Orientation Sensor - Vuzix M400C Developer's Manual

16 bit, 48 kHz format. Audio streamed to M400C is down-mixed to a single channel and played
on the mono loudspeaker. Audio captured by the microphones on M400C is processed by the
onboard DSP depending on the current audio use case and streamed to the host.
The following use cases are available:
• Playback
Direct Playback The default playback mode. Audio sent to the sound card is played on
the loudspeaker without any processing.
• Record
Direct Record The default record mode. Audio recorded from the front microphone is
sent to the host without any processing.
Live Record Audio recorded by the front two microphones is sent to the host without any
processing.
Personal Record Audio recorded by the microphones is processed by the codec DSP to
record audio coming from the direction of the user (beam forming).
The API to switch between different use cases is detailed in Section 3.2.
Table 2.2 lists the hardware configuration of the microphones, DSP features, and the stream
channel mapping per audio use case.
Use Case Rear
Direct Record Unused
Live Record Unused
Personal Record Used
Definitions of terms are as follows:
AEC Active echo cancellation. Reduces feedback from speaker playback in recording.
Array Array processing. Also known as beam-forming.
Left Left channel of USB input stream.
Right Right channel of USB input stream.
Processed Multiple microphones are sampled and processed to form a single channel stream.

2.2.7 Orientation Sensor

M400C has an integrated orientation sensor with separate accelerometer, gyro, magnetometer
functions. Each function reports
tion using quaternion components
over the USB Sensor HID class. For details see Section D.3.
The orientation of the X-, Y-, and Z-axes relative to the M400C device is shown in Figure 2.1.
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Microphones DSP Features
Middle Front AEC
Unused Used No
Used Used No
Used Unused No
Table 2.2: Audio Use Case Details
X, Y, Z
values. The sensor also reports the device orienta-
W, X, Y, Z
. The sensor readings are reported to the host
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Audio Channel
Array Left Right
No Front Mic Front Mic
No Middle Mic Front Mic
Yes Processed Processed
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