US 2025/0062734 A1 · Method and Apparatus for Monitoring Nasal Breathing

Abstract

This disclosure is directed to a nasal breathing monitoring system with a sensor (e.g., an ultrasonic transducer or microphone) to be placed on or near the outside of the user's nose and record a signal corresponding to the user's nasal breathing. The recorded breathing signal may be digitized and analyzed, e.g., based on its spectral characteristics, in order to determine one or more breathing characteristics of the user's breathing. The system may then adjust some system parameter based on the determined one or more breathing characteristics, e.g., a signal gain, a filter, feedback to the user, etc. The system may also use the one or more breathing characteristics to: recognize a particular user's identity, present a breathing exercise to a user, tailor particular user feedback, or compare the user's breathing characteristics to historical breathing data for the user and/or historical breathing data from other users obtained via an anonymized database.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

at least one sensor configured to record a signal corresponding to nasal breathing of a user of the system;
one or more processors;
and
one or more computer readable media comprising computer code executable by the one or more processors to:
receive the signal corresponding to nasal breathing;
determine, based on an analysis of the received signal, a characteristic of the nasal breathing;
identify, based on the characteristic of the nasal breathing, an identity of the user of the system;
and
adjust, based on the characteristic of the nasal breathing and the identity of the user of the system, a parameter of the system related to the processing of signals corresponding to nasal breathing.

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Method and Apparatus for Monitoring Nasal Breathing

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