SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SLEEP RECOMMENDATIONS USING EARBUDS WITH BIOMETRIC SENSORS

• US 20160051184A1
• Filed: 11/05/2015
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2013
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Logitech Europe S A (Logitech International SA)
• Original Assignee: Jaybird LLC (Logitech Europe S.A)
• Inventors: WISBEY, BEN, SHEPHERD, DAVID, DIESTERBECK, HAGEN, DUDDY, STEPHEN
• Application Number:
  US14/933,978
• Publication Number:
  US 20160051184A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02416 using photoplethysmograph signals, e.g. generated by infrared radiation A61B5/14552 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4815 Sleep quality
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6817 Ear canal
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7221 Determining signal validity, reliability or quality A61B5/7207 and A61B5/7217 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/74 Details of notification to user or communication with user or patient indicating measured values G01D7/00; user input means input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7405 using sound
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing a sleep recommendation include providing a sleep recommendation using an earphone with a biometric sensor. The system includes a preferred sleep determination module that determines a preferred sleep duration. The system also includes a sleep debt module that creates and updates a sleep debt based on the preferred sleep duration and an actual sleep duration. In addition, the system includes a sleep recommendation module that provides a recommended sleep duration based on the sleep debt.

Claims

1. An system for providing a sleep recommendation comprising:

an earphone comprising;

a speaker;

a motion sensor;

a processor communicatively coupled to the motion sensor, wherein the processor is configured to process electronic input signals from the motion sensor; and

a nontransitory computer-readable medium operatively coupled to the processor and having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the system to;

determine a preferred sleep duration;

create and update a sleep debt measure based on the preferred sleep duration and an actual sleep duration; and

provide a recommended sleep duration based on the sleep debt measure.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the preferred sleep duration is based on a set of best sleep durations for a user.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the set of best sleep durations is based on a set of the actual sleep durations.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a sleep reminder module that provides a sleep reminder based on the sleep debt.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the system to provide the sleep reminder when the sleep debt exceeds a sleep debt threshold.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the sleep reminder comprises a notification delivered to an electronic device.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the system to provide the sleep reminder before a preferred bed time.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the preferred sleep duration is based on a needed sleep duration provided by a user.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising an actual sleep determination module that determines the actual sleep duration using an accelerometer.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the nontransitory computer-readable medium and the processor is embedded in the earphone.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a heartrate sensor electrically coupled to the processor of the earphone;

and wherein the processor is configured to process electronic input signals from the motion sensor and the heartrate sensor.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the heartrate sensor is an optical heartrate sensor.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the nontransitory computer-readable medium and the processor resides in a computing device configured to receive data from the earphones through wireless communication.

14. A method for providing a sleep recommendation using an earphone, comprising:

receiving electronic signals generated by a sensor coupled to an earphone;

determining a preferred sleep duration;

determining an actual sleep duration based on the electronic signals received from the sensor;

creating and updating a sleep debt based on the preferred sleep duration and the actual sleep duration; and

providing a recommended sleep duration based on the sleep debt.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the preferred sleep duration is based on a set of best sleep durations for a user.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the set of best sleep durations is based on a set of the actual sleep determinations.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising providing a sleep reminder based on the sleep debt.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein providing the sleep reminder occurs in response to the sleep debt exceeding a sleep debt threshold.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the sleep reminder comprises a notification delivered to an electronic device.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the sleep reminder comprises a notification delivered to a smartphone.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the sleep reminder comprises a notification delivered audibly through a speaker.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein providing the sleep reminder occurs before a preferred bed time.

23. The method of claim 14, wherein the sensor is an accelerometer.

24. The method of claim 14, wherein the sensor is an optical heartrate sensor.

25. The method of claim 14, wherein at least one of the operations of determining the preferred sleep duration, creating and updating the sleep debt, and providing the recommended sleep duration comprises using a sensor coupled to an earphone.

26. A system for providing a sleep recommendation, comprising:

one or more processors; and

at least one computer program residing on one of the one or more processors;

wherein the computer program is stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable program code embodied thereon, the computer executable program code configured to;

determine a preferred sleep duration;

create and update a sleep debt based on the preferred sleep duration and an actual sleep duration; and

provide a recommended sleep duration based on the sleep debt

a display configured to display the recommended sleep duration.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein the actual sleep duration is determined using data received from a sensor coupled to an earphone.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the sensor is an accelerometer.

29. The system of claim 27, wherein the sensor is an optical heartrate sensor.

30. The system of claim 27, wherein the sensor is an optical heartrate sensor protruding from a side of the earphone proximal to an interior side of a user'"'"'s ear when the earphone is worn, and wherein the optical heartrate sensor is configured to measure the user'"'"'s blood oxygenation level and to output an electrical signal representative of this measurement to one of the one or more processors.