Patents by Inventor David T. Blake

David T. Blake has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6422869
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for improving temporal processing of a first type of information in human is disclosed. The first type of information pertains to one of touch, auditory, and visual. The computer-implemented method includes providing a computer, and providing a stimuli generator coupled to the computer. The stimuli generator providing, responsive to control signals from the computer, first stimuli, the first stimuli being a different one of the touch, auditory, and visual. The computer-implemented method further includes applying the first stimuli from the stimuli generator to the human. The first stimuli are produced around a plurality of time scales to facilitate improvement in the temporal processing of the first type of information around the plurality of time scales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Srikantan Nagarajan, Michael M. Merzenich, David T. Blake, Beverly A. Wright
  • Publication number: 20020061498
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for improving temporal processing of a first type of information in human is disclosed. The first type of information pertains to one of touch, auditory, and visual. The computer-implemented method includes providing a computer, and providing a stimuli generator coupled to the computer. The stimuli generator providing, responsive to control signals from the computer, first stimuli, the first stimuli being a different one of the touch, auditory, and visual. The computer-implemented method further includes applying the first stimuli from the stimuli generator to the human. The first stimuli are produced around a plurality of time scales to facilitate improvement in the temporal processing of the first type of information around the plurality of time scales.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: SRIKANTAN NAGARAJAN, MICHAEL MERZENICH, DAVID T. BLAKE, BEVERLY A. WRIGHT
  • Patent number: 6231344
    Abstract: Computer-implemented perceptual and cognitive training techniques for remediating schizophrenia, either prophylactically prior to the onset of clinically observable schizophrenic behaviors or after the development of schizophrenia symptoms in a person. The computer-implemented behavioral exercises are designed to be sufficiently intensive, both in the number of repetitions and in the attentional focus related to task difficulty, such that permanent changes in neurotransmitter expression are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignees: Scientific Learning Corporation, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Michael M. Merzenich, David T. Blake
  • Patent number: 6165126
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique for remediating depression in a person which includes assessing, using a computer-implemented interactive behavioral assessment regime, a depression index for the person. If the depression index is above a predefined benchmark, the computer-implemented technique includes periodically reassessing the depression index by waiting for at least a predefined period of time, and performing the above assessing step after the predefined period of time expires. If the depression index is below the predefined benchmark, treating the person by administering computer-implemented interactive behavioral training to the person. The computer-implemented interactive behavioral training is sufficiently intensive during each training day to create a permanent change in modulatory functions of neurotransmitters of one of norepinephrine and serotonin in the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignees: Scientific Learning Corporation, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Michael M. Merzenich, David T. Blake