Patent ID: 9681219
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04R,H04S

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program instructions, the at least one memory and the computer program instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine a physical orientation of a headphone device based on at least a direction and a motion of movement using one or more sensors located within the headphone device, wherein the motion of the movement is determined based on a determination of acceleration or trajectory, using the one or more sensors located within the headphone device, wherein the trajectory is a forward direction or a backward direction, and the direction of the movement is determined using at least another one of the one more or more sensors; determine whether a user is wearing the headphone device in a correct or an incorrect headphone channel orientation based on the determined physical orientation using the determined motion and direction based on respective outputs from the one or more sensors, the correct headphone channel orientation being a left channel placed to a left ear of the user and a right channel placed to a right ear of the user; and provide an indication of the determined physical orientation or adjust an output channel configuration of the apparatus for the headphone device so that a left output channel is to be provided to the left ear and a right output channel is to be provided to the right ear even when the headphone channel orientation is incorrect.