Multi-Sensory Vibroacoustic Therapy Bed with Biometric Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vibroacoustic therapy beds have limited capabilities, restricting their benefits for diverse users with varying needs, as they primarily rely on vibrations and lack integration of other sensory elements like sound and light, which can be customized or synchronized effectively.
Innovation Solution
A vibroacoustic therapy bed that integrates electronics for providing vibrations, sounds, and lights, along with biometric sensors, to deliver a multi-sensory media experience through a modular design, customizable experience files, and a streaming environment, allowing real-time or on-demand delivery of synchronized audio, vibration, and lighting channels based on user profiles and biometric data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional vibroacoustic therapy beds use only vibration transducers, then the device complexity is low, but the adaptability and versatility for diverse users with varying needs is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple sensory output devices (vibration transducers, speakers, lighting systems) into a single integrated therapy bed system. This merging allows the bed to deliver coordinated multi-sensory experiences (vibrations, audio, visual effects) simultaneously, enhancing adaptability to diverse user needs without requiring separate devices for each sensory modality.
Solution Approach 2:
The therapy bed is designed with multi-functional capabilities by incorporating various types of transducers (broadband, resonant, electrostatic) and sensory output devices that can be selectively activated. The system can deliver different vibration frequencies, audio channels, and lighting effects based on user profiles and therapeutic requirements, making it universally applicable to diverse users with varying needs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the therapy bed integrates multiple sensory output devices and customization capabilities, then the adaptability and user experience are enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs dynamic customization capabilities where user profiles store individualized settings for sensory output devices. The bed can dynamically adjust vibration frequencies, audio levels, and lighting intensity based on selected user profiles or real-time biometric feedback, allowing high adaptability without requiring manual reconfiguration of each parameter.
Solution Approach 2:
The therapy bed incorporates biometric sensors that provide real-time feedback on user physiological states. This feedback is used to automatically adjust the intensity and characteristics of vibrations, audio, and lighting effects, enabling the system to adapt to user needs dynamically without increasing operational complexity for the end user.
3Reliability
If the therapy bed provides synchronized multi-sensory output, then the therapeutic effectiveness and user experience are improved, but the coordination and control complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system delivers coordinated sensory outputs in synchronized periodic patterns. Vibration transducers, speakers, and lighting systems are activated in coordinated sequences based on programmed therapy protocols, ensuring that multi-sensory effects are delivered in a reliable and repeatable manner that enhances therapeutic effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
User profiles and therapy protocols are pre-configured with optimized settings for coordinated sensory output. The system prepares and stores predefined patterns for synchronizing vibrations, audio, and lighting effects, eliminating the need for complex real-time coordination calculations during actual therapy delivery.
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
Enhances user experience by providing a tailored, multi-sensory therapy that can be customized in real-time, improving circulation, pain relief, and mood through synchronized and adaptive sensory outputs, catering to individual needs and preferences.
Implementation Method 1
A vibroacoustic therapy bed includes a set of transducers that transfer vibrations to the body according to a programmed pattern
Implementation Method 2
real-time biometric information obtained from biometric sensors
Data Source
AI summary
A multi-sensory media experience delivery platform includes a vibroacoustic therapy bed that delivers a multi-sensory media experience locally stored, streaming, on-demand, or real-time signals. The vibroacoustic therapy bed drives a plurality of sensory output devices based on a set of sensory output channels to produce sounds, vibrations, light patterns, or other sensory outputs. The channels may be derived from dedicated signals created for a specific sensory output device or may be derived from an audio file or other general set of waveforms. The multi-sensory media experience may be customized to a user based on user profile data, metadata associated with the multi-sensory media experience, or biometric data. Furthermore, users can create customized multi-sensory media experiences from libraries of sounds or other media.