IP Library Granted Patent US 12,396,906
Granted Patent B2
US 12,396,906 · App. 16/233,394 · Granted Aug 26, 2025

Bed having physiological event detecting feature

Inventors: Omid Sayadi (San Jose, CA); Farzad Siyahjani (Santa Clara, CA); Ramazan Demirli (San Jose, CA)
Assignee: Sleep Number Corporation
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Patent No.
US 12,396,906
App. No.
16/233,394
Granted
Aug 26, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A first bed that includes a first mattress, first pressure sensor, first acoustic sensor, and first controller configured to receive first pressure readings and first acoustic readings. The first controller is further configured to transmit the first pressure readings and the first acoustic readings to a remote server. The system further includes a second bed that includes a second mattress, a second pressure sensor, a second acoustic sensor and a second controller configured to run the received physiological event classifiers on second pressure readings and on second acoustic readings in order to collect one or more physiological event votes from the running physiological event classifiers and operate the bed system according to the indicated physiological event.

Claims (67)

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;

a first acoustic sensor placed to sense acoustics from a user on the first mattress;

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

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

receive, from the first acoustic sensor, first acoustic readings indicative of the sensed acoustics from the user; and

transmit the first pressure readings and the first acoustic readings to a remote server such that the remote server is able to generate one or more physiological event classifiers that, when run by a controller on incoming pressure readings and on incoming acoustic readings, provide a physiological event 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;

a second acoustic sensor placed to sense acoustics from a user on the second mattress; and

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

receive the one or more physiological event classifiers;

run the received physiological event classifiers on second pressure readings and on second acoustic readings in order to collect one or more physiological event votes from the running physiological event classifiers;

determine, from the one or more physiological event votes, a physiological event of a user on the second bed;

send, to a remote computing device, the second pressure readings;

receive, from the remote computing device, an indication that the second pressure readings indicate the determined physiological event; and

responsive to receiving the indication, operate the bed system according to the indicated physiological event.

2. The bed system of claim 1 , wherein operating the bed system according to the determined physiological event comprises one of the list comprising turning on a light, turning off a light, turning on a warming feature, changing firmness of the second mattress, begin emitting white-noise, awakening the sleeper, placing a phone call to a contact of the sleeper, placing a phone call to a physician, placing a phone call to emergency services, 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 and from the first acoustic data;

generate, from the training data, the one or more physiological event classifiers; and

send, to the second controller, the one or more physiological event classifiers.

6. The bed system of claim 5 , wherein generating, from the training data, the one or more physiological event 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 1 , wherein a particular physiological event classifier is used for multiple users in multiple beds.

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

15. The bed system of claim 1 , wherein a second set of physiological event classifiers are personalized for a second user such that the second set of physiological event classifiers are generated from training data of the second user's use of the bed system and the second set of physiological event classifiers are used to detect physiological event of the second user on the second bed.

16. The bed system of claim 1 , wherein determining, from the one or more physiological event votes, a physiological event state of a user on the second bed is personalized for a single user such that votes from different classifiers are weighed based on the classifiers historical accuracy for that user.

17. The bed system of claim 1 , wherein the first bed and the second bed are separate beds.

18. The bed system of claim 1 , wherein the first bed and the second bed are the same beds.

19. The bed system of claim 18 , wherein to run the received physiological event classifiers on second pressure readings and on second acoustic readings in order to collect one or more physiological event votes from the running physiological event classifiers, the second controller is configured to run the received physiological event classifiers on a plurality of physiological event classifiers in order to collect one or more physiological event votes from the running physiological event classifiers.

20. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the physiological event classifiers is configured to classify an apnea event using at least cardiac signals determined from at least one of the group consisting of the second pressure readings and the second acoustic readings.

21. 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;

a first acoustic sensor placed to sense acoustics from a user on the first mattress;

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

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

receive, from the first acoustic sensor, first acoustic readings indicative of the sensed acoustics from the user; and

transmit the first pressure readings and the first acoustic readings to a remote server such that the remote server is able to generate one or more physiological event classifiers that, when run by a controller on incoming pressure readings and on incoming acoustic readings, provide a physiological event 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;

a second acoustic sensor placed to sense acoustics from a user on the second mattress; and

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

receive the one or more physiological event classifiers;

run the received physiological event classifiers on second pressure readings and on second acoustic readings in order to collect one or more physiological event votes from the running physiological event classifiers;

determine, from the one or more physiological event votes, a physiological event of a user on the second bed;

send, to a remote computing device, the second pressure readings;

receive, from the remote computing device, an indication that the second pressure readings indicate the determined physiological event; and

responsive to receiving the indication, operate the bed system according to the indicated physiological event.

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 8, 2020
From: SAYADI, OMID; SIYAHJANI, FARZAD; DEMIRLI, RAMAZAN
To: SLEEP NUMBER CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053147/0304 →
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 62613992 · Jan 5, 2018
Related Publication 20190209405A1 · Jul 11, 2019
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