EYE OPENER: A VEHICLE OPERATOR VIGILANCE MONITOR SYSTEM

描述：（申请人摘要中的逐字记录）驾驶员警惕性下降 是造成机动车事故的主要原因， 闭合性头部损伤、脊髓横断和其他重大医疗事故 创伤的发病率和死亡率很高。目前没有 监测驾驶员警觉性和提供唤醒信号的实用方法 反馈作为警惕性丧失的对策。在第一阶段，我们将测试 我们的技术测量眼睑肌肉张力和运动的能力， 睡眠来预测受试者的注意力和行为失误， 驾驶员模拟任务。这些结果将用于通知第二阶段 开发一种商业产品，称为开眼器，可用于 在各种各样的车辆操作应用中 汽车、商用卡车、铁路列车、远洋货船，以及 飞机。在第三阶段，该产品将由 内部制造，并直接和/或通过联合体销售 或与电子技术和汽车行业的合同安排， 行业除了为公众提供一个实用的方法， 事故预防方面，该研究将有助于基础和应用 睡眠神经生物学的科学通过集中注意力在一个动态的 长期被忽视的重要结构，人类眼睑。 拟议商业应用：不可用

DESCRIPTION: (Verbatim from the Applicant's Abstract) Driver vigilance lapses are a major contributor to motor vehicle accidents which often result in closed-head injuries , spinal cord transection, and other major medical traumata with high degrees of morbidity and mortality. At present there are no practical means of monitoring driver vigilance and of providing arousal signal feedback as a counter-measure to vigilance lapses. In Phase-I, we will test the capability of our technique for measuring eyelid muscle tension and movement in sleep to predict attentional and behavioral lapses in subjects performing a driver simulation task. These results will be used to inform the Phase II development of a commercial product, called the Eye Opener, which could be used in a wide variety of vehicle operation applications including personal automobiles, commercial trucks, railroad trains, seagoing cargo vessels, and airplanes. In Phase Ill, the product will be brought into production by in-house manufacturing and marketed either directly and/or through consortium or contractual arrangements with the electronic technology and automotive industries. In addition to providing the public with a practical means of accident prevention, the research will contribute to the basic and applied science of sleep neurobiology by focusing attention on the dynamics of a long-neglected and obviously important structure, the human eyelid. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: NOT AVAILABLE