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Patent US10532183
Issued 2020-01-14
Sleep Improvement Device And Method For Improving Sleep
A sleep improvement device and a method for improving sleep, wherein the sleep improvement device is arranged for:
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- initiating a sleep meditation mode when the user is awake, in the sleep meditation mode emitting relaxing stimuli, monitoring the brainwave signals during a plurality of epochs, determining when the user's brainwave frequencies for at least 20 percent of one or more of the epochs are within a training range of 10 to 17 Hz and then emitting training stimuli; and
- initiating a dream improvement mode when one or more of the epochs are scored as a REM sleep stage and in the dream improvement mode emitting lucid dream inducing stimuli corresponding to one or more of the training stimuli from the sleep meditation mode. Also provided is a data carrier including instructions for causing the sleep improvement device to execute the method for improving sleep.
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- 1. A sleep improvement device comprising one or more brainwave sensors for detecting brainwaves of a user, one or more body vital sensors for detecting body vitals of the user and a control unit that is operationally connected to said one or more brainwave sensors and said one or more body vital sensors for receiving and processing brainwave signals and body vital signals, respectively, wherein the control unit is arranged for monitoring the brainwave signals and/or the body vital signals during a plurality of epochs (E) and scoring sleep stages (AW, REM, NREM1, NREM2, NREM3) for each epoch (E), wherein the sleep improvement device is further provided with one or more stimulus emitters operationally connected to and controlled by the control unit, wherein the control unit is arranged for:
initiating a sleep meditation mode when the user is awake (AW), wherein in said sleep meditation mode the control unit is arranged for controlling one or more of the one or more stimulus emitters to emit relaxing stimuli, monitoring the brainwave signals during each epoch (E), determining when the user's brainwave frequencies for at least 20 percent of one or more of the epochs (E) are within a training range of 10 to 17 Hz and then controlling one or more of the one or more stimulus emitters to emit training stimuli; and initiating a dream improvement mode when the control unit has scored one or more of the epochs (E) as a REM sleep stage (REM), wherein in said dream improvement mode the control unit is arranged for controlling one or more of the one or more stimulus emitters to emit lucid dream inducing stimuli corresponding to one or more of the training stimuli from the sleep meditation mode.
