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US 10,945,659 B1Granted
Dual sleep monitor
AssigneeDP Technologies, Inc.
InventorsPhilippe Richard Kahn, Arthur Kinsolving, Mark Andrew Christensen, Venkat Easwar
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Abstract
A method and apparatus to receive data from a dual sleep sensor associated with a sleep surface, and analyzing the data to identify sleep phases of one or more users on the sleep surface. In one embodiment, the dual sleep sensor comprises two or more sensors positioned to enable separation of motion data of a first sleeper and a second sleeper.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- collecting data by a first sleep sensor and a second sleep sensor placed on either side of a sleep surface;
- comparing by a sleep tracker processor the data from the first sleep sensor and the data from the second sleep sensor, to determine whether there is one sleeper or two sleepers on the sleep surface;
- when the sleep tracker processor determines that there is the one sleeper on the sleep surface:
- identifying the data collected by the first sleep sensor as associated with the one sleeper;
- adding the data collected by the second sleep sensor to the data from the first sleep sensor, to produce enhanced data for the one sleeper;
- analyzing the enhanced data to identify the one sleeper's sleep phase;
- when the sleep tracker processor determines that there is a first sleeper and a second sleeper on the sleep surface:
- identifying a first portion of the data collected by the first sleep sensor as data associated with the first sleeper;
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- removing the data associated with the first sleeper from the data collected by the second sleep sensor, to identify a second portion of the data, the second portion of the data associated with the second sleeper;
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- using the first portion of the data to identify the sleep phase of the first sleeper;
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- using a second portion of the data to identify the sleep phase of the second sleeper.
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A sleep tracking system comprising:
- a first in-bed sensor for positioning on a first side of a sleep surface;
- a second in-bed sensor for positioning on a second side of the sleep surface;
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- a sleep tracker processor comprising software to:
- determine a number of sleepers on the sleep surface, wherein the number of sleepers is one or more, based on data from the first in-bed sensor and the second in-bed sensor;
- when the sleep tracker processor identifies a first sleeper and a second sleeper on the sleep surface:
- identify a first portion of the data collected by the first in-bed sensor associated with a first sleeper;
- identify a second portion of the data collected by the second in-bed sensor associated with the second sleeper, and
- remove the data associated with the first sleeper from the data collected by the second in-bed sensor, to identify a sub-portion of the second portion of the data associated with the second sleeper;
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- when the sleep tracker processor determines that the second sleeper is not on the sleep surface, adding the data from the second in-bed sensor to the data from the first in-bed sensor, to create an enhanced data set for the first sleeper.
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A sleep tracking system comprising:
- a first in-bed sensor for positioning at head height for a first sleeper on a first side of a sleep surface;
- a second in-bed sensor for positioning at head height for a second sleeper on a second side of the sleep surface;
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- a sleep tracker comprising software:
- to determine whether there is a second sleeper on the sleep surface;
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- when it is determined that there is a second sleeper on the sleep surface:
- identifying a first portion of the data associated with the first sleeper and a second portion of the data associated with the second sleeper, based on data from the first in-bed sensor and the second in-bed sensor, and
- analyzing the first portion and the second portion of the data to identify a sleep phase for the first sleeper and the second sleeper;
- when the sleep tracker determines that the second sleeper is not on the sleep surface, adding data from the second in-bed sensor to the data from the first in-bed sensor, thereby enhancing the data for the first sleeper from the first sensor with the data collected by the second sensor.
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