Bose Corporation

Thomas Claude Bernard Landemaine

Prateek Nath

Binu K Oommen

Mikhail Ioffe

Andrew Farrell

Various implementations include devices, systems and approaches for tracking user orientation. In some cases, a wearable audio device includes: an electro-acoustic transducer for providing an audio output; an inertial measurement unit (IMU) for indicating motion of the wearable audio device; a set of distance sensors; and a controller coupled with the electro-acoustic transducer, the IMU and the set of distance sensors, the controller configured to: determine an orientation of a user of the wearable audio device based on the indication of motion from the IMU; verify the orientation of the user as detected by the IMU, using data from the set of distance sensors; and execute an orientation-based action in response to verifying the orientation of the user.

Head orientation tracking

A system comprises a wearable item comprising a film of an electrically active material configured to exhibit one or more electrical properties that vary responsive to a movement or gesture performed by a user wearing the wearable item and a controller configured to read the one or more electrical properties of the electrically active material and to activate a control function of an electronic device responsive to detecting a predetermined pattern exhibited by the one or more electrical properties of the electrically active material.

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Thomas Claude Bernard Landemaine