US 12,029,322 B2
Headboard with back-facing lights
Carli Hill, Oxnard, CA (US); and Joseph Ermalovich, Santa Barbara, CA (US)
Assigned to Sleep Number Corporation, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by Sleep Number Corporation, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/086,104.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/295,221, filed on Dec. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0210269 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. A47C 21/00 (2006.01); A47C 31/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47C 21/003 (2013.01) [A47C 31/008 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bed system comprising:
a headboard;
backward facing lights positioned at a back side of the headboard; and
a controller operably connected to the backward facing lights and configured to drive the backward facing lights to provide circadian lighting, wherein the controller is configured to:
determine when a user of the bed system is waking up based on sensed data; and
control the backward facing lights to provide circadian lighting that corresponds to a wakeup routine for the user, wherein the circadian lighting that corresponds to the wakeup routine for the user is brighter, stronger, and cooler shades of light than circadian lighting that corresponds to a sleep routine for the user, wherein the backward facing lights are configured to provide lighting that reflects off a wall opposite the back side of the headboard at an angle within a range of 96 degrees to 120 degrees.