Stimulus Integration Apparatus for Motion Sickness Alleviation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Motion sickness occurs due to discordant multisensory events when individuals travel and attend to visual information other than their immediate surroundings, causing inconsistency between the vestibular and visual systems, leading to discomfort and inability to perform tasks like reading.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for simultaneously presenting attended and unattended data on a display screen, where unattended data is modified based on motion data to provide subconscious cues, overlapping with attended data without interfering, thereby reducing motion sickness without requiring attention to the unattended data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If unattended data is displayed on the same screen as attended data, then motion sickness is minimized through subconscious motion cues, but the data streams may interfere with or obstruct each other
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display data into two distinct streams: attended data and unattended data. Each stream is processed and displayed separately but simultaneously on the same screen. The attended data is presented in a way that allows conscious focus, while the unattended data is modified to provide subconscious motion cues without requiring attention. This segmentation prevents interference between the two data streams while achieving motion sickness minimization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different quality characteristics to different parts of the displayed data. The attended data maintains high visual quality and clarity for conscious processing, while the unattended data is modified with motion-related visual cues that are subtle enough not to distract but sufficient to provide subconscious motion information. This local differentiation allows both data streams to coexist without interference.
2Productivity
If the user attends to visual information other than the immediate surroundings, then productivity is improved by enabling tasks during travel, but motion sickness occurs due to vestibular-visual inconsistency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary anti-action by modifying the unattended data to preemptively counteract the harmful effects of motion sickness before they occur. The system detects motion parameters and pre-modifies the unattended data stream with compensatory visual cues that counterbalance the vestibular-visual inconsistency, allowing the user to maintain focus on attended data without experiencing motion sickness.
Solution Approach 2:
The unattended data stream serves as an intermediary between the motion environment and the user's vestibular system. Instead of directly addressing the vestibular-visual conflict, the system introduces this intermediate data stream that carries motion-related visual information, which the brain processes subconsciously to reduce the sensory conflict, thereby enabling productive task performance during travel.
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AI summary
Apparatus, architecture and methods for integrating and/or presenting stimuli to sensory receptor(s) are provided. An electronically stored value may encode stimuli presentable via electronic display(s) to receptor(s). Stimulus/stimuli may include “attended” and/or “unattended” data. Data may mediate neurophysiological benefit(s). Data may include visual, motion and/or auditory information. Benefits) may include motion sickness alleviation. “Unattended” data may include translucent moving patterns and/or shapes and/or shifts in screen luminance, such as flashing. “Unattended” data may be associated with detected motion function(s) to convey sense of motion. “Unattended” data may be configured to be presented so as to avoid being distracting. “Unattended” data may be configured to be presented in a periphory(ies) of user(s). Display(s) may be handheld, worn and/or vehicle-mounted.