Training child night light

• US 9,930,755 B1
• Filed: 11/02/2016
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hush Buddy LLC
• Original Assignee: Hush Buddy LLC
• Inventors: Hanson, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Philogene, Haissa
• Application Number:
  US15/341,197
• Time in Patent Office: 510 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 11/00 Teaching hand-writing, shorthand, drawing, or painting
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/78 Detection of presence or absence of voice signals switching of direction of transmission by voice frequency in two-way loud-speaking telephone systems H04M9/10
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/12 by detecting audible sound
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/16 by timing means
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device and method of training a child not to cry by providing a light which dims in response to a child crying and turns back on or brightens when the child stops crying.

Claims

1. A night light for use in sleep training a child who sleeps with the night light on comprising:

a) a light dimming circuit;

b) an audio sensor designed to detect the sound of the child; and

c) a connecting circuit for using the dimming circuit to dim the light when the audio sensor detects the child sound and turning the light up after a period of time when no child sound is sensed by the audio sensor.

2. The light according to claim 1 wherein the audio sensor is trained to detect a particular child'"'"'s sound.

3. The light according to claim 1 wherein the dimming circuit dims the light in steps, including turning the light off.

4. The light according to claim 1 wherein the connecting circuit is adjustable for at least one of time, length of sound, and sound intensity.

5. A method of training a child to be quiet at night while using a night light, the method comprising:

a) engaging an audio sensor that detects when the child is making a sound;

b) when the audio sensor detects sound, sending a signal to a dimming circuit on the night light which instructs the dimming circuit to lower the light intensity; and

c) engaging a timer to time how long it has been since the sound was detected and increasing the light intensity once a selected time is reached.

6. A night light for use in sleep training a child who sleeps with the night light on comprising:

a) a light dimming circuit;

b) an audio sensor designed to detect sound above a selected decibel; and

c) a connecting circuit for using the dimming circuit to dim the light when the audio sensor detects the sound above the selected decibel level and turning the light up after a predetermined period of time when no sound detected above the selected decibel level is sensed by the audio sensor.

7. The night light according to claim 6 wherein the night light dims in stages until the light is off.