US 12,201,442 B2
Detecting and measuring snoring
Hao-Wei Su, Cambridge, MA (US); Logan Alexander Niehaus, Colorado Springs, CO (US); Conor Joseph Heneghan, Campbell, CA (US); Jonathan David Charlesworth, San Francisco, CA (US); Subramaniam Venkatraman, Lafayette, CA (US); and Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, Berkeley, CA (US)
Assigned to FITBIT, INC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Fitbit, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/467,229.
Application 18/467,229 is a continuation of application No. 16/890,931, filed on Jun. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,793,453.
Application 16/890,931 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/431,576, filed on Jun. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,229,369, issued on Jan. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0057937 A1, Feb. 22, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/024 (2006.01); A61B 5/08 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01)
CPC A61B 5/4809 (2013.01) [A61B 5/02416 (2013.01); A61B 5/0816 (2013.01); A61B 5/1102 (2013.01); A61B 5/681 (2013.01); A61B 5/742 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing system, comprising:
one or more computing devices comprising at least one processor; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing system to perform:
activating and deactivating at least one microphone of the computing system according to a breathing phase pattern determined for a user that is determined to be asleep;
capturing an audio signal while the at least one microphone is activated;
determining, by a computing device of the one or more computing devices, an audio frame of the audio signal includes one or sounds indicative of snoring;
in response to determining the audio frame includes the one or more sounds indicative of snoring, discarding the audio frame; and
generating sleep-related information, wherein the sleep-related information identifies the one or more sounds as an instance of snoring.