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Method for monitoring a state of being
Assignee: C P S Inc
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Filing: 1988-01-26
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Granted: 1989-07-04
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Expires: 2008-01-26
Abstract
Abstract A state of a sensible subject such as a person, e.g a pain state, is monitored utilizing an instrument which generates a sound of increasing harshness as an analog to the state of being as that state worsens. The device is used to quantitate the depression, anxiety, pain or other dysphoric condition experienced by the patient and allows comparison between states of the patient at different times.
Inventors
- 👤 Leopold Bellak
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 18:51
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61B; A61B5/00; A61B5/48; A61B5/4824; A61B5/16; A61B5/165
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
210 words
A method of monitoring an emotional state of a person, comprising the steps of: (a) administering to a person whose emotional state is to be monitored a stimulus affecting the emotional state of said person and allowing said person to react to said stimulus; (b) causing said person to displace voluntarily an actuator in response to the reaction of said person to said stimulus; (c) generation upon the displacement of said actuator a continuous acoustical output with tonality of increasing stridency with increasing displacement of said acutator so that said person will identify an emotional state resulting from said stimulus with a particular acoustic output and degree of displacement of said actuator; (d) displaying the movement of said actuator upon a numerical scale and recording values thereof to quantitate the person's emotional state; and (e) thereafter signalling a subsequent emotional state of said person by causing said person to displace voluntarily said actuator until the acoustic output reaches a level associated by the person with said subsequent emotional state and displaying the movement of said actuator associated with the subsequent emotional state upon a numerical scale, whereby the numerical value of the subsequent emotional state is evaluated with respect to said recorded values to determine the person's current emotional state.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
210 words
A method of monitoring an emotional state of a person, comprising the steps of: (a) administering to a person whose emotional state is to be monitored a stimulus affecting the emotional state of said person and allowing said person to react to said stimulus; (b) causing said person to displace voluntarily an actuator in response to the reaction of said person to said stimulus; (c) generation upon the displacement of said actuator a continuous acoustical output with tonality of increasing stridency with increasing displacement of said acutator so that said person will identify an emotional state resulting from said stimulus with a particular acoustic output and degree of displacement of said actuator; (d) displaying the movement of said actuator upon a numerical scale and recording values thereof to quantitate the person's emotional state; and (e) thereafter signalling a subsequent emotional state of said person by causing said person to displace voluntarily said actuator until the acoustic output reaches a level associated by the person with said subsequent emotional state and displaying the movement of said actuator associated with the subsequent emotional state upon a numerical scale, whereby the numerical value of the subsequent emotional state is evaluated with respect to said recorded values to determine the person's current emotional state.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method defined in claim 1 wherein said emotional state is a dysphoric state and said stimulus is a psychiatric stimulus.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method defined in claim 1 wherein, in step (d), the displacement of said actuator is displayed against an ordinal scale.
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| 3.5 Years (Year 4) | 1992-07-03 | 1993-01-02 | 1993-07-04 | $2000.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 7.5 Years (Year 8) | 1996-07-03 | 1997-01-02 | 1997-07-04 | $3760.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 11.5 Years (Year 12) | 2000-07-03 | 2001-01-02 | 2001-07-04 | $7700.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |