Visual Activity Training Device for Insomnia Relief
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for addressing insomnia, such as auditory, olfactory, and visual activities, are ineffective in stopping continuous thought patterns that prevent sleep, leading to a malfunction in the experience-projecting function of the brain, which is essential for falling asleep.
Innovation Solution
A device and method that stimulate visual activity by displaying visual images and repeating the command 'Open eyes' to induce and maintain visual activity, allowing users to stop thinking and fall asleep by engaging their brain's visual processing area, distinct from the general sleeping function.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If sleeping pills are used to induce sleep, then sleep induction effectiveness is improved, but drug resistance develops and side effects occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces chemical intervention (sleeping pills) with a physical/physiological intervention (visual activity stimulation). The device uses visual stimuli to activate the visual cortex, which naturally suppresses the default mode network and stops continuous thinking, thereby inducing sleep without chemical substances. This substitution eliminates drug resistance and side effects while maintaining sleep induction effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of sleep induction from chemical suppression of arousal to visual activation of the visual cortex. By altering the mechanism from pharmacological to neurophysiological, the system achieves sleep induction through a different pathway that does not involve drug metabolism, resistance development, or chemical side effects.
2Ease of operation
If auditory activity (music, songs) is used to induce sleep, then relaxation is improved, but continuous thinking patterns are not stopped
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces visual activity as an intermediary mechanism between relaxation and stopping thinking. Visual stimuli serve as a mediator that directly activates the visual cortex, which in turn suppresses the default mode network and stops continuous thinking. This intermediary visual activation is more direct and effective than auditory relaxation for stopping the thinking pattern that causes insomnia.
3Reliability
If visual images are displayed to stimulate visual activity, then thinking activity is stopped and sleep is induced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the display unit serve multiple functions: it displays visual images for sleep induction, shows operation instructions, provides user feedback, and enables device control. By making the display unit multi-functional, the patent reduces the need for separate components and minimizes overall device complexity while maintaining the core function of stopping thinking and inducing sleep through visual activity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the visual stimulation function with the display control interface into a single integrated system. The display unit serves both as the sleep induction tool (showing visual images) and as the user interaction interface (showing instructions and receiving input). This merging of functions reduces component count and simplifies the overall device structure.
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AI summary
Provided is a functional learning/training device and methods for forming a sleeping function, which is distinct and independent of general sleeping function, and which enables the user to fall asleep quickly by overcoming the phenomenon of insomnia. When a new sleeping condition is set by actively generating visual activity every night, the phenomenon of insomnia may be solved, such that the user can fall sleep quickly and further, ultimately, with the use of the newly formed sleeping function, even without the use of the present invention, the user can solve the phenomenon of insomnia easily and fall asleep, as if a normal person sleeps in a general sleeping function under general circumstances.