Variable Positioning of Distributed Body Sensors with Single or Dual Wireless Earpiece System and Method

• US 20180014102A1
• Filed: 07/06/2017
• Published: 01/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bragi GmbH
• Original Assignee: Bragi GmbH
• Inventors: Hirsch, Eric Christian, Boesen, Peter Vincent
• Application Number:
  US15/642,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20180014102A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/05 specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1016 Earpieces of the intra-aural type
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2460/07 Use of position data from wide-area or local-area positioning systems in hearing devices, e.g. program or information selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/55 using an external connection, either wireless or wired
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 5/033 Headphones for stereophonic communication details thereof, e.g. relating to batteries, cables or control elements H04R1/10

Abstract

A method of location determination using a first wireless earpiece includes receiving a first set of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) satellite signals at a first GNSS antenna of the first wireless earpiece, determining a GNSS position of a user of the first wireless earpiece from the first set of GNSS satellite signals, and augmenting the GNSS position of the user of the first wireless earpiece using position information from a second wearable device of the user to provide a location determination more accurate than the GNSS position of the user determined using the GNSS satellite signals at the first GNSS antenna of the first wireless earpiece.

Claims

1. A method of location determination using a first wireless earpiece, the method comprising steps of:

receiving a first set of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) satellite signals at a first GNSS antenna of the first wireless earpiece;

determining a GNSS position of a user of the first wireless earpiece from the first set of GNSS satellite signals; and

augmenting the GNSS position of the user of the first wireless earpiece using position information from a second wearable device of the user to provide a location determination more accurate than the GNSS position of the user determined using the GNSS satellite signals at the first GNSS antenna of the first wireless earpiece.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the second wearable device of the user comprises a second GNSS antenna for receiving a second set of GNSS satellite signals, wherein the first set of GNSS satellite signals is from a set of satellites different from the second set of GNSS satellite signals.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the second wearable device is a second wireless earpiece.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the position information from the second wearable device is determined based on network data.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the network data is cellular network data.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the network data comprises mesh network data.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the position information from the second wearable device is determined based on sensor data from at least one sensor of the second wearable device.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the sensor data comprises at least one audio signal and wherein the at least one sensor comprises at least one microphone.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the sensor data comprises imagery and wherein the at least one sensor comprises at least one camera.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the position information from the second wearable device is obtained by comparing the imagery to a database of images and image locations.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising communicating the location determination to the user.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising communicating the location determination to a wearable device worn by the user.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising initializing the first wireless earpiece.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the initializing comprises confirming the first wireless earpiece is worn by the user.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the confirming the first wireless earpiece is worn by the user comprises detecting a biometric parameter at the earpiece.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising determining a position of a point on a body of the user based on the location determination and an offset.