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Method of analyzing sleep disorders

  • US 5,671,733 A
  • Filed: 04/21/1994
  • Issued: 09/30/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of detecting and analyzing sleep disorders comprising the steps of:

  • monitoring sound produced by a sleeping subject through a sensor proximate the sleeping subject;

    continuously recording the monitored sound;

    identifying snoring within the recorded sound;

    analyzing the identified snoring to locate upper airway structural sources generating the snoring; and

    identifying a soft palate of the sleeping subject as the source of the snoring and as a velum snore when the snoring is substantially of a fundamental frequency between a lower and upper threshold and harmonics of the fundamental frequency.

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