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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2021
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Kazuhiro Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Harada, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04G 11/00 (2006.01); A61M 21/00 (2006.01); G04B 25/00 (2006.01); G04B 25/04 (2006.01); G04G 21/02 (2010.01); G04G 21/04 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G04G 11/00 (2013.01); A61M 21/00 (2013.01); G04B 25/005 (2013.01); G04B 25/04 (2013.01); G04G 21/025 (2013.01); G04G 21/04 (2013.01); A61M 2021/0083 (2013.01); A61M 2230/63 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control method includes acquiring time information including a wake-up set time; acquiring a sleep state of a sleeper who is stimulated by a stimulation device; determining a change of the sleep state; causing the stimulation device to start increasing a stimulus which urges the sleeper to awake at a control start time as time before the wake-up set time by a predetermined time period; and controlling a change amount of the stimulus based on the change of the sleep state with the stimulus.