State Control Device Using Enzyme Detection for Emotional Guidance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies for reproducing content data based on biological information, such as heart rate and blood pressure, struggle to accurately predict changes in a user's feeling state, particularly involving the sympathetic nervous system, leading to unpredictable outcomes.

Innovation Solution

A state control apparatus and method that acquires a state index from biological information, including enzyme detection results like salivary amylase, to determine a feeling guiding medium that influences the user's emotional state, allowing for precise control of the target feeling by using content data like music, images, or programs to guide the user's emotional state to a predetermined set state.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If macro secondary change indicators such as heart rate, pulse, and blood pressure are used to analyze user feeling state, then the sympathetic nervous system response can be detected, but the accuracy of predicting feeling changes deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of feeling state predictionVSAvoidpredictability of feeling changes
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the measured parameter from macro secondary indicators (heart rate, blood pressure) to primary indicators including enzyme activity levels, neurotransmitter concentrations, and hormonal changes. This parameter change enables direct measurement of autonomic nervous system activity, thereby improving both measurement precision and predictability of feeling state changes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces biological markers such as enzyme activity levels and neurotransmitter concentrations as intermediary substances that directly reflect autonomic nervous system activity. These intermediaries provide a more accurate link between physiological state and emotional feeling compared to macro indicators, resolving the contradiction between detection capability and prediction accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If biological information detection is expanded to include enzyme activity levels and neurotransmitter concentrations, then the accuracy of feeling state analysis is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of feeling state analysisVSAvoidcomplexity of detection system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the detection system into specialized modules: enzyme activity detection module, neurotransmitter concentration detection module, and hormonal change detection module. Each module is optimized for specific biological markers, allowing high measurement precision while managing overall system complexity through functional decomposition

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent develops a multi-functional detection device capable of measuring multiple types of biological information (enzyme activity, neurotransmitter levels, hormonal changes) simultaneously. This universal device reduces the need for multiple separate detection systems, thereby improving measurement precision without proportionally increasing device complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

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

This approach enables accurate and controlled guidance of a user's emotional state, improving the predictability and accuracy of feeling changes, allowing for effective emotional state management.

Implementation Method 1

a sensor unit configured to detect an enzyme activity level in the enzyme solution

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectEnzyme catalysis: Enzyme

Data Source

PatentEP3196778B1State control device, state control method, and state control system
Publication Date: 2022.05.04 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

A state control apparatus including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a state index indicating a state of target feeling based on biological information corresponding to the target feeling which is feeling of a target to be guided, the biological information being detected from a guide target whose state of feeling is to be guided; and a state control unit configured to determine a feeling guiding medium to be used for guiding the state of the target feeling based on the acquired state index and pattern information which is associated with the feeling guiding medium for guiding the state of the target feeling and which indicates a pattern of temporal change of the state index so that the state of the target feeling becomes a predetermined set state, and control the state of the target feeling of the guide target by performing processing relating to the determined feeling guiding medium. The biological information includes information indicating a detection result of an enzyme.