Patent US10617364

System and method for snoring detection using low power motion sensor
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US10617364

1. A method comprising: (6) (4)

detecting a raw signal from a user via a motion sensor;

determining a snoring signal from the raw signal based on an adaptive frequency threshold; and

providing feedback to the user based on the snoring signal,

wherein: the feedback comprises visual instruction to the user regarding sleeping position provided prior to determining the snoring signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the feedback is one of a vibration, an audio alert, and visual alert. (0)

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a microphone is used to detect audible sound from the user to supplement the detecting of the raw signal. (0)

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the raw signal is detected by one of an accelerometer and a gyrometer. (0)

5. The method of claim 1, comprising pre-processing the raw signal with one of time-domain processing and time-frequency processing. (2) (0)

8. The method of claim 1, comprising, if there are multiple channels for monitoring the raw signal, selecting one of the multiple channels for monitoring the raw signal. (0)

9. The method of claim 1, comprising tracking a body position of the user. (0)

10. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing machine executable instructions that when executed causes a computing system to control operations comprising: (2) (4)

detecting a raw signal from a user via a motion sensor;

determining a snoring signal from the raw signal based on an adaptive frequency threshold; and

providing feedback to the user based on the snoring signal,

wherein: the feedback comprises visual instruction to the user regarding sleeping position provided prior to determining the snoring signal.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium storing machine executable instructions that when executed causes a computing system to control operations of claim 10, comprising pre-processing the raw signal with one of time-domain processing and time-frequency processing, wherein the time-frequency processing comprises wavelets coefficient reconstruction. (0)

19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium storing machine executable instructions that when executed causes a computing system to control operations of claim 10, comprising tracking a body position of the user. (0)

11. An electronic device comprising: (5) (4)

a motion sensor configured to detect a raw signal from a user;

a processor configured to determine a snoring signal from the raw signal based on an adaptive frequency threshold; and

an output device configured to provide feedback to the user based on the snoring signal,

wherein: the feedback comprises visual instruction to the user regarding sleeping position provided prior to determining the snoring signal.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the output device is one or more of a vibration module, a speaker, and a visual display. (1) (0)

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the motion sensor is one of an accelerometer and a gyrometer. (0)

14. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to pre-process the raw signal with one of time-domain processing and time-frequency processing. (1) (0)

16. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein, if there are multiple channels for monitoring the raw signal, the processor is configured to select one of the multiple channels for monitoring the raw signal. (0)

20. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to track a body position of the user. (0)

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System and method for snoring detection using low power motion sensor

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