US 12,419,538 B2
Systems and methods for respiration-controlled virtual experiences
Abby Victoria Hess, Cincinnati, OH (US); and Blake Lane, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Assigned to Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Jun. 3, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/732,074.
Application 18/732,074 is a division of application No. 16/240,179, filed on Jan. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,998,313.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/614,103, filed on Jan. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0315593 A1, Sep. 26, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 5/087 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/08 (2006.01); A61B 5/097 (2006.01); A61B 5/16 (2006.01); A61M 16/01 (2006.01); A61M 16/06 (2006.01); A63F 13/21 (2014.01); A63F 13/212 (2014.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); A61M 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/087 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0803 (2013.01); A61B 5/097 (2013.01); A61B 5/165 (2013.01); A61B 5/4839 (2013.01); A61B 5/4848 (2013.01); A61B 5/486 (2013.01); A61B 5/6898 (2013.01); A61B 5/744 (2013.01); A61B 5/7445 (2013.01); A61B 5/7475 (2013.01); A61M 16/01 (2013.01); A61M 16/06 (2013.01); A63F 13/21 (2014.09); A63F 13/212 (2014.09); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); A61B 2503/06 (2013.01); A61M 2021/005 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
providing a controller including a processor and a memory storing machine readable instructions configured to be executed by the processor;
providing a user interface in communication with the controller, the user interface including a display configured to display graphics from the processor;
providing a respiration device in connection with the controller and operably engaged with a user, the respiration device including a sensor configured to detect one or more respiration parameters of the user, such that the respiration device provides the one or more respiration parameters to the controller via a respiration-data stream, the sensor including a pressure sensor;
the controller presenting a virtual experience via the display of the user interface, wherein the virtual experience of the user interface is perceptible to the user;
the controller receiving the respiration-data stream from the respiration device, the respiration-data stream comprising one or more respiration-parameter values of one or more respiration parameters associated with ongoing respiration of the user; and
the controller updating the virtual experience based at least in part on the one or more respiration-parameter values in the respiration-data stream, wherein:
the virtual experience includes a plurality of sequential phases that have an associated phase sequence;
the plurality of sequential phases includes an active-induction phase that corresponds in time to the user receiving anesthetic induction via the respiration device;
the plurality of sequential phases further includes a calibration and respiration-device-acclimation phase comprising a respiration-controlled mode, wherein a respiration-parameter value is received in the respiration-data stream during the respiration-controlled mode, and the controller uses the respiration-parameter value to calibrate the virtual experience to the user's respiration-parameter value; and
wherein the sequential phases correspond respectively with different visual indicia presented via the user interface.