Application US20200038624

Audio Tone Programmed Hygienic and Therapeutic Sleep and Wake Eye Mask Having Remotely Controlled Sunrise and Sunset Multimodes
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US20200038624

1. A therapeutic sleep and wake eye mask that provides simulated sunrise and sunset multimodes to assimilate the sleep/wake cycle to the natural rhythm of the day/night cycle, comprising: (4) (4)

a member fashioned of any suitable flexible material comfortable enough to be worn about the head of a user and fashioned to comfortably seat against the face over the eyes of a wearer that includes walls defining light-tight left and right eye cavities;

an electro-optical module carried by said member that includes an electronics module including a user input interface, a controller and a source of light cooperative to provide illumination of the left and right eye cavities in accord with user input sunrise and sunset mode selection and start time and sequence length selection;

wherein said mode selected is a sunrise mode that fills said left and right cavities with sunrise illumination that fills said left and right cavities with increasing magnitude light having blue-shifted spectra of physiologically effective intensity to simulate a natural sunrise that signals the brain that the sun has risen and the body should prepare for daytime starting at a time and lasting for a duration that corresponds to a desired wake-up time sequence; and

wherein said mode selected is a sunset mode that fills said left and right cavities with sunset illumination that fills said left and right cavities with decreasing magnitude light having red-shifted spectra of physiologically effective intensity to simulate a natural sunset that signals the brain that the sun is setting and the body should prepare for evening and sleep lasting for a duration that corresponds to a desired sleep sequence.

2. The therapeutic sleep and wake eye mask of claim 1, wherein said sunrise illumination that fills said left and right cavities with increasing magnitude light having blue-shifted spectra oscillates with a constant period corresponding to the brainwave frequency of someone who is waking up or is awake or is alert, starting at a time and lasting for a duration that corresponds to a desired wake-up time sequence such that after the passage of a certain time interval, the brainwave frequencies of the user will become more and more entrained to the frequency of the corresponding illumination oscillations, with the result that at some time the desired state will be induced. (0)

3. The therapeutic sleep and wake eye mask of claim 1, wherein said sunrise illumination that fills said left and right cavities with increasing magnitude light having blue-shifted spectra oscillates with a decreasing period corresponding in sequence respectively to the brainwave frequencies of someone who is asleep to someone who is awake or is alert, starting at a time and lasting for a duration that corresponds to a desired wake-up time sequence such that after the passage of a certain time interval, the brainwave frequencies of the user will become more and more entrained to the frequencies of the corresponding illumination oscillations, with the result that at some time the desired states will be induced. (0)

4. The therapeutic sleep and wake eye mask of claim 1, wherein said sunset illumination that fills said left and right cavities with decreasing magnitude light having red-shifted spectra oscillates with a constant period corresponding to the brainwave frequency of someone who is relaxed or is asleep lasting for a duration that corresponds to a desired sleep sequence such that after the passage of a certain time interval, the brainwave frequencies of the user will become more and more entrained to the frequency of the corresponding illumination oscillations, with the result that at some time the desired state will be induced. (0)

5. The therapeutic sleep and wake eye mask of claim 1, wherein said sunset illumination that fills said left and right cavities with decreasing magnitude light having red-shifted spectra oscillates with an increasing period corresponding in sequence respectively to the brainwave frequencies of someone who is relaxed to someone who is asleep, starting at a time and lasting for a duration that corresponds to a desired sleep sequence such that after the passage of a certain time interval, the brainwave frequencies of the user will become more and more entrained to the frequencies of the corresponding illumination oscillations, with the result that at some time the desired states will be induced. (0)

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Application US20200038624

Audio Tone Programmed Hygienic and Therapeutic Sleep and Wake Eye Mask Having Remotely Controlled Sunrise and Sunset Multimodes

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