IP Library Granted Patent US 12,433,807
Granted Patent B2
US 12,433,807 · App. 16/233,278 · Granted Oct 7, 2025

Bed having sleep stage detecting feature

Inventors: Omid Sayadi (San Jose, CA); Ramazan Demirli (San Jose, CA)
Assignee: Sleep Number Corporation
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Patent No.
US 12,433,807
App. No.
16/233,278
Granted
Oct 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A first bed includes a first mattress, a first pressure sensor, and a first controller in data communication with the first pressure sensor, the first controller configured to receive pressure readings and to transmit the first pressure readings to a remote server. The system further includes a second bed that includes a second mattress having an inflatable chamber. The system further includes a second pressure sensor in fluid communication with the second mattress inflatable chamber to sense pressure applied to the second mattress of the inflatable chamber. The system further includes a second controller in data communication with the second pressure sensor, the controller configured to receive the one or more sleep-state classifiers and to run the received sleep-state classifiers in order to collect one or more sleep-state votes. The second controller is further configured to determine a sleep-state and operate the bed system according to the determined sleep-state.

Claims (58)

1. A bed system comprising:

a first bed comprising:

a first mattress;

a first pressure sensor in communication with the first mattress to sense pressure applied to the first mattress; and

a first controller in data communication with the first pressure sensor, the first controller configured to:

receive, from the first pressure sensor, first pressure readings indicative of the sensed pressure of the first mattress; and

transmit the first pressure readings to a remote server such that the remote server is able to generate one or more sleep-state classifiers that, when run by a controller on incoming pressure readings, provide a sleep-state vote;

a second bed comprising:

a second mattress;

a second pressure sensor in communication with the second mattress to sense pressure applied to the second mattress; and

a second controller in data communication with the second pressure sensor, the controller configured to:

receive the one or more sleep-state classifiers;

run the received sleep-state classifiers on second pressure readings in order to collect one or more sleep-state votes from the running sleep-state classifiers;

determine, from the one or more sleep-state votes, a sleep-state of a user on the second bed;

responsive to the determined sleep-state, operate the bed system according to the determined sleep-state.

2. The bed system of claim 1 , wherein operating the bed system according to the determined sleep-state comprises one of the list comprising turning on a light, turning off a light, turning on a warming feature, changing bed temperature, changing HVAC temperature, changing firmness of the second mattress, and articulating a foundation of the bed system.

3. The bed system of claim 1 , the bed system further comprising the remote server.

4. The bed system of claim 3 , wherein the remote server is physically remote from the first controller and the second controller; and

wherein the remote server is in data communication with the first controller and the second controller.

5. The bed system of claim 3 , wherein the remote server is configured to:

generate training data from the first pressure data;

generate, from the training data, the one or more sleep-state classifiers; and

send, to the second controller, the one or more sleep-state classifiers.

6. The bed system of claim 5 , wherein generating, from the training data, the one or more sleep-state classifiers comprises:

generating a feature set from the training data;

mapping the training data to a kernel space;

training a classifier with the feature set so that, based on the training data in kernel space, the classifier is able to classify unseen data.

7. The bed system of claim 6 , wherein training a classifier comprises unsupervised training.

8. The bed system of claim 7 , wherein the unsupervised training comprises at least one of the group comprising k-means clustering, mixture modeling, hierarchical clustering, self-organizing mapping, and hidden Markov modelling.

9. The bed system of claim 6 , wherein training a classifier comprises supervised training.

10. The bed system of claim 9 , wherein the supervised training comprises providing the remote server with a set of annotations for the training data.

11. The bed system of claim 10 , wherein the annotations for the training data are provided by a human.

12. The bed system of claim 10 , wherein the annotations for the training data are provided programmatically.

13. The bed system of claim 5 , wherein generating the one or more sleep-state classifiers comprises training a deep learning model on the training data.

14. The bed system of claim 13 , wherein training the deep learning model on the training data comprises generating an initial neural network configured to receive pressure data and generate sleep-state votes.

15. The bed system of claim 14 , wherein the sleep-state vote comprises a sleep-state classification and a confidence value.

16. The bed system of claim 14 , wherein generating the one or more sleep-state classifiers comprises:

determining a loss value for the initial neural network; and

iteratively refining, beginning with the initial neural network, to a final neural network having a lower loss value than the initial neural network.

17. The bed system of claim 16 , wherein the iterative refining is performed with a gradient descent process until a lower loss value cannot be found with the gradient descent process.

18. The bed system of claim 1 , wherein a particular sleep-state classifier is used for multiple users in multiple beds.

19. The bed system of claim 1 , wherein the sleep-state classifiers are personalized for a single user such that the sleep-state classifiers are generated from training data of the single user's use of the bed system and the sleep-state classifiers are used to detect sleep-state of the single user on the second bed.

20. A bed system comprising:

a first bed comprising:

a first mattress;

means for supporting the first mattress;

a first pressure sensor in communication with the first mattress to sense pressure applied to the first mattress; and

a first controller in data communication with the first pressure sensor, the first controller configured to:

receive, from the first pressure sensor, first pressure readings indicative of the sensed pressure of the first mattress; and

transmit the first pressure readings to a remote server such that the remote server is able to generate one or more sleep-state classifiers that, when run by a controller on incoming pressure readings, provide a sleep-state vote;

a second bed comprising:

a second mattress;

a second pressure sensor in communication with the second mattress to sense pressure applied to the second mattress; and

a second controller in data communication with the second pressure sensor, the controller configured to:

receive the one or more sleep-state classifiers;

run the received sleep-state classifiers on second pressure readings in order to collect one or more sleep-state votes from the running sleep-state classifiers;

determine, from the one or more sleep-state votes, a sleep-state of a user on the second bed;

responsive to the determined sleep-state, operate the bed system according to the determined sleep-state.

Assignments (3)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 4, 2025
From: SLEEP NUMBER CORPORATION
To: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 073507/0051 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 2, 2020
From: SAYADI, OMID; DEMIRLI, RAMAZAN
To: SLEEP NUMBER CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053108/0755 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2019
From: SLEEP NUMBER CORPORATION
To: U.S. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 048293/0536 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62611172 · Dec 28, 2017
Related Publication 20190201269A1 · Jul 4, 2019
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