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#46
Originally Posted by mm0zct View Post
Does the stylus have any gyro sensors to report? You can make a good guess at orientation by assuming that the accelerometer is always pointing "down" as gravity is the dominant reading. Putting it through a low pass filter should give you a pretty good bearing on where "down" is relative to the device. You can then use the phone's accelerometer similarly to work out the screen orientation, and then you can work out the relative angle between the two.
Unfortunately no, it doesn't seem to have any extra sensors. So it's just a single accelerometer, which is OK for measuring tilt angle but cannot be used to measure most other angles. However, I after watching a video of someone pairing the device with an iPad, I think I figured out pretty much how it works: the iPad software asks the user for their "writing style preference" (e.g. right-handed, left-handed, angle). The accelerometer is only used to measure the tilt angle.

Pretty disappointing for a "patented technology".