Apple Inc.

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Alexander Mark Chan

Santiago Quijano

Siddharth Khullar

Michael Infanger

Derek Young

German A Alvarez

Mihir Kothari

Fredrik J Sannholm

Joseph R Lee

Jeff Faye

Matt Travis Bianchi

Lifeng Miao

Manda Paul

A seating apparatus includes a seat member, a backrest member pivotally mounted to the seat member, and an armrest frame. The armrest frame includes a left armrest member, a right armrest member, and at least one connecting member pivotally mounted to the backrest member. Further, the seating apparatus includes a front support frame and a rear support frame. The front support frame includes a left front support structure and a right front support structure pivotally mounted to the left armrest member and the right armrest member, respectively. The rear support frame includes a left rear support structure, a right rear support structure pivotally coupled to the left front support structure and the right front support structure, respectively. The pivotal coupling in the seating apparatus facilitates the seating apparatus to be operated in an unfolded condition and a folded condition.

Seating apparatus

A laundry sorting and evaluation system includes a housing having an opening and defining a laundry path. First and second platforms are positioned within the housing, each operably connected to a motor. First and second cameras are respectively associated with the platforms and are configured to acquire at images of an item of laundry on each of the first and second platforms. A controller is configured to receive the images and produce an evaluation of a condition of the item of laundry based upon the received images.

System and method of laundry sorting

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose reclining seating apparatus with rocking and folding features. The seating apparatus includes a body support portion pivotally connected to a stationary frame, the body support portion including a seat member and a backrest member rotatably coupled with each other, the stationary frame including a first armrest and a second armrest supported by a leg structure. Further, the seating apparatus includes a pair of flexible members configured to adjust and control at least a rocking movement, a reclining movement, or a rocking-reclining movement of the body support portion. Each flexible members is configured to link one side of a seat with the side of a backrest member by passing through guide elements in the armrests in a configuration that transfers the weight of the user sitting on the seat to forward pressure on the backrest such that a user of the chair can easily press backward with the body to recline and when sitting more upright, the chair backrest automatically follows the body to a more upright position.

Rocking and reclining seating apparatus

Sleep conditions such as moderate-to-severe sleep apnea can be assessed using a multi-night assessments. A respiration signal (e.g., acquired from a sensor strip) can be processed via a computing device. The respiration signal can be segmented and the segments can be classified to identify one or more apnea/hypopnea events. In some examples, some of the segments can be normalized such that each segment input for classification can be of the same size. The identified one or more apnea/hypopnea events can be used to estimate a nightly parameter indicative of a severity of (or presence of) sleep apnea. The nightly parameters from a multi-night period can be used to estimate a multi-night parameter indicative of the severity of (or presence of) sleep apnea. In some examples, quality checks can be performed to filter out some data (e.g., to exclude data from entire nights or exclude a portion of data from individual nights).

Methods for assessing sleep conditions

A monitoring system configured to measure the user's health-related parameters while in a certain state is disclosed. Based on whether the user is in the certain state and/or one or more criteria being met, the monitoring system can perform a physiological measurement such as a blood pressure measurement. The monitoring system can be capable of dynamically adjusting the measurement parameters, criteria, and acquired information based one or more scalers. The criteria can be based on user states or conditions such that user disruptions can be reduced and the measurement accuracy and/or efficiency can be enhanced. The monitoring system can also measure the user's parameters during the measurement and may abort the measurement if the measurement may not have accurate information and/or to reduce any disruption to the user. Alternatively, the measurement can be annotated so that the measurement can be used during data interpretation with certain qualifiers attached.

Systems and methods for blood pressure measurements

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Alexander Mark Chan