Object avoidance using ear-worn devices and image sensors

Abstract

A system may include one or more image sensors, an ear worn device, and a controller. The one or more image sensors may be configured to sense optical information of an environment and produce image data indicative of the sensed optical information. The ear-worn device may include a housing wearable by a user, an acoustic transducer including at least one driver to generate sound, and a controller comprising one or more processors. The controller may be operatively coupled to the image sensor and the ear-worn device. The controller may be configured to receive the image data, determine a field of attention of the user using the image data, detect an object outside of the field of attention using the image data, determine whether to alert the user of the detected object, and provide an alert indicative of the detected object, if it is determined to alert the user.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.