Summary
We can accurately estimate which way a mobile phone user is facing regardless of the position of their phone or its orientation.
Knowing which way a user is facing can provide valuable information for the provision of mobile services and applications. The proposed technology utilises inertial sensors that are readily available in mobile consumer devices (e.g. smart phones). While providing high accuracy, the solution is able to cope with arbitrary wearing positions and orientations of the mobile consumer device, making it suitable for use in every-day life situations. This is achieved by an estimation of the user orientation with respect to the reference frame of both the sensing module and the global earth coordinate system.
Benefits
Applications
Uniqueness
Our proprietary algorithm is based on body movements and artificial intelligence techniques. It allows us to estimate both the facing direction of the mobile phone user and the position of the mobile phone on the user.
IP status
A patent was filed by the University of Surrey in
March 2012.
Demo
Demo implemented on Android (HTC phone).
To download our flyer please follow the link below:http://surrey.technologypublisher.com/files/sites/mobile-user-orientation-ccsr-uos.pdf