BRAIN COMPUTER

INTERFACE
(BCI)

Do you think ???

Then
Prepared
By : Think Differently !!!
Hazards of Mobile Communication

 Brain Cell damage due to radiation.

 Increases attention deficiency.
 Causes interference with various other
electromagnetic devices.
 Prone to reliability problems.
 Cost ineffective.
What is Telepathy all about ?

 Telepathy: Telepathy is the direct transference of

thought from one person (sender) to another person
(receiver) without using normal sensory channels
 Synchronous transfer of brain signals between two
people.
 Highly transparent system.
 It is widely believed that in ancient times telepathy
was the major mode of communication.
 An old solution to a new problem,i.e fast
communication.
Telepathy exists ? Yes it does…!!

 Many experiments have been conducted around the

world to prove the existence of telepathy.
 Ex:- Mouse,cats,humans
 Real World Examples…

Case-1

 The Experiment was conducted

using
 UART (Universal Asynchronous
Receiver Transmitter) ,EEG.
 Consider this case in which the
dot was controlled by the brain
signal interface.
 The results were astonishing to
say the least ! The controlling
ability by human was correct to
the tune of 66.66%.
 The encephalographic signal
readings were non-linear and time
variant.
Case 2
 Another interesting case was
critically acclaimed.
 In this case beside us here a
pixel on a VDU was linked to the
Brain Computer Interface.
 The objective was to direct the
dot towards the blinking block.
 The participants found it taxing
and hence the success rate was
approximately 38%.
 But the results were encouraging
enough to justify further research
on telepathy.
 BCI System Design:
 BCI consists of these four modules that communicate with each
other:
 Operator module
 Source module
 Signal Processing module
 User Application module
THE WORKING IS BASED ON AN UNBORN,
NEXT GENERATION CONCEPT WHICH I
NAME AS “TELEPATHY IN MOBILE
COMUNICATION” ( TMC )
Basic System Design
Source Module

 The source module digitizes and stores brain signals

and passes them on without any preprocessing to
signal processing module.
 It consists of a data acquisition and a data storage
component.
 A sample signal format obtained is as follows :
Signal Processing Module

 The signal-processing module converts signals from

the brain into signals that control an output device.
 This conversion has two stages: feature extraction
and feature translation.
 In the first stage, the digitized signal received from
the source module is subjected to procedures that
extract signal features.
 In the second stage, a translation algorithm
translates these signal features into control signals
that are sent to the user application module.
Signal Processing Contd…
 Further in this module new
developments have made it possible
to incorporate pattern matching.
 Various AI based algorithms have
been developed to process the
various brain signals.
 New and advanced filters are being
designed to filter specific
frequencies.
 Working of these algorithms are
analogous to that of T9 dictionary
commonly found in mobiles.
User Application Module

 The user application module receives control signals

from signal processing and uses them to drive an
application.
 User application is presented visually on a computer
screen and consists of the selection of targets,
letters, or icons.
 User feedback could also be auditory or haptic.
Selection is indicated in various ways. Some are
interim output, such as cursor movement toward the
item prior to its selection.
Operator Module

 Operator module acts as a central relay for system.

 The operator module defines the system parameters and the
onset and offset of operation.
 In addition, operator can display information (e.g., a text
message or a signal graph) sent to it from any other module
without needing any prior information about the nature of this
information.
 This allows an investigator to control an experiment and to
receive real-time information about online events (e.g., display
of unprocessed brain signals) using the same operator module,
irrespective of the details of the experiment.
Physical Interface
Platform and system requirements:
requirements

 For the BCI system model, we chose Borland C++ as the

programming language and Microsoft Windows™ 2000/XP as
the operating system because it offers the most auxiliary
components.
 PC configuration 1 was a machine with a 1.4-GHz Athlon
processor, 256 Mb RAM, IDE I/O subsystem, and Data
Translation DT3003 data acquisition board, running Windows
2000.
 PC configuration 2 was a machine with a 2.53-GHz Pentium 4
processor, 1 GB RAM, SCSI I/O subsystem, and National
Instruments NI 6024E data acquisition board, running Windows
XP.
Recent Developments

 This visually challenged person had his

vision partially restored by an artificial
vision system based upon BCI system
design.

•This is a brain chip designed to acquire

and store brain signals (source module).
 Benefits of BCI

 Cost effective.
 Safe and irradiative unlike mobiles.
 TMC is also directly beneficial to users with severe motor
disabilities. It can be configured to use the specific brain signal,
analysis method, application, and protocol that are suited for
each user.
 Deaf and dumb can greatly convenience from TMC as it is
completely non-intrusive unlike hearing aids.
 This system is highly scalable and can be extended to medical
systems.
Limitations

 Not supplementary to existing mobile networks.

 Frequency ranges are quite unpredictable as the
brain signals are specific to individuals.
 Practical implementation is very cumbersome and
error prone.
 Non-portable.
 It presents various misutilization possibilities.