Neural Feedback System for Contextual Device Personalization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current portable electronic devices lack the ability to personalize settings based on real-time brain wave analysis and environmental context, failing to adapt effectively to user mental and physical states.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that record brain waves and sensor data to detect correlations, identify context-based brain wave patterns, and associate rules with these patterns to modify electronic device settings, thereby personalizing the user's environment to induce desired mental reactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If portable electronic devices implement real-time brain wave analysis and contextual sensing, then personalization capability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple sensing capabilities (brain wave sensors, environmental sensors, activity sensors) into an integrated neural feedback system that collects and processes data from diverse sources simultaneously. This merging approach enables comprehensive personalization by unifying brain state monitoring with contextual environmental and activity data, resolving the contradiction between enhanced adaptability and increased complexity through systematic integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The electronic device is designed with multi-functional capabilities that serve both traditional computing functions and advanced neural feedback processing. The system universally handles diverse data types (brain waves, environmental parameters, activity metrics) through a unified processing framework, enabling the device to adapt to multiple personalization scenarios without requiring separate specialized systems for each function.

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

2Measurement precision

If the system processes and analyzes multiple data streams in real-time, then personalization accuracy is improved, but computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization accuracyVSAvoidcomputational energy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary data processing and pattern recognition by pre-establishing correlations between brain wave patterns, environmental contexts, and desired device settings. By preparing and storing contextual neurofeedback patterns in advance, the system reduces real-time computational requirements while maintaining high personalization accuracy, as the intensive analysis work is performed beforehand rather than continuously during operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where processed brain wave data and environmental information are continuously monitored and used to adjust device settings dynamically. This feedback loop enables the system to refine personalization accuracy over time by learning from accumulated data patterns, reducing the need for constant high-power computational analysis while maintaining precise adaptation to user needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11253187B2Deep personalization based on contextual neurofeedback
Publication Date: 2022.02.22 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method and system for operating a neural feedback system is disclosed. The method includes recording brain waves of a user, recording sensor data measuring at least one of a physical state or an activity of the user, and generating recorded context-based brain wave information by detecting correlations between the recorded brain waves and the recorded sensor data. The method further includes identifying recorded context-based brain wave patterns in the recorded context-based brain wave information and associating at least one rule of at least one electronic device with at least one recorded context-based brain wave pattern.