Methods of Identifying Sleep & Waking Patterns and Uses
OwnerPhilip Lowinventor
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Abstract
Traditional analysis of sleep patterns requires several channels of data. This analysis can be useful for customized analysis including assessing sleep quality, detecting pathological conditions, determining the effect of medication on sleep states and identifying biomarkers, and drug dosages or reactions.
Claims27
A method to assess brain stages in animals comprising:
- attaching at least a single electrode to animal;
- obtaining data indicative of brainwave activity;
- analyzing said data indicative of brain activity;
- and
- determining at least one parameter indicative of sleep state from said analyzing.
A method to assess brain stages in animals comprising the steps of:
- normalizing the spectrogram at least once, time over frequency;
- normalizing the spectrogram at least once, frequency over time;
- and
- determining at least one parameter indicative of sleep state from said analyzing.
A non invasive system to obtain and classify brain waves in animals comprising:
- receiving means to obtain data indicative of brain wave activity;
- a computing means to analyze said data indicative of brain wave activity;
- and a processor to determine at least one parameter indicative of sleep or waking state from said analyzing.
A method for determining sleep states in a subject over a period of time comprising;
- receiving data indicative of brain activity for a animal over a period of time;
- analyzing said data indicative of brain activity;
- and classifying said data based on sleep state.
An automated system and method to measure the effects of drug consumption of an animal comprising the steps of:
- obtain sleep parameters for an untreated animal;
- map said sleep parameters for an untreated animal;
- obtain sleep parameters for a treated animal;
- map said sleep parameters for treated animal;
- and
- compare said parameters for untreated animal to said parameters for treated animal.
An automated system and method to determine pathological conditions of an animal comprising the steps of:
- obtain sleep parameters for a healthy animal;
- map said sleep parameters for a healthy animal;
- obtain sleep parameters on an abnormal animal;
- map said sleep parameters for abnormal animal;
- and
- compare said parameters for healthy animal to said parameters for abnormal animal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.