Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Eye or testing by visual stimulus
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-12
2001-07-17
Lacyk, John P. (Department: 3736)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Eye or testing by visual stimulus
C600S300000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06261239
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is directed to a device for acquiring and evaluating data representing coordinative abilities of a test person.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Coordinative abilities are the abilities for the control, or purposeful control, of human motion and are together referred to as coordinative competence. The coordinative competence can be divided into different aspects, i.e. it can be divided into coordinative abilities as sub-areas of the coordinative competence, such as, for example, reactivity, rhythmization ability, eye-hand-coordination ability, eye-foot-coordination ability, balance and differentiation ability of a person. In studies, coordinative competence has proven to be one of the most important parameters for an independent life of a person at an advanced age.
Systematic test methods for identifying coordinative competence, which can be executed by the test subject himself or herself, are not known. A regular “measurement” or acquisition of coordinative competence, among other things, is important in order to be able to make progress in training or therapy quantitatively apparent so as, for example, to increase the motivation of the test person. Further, the present state of health of the test person could be acquired by regularly monitoring coordinative competence, so that the degree of danger of the test person concerning a fall, for example, can be determined. Further, it therefore could be determined whether coordinative competence is impaired by specific factors that momentarily exist, such as an acute illness.
At the moment, tests of coordinative abilities are only carried out in the context of scientific studies, whereby a series of tasks are executed by the test persons under the observation of a caregiver. The caregiver subsequently evaluates these tasks manually.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide a device for identifying coordinative abilities of a test person, which enables an automatic assessment of the coordinative competence, or the coordinative abilities, of the test person.
The above object is achieved according to the invention by conducting a number of tests that are appropriate for the acquisition of different coordinative abilities of a test person, controlled by a test device. The test results are automatically processed by the inventive device and are combined to a quantitative overall assessment, i.e. they are combined to a relevant assessment factor, which is supplied as an output. This assessment factor, which is the overall assessment of a number of coordinative abilities, therefore represents a measure for the coordinative competence of the test person, so that his or her coordinative competence is reliably evaluated.
The inventive device is fashioned so that it enables an automatic selection or interactive selection of the tests to be carried out, with at least two different coordinative abilities, or sub-areas of the coordinative competence, are tested. The test implementation can be automatically acquired (by sensors, switches or the like for example) and/or can be interactively acquired (by input of the test results via input menus). The test results and/or the final result, i.e. the overall assessment factor of the coordinative competence of the test person, are advantageously visualized, i.e. they are presented via a display or a monitor of the inventive device.
The tests of the device are particularly designed such that reactivity, rhythmization ability, eye-hand-coordination ability, eye-foot-coordination ability, balance and differentiation ability of the test person can be separately tested as coordinative abilities of the test person.
The inventive device therefore enables computer-supported acquisition and/or evaluation of coordinative competence, and the individual test methods, which are provided or selected by the device are particularly executed directly by the concerned test person, so that participation of a trained test administrator not necessarily required. Therefore, by means of the inventive device, training progress can be determined during a therapy regimen and any danger to the health of the test person, due to lacking coordinative competence can be determined.
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Abraham-Fuchs Klaus
Birkhoelzer Thomas
Hufnagel Hartwin
Schmidt Kai-Uwe
Lacyk John P.
Schiff & Hardin & Waite
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Szmal Brian
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