Nintendo is moving towards “quality of life” tech, starting with a sleep monitor device complete with a ceiling projector.
NeoGaf released most of this patent’s content, giving us an early glimpse at the device. The device looks like a docking station, equipped with a ceiling projector, that appears to be about the size of an alarm clock. However, the crude drawings provided make it difficult to tell dimensions.
The official patent description is as follows:
“This information processing system comprises a portable terminal which detects sensor information assessing a user’s emotion’s”
When the device is standby mode it is designed to:
“Assess the user’s emotions on the basis of the sensor information… It would be permissible, as an example, for the sensor information to be sound information which is detected by a microphone, or image information which is captured by a camera.”
The sensors in the device are built to measure the body in multiple ways such as temperature and heart rate. This data is then uploaded Nintendo‘s servers, which then calculates a ‘sleep score’ and then projected onto the ceiling from the device’s built in projector. 
There is also speculation about the device sitting in the docking station and whether or not it’s a Nintendo device or simply a representation of the user’s phone. It should also be noted that this is not their NX device that is set to be revealed next year, but a separate project the Japanese video game giant has been working on, apparently, for years now. Nintendo is keeping its cards close to its chest with this quality of life machine, but with their new health initiative supposedly coming in 2016 we are sure to get more details soon.
(Source: IGN)
