2129results about "Deaf-aid sets" patented technology

A headset antenna and a connector for the same are provided. The headset antenna includes an audio signal line, an antenna and a high impedance element in specified application frequency ranges. The audio signal line is adapted for transmitting an audio signal and the antenna is adapted for receiving an RF signal. The high impedance element is disposed on a transmission path of the audio signal and generates a high impedance at a specified frequency band of the RF signal, so that the audio signal line is equivalent to an open circuit and the antenna obtains a better receiving capability.

An auditory operating system designed to facilitate context-aware, audio-based user interactions, particularly with artificial intelligence agents or applications. An auditory operating system shell serves as the primary interface, managing and coordinating multiple specialized agents that handle specific domains like music streaming, scheduling, or home automation. Using natural language processing, the auditory operating system shell identifies the appropriate agent or application for a user's command or query and ensures task execution and context preservation across interactions. The auditory operating system shell enforces privacy and stability by controlling agents' and applications' access to data and system privileges. The auditory operating system shell also supports dynamic context management, enabling seamless handoffs between agents when user requests span multiple domains. This auditory operating system shell may reduce the need for users to memorize specific wake words or commands, as the auditory operating system shell may determine the user's intent from speech or contextual cues.

The present disclosure provides an acoustic output device. The acoustic output device may comprise a bone conduction speaker configured to generate bone conduction acoustic waves. The acoustic output device may also comprise an air conduction speaker configured to generate air conduction acoustic waves, the air conduction speaker being independent of the bone conduction speaker. The acoustic output device may further comprise at least one housing configured to accommodate the bone conduction speaker and the air conduction speaker.

Disclosed herein is an audio system that can be customized by the user (including the developer) and that may allow the user to control more than just the sound levels and may allow the user to select more than one of a few pre-determined settings. Disclosed herein is a development platform that allows manufacturers (including the developers) to test various different parameters, settings, algorithms, functions, processes, accessories, and the like. The development platform allows the manufacturer to simulate the performances from possible options for the audio system, and then load the selected option from the development platform to the audio system. Additionally, the development platform that enables the end user to have the same level of control and ability to access, upload, and control plugins on the end user's device(s).

An electronic device includes a first housing connected to a second housing having a protrusion configured to be seated on an ear. The electronic device also includes a printed circuit board, a wireless communication circuit, an antenna carrier disposed in internal space defined by the first housing and the second housing. The electronic device also includes a conductive pattern formed over the first surface and the second surface through a first through hole and electrically connected to the wireless communication circuit. The antenna carrier includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and through holes passing through the antenna carrier. The antenna carrier also includes a groove structure including a portion in contact with a second through hole and formed on the second surface of the antenna carrier. The wireless communication circuit transmits and / or receives a wireless signal by providing power to the conductive pattern.

A system for presenting audio content to a user. The system comprises one or more microphones coupled to a frame of a headset. The one or more microphones capture sound from a local area. The system further comprises an audio controller integrated into the headset and communicatively coupled to an in-ear device worn by a user. The audio controller identifies one or more sound sources in the local area based on the captured sound. The audio controller further determines a target sound source of the one or more sound sources and determines one or more filters to apply to a sound signal associated with the target sound source in the captured sound. The audio controller further generates an augmented sound signal by applying the one or more filters to the sound signal and provides the augmented sound signal to the in-ear device for presentation to a user.

An apparatus is described herein related to detecting and processing silent speech. The apparatus comprises a head-mountable device and at least one ear-mountable device, wherein the ear-mountable devices are configured to selectively pick up both head-internal and head-externals sounds, thus enabling silent speech to be detectable and wherein the head-mountable device comprises an eye tracking unit capable of determining a gaze dwell of a user of the device, thus enabling silent speech commands to be directed at objects subject to a gaze dwell, or enabling speech or audio originating from an interlocutor who is subject to a gaze dwell to be selectively enhanced. Methods are described herein relate to the application of semantic intent derived from a silent speech to real-word objects which are subject to a gaze dwell by a user.

The invention relates to a hearing aid intelligent noise reduction and human voice enhancement system based on electroencephalogram signals, and belongs to the field of biomedical engineering and acoustic signal processing. The system comprises an electroencephalogram signal acquisition module, a multi-channel acoustic sensor array, an embedded neural signal processor, an adaptive beam forming module, a dynamic speech enhancement engine and a dual-mode output device, and constructs electroencephalogram-acoustics joint features by extracting an alpha / theta wave power ratio, a P300 component and auditory cortical Gamma phase synchronism. A deep network is driven to separate target voice, a wave beam direction and a frequency response curve are dynamically adjusted based on neural feedback, a closed-loop calibration unit is innovatively adopted, gain is reversely adjusted according to N1-P2 wave amplitude, heart rate variability and eye movement data are fused to optimize decisions, and when the signal-to-noise ratio is-5dB, the voice recognition rate reaches 89%, the auditory fatigue is reduced by 37%, and the decision conflict rate is smaller than 6%. The defects of attention blind area, noise separation failure and physiological adaptation of a traditional hearing aid are overcome. The system is suitable for the fields of hearing impairment rehabilitation, special communication and intelligent cabins.

Methods and apparatus are described herein related to improving the sound quality of a bone conduction speaker. The sound quality of the bone conduction speaker is adjusted in the sound generation, sound transferring, and sound receiving of the bone conduction speaker by designing vibration generation manners and vibration transfer structures.

A loudspeaker system and method can measure a specific user's hearing and implement compensatory or corrective processing to address the user's hearing deficiencies. The user's hearing acuity may be determined by (i) headphone techniques in which frequency-based hearing thresholds are determined; (ii) a loudspeaker system set up as intended for use in an acoustic space to emit tonal stimuli; or (iii) inducing, acquiring, and interpreting otoacoustic emissions. Once the hearing profile is determined, appropriate signal processing parameters can be used to generate a corrected audio output signal adjustment. The administered hearing test results can include a plurality of hearing loudness threshold levels at respective test frequencies. The hearing correction system's corrected audio output can be generated from corrected loudness values at selected correction frequency sub-bands.

This application discloses a charging case and an earphone assembly. The charging case has two earphone slots that are disposed at an interval, and the earphone slot is configured to accommodate an earphone. The charging case includes a case body and a case cover, and the case cover is rotatably connected to the case body. The earphone slot includes a top slot and a bottom slot that are located in the case body. The top slot is configured to accommodate an earbud of the earphone. The bottom slot is configured to accommodate a stem of the earphone. The case body includes a top surface disposed to face the case cover. Both an opening of the top slot and an opening of the bottom slot are located on the top surface of the case body, and the opening of the bottom slot is lower than the opening of the top slot.

The utility model discloses an ear canal embedded hearing aid, which relates to the technical field of medical instruments, and comprises a bearing assembly, the bearing assembly comprises a first packaging shell, a second packaging shell and a filter screen, a signal processing piece and a lithium battery are respectively arranged in the first packaging shell, and the second packaging shell is provided with a second packaging shell. The signal processing piece comprises a signal amplifier, a filter and a central processing unit, and a micro air pump, a control switch, a potentiometer and a microphone are installed on the right side of the first packaging shell. The beneficial effects of the utility model are that through the arrangement of the miniature air pump, the air delivery pipe and the expansion anti-skid assembly, when the ear canals of different users have large differences or need to be worn stably, the miniature air pump can be controlled to work, so that air enters the hollow rubber ring through the air delivery pipe and the delivery pipe, and the hollow rubber ring is gradually expanded to be in contact with the ear wall; therefore, the wearing stability of the bearing assembly is ensured, and the sound definition after conversion of the receiver is ensured.

Embodiments herein relate to ear-wearable devices having acoustic port guards. In an embodiment, an ear-wearable device is included having a receiver, an acoustic channel wall defining an acoustic channel between the receiver and an acoustic channel opening, an acoustic port guard disposed at a device opening. The acoustic port guard is included having a first ring structure including a first ring portion and an insertion portion, wherein the insertion portion is configured to be inserted into the device opening. The acoustic port guard can include a plurality of ribs connected to the first ring structure with each of the plurality of ribs defining an outer portion extending beyond an outer radius of the first ring structure. Other embodiments are also included herein.

The invention discloses a Bluetooth hearing-aid earphone optimization method and system for adaptive hearing compensation. The method comprises the following steps: S1, acquiring a personalized hearing curve of a user and background audio data of left and right ears in each typical scene, and respectively preprocessing the background audio data; s2, extracting time-frequency fusion features of each typical scene, generating scene feature vectors, and constructing a scene feature vector library; s3, calculating a scene perception conversion vector, an abrupt change risk vector and a smooth gain vector; s4, calculating a binaural gain change vector, a binaural synchronous entropy vector, a phase alignment factor vector and a left and right ear cooperative gain vector; and S5, according to the left and right ear cooperative gain vectors, processing the background audio data after left and right ear preprocessing in the current scene, and outputting the processed background audio data to the Bluetooth hearing-aid earphone. According to the invention, the problem of gain abrupt change generated during scene switching of the existing Bluetooth hearing-aid earphone and the problem of spatial perception distortion caused by binaural coordination imbalance can be solved.

Methods and apparatus are described herein related to improving the sound quality of a bone conduction speaker. The sound quality of the bone conduction speaker is adjusted in the sound generation, sound transferring, and sound receiving of the bone conduction speaker by designing vibration generation manners and vibration transfer structures.

Various embodiments of an earbud and an ear-wearable electronic device that includes such earbud are disclosed. The earbud includes an elongated body having a first end, a second end, a cavity extending along a body axis between the first end and the second end of the elongated body, and a body acoustic port disposed in the first end of the body and acoustically coupled to the cavity of the body. A portion of the cavity adjacent the body acoustic port includes a cross-sectional area in a plane orthogonal to the body axis that increases in a direction from the second end of the body to the first end of the body. The earbud further includes a flange connected to the elongated body and a wax bridge disposed on an outer surface of the flange along the body axis and over the body acoustic port.

Eyewear includes at least a temple having a cavity open to the outside through first and second holes positioned opposite each other along a transversal direction. The eyewear includes a speaker assembly mounted inside the cavity, which has a speaker operable to reproduce a sound, a speaker enclosure that houses the speaker and a processing unit configured to control the operation of the speaker. The speaker includes a diaphragm designed to move in order to produce the sound, the diaphragm dividing an internal volume of the speaker enclosure into front and back cavities that are open to the outside of the speaker enclosure respectively through front and back openings. The speaker assembly is mounted inside the cavity to create an air communication between the front opening and the first hole and between the back opening and the second hole. The back opening is positioned to directly face the second hole.

The disclosed systems and method provide for an audio playback device to form a Bluetooth connection with an audio source device based on audio generated by an acoustic transducer. The audio is encoded with Bluetooth connectivity data corresponding to the audio source device. The acoustic transducer can be arranged on the audio source device, or it can be arranged on an audio playback device connected to the audio source device via a Bluetooth connection. The audio is received by a microphone of an audio playback device. The audio playback device then extracts the Bluetooth connectivity information from the audio, and forms a Bluetooth connection with the audio source device. If the Bluetooth connection is a Broadcast Audio stream, as defined by the LE Audio standard, multiple audio playback devices can be able to connect audio source device, allowing for a communal listening experience.

Adjustable auricular nerve stimulation devices, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. A representative device for delivering an electrical signal to a subject includes a signal delivery element including at least two electrodes configured to deliver the electrical signal to a first portion of the subject's ear. The device also includes a retention element configured to engage a second portion of the subject's ear. The device further includes an adjustment mechanism permitting movement of the signal delivery element relative to the retention element to place the at least two electrodes in contact with the first portion of the subject's ear.

Disclosed is a howling suppression method, including: determining, according to an audio signal collected by a microphone, whether a howling event occurs; if a howling event occurs, determining a howling type corresponding to the howling event; if the howling type is impulse wave howling, reducing an amplitude gain of a frequency band to which the howling event belongs, and performing a filtering process on the audio signal the amplitude gain reduction of which is reduced, to obtain a target audio signal; and controlling a speaker to play the target audio signal. According to the present disclosure, howling event suppression effect can be improved, thereby reducing the damage of audio playing to the hearing of a user. Further disclosed in the present disclosure are a howling suppression apparatus, an in-ear earphone, and a storage medium, to which the howling suppression method is applied.

The invention discloses an environment self-adaptive hearing aid which comprises a hearing aid body, an adjusting gear is rotatably mounted on the outer side of the hearing aid body, a touch control screen is arranged on the outer side of the hearing aid body, a positioning auxiliary assembly is arranged on the outer side of the hearing aid body, and a transmission pipe is connected to the top of the hearing aid body in a penetrating mode. And a receiving assembly is arranged at the bottom of the silica gel shell. According to the hearing aid self-adaptive to the environment, the positioning auxiliary assembly is arranged, so that the hearing aid body can be stably attached to the outline of the ear of a user, the problem that a traditional hearing aid slips due to infirm wearing is effectively avoided, the hearing aid is made of a soft skin-friendly material, the oppression on the skin of the ear due to long-time wearing can be reduced, and the wearing comfort is remarkably improved; the earphone is especially suitable for the old and other groups needing to use hearing aids for a long time, the receiving assembly is arranged, earphone bodies of different specifications can be matched according to requirements, the earphone bodies can adapt to the angle difference of ear canals, and optimization of a sound transmission path is ensured.

Methods, systems, computer-readable media, devices, and apparatuses for synchronized mode transitions are presented. A first device configured to be worn at an ear includes a processor configured to, in a first contextual mode, receive a first mode change request from a second device to transition at a first time to a second contextual mode. The first mode change request is based on detection of a trigger condition. The processor is further configured to, at the first time, transition from the first contextual mode to the second contextual mode based on the first mode change request.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for power transmission between playback devices, systems and methods for energy harvesting and distribution for audio playback devices, and systems and methods for wirelessly powering wearable audio playback devices.

A speaker unit with a speaker frame and two membranes arranged in the speaker frame. A first membrane radiates in a major acoustic radiation direction substantially perpendicular to a major plane of the speaker unit. A second membrane has a secondary acoustic radiation direction different from the major acoustic radiation direction. Two drive units are positioned within the speaker frame, attached to the two membranes, and positioned coaxial to each other at the same height in the speaker frame. An acoustic duct provides for a closed acoustic channel from the second membrane in the secondary acoustic radiation direction to a secondary surface of the speaker unit in a same plane as the major plane of the speaker unit.

A portable electronic device comprising: an enclosure having an enclosure wall that defines a first chamber, a second chamber and an acoustic opening from the first chamber or the second chamber; and an electroosmotic flow valve operable to open and close the acoustic opening.

A behind-the-ear hearing aid includes a right ear hearing aid and a left ear hearing aid, each of which includes a hanging rod and a battery module. The hanging rod has an arc-shaped structure, and a top of the battery module is provided with an output port. The bottom of the hanging rod has a first guiding rod that is inserted into the output port. Arranged inside the hanging rod are a main control circuit board and a sound adjustment button. The arc-shaped structure of the hanging rod facilitates hanging of the right and left ear hearing aids on the ears of a user, with the sound tube being inserted into the ear auricle of the user. The arc-shaped structure of the hanging rod increases the stability of the hearing aids on the ears, preventing them from falling out easily.

The present disclosure is of a bone conduction microphone. The bone conduction microphone comprises of a laminated structure and a base structure. The laminated structure is formed by a vibration unit and an acoustic transducer unit. The base structure is configured to load the laminated structure. At least one side of the laminated structure is physically connected to the base structure. The base structure vibrates based on an external vibration signal, the vibration unit deforms in response to the vibration of the base structure, and the acoustic transducer unit generates an electrical signal based on the deformation of the vibration unit. A resonant frequency of the bone conduction microphone is within a range of 2.5 kHz-4.5 KHz.

The invention discloses a speech training hearing aid system carrying an AI speech anomaly assessment algorithm, and relates to the AI speech anomaly assessment algorithm, which is characterized in that comprehensive hearing assessment is carried out by collecting a composite signal and formulating an age adaptation rule base, hearing threshold dispersion and signal-to-noise ratio attenuation are obtained, and then a hearing level assessment coefficient is obtained; daily speech evaluation is carried out by collecting speech feature data and formulating a standard speech comparison library, a daily speech anomaly evaluation model is constructed by using a convolutional neural network learning model, and then a daily speech evaluation coefficient is obtained; by collecting multi-dimensional data, professional speech evaluation is carried out, and then a professional speech evaluation coefficient is obtained; and according to the hearing level evaluation coefficient, the daily speech evaluation coefficient and the professional speech evaluation coefficient, analysis is performed to obtain an analysis result, and a comprehensive analysis scheme is formulated, so that the accuracy is greatly improved.