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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
May. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Nightbalance B.v., Delft, NL;
Inventor:
Eline Christiane van Beest, The Hague, NL;
Assignee:
NIGHTBALANCE B.V., Deflt, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 23/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/0476 (2006.01); A61B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/1116 (2013.01); A61B 5/1118 (2013.01); A61B 5/4809 (2013.01); A61B 5/4812 (2013.01); A61B 5/7282 (2013.01); A61B 5/746 (2013.01); A61B 5/0476 (2013.01); A61B 5/7455 (2013.01); A61B 7/003 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0219 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0271 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a sleep posture alerting method or an apparatus therefor, the sleep posture of a person is detected and the person is automatically alerted by an alerting device when the sleep posture is out of a predetermined body posture range. However, the alerting of the person is provided only in part of the occasions, when his/her body posture is out of the predefined body posture range.