IP Library Granted Patent US 11,399,636
Granted Patent B2
US 11,399,636 · App. 16/714,312 · Granted Aug 2, 2022

Bed having environmental sensing and control features

Inventors: Ramazan Demirli (San Jose, CA); Omid Sayadi (San Jose, CA)
Assignee: Sleep Number Corporation
A47C27/082G05B15/02G06F3/015G06F3/017H04L67/125G06F2203/011
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Patent No.
US 11,399,636
App. No.
16/714,312
Granted
Aug 2, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sensor system senses a plurality of environmental phenomena and send a data message with sensed parameters. The computer system determines an indication that the sensed parameter indicated low-quality sleep and sends an instruction to adjust the environment. A control system adjusts the environment without particular input from a user.

Claims (38)

1. A system comprising:

a sensor-system configured to:

sense a plurality of environmental phenomena while a user of a bed is sleeping in a sleep session; and

send, to a computer system, at least one data message with a sensed parameter from the sensing of the environmental phenomena; the computer system configured to:

receive the data messages;

determine, from the sensed parameters, an indication that the sensed parameters likely indicate a low-quality sleep environment based on a model that defines a relationship between historic environmental phenomena and historic sleep sessions, wherein the model is created using a regression analysis of historic environmental phenomena present around the user while the user was in the historic sleep sessions, comprising operations to:

determine, for each sensed parameter, a target parameter using the model;

determine, for each sensed parameter, a distance-from-target value; and

subtract, from a maximum value, a summation of the distance from- target values to represent an overall quality of the environment considering each of the plurality of sensed environmental phenomena based on the model; and

responsive to determining an indication that the sensed parameters indicate a low-quality sleep environment, send, to a controller system, an instruction to adjust the environment; and

the controller system configured to:

receive the instruction to adjust the environment; and

responsive to receiving the instruction to adjust the environment, adjusting the environment while the user is sleeping in the sleep session without particular input from the user at the time of the adjustment to the environment.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein to determine, from the sensed parameters, an indication that the sensed parameters indicate a low-quality sleep environment, the computer system is further configured to:

combine the distance-from-target values to generate an environmental quality score.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein to combine the distance-from-target values to generate an environmental quality score, the computer system is further configured to:

create weighed-distances by weighing each distance-from-target value by a weight-value that represents an influence of the corresponding sensed parameter on sleep quality.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein to determine, from the sensed parameters, an indication that the sensed parameters indicate a low-quality sleep environment, the computer system is further configured to:

determine that the environmental quality score is less than a threshold value.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the environmental phenomena includes at least one of the group consisting of sound, light, temperature, humidity, and air quality.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the regression analysis is a linear regression analysis.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the regression analysis is a machine learning analysis.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the model that defines a relationship between historic environmental phenomena and historic sleep is created using a regression analysis of historic environmental phenomena present around other users, but not the user, while the other users, but not the user, were in the historic sleep sessions.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the regression analysis is a linear regression analysis.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the regression analysis is a machine learning analysis.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the maximum value is 100 in the model to represent a combination of the historical phenomena at which a maximum sleep quality was directly measured in the historic sleep sessions.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the historic sleep sessions predate the sleep session.

13. A computer system comprising memory and one or more processors, the computer system configured to:

receive data messages message with a sensed parameter from sensing of the environmental phenomena while a user of a bed is sleeping in a sleep session; determine, from the sensed parameters, an indication that the sensed parameters likely indicate a low-quality sleep environment based on a model that defines a relationship between historic environmental phenomena and historic sleep sessions, wherein the model is created using a regression analysis of historic environmental phenomena present around the user while the user was in the historic sleep sessions, comprising operations to:

determine, for each sensed parameter, a target parameter using the model;

determine, for each sensed parameter, a distance-from-target value; and

subtract, from a maximum value, a summation of the distance-from-target values to represent an overall quality of the environment considering each of the plurality of sensed environmental phenomena based on the model; and

responsive to determining an indication that the sensed parameters indicate a low-quality sleep environment, send an instruction to adjust the environment to a controller system configured to receive instructions to adjust the environment.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the regression analysis is a linear regression analysis.

15. The system of claim 13 , wherein the regression analysis is a machine learning analysis.

16. The system of claim 13 , wherein the model that defines a relationship between historic environmental phenomena and historic sleep is created using a regression analysis of historic environmental phenomena present around other users, but not the user, while the other users, but not the user, were in the historic sleep sessions.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the regression analysis is a linear regression analysis.

18. The system of claim 16 , wherein the regression analysis is a machine learning analysis.

Assignments (2)
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 Mar 16, 2022
From: DEMIRLI, RAMAZAN; SAYADI, OMID
To: SLEEP NUMBER CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059369/0734 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62830743 · Apr 8, 2019
Related Publication 20200315367A1 · Oct 8, 2020
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