Electronic Device for Real-Time REM Sleep Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices require a full sleep cycle to identify REM sleep, making real-time monitoring and instant feedback difficult, which limits their effectiveness in managing sleep-related health issues such as depression.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a communication circuit, memory, and processor that acquires real-time sleep data, detects abnormal REM sleep events, and provides user interfaces based on designated actions to prevent abnormal REM sleep.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If existing electronic devices use full sleep cycle analysis to identify REM sleep, then measurement accuracy is improved, but response time deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the sleep monitoring process into multiple stages: initial full sleep cycle analysis to establish baseline REM patterns, followed by real-time monitoring using segmented biometric data streams (heart rate, respiration, eye movement). This allows the system to maintain accuracy while achieving real-time detection by processing data in manageable segments rather than waiting for complete sleep cycles.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by analyzing the user's first full sleep cycle to establish personalized baseline REM sleep patterns and criteria. This preliminary analysis enables subsequent real-time monitoring to detect deviations from the baseline without requiring complete sleep cycles, thus resolving the contradiction between accuracy and response time.
2Measurement precision
If existing electronic devices wait for full sleep cycle completion to provide feedback, then measurement precision is improved, but productivity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system provides initial feedback based on baseline establishment from the first full sleep cycle, then continues real-time monitoring to provide updated feedback as deviations are detected. This allows the system to maintain measurement precision through baseline comparison while achieving productivity through timely feedback delivery without waiting for complete sleep cycles.
Solution Approach 2:
By performing preliminary analysis during the first full sleep cycle to establish personalized baselines, the system enables subsequent real-time feedback without requiring complete sleep cycles. This preliminary action resolves the contradiction by preparing the system in advance to provide both accurate and timely feedback.
3Ease of operation
If existing electronic devices use standardized REM sleep criteria, then ease of operation is improved, but adaptability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by using standardized REM sleep criteria as the general framework for all users, then personalizing the implementation by adjusting thresholds and parameters based on each user's individual baseline patterns established during initial sleep cycles. This allows the system to maintain ease of operation through standardized methods while achieving adaptability through user-specific customization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters by establishing user-specific baseline values for biometric measurements during initial sleep cycles, then using these personalized parameters for real-time monitoring. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining the simplicity of standardized monitoring while adapting the specific parameter thresholds to match individual user patterns.
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AI summary
Disclosed are an electronic device for providing a user interface related to a sleep state and an operating method thereof. The electronic device may include a communication circuit, a memory, and at least one processor. The least one processor may be configured to acquire real-time sleep data of a user with regard to a unit sleep session, detect an abnormal REM sleep event based on the real-time sleep data and the user's previous sleep data with regard to a full sleep session, and provide a user interface based on designated action information in response to the abnormal REM sleep event.