Rotatable Prismatic-Lens Wearable for Cognitive Rehabilitation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing rehabilitation and enhancement technologies for cognitive functions and immune modulation are limited to detection without inducing adaptation, and there are no systems for enhancing cognitive functions such as short and long-term memory and language, nor for modulating immune responses.
Innovation Solution
A wearable optical device with rotatable prismatic lenses is used to induce spatial perturbation of vision, recalibrating nervous circuits through cognitive tasks, and associated software administers procedures to enhance or rehabilitate cognitive functions and modulate immune responses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional rehabilitation exercises are used to enhance cognitive functions, then cognitive skills can be improved, but the process requires very intensive applications and for long periods of time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces conventional mechanical/repetitive exercise-based rehabilitation with an optical system using prismatic lenses that create visual field deviations. This substitution allows the brain to undergo plasticity changes through visual-perturbation rather than through intensive repetitive physical exercises, thereby reducing the time and intensity required for rehabilitation while maintaining effectiveness
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of visual field orientation by introducing controlled deviations through prismatic lenses. By modifying the visual input parameters (direction, position of visual targets) rather than increasing the intensity or duration of exercises, the system achieves rehabilitation goals more efficiently
2Measurement precision
If wearable devices are used to monitor physiological functions, then physiological data can be measured, but they cannot directly modulate cognitive functions in a non-invasive manner
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a multi-functional wearable device that combines both monitoring capabilities (measuring physiological signals) and active intervention capabilities (modulating cognitive functions through optical perturbation). The system uses prismatic lenses to create visual field deviations that directly influence cognitive processing, thereby achieving both measurement and modulation functions in a single non-invasive platform
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism (prismatic lenses creating visual field deviations) that bridges the gap between passive monitoring and active cognitive modulation. The visual perturbation acts as an intermediary stimulus that non-invasively influences neural processing and cognitive function while being delivered through a wearable device
3Measurement precision
If prismatic lenses are used to detect dysfunctional movements, then deviation between visual target and aiming movement can be measured, but no rehabilitative adaptation is induced
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies a form of visual 'vibration' or perturbation by continuously presenting visual targets that are deliberately displaced from their actual positions through prismatic lenses. This creates a controlled visual disturbance that forces the brain to continuously recalibrate and adapt, inducing plasticity changes rather than merely detecting deviations
Solution Approach 2:
The system converts the harmful effect of visual field deviation (which normally causes disorientation and error) into a beneficial rehabilitative tool. By intentionally introducing controlled visual perturbations through prismatic lenses, the system triggers compensatory neural adaptation and plasticity changes that enhance cognitive function
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 system effectively enhances cognitive functions and modulates immune responses by inducing brain plasticity processes, reducing the time and intensity required for rehabilitation.
Implementation Method 1
an optical prism is a transparent means delimited by two flat, but not parallel, surfaces that intersect to form a refractive angle. A beam of light rays passing through the prism undergoes a deviation towards its base
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AI summary
A system (9) for enhancing or rehabilitating the cognitive skills of a subject comprises a wearable optical instrument (10) provided with at least one prismatic lens (12), which diverts a beam of light rays coming from a visual target stimulus (T), so as to induce a vision perturbation thereof by the subject, and at least one housing seat (14) which rotatably supports the prismatic lens (12).