Method and device for sleep posture correction
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1. A 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 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 control unit is programmed to send, during the normal operational mode and for a learning period in a new sleep position, an alarm signal to the alarming device only in a predetermined part of 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. 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 control unit is programmed to send, during the normal operational mode and for a learning period in a new sleep position, an alarm signal to the alarming device only in a predetermined part of 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, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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- 22. A sleep posture alerting method executed by an electronic control unit, wherein a sleep posture of a person is detected by a sensor 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 electronic control unit is programmed to send an alarm signal during a normal operational mode and for a learning period in a new sleep position, the alerting device is given an alarm signal only in a predetermined part of occasions where a sleep posture out of the predetermined body posture range is detected.
- 37. A sleep posture alerting method executed by an electronic control unit, wherein a sleep posture of a person is detected by a sensor 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 electronic control unit is programmed to send an alarm signal as 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 in a new sleep position or the alerting of the person is activated such that, in an event that his/her body posture is out of the predefined body posture range in a new sleep position, the person is alerted.
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