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Application US20170296773


Published 2017-10-19

Vibrating Pillow Strip And Operating Methods

Introduced are methods and systems for: gathering human biological signals, such as heart rate, respiration rate, or temperature; analyzing the gathered human biological signals; and controlling a vibrating pillow strip based on the analysis.



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4 Independent Claims

  • 1. A system for automatically activating a vibrating pillow strip in response to an alarm setting, said system comprising: a database configured to store a history of biological signals associated with a user; said vibrating pillow strip, coupled to a pillow associated with said user, said vibrating pillow strip configured to receive a control signal and to vibrate based on said control signal; a computer processor communicatively coupled to said vibrating pillow strip, and said database, said computer processor configured to: receive a biological signal associated with said user, said biological signal comprising a heart rate associated with said user, a respiration rate associated with said user, a motion associated with said user, or a temperature associated with said user; identify said user based on at least one of: said heart rate associated with said user, said respiration rate associated with said user, said motion associated with said user, or said temperature associated with said user; based on said user identification, obtain a wake-up time associated with said user; based on said history of biological signals and said biological signal, identify a sleep phase associated with said user, said sleep phase comprising a wakefulness phase, a light sleep phase, a deep sleep phase, or a rapid eye movement sleep phase; and when said sleep phase comprises said light sleep phase and a current time is at most one hour before said wake-up time, send said control signal to said vibrating pillow strip, said control signal comprising an instruction to vibrate.

  • 3. A vibrating alarm system comprising: a vibrating pillow strip, coupled to a pillow associated with a user, said vibrating pillow strip configured to receive a control signal and to vibrate based on said control signal, said vibrating pillow strip comprising: a plurality of vibrating mini motors, wherein each vibrating mini motor is configured to tend to be unnoticeable when said user rests user's head on said vibrating pillow strip, and further wherein said plurality of vibrating mini motors is configured to tend to wake up the user; a computer processor communicatively coupled to said vibrating pillow strip, said computer processor configured to: obtain a wake-up time associated with said user; and at said wake-up time associated with said user, send said control signal to said vibrating pillow strip.

  • 16. A method for automatically activating a vibrating pillow strip in response to a biological signal associated with a user, said method comprising: receiving said biological signal associated with said user, said biological signal comprising a heart rate associated with said user, a respiration rate associated with said user, a motion associated with said user, or a temperature associated with said user; retrieving a history of biological signals associated with said user from a database; identifying said user based on at least one of: said heart rate associated with said user, said respiration rate associated with said user, said motion associated with said user, or said temperature associated with said user; based on said user identification, obtaining a wake-up time associated with said user; based on said history of biological signals and said biological signal, identifying a sleep phase associated with said user, said sleep phase comprising a wakefulness phase, a light sleep phase, a deep sleep phase, or a rapid eye movement sleep phase; and when said sleep phase comprises said light sleep phase and a current time is at most one hour before said wake-up time, sending a control signal to said vibrating pillow strip, said control signal comprising an instruction to vibrate.

  • 19. A method for automatically activating a vibrating alarm system, said method comprising: configuring a vibrating pillow strip to couple to a pillow associated with a user; configuring said vibrating pillow strip to receive a control signal and to vibrate based on said control signal; coupling a plurality of vibrating mini motors to said vibrating pillow strip, wherein each of vibrating mini motor in said plurality of vibrating mini motors tends to be unnoticeable when a user rests user's head on said vibrating pillow strip, and further wherein said plurality of vibrating mini motors tends to wake up said user; communicatively coupling a computer processor to said vibrating pillow strip; configuring said computer processor to: obtain a wake-up time associated with said user; and at said wake-up time associated with said user, send said control signal to said vibrating pillow strip.