METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SLEEP POSTURE CORRECTION
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1. As sleep posture alerting apparatus, comprising:
- an electronic control unit;
a body posture detecting sensor operatively connected to the control unit for detecting a posture of a person'"'"'s body; and
an alarming device connected to the control unit,wherein the sleep posture operatively alerting device has a normal operational mode, in which when the posture of the body detected by the body posture detecting sensor exits a predefined posture range the control unit sends an alarm signal to the alarm device, and the alarming device generates an alarm based on the signal and signal received from the control unit to alert said person, wherein the control unit is programmed to send an alarm signal to the alarming device only in a part of the occasions where a sleep posture out of the predetermined body posture range is detected.
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Abstract
In a sleep posture alerting method or an apparatus therefor, the sleep posture of a person is detected and the person is automatically alerted by an alerting device when the sleep posture is out of a predetermined body posture range. However, the alerting of the person is provided only in part of the occasions, when his/her body posture is out of the predefined body posture range.
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1. As sleep posture alerting apparatus, comprising:
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an electronic control unit; a body posture detecting sensor operatively connected to the control unit for detecting a posture of a person'"'"'s body; and an alarming device connected to the control unit, wherein the sleep posture operatively alerting device has a normal operational mode, in which when the posture of the body detected by the body posture detecting sensor exits a predefined posture range the control unit sends an alarm signal to the alarm device, and the alarming device generates an alarm based on the signal and signal received from the control unit to alert said person, wherein the control unit is programmed to send an alarm signal to the alarming device only in a part of the occasions where a sleep posture out of the predetermined body posture range is detected. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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13. A sleep posture alerting method, wherein a sleep posture of a person is detected and wherein the person is automatically alerted by an alerting device when the sleep posture is out of a predetermined body posture range, wherein a sleep stage of the person is detected and wherein when it is detect that that the person is in a lighter sleep stage the detection of the sleep posture or the alerting of the person is activated such that, in the event that his/her body posture is out of the predefined body posture range, the person is alerted.
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15. A Sleep posture alerting apparatus, comprising:
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an electronic control unit; a body posture detecting sensor operatively connected to the control unit for detecting a posture of a person'"'"'s body; and an alarming device operatively connected to the control unit, wherein the sleep posture alerting device has a normal operational mode, in which when the posture of the body detected by the body posture detecting sensor exits a predefined posture range the control unit sends an alarm signal to the alarm device, and the alarming device generates an alarm based on the signal received from the control unit, to alert said person, wherein the apparatus comprises a sleep stage detecting sensor connected to the control unit, and wherein the control unit programmed to determine a specific sleep stage of the person based on a signal of the sleep stage detecting sensor;
whereby when the apparatus is in the normal operational mode the control unit sends an alarm signal to the alarming device, only when it is determined that the sleep stage is a lighter sleep stage. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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- 23. A sleep posture alerting method, wherein a sleep posture of a person is detected and wherein the person is automatically alerted by an alerting device when the sleep posture is out of a predetermined body posture range, wherein the alert is given only in a part of the occasions where a sleep posture out of the predetermined body posture range is detected.
- 38. A sleep posture alerting method, wherein a sleep posture of a person is detected and wherein the person is automatically alerted by an alerting device when the sleep posture is out of a predetermined body posture range, wherein a sleep stage of the person is detected and wherein when it is detected that the person is in a lighter sleep stage the detection of the sleep posture or the alerting of the person is activated such that, in the event that his/her body posture is out of the predefined body posture range, the person is alerted.
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