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- the invention relates to a method for measuring the visually-induced postural instability of a person and a method for measuring the effect of a pair of spectacle lenses on body posture stability/instability of a wearer.
- the invention further relates to a computer program product and computer readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions of the computer program product of the invention.
- Prior art methods for measuring the visually- induced postural instability comprised using a cave automatic virtual environment (better known by the recursive acronym CAVE) consisting in an immersive virtual reality environment where projectors are directed to at least four of the walls of a room-sized cube.
- CAVE recursive virtual environment
- Such experimental environment provides interesting results.
- a CAVE system is very expensive, requires very sophisticated hardware and software and has large overall dimensions.
- prior art methods require highly skilled professional to be implemented. Thus such method cannot be implemented on a large scale bases.
- a goal of the invention is to propose a method for measuring the visually- induced postural instability that does not present the drawbacks of the prior art methods, in particular an easily implemented method of measuring the visual -induced postural instability, for example for a person having to wear ophthalmic lenses.
- the invention proposes a method for measuring the visually- induced postural instability of a person, the method comprising:
- ⁇ a measuring step during which a parameter representative of the postural instability is measured when the person is gazing at a fixed target straight in front of him while having the dynamic visual pattern displayed on the visual display device.
- the method according to the invention can easily be implemented. Indeed, the inventors have observed that most of the visually- induced postural instability is induced by visual stimuli in the lower half visual field of a person. Thus, according to the method of the invention the visually-induced postural instability is measured by providing visual stimuli only in part of the lower half visual field.
- the method can be implemented very easily using for example a screen placed in the lower half visual field of a person and the implementation of the method allows using a visual display device having reduced overall dimensions compared to the prior art solutions.
- the dynamic visual pattern is displayed with a movement of translation along or rotation around an axis perpendicular to the vertical axis, and/or
- the dynamic visual pattern has a periodic movement
- the dynamic visual pattern comprises a checkerboard pattern
- the visual display device comprises a reflective screen, for example a mirror, placed in the lower half visual field of the person, the visual display device being arranged so that the person sees the dynamic visual pattern on the reflective screen, and/or
- the visual display device comprises a semi- transparent diffusive screen placed in the lower half visual field of the person, and/or
- the visual display device comprises a dynamic visual pattern generating device adapted to generate a dynamic visual pattern and a projecting device adapted to project the generated dynamic visual pattern on the semi-transparent screen, and/or
- the reflectivity of the semi-transparent screen is greater than or equal to 1% and smaller than or equal to 50%, and/or • the semi-transparent screen is curved so as to have a conic transversal shape, and/or
- the visual display device comprises an active photonic screen placed in the lower half visual field of the person and arranged to display the dynamic visual pattern.
- the invention relates to a method for measuring the effect of a pair of spectacle lenses on body posture stability/instability of a wearer comprising measuring the visually- induced postural instability of a wearer wearing the pair of spectacle lenses using the method according to the invention .
- the invention relates to a computer program product comprising one or more stored sequence of instruction that is accessible to a processor and which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to process at least on device to carry out the steps of the method according to the invention .
- the invention relates to a computer readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions of the computer program product according to the invention.
- Embodiments of the present invention may include apparatuses for performing the operations herein.
- This apparatus may be specially constructed for the desired purposes, or it may comprise a general purpose computer or Digital Signal Processor ("DSP") selectively activated or reconfigured by a computer program stored in the computer.
- DSP Digital Signal Processor
- Such a computer program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, such as, but is not limited to, any type of disk including floppy disks, optical disks, CD-ROMs, magnetic-optical disks, read-only memories (ROMs) , random access memories (RAMs) electrically programmable read-only memories (EPROMs) , electrically erasable and programmable read only memories (EEPROMs) , magnetic or optical cards, or any other type of media suitable for storing electronic instructions, and capable of being coupled to a computer system bus.
- a computer readable storage medium such as, but is not limited to, any type of disk including floppy disks, optical disks, CD-ROMs, magnetic-optical disks, read-only memories (ROMs) , random access memories (RAMs) electrically programmable read-only memories (EPROMs) , electrically erasable and programmable read only memories (EEPROMs) , magnetic or optical cards, or any other type of media suitable for storing electronic instructions, and capable
- figure 1 is a flowchart representing the different steps of a method according to the invention.
- figure 2 illustrates a person using a display device according to a first embodiment of the invention
- figure 3 illustrates a person using a display device according to a second embodiment of the invention
- figure 4 illustrates a person using a display device according to a third embodiment of the invention.
- a semi-transparent screen has a reflectivity greater than or equal to 1%, for example greater than or equal to 5% and smaller than or equal to 50%, for example smaller than or equal to 15%, for example substantially equal to 10%.
- the lower half visual filed refers to the part of the visual filed of a person gazing at a fixed target situated below the plan defined by the person's eyes and the fixed target.
- the method for measuring the visually-induced postural instability of a person comprising:
- a visual display device is provided during the visual display providing step SI.
- the visual display device is arranged so as to display a dynamic visual pattern in at least 50 % of the lower half visual field of the person under test and to leave the upper half visual field of the person free.
- the method according to the invention may use a display device arranged to display a dynamic visual pattern only in the lower half visual field, leaving the upper half of the visual field of the person free.
- the method uses a must cheaper and easy to handle visual display device than the prior art methods .
- the method according to the invention may use a visual display device arranged to display a dynamic visual pattern only in part of the lower half visual field, for example in at least 50 % of the lower visual filed.
- the visual display device is arranged to display a dynamic visual pattern within the binocular visual zone of the lower half visual field. According to a further embodiment of the invention, the visual display device is arranged to display a dynamic visual pattern in at least 75 % of the lower half visual filed of the person under test . According to an embodiment of the invention, the visual display device comprises a reflecting screen placed in the lower half visual field of the person, the visual display device being arranged so that the person sees the dynamic visual pattern on the reflecting screen.
- the reflecting screen may be a mirror or a semi- transparent mirror.
- the display device 10 comprises a plan mirror 12 provided in the lower half visual field of the person under test 14.
- the plan mirror 12 is arranged so as to reflect the image projected by a projector 16 on an intermediate screen 18.
- the projector 16 and the intermediate screen 14 should be placed out of the visual field of the person or masked, for example over the person's head or at ground level.
- the plan mirror 12 may be a full reflective mirror or a semi-transparent mirror .
- the use of such visual display device is very cheap and easy to use. Indeed, the different elements of the display device are commonly available elements.
- the use of a semi-transparent mirror as reflective screen increases the immersion effect for the person under test .
- the use of a semi-transparent mirror makes it possible for the person under test to see the background scene in his lower half visual field through the semi-transparent mirror.
- such display device is conceived to add to the natural surrounding image perceived by the person under test a luminance perturbing dynamic visual pattern, i.e. perceived luminance modulation, so as to measure the person's balance resilience in this condition .
- FIG 3 A further example of such embodiment is illustrated on figure 3, where the visual display device display is similar to the visual display represented on figure 2.
- the visual display device comprises a reflective screen 12 provided in the lower half visual field of the person under test 14.
- the reflective screen 12 is arranged so as to reflect the image projected by a projector 16 on an intermediate screen 18.
- the projector 16 and the intermediate screen are out of the visual field of the person or masked.
- the reflective screen 12 may be fully reflective or semi- transparent .
- the semi-transparent screen 12 may be a high transparent plastic sheets with a high quality surface finishing, such as polycarbonate sheets, oriented PET films, rigid PVC film, Cellulose acetate film, or polyethylene sheet (HDPE) .
- a high quality surface finishing such as polycarbonate sheets, oriented PET films, rigid PVC film, Cellulose acetate film, or polyethylene sheet (HDPE) .
- the reflective screen 12 represented on figure 3, is curved so as to have a conic transversal shape.
- the semi-transparent screen 12 has an elliptic transversal shape.
- the use of such shaped reflective screen 12 allows reducing the overall dimensions of the visual display device.
- overall dimension of such shaped reflective screen 12 allows increasing the immersion effect for the person under test.
- conic transversal shape increases the mechanic stability of the screen.
- use of an at least partially transparent reflective screen increases the sensory conflicts, thus increases the visually- induced postural instability of the person.
- the visual display device comprises a semi-transparent diffusive screen placed in the lower half visual field of the person, the visual display device being arranged so that the person sees the dynamic visual pattern on the semi-transparent diffusive screen.
- the visual display device comprises a semi-transparent diffusive screen 12 provided in the lower half visual field of the person under test 14.
- the semi-transparent diffusive screen 20 is arranged so as to diffuse the image projected by a projector 16.
- the projector 16 is out of the visual field of the person or masked from the person.
- a diffusive screen 20 can be obtained by printing on a transparent plastic sheet a color dot array, for example light green, red or white patterns .
- the transparency factor can be defined geometrically as the specific surface covered by the printed dots . This means that when one hundred dots per square centimeter of surface are printed and that the surface of each dot is 0.001 cm 2 the transparency factor is
- the visual display device may be comprise an active photonic screen placed in the lower half visual field of the person and arranged to display the dynamic visual pattern.
- the display device can comprise a LCD screen or a plasma screen or an OLET screen .
- a dynamic visual pattern is displayed on the visual display device.
- the dynamic visual pattern is displayed with a movement of translation along or rotation around an axis perpendicular to the vertical axis.
- the dynamic visual pattern may have an oscillation movement so as to induce greater postural instability.
- the dynamic visual pattern may have a periodic movement.
- having a periodic dynamic visual pattern makes it easier during the measuring step S3 to determine the influence of the dynamic pattern on the postural instability of the person under test.
- the dynamic pattern may comprise a checkerboard pattern.
- the dynamic visual pattern can be geometric, periodic, high contrast pattern, oscillating continuously with a repetitive cadence.
- the period and/or apparent amplitude can be controlled.
- the pattern movement may be presented to the person under test along different spatial axes in reference to the vertical axe.
- At least one parameter of the person under test representative of the postural instability is measured.
- the person under test is required to gaze at a fix target straight in front of him while having the dynamic visual pattern displayed on the visual display device.
- such person may be equipped with movement detectors to register the person's balance movements.
- the person under test may be seating or standing on a moving board so as to measure the position of the person's center of pressure of the moving board.
- the person's balance movements are influenced by the frequency, amplitude, cadence and the geometry of the dynamic visual pattern, as a natural response to the subject perception of the surrounding space.
- the method according to the invention may be used to measure the effect of a pair of spectacle lenses on body posture stability/instability of a wearer.
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