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Patent US9987459
Issued 2018-06-05
Device For Inducing And Maintaining Sleep
Described herein is a device (100) for inducing and maintaining sleep in which one of a number of sleep programs can be selected in accordance with the requirement of a user, in addition, a background can be selected by the user which forms part of the program. The device (100) includes a display (120) and a control panel (130) mounted in a housing (110). Individual sleep programs are selected using the control panel (130) and the display (120). The device (100) includes processing unit (140) connected to a memory (150) and a driver (160) for a pair of speakers (170, 175) through which the selected sleep program is played to the user.
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- 1. A flexible sleep inducing and sleep maintenance system comprising:
a housing; a control panel formed in the housing and configured for allowing input information to be provided for the selection of a sleep programme from a plurality of sleep programmes; a display formed in the housing and configured for displaying information relating to at least the selected sleep programme; a memory located within the housing and configured for storing a plurality of parameters relating to the plurality of sleep programmes, each of the parameters in the plurality of parameters comprising at least a binaural beat frequency and a number of repeated loops for each binaural beat frequency; a processing unit located within the housing and configured for:
controlling the display and for processing input information received at the control panel relating to the selected sleep programme; and
running the selected sleep programme thereon by selecting and retrieving the parameters from the memory based on the selected sleep programme, and, compiling the selected and retrieved parameters into the selected sleep programme in a specific order based on the selected sleep programme and in accordance with the input information received from the control panel such that the selected sleep programme comprises a specific sequence of the selected parameters compiled based on the selection of the selected sleep programme; and
at least one pair of speaker units configured to relay the selected sleep programme to a user.
- 24. A method for inducing and maintaining sleep in an individual in accordance with a selected sleep programme, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a processing unit, input information relating to the selected sleep programme: and running, by the processing unit, the selected sleep programme to expose the individual to the selected sleep programme by:
a) determining a specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies based on a selection of the selected sleep programme selected from a plurality of sleep programmes;
b) determining a number of loops for each binaural beat frequency in the specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies based on the selection of the selected sleep programme; and
c) compiling the specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies based on the selection of the selected sleep programme, each binaural beat frequency being run for the determined number of loops to provide a compiled selected sleep programme, the compiled sleep programme comprising the specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies played for the determined number of repeated loops in accordance with the selection of the selected sleep programme.
- 27. A method of compiling a selected sleep programme for an individual, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a processor unit, input information relating to a selected sleep programme selected from a plurality of sleep programmes; and running, at the processor unit, the selected sleep programme in accordance with the input information by performing the following steps:
a) selecting a specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies based on the selection of the selected sleep programme;
b) determining a number of loops for each binaural beat frequency in the specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies based on the selection of the selected sleep programme; and
c) compiling the specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies with the determined number of loops for each binaural beat frequency based on the selection of the selected sleep programme.
- 33. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory tangible storage medium configured for storing instructions for causing a computer system to execute a method for inducing and maintaining sleep in an individual in accordance with a selected sleep programme, the method comprising the steps of receiving, at the computer system, input information relating to the selected sleep programme, and running, by the computer system, the selected sleep programme to expose the individual to the selected sleep programme by:
a) determining a specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies based on selection of the selected sleep programme from a plurality of sleep programmes: b) determining a number of loops for each binaural beat frequency in the specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies based on the selection of the selected sleep programme; and c) compiling the specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies based on the selection of the selected sleep programme, each binaural beat frequency being run for the determined number of loops to provide a compiled selected sleep programme, the compiled selected sleep programme comprising the specific sequence of binaural beat frequencies run for the determined number of repeated loops in accordance with the selection of the selected sleep programme.
