# US 2022/0031233 A1 · Electronic device for evaluating sleep quality and method for operation in the electronic device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2022/0031233 A1 - Document ID: US20220031233A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/387,021 - Filed: 2021-07-28 - Published: 2022-02-03 - Earliest claimed: 2020-07-31 - Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Jeongyup HAN; Younhee LEE; Yumi PARK - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20220031233A1 ## CPC - A61B 5/4815: {Sleep quality} - A61B 5/0004: {characterised by the type of physiological signal transmitted} - A61B 5/02405: {Determining heart rate variability} - A61B 5/11: Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor or mobility of a limb {(A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721)} - A61B 5/1118: {Determining activity level} - A61B 5/4812: {Detecting sleep stages or cycles} - A61B 5/681: {Wristwatch-type devices} - A61B 5/742: {using visual displays (displays for heart-related electrical signals, e.g. ECG, A61B5/339)} - A61B 5/7435: {Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface} - A61B 5/318: Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG] - A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D) ## Abstract Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device for evaluating the quality of sleep and a method for operating the same. According to an embodiment, an electronic device comprises: a sensor module including at least one sensor, a memory, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to: obtain, from an external electronic device, sleep-related information detected by the external electronic device while a user is sleeping, analyze a sleep state of the user based on the sleep-related information, identify at least one sleep cycle based on sleep state information obtained by analysis of the sleep state, evaluate a sleep quality corresponding to a first sleep cycle among at least one sleep cycle based on the sleep state information and designated condition information, obtain result information based on the evaluation of the sleep quality, and store the result information in the memory. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electronic device, comprising: a memory; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: obtain, from an external electronic device, sleep-related information detected by the external electronic device while a user is sleeping; analyze a sleep state of the user based on the sleep-related information; identify at least one sleep cycle based on sleep state information obtained by analysis of the sleep state; evaluate a sleep quality corresponding to a first sleep cycle among at least one sleep cycle based on the sleep state information and designated condition information; obtain result information based on the evaluation of the sleep quality; and store the result information in the memory. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a display, wherein the at least one processor is configured to control the display to display the result information based on the evaluation of the sleep quality. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first sleep cycle includes a sleep cycle first identified after a sleep onset of the user is identified, wherein the sleep-related information includes movement information of the user detected during sleep and biometric information detected during sleep, and wherein the biometric information includes heart rate information and heart rate variability information. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the sleep state information includes at least one of a total sleep time, sleep stage-related information, or information related to the at least one sleep cycle, and wherein the sleep stage-related information includes a first sleep stage indicating an awakening during sleep, a second sleep stage indicating light non-rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, a third sleep stage indicating deep non-REM sleep, and a fourth sleep stage indicating REM sleep. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the designated condition information includes designated evaluation conditions in a table stored in the memory, and wherein the evaluation conditions include at least one of a time of a third sleep stage in a first sleep cycle, a rate of the third sleep stage in a total sleep time, a number of sleep cycles in the total sleep time, the total sleep time, a time of the first sleep cycle, an awake time in a first sleep stage, a time of movement after sleep onset in the first sleep stage, a rate of the movement after sleep onset in the total sleep time, an awake time in the first sleep cycle, or an awake rate in the total sleep time. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The electronic device of claim 5, wherein each of the evaluation conditions includes reference elements to which designated scores are mapped, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to: obtain evaluation values for evaluating the sleep quality, individually corresponding to the evaluation conditions, from the sleep state information; obtain scores of the evaluation values based on the reference elements included in each evaluation condition; and calculate a sleep score, as the result information, using the obtained scores. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the result information includes at least one of a sleep score, the analyzed sleep state information, history information for the sleep, sleep stage-related information, and sleep cycle-related information. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a communication module comprising communication circuitry, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: receive the sleep-related information from the external electronic device through the communication module; and transmit the result information to the external electronic device through the communication module. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: identify a sleep onset of the user based on movement information of the user; obtain the movement information of the user during a sleep time of the user based on the sleep onset being confirmed after a designated time; identify the sleep offset of the user based on the movement information of the user obtained during the sleep time; and evaluate the sleep quality based on the sleep offset being confirmed after a designated time. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is configured to identify a next sleep onset based on the movement information of the user obtained during a wake-up time of the user based on the sleep offset being confirmed after the designated time. ### Claim 11 A method of operating an electronic device, the method comprising: obtaining, from an external electronic device, sleep-related information detected by the external electronic device while a user is sleeping; analyzing a sleep state of the user based on the sleep-related information; identifying at least one sleep cycle based on sleep state information obtained by analysis of the sleep state; evaluating a sleep quality corresponding to a first sleep cycle among at least one sleep cycle based on the sleep state information and designated condition information; obtaining result information based on the evaluation of the sleep quality; and storing the result information in a memory of the electronic device. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11, further comprising: controlling a display of the electronic device to display the result information based on the evaluation of the sleep quality, wherein the result information includes at least one of a sleep score, the analyzed sleep state information, history information for the sleep, sleep stage-related information, and sleep cycle-related information. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11, wherein the first sleep cycle includes a sleep cycle first identified after a sleep onset of the user is identified, wherein the sleep-related information includes movement information of the user detected during sleep and biometric information detected during sleep, and wherein the biometric information includes heart rate information and heart rate variability information. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11, wherein the sleep state information includes at least one of a total sleep time, sleep stage-related information, or information related to the at least one sleep cycle, and wherein the sleep stage-related information includes a first sleep stage indicating an awakening during sleep, a second sleep stage indicating light non-rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, a third sleep stage indicating deep non-REM sleep, and a fourth sleep stage indicating REM sleep. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11, wherein the designated condition information includes designated evaluation conditions in a table stored in the memory of the electronic device, and wherein the evaluation conditions include at least one of a time of a third sleep stage in a first sleep cycle, a rate of the third sleep stage in a total sleep time, a number of sleep cycles in the total sleep time, the total sleep time, a time of the first sleep cycle, an awake time in a first sleep stage, a time of movement after sleep onset in the first sleep stage, a rate of the movement after sleep onset in the total sleep time, an awake time in the first sleep cycle, or an awake rate in the total sleep time. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein each of the evaluation conditions includes reference elements to which designated scores are mapped, and wherein the method further comprises: obtaining evaluation values for evaluating the sleep quality, individually corresponding to the evaluation conditions, from the sleep state information; obtaining scores of the evaluation values based on the reference elements included in each evaluation condition; and calculating a sleep score, as the result information, using the obtained scores. ### Claim 17 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11, further comprising: transmitting the result information to the external electronic device through a communication module of the electronic device. ### Claim 18 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11, further comprising: identifying a sleep onset of the user based on movement information of the user; obtaining the movement information of the user during sleep time of the user based on the sleep onset being confirmed after a designated time; and identifying the sleep offset of the user based on the movement information of the user obtained during the sleep time, wherein evaluating the sleep quality is performed based on the sleep offset being confirmed after a designated time. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18, further comprising identifying a next sleep onset based on the movement information of the user obtained during a wake-up time of the user based on the sleep offset being confirmed after the designated time. ### Claim 20 A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program which, executed by a processor of an electronic device, causes the electronic device to: obtain, from an external electronic device, sleep-related information detected by the external electronic device while a user is sleeping; analyze a sleep state of the user based on the sleep-related information; identify at least one sleep cycle based on sleep state information obtained by analysis of the sleep state; evaluate a sleep quality corresponding to a first sleep cycle among at least one sleep cycle based on the sleep state information and designated condition information; obtain result information based on the evaluation of the sleep quality; and store the result information in a memory of the electronic device.