National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Incorporated

Amami Kato

Hideo Eda

Masayuki Hirata

Toshiki Yoshimine

Toshio Yanagida

Masaaki Taniguchi

Yasushi Terazono

Takahito Baba

An interface device in accordance with the present claimed invention is an interface devicethat intervenes between a measuring meansthat measures brain activities of a subject H and an objectto be controlled, and that comprises a reference signal storing part Dthat stores a brain activity signal measured at a time when the subject H conducts predetermined thinking different from direct thinking in order to control the objectto be controlled in a desired mode as a reference signal, a discriminating partthat compares the brain activity signal measured by the measuring meanswith the reference signal and discriminates whether or not the thinking of the subject H is the predetermined thinking, and a controlling partthat controls the objectto be controlled in the desired mode when the discriminating partdiscriminates that the thinking of the subject H is the predetermined thinking.

Interface device, interface method and control training device by the use of the interface device

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Suita, Japan

Amami Kato