Mobile Terminal High Frequency Generator for Stress Relief
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing prevalence of information-dependent behaviors, such as Internet addiction and smartphone addiction, poses significant social challenges due to the strong control exerted by the reward circuitry in the brain, making it difficult to treat these dependencies with legal or social penalties.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal equipped with a second signal generator producing high-frequency sounds above the audible range and a timing controller to apply these sounds independently of audible sounds, leveraging the hypersonic effect to alleviate stress and reduce dependence by controlling the timing of high-frequency sound generation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If high-frequency sound generator is added to mobile terminal, then stress relief and dependence reduction effect is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal's existing speaker is made to serve dual purposes: traditional audible sound output and high-frequency sound generation for stress relief. By controlling the speaker to generate high-frequency sounds beyond human audible range, the patent eliminates the need for separate high-frequency sound generation hardware, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining the therapeutic effect.
2Reliability
If high-frequency sound is generated continuously, then stress relief effect is enhanced, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic generation of high-frequency sounds with controlled intervals, rather than continuous generation. The timing controller generates high-frequency sound signals at specific intervals, allowing the user to receive stress relief effects while reducing overall energy consumption compared to continuous operation.
3Ease of operation
If high-frequency sound timing correlates with audible sound timing, then device operation is simplified, but therapeutic effect is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates the control of high-frequency sound generation from audible sound generation into independent timing systems. The timing controller independently manages high-frequency sound timing without being synchronized to audible sound timing, allowing the high-frequency therapeutic sounds to operate autonomously and maintain their therapeutic effectiveness regardless of audio content.
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
The mobile terminal effectively reduces user dependence on information by applying high-frequency sounds that increase cerebral blood flow, relieving stress and promoting relaxation, thereby improving mental and physical conditions and reducing the likelihood of prolonged usage.
Implementation Method 1
a speaker that converts the high-frequency signal into a corresponding high-frequency sound
Implementation Method 2
the hypersonic effect is known to increase blood flow and activity in the deep structures of the brain, including the thalamus, hypothalamus, and midbrain by applying non-steady sound in a frequency band beyond the audible frequency band
Data Source
AI summary
To alleviate information-dependent behavior by using a mobile terminal of a user of the mobile terminal. A mobile terminal including a first signal generator that generates a frequency signal in the audible band, a second signal generator that generates a high-frequency signal in a frequency band higher than the audible band, a speaker that converts the high-frequency signal into a corresponding high-frequency sound, and a timing controller that controls timing of the generation of the high-frequency signal to be a timing that does not correlate with the timing of the generation of the frequency signal in the audible band is provided.