US 12,243,443 B2
System and method for intervention with attention deficient disorders
Chao Mei, Marietta, GA (US)
Assigned to Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc., Kennesaw, GA (US)
Filed by Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc., Kennesaw, GA (US)
Filed on May 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/741,340.
Application 17/741,340 is a continuation of application No. 16/047,224, filed on Jul. 27, 2018, granted, now 11,355,023.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/537,854, filed on Jul. 27, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0270501 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G09B 5/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G09B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G09B 5/02 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G09B 5/00 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display system for treating autism spectrum and other cognitive disorders affecting attention in a user in need thereof, the display system comprising:
a head-mounted display equipped with an eye tracking device, the head-mounted display configured to:
output a virtual scene to a user, wherein the virtual scene comprises one or more principal objects intended to hold an attention of the user and one or more secondary objects;
capture, during output of the virtual scene, eye tracking data of one or more eyes of the user, wherein, the capture further comprises capturing one or more Purkinje images of at least one pupil of the one or more eyes of the user;
image, using a camera of the eye-tracking device, the one or more eyes to determine a gaze direction;
determine, based on the eye tracking data, gaze information indicative of the gaze direction of the user at a location on the virtual scene;
determine, by correlating the gaze information with position data representing at least one of the one or more secondary objects, that the user is distracted from the one or more principal objects by a first object of the one or more secondary objects; and
update, based on the determination that the user is distracted, the virtual scene to cause the first object to be removed from display while continuing to display a remainder of the virtual scene to the user, wherein the first object is removed from display until a condition is met indicative of the user being attentive to the one or more principal objects.