Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Andreas Ralph Maihoefer

Michael Edward Colbaugh

Benjamin Irwin Shelly

Surya Subrahmanya Sreeram Vissapragada Venkata Satya

Boomika Kalyan

Monica H Bush

Xia Chen

Stefanida Kononov Blake

Mark Anthony Bartolomeo

The present disclosure pertains to a system and method for providing sleep positional therapy and paced breathing to a user for a sleep session. The system and method may be used to treat positional obstructive sleep apnea, positional snoring, and/or other conditions to improve sleep onset latency, relaxation, reduce blood pressure, and/or improve other physiological characteristics. The system includes a posture sensor, a sensory stimulator, a controller, and/or other components. The system is configured to generate information related to a posture of the user, determine whether the posture of the user has breached a posture threshold, provide vibrations to the user to prompt the user to change posture, and lead the user through a paced breathing exercise to help the user fall asleep.

System and method for providing sleep positional therapy and paced breathing

This disclosure pertains to a system configured to control light exposure for circadian phase management and/or light deficient disorders of a subject. The system comprises a user interface, physiological sensors configured to generate output signals conveying physiological data of the subject, and a light control valve configured to block or reduce blue light ambient radiation reaching eyes of the subject. Processors are in communication with the user interface, the physiological sensors, the light control valve, and radiation generators. The processors cause the system to receive physiological goals of the subject, determine a light control plan based on the physiological goals, the physiological data, environmental data, and time data. The system operates the light control valve to block or reduce blue light ambient radiation based on the light control plan, and generate, using the one or more radiation generators, therapeutic light radiation based on the light control plan.

Controlling light exposure for circadian phase management

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Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Andreas Ralph Maihoefer