Circular Layer Coordinate System for Visual Perception Training

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Solution Overview

Problem

Patients with visual impairments due to conditions like glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy face challenges in improving their visual abilities, as existing treatments may not be effective in enhancing visual perception skills.

Innovation Solution

A visual perception training apparatus and method utilizing a circular layer coordinate system, which includes a display module, memory, input module, and control module to calculate response scores and set training points for visual perception training, thereby improving visual abilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If visual perception training is provided using conventional methods, then visual perception ability may be improved, but the training efficiency and targeting accuracy are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual perception abilityVSAvoidtraining efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by dividing the visual field into multiple circular layers with different radii, where each layer corresponds to a specific visual perception range. Training points are selectively determined within each circular layer based on the trainee's response scores, allowing customized training focused on specific visual impairment areas rather than uniform training across the entire visual field.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The visual field is segmented into multiple circular layers concentric to the center of the display device. Each circular layer is further divided into multiple training points, creating a structured segmentation that enables systematic evaluation and training of different visual perception zones based on radial distance from the center.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If training points are selected without a systematic coordinate system, then the training process is simpler, but the precision and effectiveness of visual perception training is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraining point precisionVSAvoidcoordinate system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a circular layer coordinate system that adds a radial dimension to the traditional Cartesian coordinate system. Instead of using only horizontal and vertical coordinates, the system uses circular layers defined by their radius and angular position, providing an additional dimensional framework that better matches the radial structure of the human visual field and enables precise localization of training points.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS20240390214A1Apparatus and method for providing visual perception training using circular layer coordinate system
Publication Date: 2024.11.28 NUNAPS INC
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AI summary

A visual perception training providing apparatus includes a display module that displays a circular layer coordinate system, which includes a plurality of circular layers and a plurality of straight lines, and which includes a plurality of cross points where the plurality of circular layers intersect the plurality of straight lines, a memory that stores information about the circular layer coordinate system, an input module that receives a response of a trainee, and a control module that calculates response scores of the trainee for the plurality of cross points in order from a circular layer closest to an origin of the circular layer coordinate system to a circular layer furthest away from the origin, sets a predetermined number of a training point based on the calculated response scores, and performs visual perception training on the training point.