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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2014
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Douglas A. Moore, Livermore, CA (US);
Joseph M. A. Djugash, San Jose, CA (US);
Yasuhiro Ota, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Abstract
A wearable neck device for providing environmental awareness to a user, the wearable neck device includes a flexible tube. A first stereo pair of cameras is encased in a left portion of the flexible tube and a second stereo pair of cameras is encased in a right portion of the flexible tube. A vibration motor within the flexible tube provides haptic and audio feedback to the user. A processor in the flexible tube recognizes objects from the first stereo pair of cameras and the second stereo pair of cameras. The vibration motor provides haptic and audio feedback of the items or points of interest to the user.