US 12,303,038 B2
Devices and methods for sound distortion
Khalid Saghiri, Meknes (MA)
Filed by Khalid Saghiri, Meknes (MA)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/118,313.
Application 17/118,313 is a continuation of application No. 16/888,378, filed on May 29, 2020, granted, now 10,905,249.
Prior Publication US 2021/0368998 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A47C 31/12 (2006.01); A47C 20/00 (2006.01); A47C 20/04 (2006.01); A47C 21/00 (2006.01); A47C 21/04 (2006.01); A47C 27/14 (2006.01); A47C 31/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 7/00 (2006.01); A61G 7/015 (2006.01); A61G 7/018 (2006.01); A61B 5/024 (2006.01)
CPC A47C 31/123 (2013.01) [A47C 20/00 (2013.01); A47C 20/041 (2013.01); A47C 21/003 (2013.01); A47C 21/048 (2013.01); A47C 27/144 (2013.01); A47C 27/148 (2013.01); A47C 31/008 (2013.01); A61B 5/1102 (2013.01); A61B 5/4806 (2013.01); A61B 5/6892 (2013.01); A61B 7/003 (2013.01); A61G 7/015 (2013.01); A61G 7/018 (2013.01); A61B 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 5/0022 (2013.01); A61B 5/024 (2013.01); A61G 2203/10 (2013.01); A61G 2203/32 (2013.01); A61G 2203/46 (2013.01); A61G 2203/70 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A smart bed comprising:
a frame;
a plurality of legs coupled with the frame, each leg comprising a load cell;
a mattress, positioned on and supported by the frame;
a microphone configured to obtain an original sound from around the smart bed, and to distort the original sound with an irreversible mathematical function thereby irreversibly generating a distorted sound at an analog level without creating a digital version of the original sound, and to convert the distorted sound to a digital signal, wherein the distorted sound comprises distinctive features for differentiating between different sound categories; and
a controller, communicatively coupled to and configured to receive and process input from the load cell in each of the plurality of legs and the microphone, the controller being configured to receive the digital signal from the microphone, the microphone isolating the controller from the original sound around the smart bed such that the original sound is not available to the controller, the controller including an artificial intelligence-based sound classifier configured to perform sound classification to identify one or more of the sound categories in the digital signal and to collectively analyze the one or more identified sound categories together with input from the load cell in each of the plurality of legs, the sound classifier being trained with the digital signal to determine speaker identity, the controller being further configured to transmit data determined based on the analysis to a remote server via a communication network.