Resmed Sensor Technologies Limited

University College Dublin

Gareth McDarby

Conor Joseph Heneghan

Paul Phillips

Redmond Shouldice

Stephen McMahon

Alberto Zaffaroni

Luke Gahan

Damien O'Rourke

Colin Lawlor

David Mulligan

Marc Lavelle

Matthew Norton

Emer O'Hare

Trevor Murray

Eric Chern-Pin Chua

Eric C-p Chua

A processing system includes methods to promote sleep. The system may include a monitor such as a non-contact motion sensor from which sleep information may be determined. User sleep information, such as sleep stages, hypnograms, sleep scores, mind recharge scores and body scores, may be recorded, evaluated and/or displayed for a user. The system may further monitor ambient and/or environmental conditions corresponding to sleep sessions. Sleep advice may be generated based on the sleep information, user queries and/or environmental conditions from one or more sleep sessions. Communicated sleep advice may include content to promote good sleep habits and/or detect risky sleep conditions. In some versions of the system, any one or more of a bedside unitsensor module, a smart processing device, such as a smart phone or smart device, and network servers may be implemented to perform the methodologies of the system.

Methods and systems for sleep management

Methods and apparatus monitor health by detection of sleep stage. For example, a sleep stage monitor () may access sensor data signals related to bodily movement and/or respiration movements. At least a portion of the detected signals may be analyzed to calculate respiration variability. The respiration variability may include one or more of variability of respiration rate and variability of respiration amplitude. A processor may then determine a sleep stage based on one or more of respiration variability and bodily movement, such as with a combination of both. The determination of sleep stages may distinguish between deep sleep and other stages of sleep, or may differentiate between deep sleep, light sleep and REM sleep. The bodily movement and respiration movement signals may be derived from one or more sensors, such as non-invasive sensor (e.g., a non-contact radio-frequency motion sensor or a pressure sensitive mattress).

System and method for determining sleep stage

A method of monitoring sleep comprises simultaneously recording a person's electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG), deriving a plurality of parameters from the recorded data, and providing an output indicative of a sleep characteristic based upon an analysis of the parameters. The ECG and PPG may be recorded using an apparatus which is a combination of a Holter monitor and a pulse oximeter, which is wearable in ambulatory manner.

Method and system for monitoring sleep

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Gareth McDarby