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US 11,114,083 B2Granted
Anti-snoring apparatus, anti-snoring method, and program
AssigneeMaRI Co., Ltd.
InventorsHirofumi Taki, Rodrigo Bornhausen-Demarch, Yizhe Wu, Rie Tomizawa
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Abstract
An anti-snoring apparatus including a low frequency sound generating device that applies a low frequency sound to a subject producing a snoring sound, and a controller including circuitry that converts the snoring sound to a received signal, obtain snoring sound information from the received signal, process the snoring sound information such that an impact of the snoring sound is determined based on the snoring sound information, and cause the low frequency sound generating device to apply the low frequency sound to the subject when the impact is higher than a threshold.
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An anti-snoring apparatus, comprising:
- a low frequency sound generating device configured to apply a low frequency sound to a subject producing a snoring sound;
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- a controller comprising circuitry configured to convert the snoring sound to a received signal comprising an electrical signal, obtain snoring sound information from the received signal, process the snoring sound information such that an impact comprising sound pressure of the snoring sound is determined based on the snoring sound information, and cause the low frequency sound generating device to apply the low frequency sound to the subject when the impact is higher than a threshold such that the low frequency sound generating device applies the low frequency sound under constraint of unawareness of a low frequency sound radiation to the subject.
An anti-snoring apparatus, comprising:
- a first sound generator-canceller configured to apply a first low frequency sound to a first subject,
- a second sound generator-canceller configured to apply a second low frequency sound to a second subject next to the first subject;
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- a controller comprising circuitry configured to detect whether the first or second subject produces snoring sound, convert the snoring sound to a received signal comprising an electrical signal, obtain snoring sound information from the received signal, process the snoring sound information such that an impact comprising sound pressure of the snoring sound is determined based on the snoring sound information, cause one of the first and second sound generator-cancellers to apply a respective one of the first and second low frequency sounds to a respective one of the first and second subjects when the impact is higher than a threshold such that the one of the first and second sound generator-cancellers applies the respective one of the first and second low frequency sounds under constraint of unawareness of a respective one of first and second low frequency sound radiations to the respective one of the first and second subjects, and cause the other one of the first and second sound generator-cancellers to apply the other one of the first and second low frequency sounds that suppresses the impact of the snoring sound to the other one of the first and second subjects.
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An anti-snoring apparatus, comprising:
- a stimulation device configured to apply a stimulation to a first subject producing a snoring sound;
- a noise-canceling device configured to apply to a second subject next to the first subject a sound that cancels the snoring sound;
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- a controller comprising circuitry configured to convert the snoring sound to a received signal comprising an electrical signal, obtain snoring sound information from the received signal, process the snoring sound information such that an impact comprising sound pressure of the snoring sound is determined based on the snoring sound information, cause the stimulation device to apply the stimulation to the first subject when the impact is higher than a threshold such that the stimulation device applies the stimulation under constraint of unawareness of a stimulation generation to the first subject, and cause the noise-canceling device to apply to the second subject the sound that cancels the snoring sound.
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An anti-snoring method, comprising:
- converting a snoring sound produced by a subject to a received signal comprising an electrical signal;
- obtaining snoring sound information from the received signal;
- processing the snoring sound information such that an impact comprising sound pressure of the snoring sound is determined based on the snoring sound information;
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- applying a low frequency sound to the subject when the impact is higher than a threshold such that the low frequency sound under constraint of unawareness of a low frequency sound radiation is applied to the subject.
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An anti-snoring method, comprising:
- detecting whether a first subject or a second subject next to the first subject produces snoring sound;
- converting the snoring sound to a received signal comprising an electrical signal;
- obtaining snoring sound information from the received signal;
- processing the snoring sound information such that an impact comprising sound pressure of the snoring sound is determined based on the snoring sound information;
- applying one of a first low frequency sound and a second low frequency sound to a respective one of the first and second subjects when the impact is higher than a threshold such that the respective one of the first and second low frequency sounds under constraint of unawareness of a respective one of first and second low frequency sound radiations is applied to the respective one of the first and second subjects;
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- applying the other one of the first and second low frequency sounds that suppresses the impact of the snoring sound to the other one of the first and second subjects.
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An anti-snoring method, comprising:
- converting a snoring sound to a received signal comprising an electrical signal;
- obtaining snoring sound information from the received signal;
- processing the snoring sound information such that an impact comprising sound pressure of the snoring sound is determined based on the snoring sound information;
- applying a stimulation to a first subject when the impact is higher than a threshold such that the stimulation under constraint of unawareness of a stimulation generation is applied to the first subject;
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- applying to a second subject next to the first subject a sound that cancels the snoring sound.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program that when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute an anti-snoring method, comprising:
- converting a snoring sound produced by a subject to a received signal comprising an electrical signal;
- obtaining snoring sound information from the received signal;
- processing the snoring sound information such that an impact comprising sound pressure of the snoring sound is determined based on the snoring sound information;
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- applying a low frequency sound to the subject when the impact is higher than a threshold such that the low frequency sound under constraint of unawareness of a low frequency sound radiation is applied to the subject.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.