Sleep and environment control method and system

1. A sleep modification method comprising:

gathering environmental data during a sleep by a person and sleep data during a sleep by the person wherein the sleep data is useful to generate an objective measure of sleep quality;

receiving a subjective measure of sleep quality from the person after the sleep;

creating a sleep quality index from the objective measure of sleep quality and subjective measure of sleep quality;

correlating the sleep quality index and a current set of sleep system settings with a historical sleep quality index and corresponding historical sleep system settings wherein the sleep system settings are capable of affecting the environment; and

modifying the current set of sleep system settings depending on the correlation between the sleep quality index and the historic sleep quality index.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein gathering sleep data from the person and environmental data further includes contributing the sleep data and environmental data along with one or more corresponding sleep system settings into a sleep repository.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the sleep repository is a local database having historical information from the sleep of the person along with corresponding environmental data from the environment associated with the person.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the sleep repository is a global database having historical sleep data from the sleep of the person and one or more other people along with corresponding environmental data from the environment associated with the person and the one or more other people.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the subjective measure of sleep quality from the person includes one or more factors selected from a set of factors including: body comfort, stress level on wakeup, stress level to sleep, perceived somnolence during day, recall of dreams, frequency of wakeups recalled, perceived time to fall asleep, perceived sleep inertia after waking up and overall perception of sleep quality.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the objective measure of sleep quality includes one or more factors selected from a set of factors including: sleep inertia after waking up, sleep debt accumulation, architecture of sleep phases, breathing quality, sleep efficiency, duration of wakeups during sleep time, actual frequency of wakeups, sleep onset time, wake-up time, and total sleeping time and actual time taken to fall asleep.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the sleep quality index is a weighted combination of the objective measure of sleep quality and the subjective measure of sleep quality.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical sleep quality index and corresponding historical sleep system settings are derived from one or more previous sleep quality indices and corresponding sleep system settings associated with the person.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical sleep quality index and corresponding historical sleep system settings are derived from one or more previous sleep quality indices and corresponding sleep system settings associated with the person and one or more other people providing sleep data and corresponding environmental data.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein correlating the sleep quality index and the current sleep system settings with the historical sleep quality index and corresponding historical sleep system settings farther comprises:

performing sleep trend analysis on historical sleep data from the person and historical environmental data to update sleep quality indices and expected sleep system settings; and

mining historical sleep data and historical environment data for suggested sleep system settings in view of person's desired sleep quality index and sleep goals.

11. A system for sleep analysis and modification, comprising:

a set of sleep repository databases accessible over a network and connected to one or more computer systems;

a sleep trend analysis computer system capable of analyzing trends from the data on the set of sleep repository databases and generating sleep quality indices and corresponding expected sleep system settings; and

a network that provides the expected sleep system settings to one or more sleep systems for one or more people depending on each person's goals during sleep.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the set of sleep repository databases include one or more datasets selected from a set of datasets including:

sleep data from one or more people, environmental data gathered during the sleep of one or more people, body data from one or more people, and corresponding sleep system settings that affected the environment before during and after a sleep.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein each of the one or more sleep systems have one or more body and sleep sensors capable of gathering sleep data from a person and one or more environmental sensors capable of gathering environmental data during a sleep by the person.

14. The system of claim 12 where each of the one or more sleep systems has one or more controls for altering an environment associated with a person and responsive to the one or more corresponding sleep system settings generated by the sleep trend analysis computer system.

15. A sleep system comprising:

a set of one or more sensors capable of gathering sleep data from a person and environmental data during a sleep by the person useful to generate an objective measure of sleep quality;

a processor capable of executing instructions used in the analysis and control of the sleep of the person and the environment surrounding the person;

a memory capable of holding instructions when executed generate an objective measure of sleep quality from the sleep data from the person along with gathering environmental data during the sleep by the person, obtain a subjective measure of sleep quality from the person after the sleep, create a sleep quality index from the objective measure of sleep quality and subjective measure of sleep quality, correlate the sleep quality index and a current set of sleep system settings with a historical sleep quality index and corresponding historical sleep system settings, modify the current set of sleep system settings depending on the correlation between the sleep quality index and the historic sleep quality index; and

a set of controls capable of changing one or more different elements of an environment associated with the sleep system in response to both the modified set of sleep system settings.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the set of one or more sensors includes one or more sensors selected from a set of sensors including: a respiration sensor, a heartbeat sensor, a movement sensor, miscellaneous body sensors, an air sensor, a light sensor, a sound sensor, a temperature sensor and miscellaneous environment sensors.

17. The system of claim 15 wherein the subjective measure of sleep quality from the person includes one or more factors selected from a set of factors including: body comfort, stress level on wakeup, stress level to sleep, perceived somnolence during day, recall of dreams, frequency of wakeups recalled, perceived time to fall asleep, perceived sleep inertia after waking up and overall perception of sleep quality.

18. The system of claim 15 wherein the objective measure of sleep quality includes one or more factors selected from a set of factors including: sleep inertia after waking up, sleep debt accumulation, architecture of sleep phases, breathing quality, sleep efficiency, duration of wakeups during sleep time, actual frequency of wakeups, sleep onset time, wake-up time, total sleeping time and actual time taken to fall asleep.

19. The system of claim 15 wherein the historical sleep quality index and corresponding historical sleep system settings are derived from one or more previous sleep quality indices and corresponding sleep system settings associated with the person.

20. The system of claim 15 wherein the historical sleep quality index and corresponding historical sleep system settings are derived from one or more previous sleep quality indices and corresponding sleep system settings associated with the person and one or more other people providing sleep data and corresponding environmental data.

21. The system of claim 15 wherein the instructions that correlate the sleep quality index and the current sleep system settings with the historical sleep quality index and corresponding historical sleep system settings further comprise instructions that:

perform sleep trend analysis on historical sleep data from the person and historical environmental data to update sleep quality indices and expected sleep system settings; and

mine historical sleep data and historical environment data for suggested sleep system settings in view of person's desired sleep quality index and sleep goals.

22. The system of claim 15 wherein the one or more different elements of an environment are selected from a set of different elements including: light, temperature, air, sound and vibration.