JPH09313562A - Memory medium for organism signal feed back control support program and controller using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a memory medium for an organism signal feed back control support program to facilitate to select the organism signal feed back control support program to change the action of a controlled equipment and a control device capable of diversified controlling using the same. SOLUTION: A video tape 4 is to be an important element to constitute a massage system. Images to give relaxed and refreshing feeling to a user M when a massager 1 is used are preliminarily recorded on an image track, sound signals such as music or narration to give relaxed and refreshing feeling to the user M corresponding to the images are recorded on one of right and left sound tracks, and an organism signal feed back control support program is recorded by DTMF signals on the other sound track.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a storage medium for a biological signal feedback control support program and a control device using the storage medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been a device which feeds back a biological signal of a user to operate a controlled device, as disclosed in JP-A-1-317452.

[0003]

However, in the conventional device, a support program for changing the operation of the controlled device when the biological signal changes at a predetermined rate is incorporated in the device in advance and used. The range that can be selected according to personal preference was regulated by the built-in program.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to change the operation of the controlled device when the biological signal changes at a predetermined rate on the user side. An object of the present invention is to provide a storage medium for a biological signal feedback control support program that facilitates selection of a feedback control support program and a control device that enables various controls using the storage medium.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 corresponds to the control of the controlled device in which the operation is controlled according to the change of the biological signal of the user of the controlled device. Then, when the biological signal changes at a predetermined rate, a biological signal feedback control support program having a command to start a program for changing the operation of the controlled device is recorded, and stored in a form independent from the device. By handling the medium, various biological signal feedback control support programs can be easily prepared, the user's selectivity can be increased, and a command to start the program for changing the operation of the controlled device can be issued. Since it stores the biological signal feedback control support program that it has, the program can be constructed with a simple command configuration. Program size is reduced and widened selection of the storage medium used.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the biomedical signal feedback control support program is constituted by an existing recording medium corresponding to the existing image / sound reproduction means, and the biomedical signal feedback control support program is recorded on the recording medium as an audio frequency signal. Characterized by being stored in an audio track, by using an existing recording medium compatible with the existing video / audio reproduction means,
In addition to facilitating the manufacture, the program reading device can also use the existing video / audio reproducing means, so that the cost of the device used can be reduced.

The invention of claim 3 is characterized in that, in the invention of claim 2, the audible frequency signal is constituted by a DTMF signal. Since the DTMF signal is used, the existing DTMF is used as a decoding means for decoding the command. It becomes possible to use means for decoding the signal, and the cost on the side of the used device can be reduced. In the invention of claim 4, a controlled device,
A program for changing the operation of the controlled device when the biological signal changes at a predetermined rate in response to the control of the controlled device in which the operation is controlled according to the change of the biological signal of the user of the controlled device. For storing a biological signal feedback control support program having a biological signal feedback control support program having a command for activating, a reproducing means for reading out the program recorded in the biological signal feedback control support program storage medium, and this reproducing means Based on the command of the biological signal feedback control support program reproduced by the above, a program for activating the operation of the controlled device is started, and a controller for controlling the operation of the controlled device is provided. By preparing multiple storage media that record the program of Range control becomes possible.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to embodiments. FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a storage medium of the present invention and a massage system that is a control device using the storage medium. The massage system includes a massage machine 1 that is a controlled device that massages a user M, and a user M. A head-mounted display 2 that is attached to the user's body to show an image and to let the user M hear music, narration, etc., and a pulse sensor 3 for detecting a biological signal of the user M, for example, a pulse.
And a storage medium, in the embodiment, an existing video tape 4 corresponding to a Hi-Fi VCR, reproducing a video signal to be shown to the user M, reproducing an audio signal such as music or narration, or an audio as a DTMF signal. A commercially available existing Hi-Fi VCR 5 for playing back a biological signal feedback support program which will be described later recorded on a track, music played by the Hi-Fi VCR 5, narration, etc. A pulse signal from the video / sound processing unit 6 and a pulse sensor 3 for processing an audio signal or an image signal and transmitting the image signal or audio signal of the image, music or narration to the head mounted display 2 described above. Pulse signal processing unit 7 for processing
A system controller including a DTMF signal decoding section 8 for decoding the DTMF signal reproduced by the Fi video deck 5, control of these processing sections 6, 7 and the decoding section 8, and a microcomputer (hereinafter abbreviated as microcomputer) 9 for performing signal processing. And 10.

Here, the video tape 4 is an important component of a massage system, and the video track is provided in advance to the user M to give the user M a feeling of relaxation and refreshment when using the massage machine 1 according to the massage process. Music to record the images to give, and to give the user M a feeling of relaxation and refreshment in accordance with these images,
An audio signal such as narreshon is recorded on one of the left and right audio tracks (for example, the right channel), and a biological signal feedback control support program is recorded on the other (left channel) audio track by a DTMF signal (tone signal). .

The bio-signal feedback control support program specifies a command for controlling the massage machine 1, a command for controlling reproduction of video / audio (sound), a command for controlling the head mounted display 2, and an operation of the entire system. Composed of commands. The above-mentioned control of the massage machine 1 is a control for adjusting the speed, strength, position, type, etc. of the fir tree, and video / sound control is performed by video fade-in / fade-out and on / off, music (voice). Volume control, and the control of the head-mounted display 2 is ON / OFF control of the power supply to be supplied, and the commands corresponding to the above-mentioned commands specify these controls.

The command for designating the operation of the entire system is a command for selecting some overall operation programs incorporated in the microcomputer 9 in the system controller 10. The microcomputer 9 outputs this command and the pulse signal of the user M. A control signal for changing the operation of the massage machine is created with reference. Next, the operation of the system of the embodiment will be described by taking an example of a biological signal feedback control support program.

First, the video tape 4 is recorded with video, music (sound) and bio-signal feedback control support programs based on the story of the operation control of the massage machine 1 which is assumed in advance. Created based on a story structure consisting of a relaxing stage (first half) that relaxes humans, a sleep-on stage that maintains a sleepy state when a person falls asleep (middle stage), and a refreshing stage that awakens from a sleep state (second half). In the case of the programmed program, the video tape 4 on which the support program by the story structure is recorded is loaded into the Hi-Fi VCR 5 and put into a play state, and when the system is put into an operating state, the controller 10 is set to Hi. A head-mounted display in which a video signal reproduced by the Fi VCR 5 and an audio signal of music or a message and a DTMF signal are taken in, and the video signal and the audio signal are attached to the user M through the video / sound processing unit 6. Send to 2 and DTMF
The signal is fetched by the decoding unit 8 and the command of the biological signal feedback control support program is decoded. If the command for controlling the head-mounted display 2 described above indicates ON, the head-mounted display 2 is turned on to operate, and an image is displayed on the display part of the head-mounted display 2. The sound is projected and the headphone part emits sounds such as music and narration. In this case, the microcomputer 9 causes the video / audio processing unit 6 to perform volume control and video fade control based on the video / audio control command sent by the DTMF signal.

Further, a command for selecting the speed of the massage machine 1 is recorded on the video tape 4, and the speed of the massage machine 1 is set. That is, the speed of the massager 1 that is preset for the relaxing stage is set to the same cycle as the pulse, for example.
The command of the biological signal feedback control support program for selecting one of the three patterns of 95% of the pulse cycle and 90% of the pulse cycle is recorded on the video tape 4, and the microcomputer 9 reproduces the command. A pattern is selected on the basis of the decoded command, a control signal for controlling the speed of the rice corresponding to the pulse cycle taken in through the pulse signal processing unit 7 is created, and sent to the massage machine 1 through the decoding unit 8. The massage machine 1 controls the kneading drive based on the control signal so that the speed of the kneading is high. Here, the adjustment items of the massager 1 other than the speed of massage are controlled based on the command of the biological signal feedback control support program recorded on the video tape 4 as the DTMF signal. If the pulse rate drops by a certain percentage,
The microcomputer 9 sends music (sound) to the video / sound processing unit 6.
Decrease the volume of and issue a command to fade out the image. Here, the set value of the reduction rate of the pulse rate and the reduction rate of the volume of the music (voice) are set by the command written in the video tape by the DTMF signal, and the microcomputer 9 of the system controller 10 determines the reduction rate of the pulse rate based on this command. The setting value of and the decrease rate of music (voice) are determined.

In response to the next step of falling asleep, the massage machine 1 is attached to the video tape 4 so that the user M is not disturbed by falling asleep.
A command for reducing the speed of the fir tree to the same cycle as the pulse, weakening the strength of the fir tree, and reducing the volume of music (voice) is written. The microcomputer 9 of the system controller 10 is decoded by the decoding unit 8. The corresponding control processing is performed based on these commands. That is, a volume control command is sent to the video / sound processing unit 6, and a control signal for controlling the strength and speed of the fir to the massage machine 1 is sent through the decoding unit 8 to a predetermined fir. The massage machine 1 is operated with strength and speed of fir tree.

Corresponding to the next refresh stage, the speed of the massager 1 on the video tape 4 is set to the same cycle as the pulse, for example, 105% of the pulse cycle and 110% of the pulse cycle. , A biosignal feedback control support program command indicating which one of the three patterns is selected is recorded as a DTMF signal, and the microcomputer 9 of the system controller 10 causes the decoding unit 8
A pattern is selected based on the command decoded by, and a control signal for controlling the massage speed of the massage machine 1 is sent to the massage machine 1 based on the pulse cycle extracted by the pulse signal processing unit 7 and is suitable for refreshing. Set the folding speed.

With respect to items such as fir strength, type, and position, commands corresponding to the DTMF signals are recorded on the video tape 4 so that the operation of the massage machine 1 suitable for the refreshing stage can be obtained. . Therefore, these items are also controlled by the microcomputer 9 of the system controller 10. Although the above embodiment relates to the control system of the massage machine 1 and the video tape 4 as a recording medium used therefor, it is also used for a system for feeding back a biomedical signal for control (game device, game machine). be able to.

Further, although the video tape is used as the recording medium in the above embodiment, the recording medium which can store the image and the music (sound) together, for example, the video CD, DVD, L.
You may use D etc. Further, a CDROM or a semiconductor memory may be used. Although the command is recorded by a voice signal composed of a DTMF signal, it may be recorded by a signal modulated by an audible frequency such as a so-called modem signal.

[0018]

According to the invention of claim 1, the biological signal changes at a predetermined rate in response to the control of the controlled device whose operation is controlled according to the change of the biological signal of the user of the controlled device. Since the biomedical signal feedback control support program having a command to start the program for changing the operation of the controlled device is recorded, a variety of biomedical signal feedback control support programs can be obtained by handling the storage medium independently of the device. Can be easily prepared, the user's selectivity can be increased, and the biological signal feedback control support program having a command for activating a program for changing the operation of the controlled device is recorded. , Program construction can be done with a simple command configuration, the program size is also small, and the storage medium to be used can be selected. There is an effect that enclose spread.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the recording medium is constituted by an existing recording medium corresponding to the existing image / sound reproducing means, and the bio-signal feedback control support program is recorded on the recording medium as an audio frequency signal. Since it is stored in the audio track, by using the existing recording medium corresponding to the existing video / sound reproduction means, the production is facilitated and the program reading device can also use the existing video / sound reproduction means. There is an effect that the cost of the device used can be reduced.

According to the invention of claim 3, in the invention of claim 2, since the signal of the audible frequency is constituted by a DTMF signal, the decoding means for decoding the command also decodes the existing DTMF signal because the DTMF signal is used. It becomes possible to use the means for doing so, and there is an effect that the cost on the side of the used device can be reduced. According to the invention of claim 4, the biological signal changes at a predetermined rate in response to the control of the controlled device and the controlled device whose operation is controlled according to the change of the biological signal of the user of the controlled device. When recorded, the biological signal feedback control support program storage medium storing the biological signal feedback control support program having a command to start a program for changing the operation of the controlled device and the biological signal feedback control support program storage medium are recorded. A controller for activating a program for changing the operation of the controlled device and controlling the operation of the controlled device based on a command of the reproducing means for reading the stored program and the biological signal feedback control support program reproduced by the reproducing means. Since it is equipped with, a plurality of storage media in which programs of different contents are recorded There is an effect that allows extensive control by several prepared.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Massager 2 Head-mounted display 3 Pulse sensor 4 Video tape 5 Hi-Fi VCR 6 Video / sound processor 7 Pulse signal processor 8 DTMF signal decoder 9 Microcomputer 10 System controller

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A controllable device, the operation of which is controlled according to a change in a biological signal of a user of the controlled device,
Storage for a biological signal feedback control support program, characterized by recording a biological signal feedback control support program having a command to start a program for changing the operation of the controlled device when the biological signal changes at a predetermined rate Medium. 2. An existing recording medium corresponding to existing video / audio reproducing means, wherein the bio-signal feedback control support program is stored in an audio track of the recording medium as an audible frequency signal. The storage medium for the bio-signal feedback control support program according to claim 1. 3. A storage medium for a biological signal feedback control support program according to claim 2, wherein said audio frequency signal is constituted by a DTMF signal. 4. When the biological signal changes at a predetermined rate in response to the control of the controlled device and the controlled device whose operation is controlled according to the change of the biological signal of the user of the controlled device. ,
A biomedical signal feedback control support program storage medium recording a biomedical signal feedback control support program having a command for activating a program for changing the operation of a controlled device, and a program recorded in the biomedical signal feedback control support program storage medium And a controller for activating a program for changing the operation of the controlled device based on the command of the biological signal feedback control support program reproduced by the reproducing device and controlling the operation of the controlled device. A control device characterized in that