Bed having user context sensing features
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current bed technologies lack the ability to automatically sense user context and adjust environmental settings and user interfaces without manual input, limiting their automation and user experience.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes sensors to generate pressure data, a processor to determine user states, and a user-interface device capable of selecting appropriate interfaces and controlling peripheral devices based on user context, such as bed presence, time, and biometric readings, to provide automated adjustments and interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If bed technologies use manual input for controlling settings and interfaces, then user control is maintained, but automation capability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The bed system automatically senses user presence, context, and state through integrated sensors (pressure, temperature, humidity, motion) and autonomously adjusts environmental settings, mattress firmness, and interface display without requiring manual user input. The system serves itself by continuously monitoring and adapting to user needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements closed-loop feedback by continuously collecting data from multiple sensors, processing this information through machine learning algorithms to determine user state, and automatically adjusting bed settings and interface behavior based on the determined state. This feedback mechanism enables the system to adapt dynamically to changing user conditions.
2Adaptability or versatility
If bed technologies implement multiple sensors and processing capabilities to sense user context, then automation and interface selection improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bed system integrates multiple sensor types (pressure sensors, temperature sensors, humidity sensors, motion sensors) and processing capabilities into a single multi-functional platform. This universal system performs diverse functions including user presence detection, context sensing, state determination, environmental control, and interface management, reducing the need for separate specialized systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines sensing components, processing units, actuators, and user interface elements into an integrated bed system. The processor device consolidates multiple functions including data reception from various sensors, machine learning-based user state determination, and control of multiple bed features, thereby managing complexity through functional integration.
3Ease of operation
If bed technologies automatically adjust environmental settings and interfaces based on user state, then user experience is enhanced, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs periodic sensing and evaluation, activating sensors and processing operations at appropriate intervals rather than continuously. The processor determines user state at discrete moments and adjusts settings accordingly, reducing energy consumption compared to continuous operation while maintaining effective automatic adjustment capability.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables advanced sensing of user context to drive automation and interface selection, enhancing usability by providing automatic environmental and interface adjustments without user input, improving home automation and user experience.
Implementation Method 1
a sensor configured to generate pressure data of the mattress
Data Source
AI summary
In some implementations, a system includes a bed having a mattress. The system further includes a sensor configured to generate pressure data of the mattress. The system further includes a processor device configured to receive the pressure data; and determine a user state from at least the pressure data. The system further includes a user-interface device comprising user-interface hardware that is capable of providing user interfaces, the user-interface device configured to select, from a plurality of available user interfaces, a selected user interface; and providing the selected user interface to a user. Other systems, methods, devices, products, and software may be used.