Hand-Eye Auditory Assessment for Lower-Resistance Cognitive Screening

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing cognitive assessment devices for hearing loss and cognitive decline are expensive, complex, and lead to resistance from subjects, affecting detection accuracy and efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A hand-eye collaborative auditory cognitive assessment system that combines a speech recognition device and a hand-eye recognition device to provide simultaneous speech and visual tasks, allowing participants to retell statements and perform hand movements, with integrated processing to assess cognitive function.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If professional physical examination devices are used to examine listeners with hearing loss or cognitive decline, then detection parameters can be obtained, but the complex detection process increases device complexity and causes subject resistance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection parameter accuracyVSAvoiddetection process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple assessment functions (speech recognition, hand-eye coordination, cognitive evaluation) into a single integrated system. The speech recognition device and hand-eye recognition device work together to assess listeners comprehensively, eliminating the need for multiple separate professional examination devices and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining detection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The assessment system is designed with multi-functionality to perform various cognitive and auditory assessments through a unified platform. The system can conduct speech retelling tasks, hand-eye coordination tasks, and cognitive evaluation within the same device framework, making it a universal solution that replaces multiple specialized devices.

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

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple professional examination devices are used to obtain comprehensive listener parameters, then assessment completeness is improved, but the complexity of the detection process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveassessment completenessVSAvoiddetection process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges speech recognition, hand-eye coordination assessment, and cognitive evaluation into a single integrated system. This consolidation allows the system to obtain comprehensive listener parameters that would otherwise require multiple separate devices, while simplifying the detection process by using one unified platform instead of multiple specialized equipment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Measurement precision

If a complex detection process is used to obtain comprehensive assessment parameters, then assessment thoroughness is improved, but subject resistance increases and detection accuracy decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection parameter accuracyVSAvoidsubject cooperation
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the assessment into multiple independent task modules (speech retelling task, hand-eye coordination task, cognitive evaluation) that can be performed sequentially or independently. This segmentation makes the overall assessment more manageable and less overwhelming for subjects, improving cooperation while maintaining comprehensive evaluation through the combination of multiple simplified tasks.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20260000326A1Hand-eye collaborative auditory cognitive assessment system
Publication Date: 2026.01.01 THE TWELFTH PEOPLE S HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
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AI summary

A hand-eye collaborative auditory cognitive assessment system includes: a speech recognition device configured to provide speech information to a participant, obtain a retold statement, and obtain a speech retelling result; a hand-eye recognition device configured to provide visual information to the participant; obtain hand movement information of the participant, where the hand movement information includes a single hand movement score and a comprehensive hand movement score, the single hand movement score is obtained when the hand-eye recognition device operates alone, and the comprehensive hand movement score is obtained when the speech recognition device and the hand-eye recognition device operate together; and process the single hand movement score and the comprehensive hand movement score to obtain a cognitive scoring result; and an assessment processing device configured to perform cognitive assessment on the participant based on the speech retelling result and the cognitive scoring result. The disclosure improves cognitive assessment efficiency.