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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2018
Applicant:
Paramount Bed Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
PARAMOUNT BED CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/107 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61G 7/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/1116 (2013.01); A61B 5/107 (2013.01); A61B 5/4561 (2013.01); A61G 7/05 (2013.01);
Abstract
A posture determination apparatus including at least two vibration sensors and a controller. The controller causes the vibration sensors to detect vibrations while the user is lying in bed, calculates waveforms from the detected vibrations and recognizes the characteristics of the waveforms, and determines the posture of the user based on the characteristics. Thereby, it is possible to provide a posture determination apparatus capable of appropriately determining the posture of the user which is one factor of the state of the user.