Apparatus and method for mitigating the effects of travel lag via color palette transitions in a virtual sky projected in a digital space
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Synapcis, Inc.Synapcis is a stealth startup building non-invasive neuroscience technology to optimize and extend human performance.
Synapcis is a stealth startup building non-invasive neuroscience technology to optimize and extend human performance.
Publication Number
US-12097331-B2
Publication Date
2024-09-24
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Abstract
A method includes initiating an accelerated daily light and darkness cycle experience at a first color palette position within the accelerated daily light and darkness cycle that corresponds to a current time at a destination geographic location that a user will travel to. The accelerated daily light and darkness cycle experience is executed at a second color palette position within the accelerated daily light and darkness cycle that corresponds to the current time at the destination geographic location of the user. The accelerated daily light and darkness cycle is less than six minutes and includes projecting a dark virtual sky in a digital space, transitioning the dark virtual sky to a dawn virtual sky in the digital space, altering the dawn virtual sky to introduce a daytime virtual sky in the digital space and modifying the daytime virtual sky to produce a dusk virtual sky in the digital space.
Core Innovation
The invention produces an accelerated, compressed day‑night cycle in a digital space by projecting a virtual sky and performing rapid color‑palette transitions from dark to dawn to day to dusk in less than six minutes mapped to a destination time. The experience requires the user to fixate on a gaze point that undergoes cyclical size and visibility changes and may substitute or augment visual stimuli with auditory or vibratory inputs.
The invention addresses misaligned circadian rhythms and seeks to provide rapid circadian reset and mitigation of jet lag, travel lag, and space lag by chronosynchronization. The patent states aims of cognitive clarity linked to blood–brain barrier and glymphatic effects and configurable platform‑ and planet‑specific day‑night cycles. The method maps the accelerated cycle to a destination geographic location to align the user's internal clocks.
Claims Coverage
The independent claim defines four main inventive features related to an accelerated daily light and darkness cycle implemented in a digital space and mapped to a destination geographic time.
Accelerated daily light and darkness cycle mapped to destination current time
Initiating an accelerated daily light and darkness cycle experience at a first color palette position within the accelerated daily light and darkness cycle that corresponds to a current time at a destination geographic location that a user will travel to and executing the accelerated daily light and darkness cycle experience at a second color palette position within the accelerated daily light and darkness cycle that corresponds to the current time at the destination geographic location of the user.
Virtual sky transitions via color palette
Projecting a dark virtual sky in a digital space, transitioning the dark virtual sky to a dawn virtual sky in the digital space, altering the dawn virtual sky to introduce a daytime virtual sky in the digital space, and modifying the daytime virtual sky to produce a dusk virtual sky in the digital space, wherein projecting, transitioning, altering and modifying are performed via color palette transitions in the digital space.
Completion of transitions in less than six minutes
Performing the color palette transitions that produce the projected, transitioned, altered and modified virtual skies in a time period of less than six minutes.
Color palette transitions as proportional segments of a twenty-four hour day
Configuring the color palette transitions to be 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.
The independent claim centers on an accelerated, destination‑mapped virtual sky experience implemented by rapid color palette transitions that reproduce dark→dawn→day→dusk in under six minutes and that represent proportional segments of a twenty‑four hour day.
Stated Advantages
Rapid circadian reset
Mitigation of jet lag, travel lag, and space lag
Cognitive clarity linked to blood–brain barrier and glymphatic effects
Configurable platform‑ and planet‑specific day‑night cycles
Documented Applications
Head‑mounted devices (VR/AR/MR)
Multiple, circular, or panoramic displays
Room lighting installations
Vehicle or spacecraft installations
Virtual sky projection module (server/client implementation)
Mapping accelerated day‑night cycles to destination time and latitude/longitude for travel chronosynchronization
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