PHANTOM LIMB PAIN CARE SYSTEM, SUBJECT DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: MATSUMURA YUTAKA, REKIMOTO JUNICHI, SAITO KENTA, OKADA ATSUSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 16.09.2021
• Subjects: ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSESOR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING ORSTIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY

To enable care for a phantom limb pain patient existing at a position apart from an operator.SOLUTION: A subject device for providing a subject with video of a virtual space at a first location and communicating with an operator device operated by an operator existing at a second location apart from the first location comprises: a position detection unit for detecting a position of the subject's healthy limb; a three-dimensional model generation unit for generating a three-dimensional model of the healthy limb on the basis of the detected position of the healthy limb and generating a three-dimensional model of a phantom limb paired with the healthy limb on the basis of the position of the healthy limb; a video generation unit for generating video of the virtual space including the three-dimensional models; an HMD that is mounted on the subject's head and displays the video of the virtual space on a display screen; a situation information transmission unit for transmitting subject situation information showing the subject's state to the operator device; an instruction reception unit for receiving instruction information showing the operator's instruction from the operator device; and an instruction output unit for outputting the video of the virtual space and voice as the instruction information to the subject.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】施術者から離れた位置に存在する幻肢痛患者に対するケアを可能にする。【解決手段】第一の地点において仮想空間の映像を被術者に提供し、第一の地点から離れた第二の地点に存在する施術者によって操作される施術者装置と通信するする被術者装置であって、被術者の健肢の位置を検出する位置検出部と、検出した健肢の位置に基づいて健肢の三次元モデルを生成すると共に、健肢の位置に基づいて健肢と対になる幻肢の三次元モデルを生成する三次元モデル生成部と、三次元モデルを含む仮想空間の映像を生成する映像生成部と、被術者の頭部に装着され、仮想空間の映像をディスプレイ画面上に表示させるＨＭＤと、被術者の状態を示す被術者状況情報を施術者装置へ送信する状況情報送信部と、施術者装置から施術者の指示を示す指示情報を受信する指示受信部と、前記指示情報として仮想空間の映像や音声を被術者に対して出力させる指示出力部とを備える。【選択図】図１