US 12,136,330 B1
Neck band for movement safety
Chandrasekaran Jayaraman, Seattle, WA (US); John Freitag, Seattle, WA (US); Manish Avinash Mantrawadi, Redmond, WA (US); and Josh Watson, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,959.
Int. Cl. G08B 21/04 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G08B 6/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 21/0446 (2013.01) [G06F 3/16 (2013.01); G08B 6/00 (2013.01); G08B 21/0453 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
15. A neck worn monitoring device comprising:
a support frame shaped to be worn around a neck of a user;
a feedback assembly operable to output a feedback to the user;
one or more sensors configured to generate one or more sensor outputs indicative of at least one of a posture of the user, an activity of the user, or an environment of the user; and
a control unit configured to:
process the one or more sensor outputs to monitor at least one of the posture of the user, the activity of the user, or the environment of the user; and
operate the feedback assembly to transmit, to the user, a feedback indicative of at least one of the posture of the user, the activity of the user, or the environment of the user;
an additional sensor selected from the group consisting of: an ionization detector, a photoelectric detector, a heart rate sensor, galvanic skin response (GSR) sensor, a microphone, and a location sensor, and wherein the control unit is further configured to:
process one or more additional signals from the additional sensor; and
operate the feedback assembly to transmit a feedback that is based on the one or more additional signals from the additional sensor.