Time-Coded EEG Response Classification for Adaptive BCI Training

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing training methods for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are difficult to learn and do not effectively utilize bio-signal and non-bio-signal data for accurate user response classification and adaptive parameter updating.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that collects and analyzes both bio-signal and non-bio-signal data using machine learning algorithms, enabling real-time feedback and adaptive signal processing to improve user interaction with BCIs, with features like EEG headsets, client devices, and cloud-based servers for data processing and sharing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional BCI training methods are used, then users can learn to control brainwaves, but the learning process is difficult and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of BCI trainingVSAvoidtraining time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides real-time feedback by classifying user responses using machine learning algorithms that analyze EEG patterns. The system compares actual EEG signals against trained models to provide immediate classification results, allowing users to understand their brainwave states without requiring extensive training to interpret raw signals.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system adapts classification parameters dynamically by updating model weights and thresholds based on aggregated user data. Machine learning algorithms continuously refine the parameters used to interpret EEG patterns, making the system progressively easier to use as more data is collected and processed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If simple classification methods are used, then the system is easier to implement, but accuracy in determining mental states is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemental state classification accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces machine learning algorithms as intermediaries between raw EEG signals and mental state classification. These algorithms process and interpret complex EEG patterns, serving as a mediator that translates biological signals into meaningful classifications without requiring direct complex analysis by the user or simple processing that would reduce accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The classification system is divided into modular components: EEG signal acquisition, preprocessing filters, feature extraction modules, machine learning classification algorithms, and result interpretation. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system accuracy and manageability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If user data is collected and aggregated, then system performance improves through machine learning, but data privacy and security concerns increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem performanceVSAvoiddata privacy risks
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements differentiated data handling where personally identifiable information is processed with higher security measures compared to anonymized EEG data. Sensitive user attributes receive enhanced protection while allowing aggregate analysis to proceed, creating local quality variations in security protocols based on data sensitivity levels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3865056B1Systems and methods for collecting, analyzing, and sharing BIO-signal and non-BIO-signal data
Publication Date: 2025.11.05 INTERAXON
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AI summary

A system comprising a plurality of client computing devices (100), each of the plurality of client computing devices (100) in communication with at least one bio-signal sensor (102, 104); and at least one computer server (200) in communication with the plurality of computing devices over a communications network. The at least one computer server (200) configured to receive time-coded bio-signal data, including brainwave data, from each of the plurality of computing devices (100), the time-coded bio-signal data associated with a plurality of user identifiers; receive, from a user's input or from an application accessible from one of the plurality of client computing devices, time-coded feature event data representing an event when a user's mental response is observed; identify a pattern in at least part of the time-coded bio-signal data that represents a response to a feature event determined from the time-coded feature event data at at least one respective time code; and determine a user-response classification of at least part of the time-coded bio-signal data based on the pattern identified in the at least part of the time-coded bio-signal data and at least part of the time-coded feature event data at at least one respective time code.