Patent Document ID: 9578307
Application ID: 14154714
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A wearable neck device for providing environmental awareness to a user, comprising: a flexible tube for being worn around a neck of the user, defining a cavity, having a U-shape, and having a center portion configured to rest on a back of a neck of the user, a left portion and a right portion; a first stereo pair of cameras positioned on the left portion of the flexible tube; a second stereo pair of cameras positioned on the right portion of the flexible tube; an inertial measurement unit (IMU) positioned within the cavity and configured to detect inertial measurement data; a vibration unit positioned within the cavity and configured to provide haptic feedback to the user; a speaker positioned along the flexible tube and configured to provide audio feedback to the user; and a processor positioned within the cavity and configured to receive video frames from the first stereo pair of cameras and the second stereo pair of cameras, receive the detected inertial measurement data from the IMU, provide object recognition of items in the video frames, identify points of interest to the user based on the object recognition, determine navigation instructions based on the inertial measurement data and the received video frames, and control the vibration unit to provide haptic feedback and the speaker to provide audio feedback to the user based on the points of interest and the navigation instructions.