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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2014
Applicant:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);

Inventors:

Douglas A. Moore, Livermore, CA (US);

Joseph M. A. Djugash, San Jose, CA (US);

Yasuhiro Ota, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); A61H 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/0239 (2013.01); A61H 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 1/163 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06T 7/0075 (2013.01); A61H 2003/063 (2013.01); A61H 2201/165 (2013.01); A61H 2201/1609 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5007 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5043 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5048 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5058 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5064 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5071 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5082 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5084 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5089 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5092 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5097 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10021 (2013.01); H04N 2013/0092 (2013.01);
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.


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