Apparatus and method for facilitating cognitive clarity via color palette transitions in a virtual sky projected in a digital space with a gaze point experiencing cyclical size changes

Inventors

Moskowitz, Michael H. • West, Glen

Abstract

A method includes projecting a dark virtual sky in a digital space. The dark virtual sky is transitioned to a dawn virtual sky in the digital space. The dawn virtual sky is altered to introduce a daytime virtual sky in the digital space. The daytime virtual sky is modified to produce a dusk virtual sky in the digital space. These operations are performed via color palette transitions in the virtual sky in the digital space in a time period of less than six minutes. The color palette transitions are in proportional time segments of a twenty-four hour day punctuated by periods of light and darkness of variable length corresponding to the revolution of the earth around the sun. A gaze point is formed in the digital space. The gaze point experiences size changes between a minimum size and a maximum size during a gaze point size change cycle. The gaze point size change cycle is repeated throughout the time period of less than six minutes.

Core Innovation

The invention compresses a twenty-four hour day–night sky cycle into a digital-space animation of less than six minutes by performing proportional color-palette transitions that project a dark virtual sky, transition to a dawn virtual sky, introduce a daytime virtual sky, and modify to a dusk virtual sky in the digital space. A gaze point in the digital space repeatedly oscillates in size between a minimum and a maximum during the time period.

The invention addresses desynchronization of circadian rhythms by providing rapid chronosynchronization to reset circadian rhythms and mitigate jet lag, shift–work and spaceflight asynchrony. It also targets improvements in cognitive clarity and relief of "brain fog" and seeks to promote glymphatic and blood–brain–barrier effects via synesthetic entrainment, with implementations including head-mounted devices, client-server modules, and projection into rooms or vehicle or spacecraft environments.

Claims Coverage

Overview: one independent claim defines three main inventive features.

The independent claim combines proportional color-palette transitions that compress a twenty-four hour sky sequence into less than six minutes, sequenced virtual sky stages (dark, dawn, day, dusk) in a digital space, and a gaze point that repeatedly changes size throughout the compressed time period.

Stated Advantages

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