Brainwave Feedback System for Sleep Quality

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current sleep aid devices, such as those using sound or light stimulation, often disturb insomniacs and fail to improve sleep quality, leading to reliance on medications that can cause addiction and bioaccumulation.

Innovation Solution

A brainwave feedback system comprising a sensing device, server, and mobile device that generates feedback based on brainwave signals, using a keyword string pool to help users shift into desired brainwave states without external assistance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If sleep aid devices use sound or light stimulation to help users fall asleep, then users may fall asleep more easily, but these stimulations cause extra disturbance and awaken users during light sleep stage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesleep qualityVSAvoidstimulation disturbance
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors brainwave signals and provides real-time feedback to guide users into desired brainwave states. The feedback mechanism adjusts guidance content based on detected brainwave patterns, enabling users to self-regulate their sleep state without external stimulation that could cause disturbance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables users to independently enter desired brainwave states through self-guided training using the feedback mechanism. Users learn to self-regulate their brainwave patterns without requiring external assistance during sleep, thereby avoiding stimulation-related disturbances while maintaining sleep quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If users rely on sleep aid medications to treat insomnia, then users can fall asleep more easily, but long-term usage causes addiction and bioaccumulation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesleep qualityVSAvoidaddiction and bioaccumulation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system empowers users to independently regulate their own brainwave states through self-guided training and feedback mechanisms. By developing self-regulation capabilities, users can improve sleep quality without relying on external medications, thereby avoiding addiction and bioaccumulation issues associated with long-term medication use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The real-time feedback on brainwave states enables users to understand and adjust their own physiological conditions. This self-awareness and self-regulation capability allows users to naturally improve sleep patterns without pharmacological intervention, eliminating the harmful effects of medication dependency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If brainwave feedback system provides real-time feedback to guide users into desired brainwave states, then users can improve sleep quality without medications, but the system requires continuous monitoring and processing of brainwave signals

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesleep quality improvementVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses an intermediary processing layer that translates complex brainwave signals into simplified feedback information for users. This intermediary mechanism handles the complexity of signal processing internally while presenting simple, actionable guidance to users, thereby improving sleep quality without requiring users to manage system complexity directly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11630514B2Brainwave feedback system and operation method thereof
Publication Date: 2023.04.18 NAT CHENG KUNG UNIV
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AI summary

A brainwave feedback system, adapted to generate feedback based on a user's brainwave, the brainwave feedback system comprises: a brainwave sensing device, configured to obtain a first brainwave signal of the user; a server, storing a keyword string pool including a plurality of sorted keywords, and performing a feedback procedure when a first physiological parameter falls outside of a predetermined parameter range, wherein the first physiological parameter is associated with the first brainwave signal, the feedback procedure includes choosing a keyword from the keyword string pool by the server as a feedback keyword, and outputting the feedback keyword; and an output component, in communicable connection with the server, wherein the output component presents an analysis result corresponding to the first physiological parameter. The present disclosure further discloses an operation method of brainwave feedback system.