feedback methods are used, then brain activity can be monitored, but the precision and speed of detection are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveasymmetry detection precisionVSAvoidrebalancing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces traditional mechanical/neuro-feedback approaches with an acoustical field-based mirroring system. By converting brain electromagnetic energy profiles into acoustical stimuli that mirror the brain's own frequencies, the system achieves faster and more precise detection and correction of asymmetries without relying on slow neural feedback loops.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Ease of operation

If acoustical mirroring is used to rebalance the brain, then the process can occur without user attention, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic operationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces acoustical stimuli as an intermediary medium between the brain's electromagnetic activity and the rebalancing process. The acoustical mirroring system translates brain electromagnetic energy profiles into sound frequencies that the brain can naturally process, serving as a mediator that enables automatic rebalancing without direct user control while managing system complexity through a well-defined transformation process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables precise and automatic detection of brain asymmetries and restoration of balance, improving oscillatory dynamics and reducing stress levels by allowing the brain to self-correct without requiring conscious effort.

Implementation Method 1

each channel is configured to measure electromagnetic energy in a region of a brain of a user and to generate a measurement of electromagnetic energy

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic energy measurement: Electric Field

Data Source

PatentEP3337395B1System for monitoring brain activity and for enabling brain to rebalance
Publication Date: 2019.10.16 BRAIN STATE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
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AI summary

Exposure to stressors may be associated with the production of asymmetry in brain waves and can significantly affect a person's overall degree of wellbeing and conversely, asymmetry may influence a person's experience of stress. Through devices and methods that simultaneously look for asymmetries and in real time, one can create real time variable sequences of acoustical stimuli, and then one can effectively and efficiently support the brain to balance its activity between corresponding right and left lobes without one's mindful attention. Additionally various devices and methods can be used to identify condition states, including stress state conditions.