JP7160853B2 - Immersion-enhancing eyewear - Google Patents

Description

In the present invention, the lenses of eyewear such as spectacles and goggles have the function of limiting the field of view and blocking unnecessary visual information. As a result, by providing a field of view limited to the viewing target as visual information, an environment in which the target can be immersed is provided.

Today, due to the sophistication of digital devices and network technology, the work environment is diversifying, and the work environment is not limited to one's desk in the office. Many people are concentrating on individual tasks such as viewing video content.

Blocking sound can be dealt with by using earplugs or listening to your favorite music with headphones or earphones, but it can be said that there is no effective method for visual information other than restricting it by maintaining concentration.

In addition, the number of patients with mental disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other symptoms of inattentiveness and sensory hypersensitivity is increasing year by year, and the number of child patients in particular is steadily increasing. In Japan, 1,631 children with ADHD were 1,631 in 2005, but in 2016, 16, 16, 16, The number of ADHD patients has increased to 836, and the number has been increasing since then, and the number of ADHD patients is increasing worldwide.

Early treatment by environmental modification therapy from childhood is considered effective as a therapeutic method for ADHD patients. It is a therapy that suppresses symptoms by changing the patient's environment. For example, in order to concentrate on studying, there is a method of blocking information other than necessary information such as teaching materials and notes by setting a desk facing the corner of the room. It is known that the younger the age at which treatment is started, the more effective the treatment.

Environmental modification therapy is performed by advice from a doctor to a patient. Since the will and cooperation of the patient are greatly involved in the treatment, the progress of the treatment greatly changes depending on how the patient carries out appropriate advice from the doctor. Therefore, without the patient's own effort and cooperation, the treatment period will be unnecessarily prolonged.

As a tool for blocking information other than necessary information, the products mentioned in Non-Patent Document 1 are sold. This product is inspired by racehorse blinkers, and by attaching a hood to the glasses, it is possible to block extra vision and improve concentration. However, although the cut of extra visual information by the hood is effective outside the lens portion, it does not cut the visual information contained in the field of view that can be seen with the lens.

Patent Literature 1 is a program and device for determining a degree of concentration. A program for estimating a gaze point using a line-of-sight detection technique, and determining that concentration has decreased when the line of sight deviates from a predetermined area for a certain period of time, and a device for executing the same. The purpose of the present invention is not to determine or detect a decline in concentration, but to provide an environment in which the wearer can become immersed in an object.

Patent Document 2 discloses a system that restricts the field of view and also cuts auditory stimulation by wearing a device that projects a specific theme suitable for the wearer's thinking from a server in order to concentrate on thinking about a specific theme. is. By extracting a specific theme from the themes accumulated on the server and providing it to the field of view. It is a support device for concentrated thinking.

Patent Document 3, Patent Document 4, and Patent Document 5 are devices for experiencing symptoms of cataracts and glaucoma, and are devices and the like with which a visual field defect state can be experienced.

In order to improve concentration, these prior arts are devices that use hoods to eliminate visual information from the lenses of glasses and parts other than the lenses, systems that project only specific themes from a server, and systems that focus. It is a device that determines a decrease in strength, or a device that allows a simulated experience of a disease state.

Either technique limits or restricts visual information other than that of interest in order to provide an immersive environment for the subject, which is the purpose of the present invention, and to provide an immersive environment for any subject determined by the wearer himself/herself. It differs greatly in that it has a function that can be blocked.

JP 2014-191474 JP 2000-338857 JP 2005-234011 Jitsushinto No. 3105983 Jitsushinto No. 3172349

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The present invention provides the ability to limit or block visual information other than that of interest in order to provide an immersive environment for the wearer when viewing any object. As a result, if you want to immerse yourself in individual work in an environment with an unspecified number of people, if you want to be more immersed in work in a private space, or if you want to treat ADHD or reduce visual hypersensitivity symptoms, It is possible to enhance the sense of immersion in the patient, promote the therapeutic effect, and reduce hypersensitivity symptoms.

In the present invention, the lens part of eyewear such as glasses or goggles is designed to restrict or partially block the field of vision so that only the target object can be seen by turning on and off the switch, and the unnecessary visual field that is not the target. It has the function of not providing information. As a result, it is possible for the wearer to immerse himself/herself in the target that the wearer sees by providing vision limited to an arbitrary target as visual information.

The present invention provides an environment in which the wearer can be immersed in the viewing object by limiting or blocking visual information other than any viewing object and providing a limited field of view only to that object.

Wearing it gives the wearer a very limited field of view, so when you want to concentrate on your work in a place where an unspecified number of people gather, or when you want to immerse yourself in the action even in a private place. Suitable for

Furthermore, by using it in the field of environmental modification therapy for symptoms of inattentiveness and hypersensitivity of ADHD, distraction of the wearer who is a patient can be suppressed, and improvement of symptoms can be expected.

In particular, it enables the provision of new tools that can be used for treatment in environmental modification therapy. Environmental modification therapy is mainly performed by doctors giving advice to patients and the patients themselves based on the advice. Since the will and cooperation of the patient are greatly involved in the treatment, the progress of the treatment greatly changes depending on how the patient carries out appropriate advice from the doctor. Therefore, if the patient's execution is not accompanied, the treatment period is unnecessarily prolonged, which is a disadvantage for both the patient and the doctor.

By providing a patient with the present invention as a therapeutic device, the patient can perform environmental modification therapy simply by wearing it. In addition, it is very convenient and has an immediate effect because it is sufficient to wear it and there are no other necessary elements. Although environmental modification therapy is an effective treatment method, it is thought that by reducing the patient's own implementation burden, the treatment effect can be appropriately obtained and symptom improvement can be expected.

It should be noted that not only ADHD patients but also hyperesthesia symptoms related to vision can be expected to be reduced by the same method for subjects using the present invention.

In addition, even for healthy people, by using the present invention when they want to be more immersed, such as reading or viewing video content on a tablet, their field of view can be limited to specific objects, improving work efficiency. is expected, so it is effective.

It is the figure which showed the whole structure of this invention, and the state in use. That is, the wearer wears the eyewear body of the present invention, surrounds the gaze target 21 with three or more sensor transmitters 2, and the signals transmitted from the sensor transmitters 2 are transmitted to the support portion of the eyewear body. 12 is received by the sensor receiving unit 14 built in the eyewear, the lens unit 11 of the eyewear main body is caused to generate the field-of-view restricting unit 131 shown in FIG. 2, and the wearer is absorbed in the gaze target. FIG. 1(a) shows the case where the sensor transmission unit 2 is attached to the gaze target 21, and FIG. This is the case of pasting.

Fig. 2 illustrates a mode of use of the present invention; That is, it is a state in which the field-of-view limiting portion 131 is formed in the lens portion 11 .

FIG. 3(a) is a schematic diagram showing how the sensor receiving unit 14 receives a signal transmitted from the sensor transmitting unit 2. FIG. 3(b) shows the state of FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state in which a received signal is processed by a control section 13 built in a support section 12, and a field-of-view restriction section 131 is generated in the lens section 11. FIG.

FIG. 4(a) is a diagram showing the field of vision when the wearer wears the eyewear main body while the present invention is not in operation. FIG. 4(b) is a diagram showing the state of the wearer's vision when the present invention is operated. It should be noted that the shading of the visibility restricting portion 131 is not limited to that shown in this figure.

The present invention comprises an eyewear main body worn by the wearer comprising a lens portion 11 , a support portion 12 , a control portion 13 , a sensor receiving portion 14 , a switch 15 and the like, and a sensor transmitting portion 2 .

The eyewear body has a shape similar to spectacles. That is, it consists of a lens portion 11, a support portion 12 that supports and mounts the lens portion, a control portion 13 that is built in the support portion 12 and creates a field-of-view restriction portion 131 in the lens portion 11, and a sensor receiving portion 14.

In the lens unit 11, the control unit 13 receives the signal received from the sensor transmission unit 2 by the sensor reception unit 14, and based on this signal, the control unit 13 restricts or blocks the portion other than the visual information. , causes the visibility restriction portion 131 to occur.

The field-of-view restriction portion 131 is made of, for example, a material containing liquid crystal or charged fine particles. By using a control device and turning on the switch 15, a current is caused to cause a portion of the lens portion 11 to restrict or block the field of view to a particular area.

In the normal state of the lens portion 11, that is, when the switch 15 is turned off, depending on whether the lens portion 11 is dark-colored or transparent, the field of view is limited or blocked, or the field of view is secured. Then, whether the part that can see the object is generated or not changes. However, since these are in a contradictory relationship, any method is equivalent in terms of function.

In addition, the visibility restricting portion 131 can correspond to a so-called translucent state in which visibility is secured to some extent but not clear, from an opaque state in which the visibility is completely blocked.

The sensor transmitter 2 surrounds an arbitrary gaze target 21 with at least three or more sensors, and a sensor receiver 14 for receiving signals from the sensor transmitter 2 is mounted on the eyewear body.

Furthermore, regarding the field of view restriction part 131, it is natural that the range determined at the time of wearing is maintained, but it is also a result of actions such as changes in the posture of the wearer, or movement of the arm when holding a book or tablet with the hand. In order to cope with the positional deviation between the view restriction unit 131 and the gaze target due to the movement of the gaze target due to the movement of the gaze target, it is possible to track the gaze target by sensing the sensors surrounding the gaze target in real time. As a result, even if the wearer's unintended factors deviate from the target, or if the wearer's posture changes consciously or unconsciously, the sensor will transmit the range that can be seen as visual information. Since it can be specified by the part 2, it is particularly effective when used as a therapeutic device.

The configuration and mounting technology are not limited to the above, as long as the same state can be provided.

For example, as a method of producing the view-limiting portion 131, a technique of producing a portion that limits the view or a portion that allows an object to be seen by irradiating light from a certain angle may be used.

It may also be based on a technology that produces a portion that limits the field of view or a portion that allows the object to be seen by irradiating light of an arbitrary wavelength.

As eyewear simulating the present invention, black drawing paper was cut out in a shape to cover the lenses of spectacles, and a hole was made in the paper so that only the paper on the desk about 30 cm away was made to be worn. Then, an eyewear having a field-of-view-restricting portion was produced.

Experiments were performed independently on 10 healthy subjects. Twenty-one numbers were randomly selected from two-digit numbers 10 to 99, and placed at random on a sheet of paper equivalent to A4 size. Wear the eyewear, look at the paper for 1 minute, and memorize the printed numbers. After that, the subjects were asked to fill in as many 2-digit numbers as they had memorized on another form, and the number of correct answers was counted from among them. We conducted an experiment to investigate the state of immersion by considering that the greater the number of correct answers, the deeper the immersion.

As a comparative experiment, a case where neither the eyewear nor the product of Non-Patent Document 1 is worn and a case where the product of Non-Patent Document 1 is worn will be given. In each test, several types of paper on which two-digit numbers were arranged were prepared, and one of them was used for the test at random.

The results of the experiment are shown in Table 1. The average correct number of 10 subjects was 8.9 questions when neither the eyewear nor the product of Non-Patent Document 1 was worn, and 9.6 questions when the product of Non-Patent Document 1 was worn. A result of 10.7 questions was obtained when the eyewear was worn.

This indicates that restricting or blocking unnecessary visual information by restricting the field of view enhances the wearer's state of immersion. , obtained the result that it can be immersed more deeply.

As a general use, it is suitable when you want to concentrate on work at a place where an unspecified number of people gather, or when you want to immerse yourself in the action even if it is a private place. Furthermore, in the medical field, it can be used as a therapeutic instrument in environmental modification therapy for ADHD symptoms of inattentiveness and sensory hypersensitivity.

11: Lens part 12: Support part 13: Control part 14: Sensor receiving part 15: Switch 131: Visibility restriction part 2: Sensor transmitting part 21: Gaze target (optional)

Claims (2)

Eyewear used for environmental modification therapy that enhances the sense of immersion in the wearer's viewing action and reduces visual hypersensitivity symptoms by limiting or partially blocking the wearer's field of vision,
The eyewear includes an eyewear body worn by the wearer and a sensor transmitter,
the sensor emitter comprises at least three stickable sensors for identifying the area that surrounds any gaze and is visible as visual information;
The eyewear main body has a field-of-view limiting part for limiting or partially blocking the field of view of the wearer with respect to a part corresponding to the lens part of the eyewear,
The eyewear is
a sensor receiving unit that receives a signal transmitted by the sensor transmitting unit;
Based on the signal transmitted by the sensor transmission unit and received by the sensor reception unit, the visual field restriction unit is generated by restricting or blocking a portion other than the range that the wearer can see as the visual information. having a control unit that causes
Eyewear. 2. The eyewear according to claim 1, wherein the view restricting portion of the eyewear is movable according to a change in posture of the wearer or movement of the gaze target, so that the gaze target is always in the field of view.

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