Biometric analysis-supported sleep simulation and mattress selection system

Abstract

A biometric analysis-supported sleep simulation and mattress selection system for use in a mattress retail environment is disclosed. The system comprises at least one enclosed sleep cabin configured to generate a controlled light sleep phase environment by regulating environmental parameters including light intensity, acoustic isolation, temperature and pressure conditions in order to simulate physiological sleep-related sensory conditions. At least one biometric sensing unit is arranged within the sleep cabin and configured to acquire physiological user data during a sleep or rest experience, including body pressure distribution, spinal alignment parameters and sleeping posture characteristics. A data processing module analyzes the acquired biometric data in real time to generate individualized sleep profile parameters associated with biomechanical support needs and comfort requirements. An analysis information interface presents processed biometric results to the user following completion of the sleep simulation experience. A recommendation interface is further configured to generate mattress selection guidance based on the analyzed biometric profile, thereby providing objective decision-support functionality within the retail environment. In certain implementations, the system further includes a sales interaction zone equipped with a visualization interface and a three-dimensional simulation display configured to present pressure mapping, spinal alignment indicators and mattress performance representations derived from biometric analysis results. The disclosed system establishes an integrated decision-support sleep simulation and decision-support process that enables users to experience a simulated physiological sleep phase prior to mattress selection, thereby improving selection accuracy, personalization capability and data-driven purchasing outcomes in mattress retail applications.

Description

[0001] DESCRIPTION

[0002] Biometric Analysis-Supported Sleep Simulation and Mattress Selection System

[0003] Technical Area

[0004] This invention relates to a sleep cabin room developed for use in mattress stores, allowing users to experience mattresses in a realistic sleep environment (light sleep phase), enabling them to sleep and / or rest, and thus make the right mattress selection. It also controls external stimuli affecting the central nervous system (light, sound, temperature, pressure). Our invention offers an innovative solution in the fields of personalized sleep experience, smart mattress store design, and neuroscience- based shopping innovation ; it prioritizes ergonomic comfort in sleep science and combines it with advanced technology to allow consumers to choose the right product through trial and error.

[0005] The invention concerns sleep cabins located inside the body of the sleep cabin room, designed to allow the user to experience beds in a realistic sleep environment during the light sleep phase. These sleep cabins, thanks to blackout curtains and headphones with relaxing music frequencies, minimize the user's exposure to external stimuli while sleeping or resting on the bed. Furthermore, they incorporate biometric data... They can simulate different sleep conditions by monitoring factors such as temperature and pressure via sensors. Users can complete their sleep phase and, at the end of the process, receive biometric data on the analysis information screen located in the sleep cabin. Thanks to the sensors, they can access analyses regarding their sleep duration. Additionally, before entering the sleep cabin, they can fill out a questionnaire on this screen to specify their personal sleep needs. This allows consumers to experience sleep quality and comfort, enabling them to choose the most suitable mattress for themselves. Making the right product choice becomes much easier by experiencing sleep according to personal preferences.State of the art

[0006] Today, sleep pods are generally designed as temporary resting areas and are used to meet users' short-term sleep needs. These pods are particularly preferred in busy environments such as airports, offices, and shopping malls, offering a brief respite from noise. However, these pods do not offer a true sleep experience and do not provide a solution in terms of neuroscience- based mattress purchasing and marketing. In this sense, they do not offer an experience that would facilitate users' selection of a mattress tailored to their individual needs and based on scientific data.

[0007] Furthermore, traditional mattress stores lack sleep cabin systems and digital experience systems that offer personalized analyses. Because existing sleep cabins do not perform analyses based on brainwaves, biometric data, or sleep cycles, they cannot provide a mattress sales service supported by guidance and scientific data that will ensure long-term sleep comfort for the user.

[0008] In traditional mattress stores, customers make their selections by lying briefly on a few mattresses. This process doesn't reflect real sleep conditions, preventing users from evaluating the long-term effects of the mattress. Furthermore, since environmental factors (light, sound, space) are not controlled, a true sleep experience is impossible. Customers are constantly subjected to the sales representative's directions, preventing them from having a sensory-independent experience. Moreover, the selection process is usually limited to general information provided by the sales representative, which can lead to insufficient and incomplete information. Customers make decisions based solely on a momentary feeling of relief, but this short-lived experience overlooks important factors such as spinal support, pressure points, and muscle relaxation during sleep.

[0009] This situation can lead to incorrect mattress choices, customer dissatisfaction, financial losses, and sustainability issues. It can also cause a decrease in sleep quality and negatively impact spinal health in the long term. Because the traditionalstore concept does not offer a selection process based on scientific data, it prevents the user from making the right and personalized mattress choice.

[0010] Some disadvantages of the current technology:

[0011] Inability to Simulate the Sleep Process: Sleep is not only a physical but also a mental process. Traditional mattresses cannot replicate sleep processes such as the slowing of brain waves, the relaxation of the body, and the calming of the nervous system. Without a genuine sleep experience, users do not fully feel the effects of the mattress.

[0012] Lack of Use of Digital and Smart Technology: Digital analysis systems that would make mattress selection a data-driven and scientific process during the experience are not available. The user does not receive scientific feedback about sleeping position, body pressure distribution, and ideal support level.

[0013] For these reasons, our invention, which differs from existing technology, offers significant advantages, enabling users to make more informed mattress choices based on scientific data.

[0014] Advantages of Our Invention

[0015] Extensive and Sufficient Testing Process: Our invention allows users to test the effects of the mattress in real sleeping positions and over extended periods. This process offers a personalized experience and visually presents information on body pressure, support points, and spinal alignment via 3D animations on a digital screen, helping users make the right mattress choice. Users experience a more sustainable shopping experience by protecting their spinal health and avoiding unnecessary consumption and incorrect choices.

[0016] Environmental Factor Control: By providing complete blackout and sound insulation, it eliminates external stimuli, thereby stimulating melatonin productionand creating a comfortable sleep environment. It provides insulation even in noisy environments, ensuring users experience uninterrupted sleep.

[0017] Provision of Sensory and Physiological Data: Biometrics during sleep. Based on data measured by sensors , users can view scientifically based information on how their mattress supports their bodies via an analytics display. This data includes important factors such as sleeping positions, pressure points, and spinal support.

[0018] Realistic Sleep Environment Simulation: Users experience environmental conditions in a fully darkened and isolated cabin that support the transition to the natural sleep process. This simulation allows them to observe the transition to the light sleep phase and how pressure on the body changes.

[0019] Independence from Sales Representatives and Information Access: Users can track their sleep patterns using biometric data. By analyzing real-time data through sensors, it makes accurate decisions based on scientific information. Independent of traditional sales processes, users make informed choices based on their own body data.

[0020] Offering a Realistic Experience by Mimicking the Sleep Process : Biometrics Equipped with sensors , the cabin analyzes factors such as users' sleeping positions and muscle relaxation. This allows users to experience a realistic simulation of the sleep process, based on its physiological foundations. Users can fully feel how the mattress affects their body.

[0021] Use of Digital and Smart Technology: Sleep cabin, biometric The system measures the user's sleep process data using sensors and analyzes this data in real time, helping the user make a more informed decision about mattress selection. The analyses cover elements such as sleeping positions, pressure distribution, and spinal support, and provide the user with information supported by dynamic 3D animations.Brief Technical Description of the Invention

[0022] This invention relates to a sleep cabin room developed for use in mattress stores, allowing users to experience mattresses in a realistic sleep environment (during the light sleep phase) by controlling external stimuli (light, sound, temperature, pressure) that affect the central nervous system. The invention offers an innovative solution in the fields of personalized sleep experience, smart mattress store design, and neuroscience- based shopping innovation . By prioritizing ergonomic comfort in sleep science and combining it with advanced technology, it enables consumers to choose the right product through trial and error.

[0023] Purpose and Function of the Invention

[0024] User Guidance: The user is guided by a staff member from the bedding store to the sleeping cabin located in the sleeping cabin room. At this stage, the user is informed about the sleeping experience and receives information about what they need to do before entering the cabin.

[0025] Survey Completion: Before entering the sleep cabin, the user completes a survey on the analysis screen for a personal sleep assessment . This survey gathers information about the type of sleep experience the user desires and identifies their individual sleep needs.

[0026] Sleep Experience Preparation: The user prepares for the sleep experience by entering the sleep cabin. The sleep cabin is equipped with blackout curtains and headphones with relaxing music frequencies. The user begins the sleep experience in a fully isolated environment.

[0027] Sleep Process: The user's biometric data is recorded while sleeping in the sleep cabin. Sensors continuously measure data such as body pressure, support points, and spinal alignment. By monitoring environmental factors like temperature and pressure, the cabin ensures the user experiences a sleep process as close to natural as possible.Data Analysis and Information: After the user completes their sleep phase, they can access biometric data from the analysis information screen located in the sleep cabin. Users can view scientific sleep analysis data measured by sensors . The biometric analysis results generated by the sensors may be presented to the user via the analysis information interface in a manner that assists the user in understanding pressure distribution and spinal alignment characteristics associated with the experienced mattress.

[0028] The recommendation interface may provide mattress selection guidance by using the biometric analysis results and, where available, user-provided questionnaire information. This data provides the user with important information such as sleep positions, pressure points, and spinal support.

[0029] Decision-Making Process: The user proceeds to the sales desk located inside the sleep cabin room and sees suggestions for suitable beds in the store based on their sleep analysis data on a digital screen behind the desk. This digital screen is biometric. Through processing of sensor-derived biometric data, the system recommends mattresses best suited to the user's individual sleep needs.

[0030] In the retail environment, the recommendation interface may be implemented via the sales-zone visualization arrangement, including the display positioned at or behind the sales desk, such that mattress suggestions derived from the biometric analysis results are presented to the user.

[0031] Based on this scientific data, the user can make an informed decision and choose the right product.

[0032] Detailed description of the invention

[0033] A sleeping cabin room, constructed to achieve the aims of this invention, is shown in the attached figures.From these shapes;

[0034] Figure 1 shows an interior perspective view of a sleeping cabin room, which is the subject of the invention.

[0035] Figure 2 shows an interior perspective view of a sleeping cabin located inside a sleeping cabin room, which is the subject of the invention.

[0036] Figure 3 shows an external perspective view of a sleeping cabin located inside a sleeping cabin room, which is the subject of the invention.

[0037] Figure 4 shows a cross-sectional view of a sleeping cabin located inside a sleeping cabin room, which is the subject of the invention.

[0038] The parts of the invention, a waste sleeping shed, are numbered as follows in the attached figures:

[0039] 1) Sleeping Cabin Room

[0040] 2) Body

[0041] 2.1) Top Profile

[0042] 2.2) Side Frame

[0043] 2.3) Presentation screen

[0044] 3) Sleeping Cabin

[0045] 3.1) Bed

[0046] 3.2) Pillow

[0047] 3.3) Gypsum Board Panel

[0048] 3.3.1) Recessed Gypsum Board Panel

[0049] 3.4) Bed sheet

[0050] 3.5) Blackout Curtain

[0051] 3.6) Headphones3.7) Biometrics Sensor

[0052] 3.8) Analysis Information Screen

[0053] 4) Vertical Panel

[0054] 4.1) Curtain Rail

[0055] 5) Sales Desk

[0056] 6) 3D Simulation Screen

[0057] A sleep cabin room (1) that helps users optimize their personalized and scientifically based mattress selection by enabling them to have a biometric analysis-supported sleeping experience during the light sleep phase (NREM-l);

[0058] Forming the main structure of the sleeping cabin room ( 1 ), it has at least one body (2) which has top profiles (2.1) located on its top and providing structural support, side frames (2.2) located on its side and completing the structure, a presentation screen (2.3) on the front facade which provides information and guidance to users before they enter the sleeping room (1) and contains components such as sleeping cabins (3), sales desk (5), 3D simulation screen (6),

[0059] Located inside the body (2),

[0060] * The bed, which is the area on which the user sleeps or rests (3.1),

[0061] * The pillow (3.2) that the user uses for head ergonomics for sleeping and / or resting purposes after lying down on the bed (3.1 ),

[0062] Plasterboard panel (3.3) located at the back of the bed (3.1) for support purposes, which allows headphones (3.6) and sheets (3.4) to be placed inside through the recessed plasterboard panels on it (3.3.1),* To ensure a hygienic and comfortable sleep experience, users should place the sheet (3.4) on the bed (3.1).

[0063] Headphones (3.6) that allow users to listen to music at frequencies tuned for sleep while isolating external sounds during their sleep experience . Biometrics that analyze user data such as body pressure, support points, and spinal alignment while sleeping, to the sensors (3.7),

[0064] Blackout curtains (3.5) are used to create a completely dark environment for the user during the sleep experience by attaching them to the curtain rail (4.1),

[0065] * Users can interactively complete a personal sleep assessment questionnaire before their sleep experience and use biometrics after their sleep experience. At least three sleep cabins (3) used to create an isolated area for users to experience their sleep, which have an analysis information screen (3.8) where they can view personal sleep analysis reports and access scientific sleep data based on data received from sensors (3.7),

[0066] - At least three vertical panels (4) located inside the body (2) and between the sleeping cabins (3), which are used to attach the blackout curtain (3.5) to the curtain rails (4.1) on them, thus creating a completely dark environment and providing users with complete isolation during their sleeping experience.

[0067] - A sales desk (5) is located inside the body (2), where users coming out of the sleep cabin (3) evaluate the results of their sleep experience and make decisions about suitable mattress selections.

[0068] Located behind the sales desk (5), a 3D simulation screen (6) offers bed suggestions suitable for users’ sleeping needs based on the biometric data collected in the sleeping cabin (3) and can show these suggestions with 3D animations.It includes.

[0069] biometric analysis-supported sleep cabin room (1) that helps optimize the right mattress selection by offering customers a personalized sleep experience in mattress stores. The user is directed to the sleep cabin room (1) by store staff and informed about the experience. Before the sleep experience, they complete a questionnaire on their personal sleep habits via the analysis information screen (3.8). This questionnaire is biometric. It enables the individual evaluation of the data to be collected by the sensors (3.7).

[0070] The user enters the sleep cabin (3), lies down on the bed (3.1), and receives support with a pillow (3.2) that conforms to the ergonomics of the head and neck. During the sleep experience, music is played at frequencies specifically adjusted for sleep via headphones (3.6), and a completely isolated sleep environment is created thanks to blackout curtains (3.5) and vertical panels (4). At the same time, biometric Sensors (3.7) analyze the user's sleep experience by measuring data such as body pressure, support points, and spinal alignment. By controlling factors such as temperature and pressure in the sleep environment, the user is provided with an experience that is as close to their most natural sleep process as possible.

[0071] After waking up, the user can view scientific data such as body pressure, support points and spinal alignment measured during sleep via the analysis information screen (3.8). Then, they can exit the sleep cabin (3) and go to the sales desk (5) to review the analysis results. The 3D simulation screen (6) located behind the sales desk (5) allows the user to view the biometric data. Based on data obtained from the sensors (3.7), it offers the most suitable mattress recommendations. Thus, the user can choose the most suitable mattress for himself by making an informed decision based on scientific data.

[0072] The biggest advantage offered by this invention is that it allows the user to have a biometric analysis-supported sleeping experience during the light sleep phase(NREM-l), thus evaluating their personalized sleep habits. Biometric Thanks to sensors (3.7), data such as body pressure, support points and spinal alignment are measured, and the user's sleep comfort is scientifically analyzed. To support the sleep experience, advanced technologies such as headphones (3.6), blackout curtains (3.5) and a 3D simulation screen (6) are used to provide the user with the most realistic sleep environment. In addition, complete isolation is provided during sleep, ensuring an experience free from external stimuli. The user has the chance to choose the mattress that best suits their sleep needs by evaluating the analysis results in detail.

[0073] The primary goal of this invention is to maximize the customer experience in mattress stores by combining sleep science and technology. It helps users choose the most suitable mattress for them by providing a biometric analysis-supported experience in a real sleep environment. This increases customer satisfaction and minimizes negative experiences resulting from choosing the wrong mattress.

Claims

CLAIMS1.

1. A biometric analysis-supported sleep experience and mattress selection system configured for use in a mattress retail environment, comprising:(a) at least one enclosed sleep cabin configured to provide a controlled light sleep phase environment by regulating at least one environmental parameter including light level, acoustic isolation, temperature and / or pressure conditions;(b) at least one biometric sensing unit arranged within the sleep cabin and configured to acquire physiological user data including at least body pressure distribution data and spinal alignment data during a user’s sleep or rest experience;(c) an analysis information interface configured to present biometric analysis results to the user after completion of the sleep or rest experience; and(d) a recommendation interface configured to provide mattress selection guidance based on the acquired physiological user data;wherein the system is configured to enable an integrated sleep experience and decision-support process prior to mattress selection.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the controlled light sleep phase environment corresponds to an initial light sleep phase (NREM-l) facilitated through controlled modulation of at least light level and acoustic isolation.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the sleep cabin comprises blackout curtain assemblies configured to create a substantially dark environment for the user during the sleep or rest experience.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the sleep cabin further comprises headphones configured to provide relaxing audio to the user while reducing external sound perception during the sleep or rest experience.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the biometric sensing unit is configured to analyze at least one of support points and sleeping position parameters in addition to the body pressure distribution data and the spinal alignment data.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the analysis information screen is configured to present a pressure mapping visualization and spinal alignment indicators to the user following the sleep or rest experience.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the recommendation interface is arranged in a retail sales zone adjacent to the sleep cabin to enable immediate purchase decision support based on the biometric analysis results.

8. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a user input interface configured to collect pre -experience sleep habit and comfort preference information, and wherein the recommendation interface is configured to provide mattress selection guidance further based on the collected information.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system comprises a sales desk and a 3D simulation screen configured to display mattress suggestions and / or 3D visualizations based on the acquired physiological user data.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein multiple sleep cabins are arranged within a single retail installation to enable use of the system by more than one user.

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