852results 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.

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.

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.

A measurement system includes earphones configured to be worn on a left ear and a right ear of a user and be interchangeably attached with earpieces having different sizes on one end portion of each, and a wireless terminal. Each of the earphones collects a sound signal by a microphone of the earphone in a case that the earphone outputs a sound signal from its speaker, the measurement system performs measurement processing to determine whether an ear of the user is sealed by the worn earpiece, and the wireless terminal includes a display unit, and displays, on the display unit, a notification indicating that a size of the worn earpiece is a most suitable size among sizes of the plurality of earpieces, or a notification urging replacement with another earpiece having a size larger than or smaller than the size of the worn earpiece.

A system for detecting motion disorder of a user of a head-wearable device includes: at least one motion sensor, providing motion data of the user of the head-wearable device; the head wearable device, with a processing unit for processing the motion data provided by the at least motion sensor and with a memory unit for storing the processed motion data. The processing unit has a processor adapted to perform the following: i) analyzing the motion data and thereby generating analyzed motion data, including classifying the motion data to different motion classes; j) storing the analyzed motion data; k) comparing current motion data with reference motion data, wherein the reference motion data is selected from the group of previously stored motion data of the same motion class and external reference motion data; and l) submitting a warning signal if the current motion data inadmissible differs from the reference motion data.

A wearable multifunction device or earpiece or a pair of earpieces includes one or more processors, at least one microphone coupled to the one or more processors, a biometric sensor coupled to the one or more processors, and a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory having computer instructions causing the one or more processors to perform the operations of sensing a remaining battery life and based on the sensing, prioritizing one or more of the functions of always on recording, biometric measuring, biometric recording, sound pressure level measuring, voice activity detection, key word detection, key word analysis, personal audio assistant functions, transmission of data to a tethered phone, transmission of data to a server, transmission of data to a cloud device.

The present disclosure provides a hearing aid system. The hearing aid system comprises a hearing aid main body and an earplug piece, the hearing aid main body is provided with a first playback channel, and the hearing aid main body is used for extending into an ear canal; the earplug piece comprises a supporting connecting layer, a temperature-sensitive deformation layer and an extension heat conduction coating layer, the supporting connecting layer is connected with the temperature-sensitive deformation layer, the extension heat conduction coating layer is connected to the peripheral wall of the side, away from the supporting connecting layer, of the temperature-sensitive deformation layer in a coating mode, and the supporting connecting layer is connected with the hearing aid body; a first playback via hole is formed in the supporting connecting layer, a second playback via hole is formed in the temperature-sensitive deformation layer, and the second playback via hole is used for being communicated with an ear canal; the temperature-sensitive deformation layer is used for being heated to deform and expand in the ear canal, and the extension heat-conducting coating layer is used for extending to deform to fit the ear canal when the temperature-sensitive deformation layer is heated to deform and expand, so that the extension heat-conducting coating layer is clamped and propped against the inner wall of the ear canal. The hearing aid system is good in use comfort in the long-term wearing and using process.

An ear tip assembly structure includes a housing, a sound guide tube, and an elastic support. The sound guide tube is disposed inside the housing and extends out of the housing. The elastic support is disposed inside the sound guide tube and includes a snap fastener and an elastic arm. The elastic arm is connected to the snap fastener and is bent in a vertical direction. The snap fastener extends out of the sound guide tube to engage with an ear tip.

Aspects include headphones. In certain cases, a headphone includes: an ear cuff body having: a first portion configured to pass over an outer side of at least one of an antihelix, a helix, or a lobule of a user's outer ear; and a second portion configured to sit behind the outer ear; an acoustic package configured to deliver sound to the ear canal region; and wiring extending between the ear cuff body to the acoustic package.

A hearing device, in particular a hearing aid, includes a multi-feed antenna apparatus with at least two antenna branches. Each antenna branch is connected to a line. The lines are interconnected at a connection point and are routed through a filter and a first matching network to a transceiver circuit. A second matching network is assigned to each antenna branch for a phase shift and matching. A multi-feed antenna apparatus for the hearing device is also provided.

Embodiments herein relate to ear-worn devices magnetic rechargeable interfaces. In an embodiment, an ear-worn device system for listening includes having a first ear-worn device having a first ear-worn device charging structure having an ear-worn device alignment structure with a magnetic material; and a charger case having a first case charging structure and a case alignment structure, wherein the first case charging structure includes a first case electrical contact, wherein the case alignment structure includes a first pole-aligned magnet and a second pole-aligned magnet having opposite poles and positioned on a first side of the case alignment structure, wherein the magnetic material is magnetically attracted to the first pole-aligned magnet and the second pole-aligned magnet. Other embodiments are also included herein.

A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to receive an audio signal obtained from a microphone, input the audio signal into frequency-domain Kalman filter (FDKF), input the audio signal and an output from the FDKF into a neural network, estimate, based on the audio signal and the output from the FDKF, and removing feedback signals from the audio signal by the neural network, and output a version of the audio signal in which a target vocal signal is enhanced by removal of the feedback signals from the audio signal by the neural network.

According to some embodiments, an ear-worn device, e.g., a hearing aid, is provided that operates to monitor the health of a wearer of the ear-worn device based on an audio signal detected by the ear-worn device. In some embodiments, a method of monitoring the health of the wearer of the ear-worn device includes: detecting the audio signal with a microphone of the ear-worn device; processing the detected audio signal using a processor of the ear-worn device; and outputting, from an output signal generator of the ear-worn device, a generated output audio signal. In some embodiments, processing the detected audio signal includes: extracting data indicative of a health event associated with the wearer by processing the detected audio signal with a machine learning model; generating the output audio signal based on the detected audio signal; and outputting the data indicative of the health event.

A system may include an external device configured to transmit a first audio data to an ear-bud. A system may include the ear-bud configured to be positioned within an ear canal of a user, the ear-bud comprising: a microphone configured to generate audio data responsive to detecting audio, a storage device, configured to store computer-executable instructions; and one or more processors in communication with the storage device, wherein the computer-executable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: receive the first audio data from the external device, receive a second audio data from the microphone, estimate an acoustic environment based on the first audio data and the second audio data, generate a third audio data based on the acoustic environment, and cause a speaker to emit the third audio data.

Disclosed are embodiments of a hearing aid. The hearing aid comprises an input unit configured to provide a first digitized signal associated with a first sampling rate and a second digitized signal associated with a second sampling rate. The first digitized signal comprises a plurality of first frames. The second digitized signal comprises a plurality of second frames. The hearing aid determines the first sampling rate as being different from or as being greater than the second sampling rate such that the time duration of each of each first frame is the same as the time duration of each second frame.

The invention relates to a binaural hearing aid system comprising hearing aids for placement at or in the left and right ear of a user, each hearing aid comprising a microphone arrangement, a wireless communication unit, a receiver and a sound channel with a valve which can be moved from an open state to a closed state and vice versa. The binaural hearing aid system further comprises a signal processing arrangement adapted to generate a beamformed signal based on microphone signals provided by one or both of the microphone arrangements and to apply the beamformed signal to one or both of the receivers, and a valve control arrangement having an asymmetric state in which the valve control arrangement is configured to asymmetrically control the valves in each hearing aid by moving the valves to a position in which one valve is more open than the other.

The application discloses a kind of adaptive hearing compensation Bluetooth hearing aid optimization method and system, comprising: S1: collecting user individual hearing curve and the background audio data of left and right ear under each typical scene and respectively pre-processing;S2: extracting the time-frequency fusion feature of each typical scene, generate scene feature vector and construct scene feature vector library;S3: calculate scene perception conversion vector, mutation risk vector, smooth gain vector;S4: calculate binaural gain change vector, binaural synchronization entropy vector, phase alignment factor vector and left and right ear collaborative gain vector;S5: according to left and right ear collaborative gain vector, the background audio data of left and right ear pre-processed under current scene is handled, and output to Bluetooth hearing aid.The application can solve the gain mutation problem generated when existing Bluetooth hearing aid switches scene and the problem of spatial perception distortion caused by binaural collaborative disorder.

The present inventive subject matter provides a method for tuning ANC based on a hearing threshold level of a user and an apparatus for tuning ANC based on a hearing threshold level of a user, wherein hearing threshold level data of the user is obtained by performing a hearing test on the user, and an ANC filter is tuned based on the hearing threshold level data of the user, so that the user obtains more optimized ANC effects.

The present disclosure discloses a hearing effect calibration method and apparatus for an earphone, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method is applied to an adjustment terminal of the earphone and comprises: acquiring hearing thresholds of a first user and a second user; calculating a hearing acuity parameter of the first user relative to the second user based on the hearing thresholds; acquiring a first gain adjustment amount set by the first user who had adjusted a gain of the earphone according to his / her own auditory effect; determining a product of the first gain adjustment amount and the hearing acuity parameter as a second gain adjustment amount; and determining a final gain value of the earphone for the second user based on the second gain adjustment amount.

A communication device (4, 4A) for a hearing protection system (3, 3A) comprising one or more hearing protection devices (2A, 2B). The communication device comprises a processing unit, a memory, and an interface. The interface comprises a first hearing protection device interface (40A) comprising a first connector (40C) for connection of a hearing protection device. The interface (20) comprises a second hearing protection device interface (40B) comprising a second connector (40C) for connection of a hearing protection device. The first connector and the second connector are of the same connector type.

This application relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a sound receiving device based on a dual-mode audio three-dimensional code and a method and an apparatus for parsing a control signal of a sound receiving device based on a dual-mode audio three-dimensional code. The method includes: receiving an operation instruction and encoding the operation instruction as a digital vector; obtaining a first audio three-dimensional code corresponding to a preset speech signal, and encoding the digital vector into the first audio three-dimensional code to obtain a second audio three-dimensional code; and converting the second audio three-dimensional code into a speech signal and sending the speech signal to a sound receiving device. In the method, operation convenience can be improved, and an instruction operation can be performed without arrangement of any additional module.

The embodiment of the utility model relates to the technical field of hearing aids, in particular to a communication switching circuit and a hearing aid. According to the utility model, the interface circuit, the insertion detection circuit, the power supply output circuit, the communication interaction circuit and the master control circuit are arranged, and the master control circuit is connected with the insertion detection circuit, the power supply output circuit and the communication interaction circuit and is used for receiving detection signals and controlling the power supply output circuit or the communication interaction circuit to be switched on and off according to the detection signals; therefore, charging connection or communication connection between the charging bin and the earphone is controlled. The power supply output circuit and the communication interaction circuit are connected to the second contact at the same time and are controlled by the master control circuit to be switched, one contact can be multiplexed for charging and communication, compatible design in multiple stages such as software development, PCB circuit board, shell design and material composition is greatly reduced, the production cost is reduced, and the production efficiency is improved. Meanwhile, through the design of the utility model, the integrity of the earphone and the charging cabin is higher.

The utility model relates to the technical field of hearing aids, in particular to an ear-hanging type anti-falling hearing aid, which comprises a hearing aid main body, the front end of the hearing aid main body is designed to be an ear-hanging part, the rear end of the hearing aid main body is designed to be a rear-hanging part, the ear-hanging part is connected with earplugs, and the bottoms of two sides of the rear-hanging part are provided with a power key and a volume up-down key. The hearing aid adopts a dual support structure combining the ear hanging part and the fixing band, the hearing aid is worn on the auricle by utilizing the ear hanging part to ensure stable wearing, and the fixing band bypasses the head top to provide additional support, so that the weight of the rear hanging part is dispersed, the pressure of the ear is reduced, and the wearing comfort is improved; and meanwhile, the hearing aid is effectively prevented from loosening or falling off during strenuous exercise or long-time wearing.

A system comprising a hearing device and a charging device is disclosed. The charging device is configured for accommodating the hearing device and is further configured for inductively charging the hearing device. The hearing device comprises a rechargeable battery arranged in connection with a receiver coil. The receiver coil is arranged in a hearing device housing. The receiver coil comprises a magnetic core and a metal winding wound around the magnetic core. The charging device comprises at least one transmitter coil arranged in a charging device housing. The transmitter coil comprising the metal winding is configured for charging the hearing device. When the hearing device is accommodated in the charging device, the transmitter coil is arranged to at least partially enclose the receiver coil.

Acoustic output device, characterized in that it comprises: a housing in which an inner chamber is formed; a support structure that allows the housing to be held in a position on the ear without blocking the external ear canal; a first loudspeaker which is accommodated in the inner chamber, the first loudspeaker comprising a first magnet and a first diaphragm which are spaced apart from each other in a direction of vibration of the first diaphragm; and a second loudspeaker which is incorporated in the inner cannon, the second loudspeaker comprising a second magnet and a second diaphragm spaced apart from each other in a direction of vibration of the second diaphragm; wherein the first magnet and the second magnet are spaced apart from each other in the direction of oscillation of the first membrane, and wherein the first magnet and the second magnet have the same magnetic poles which are arranged opposite each other.

Implementations generally relate to hearing aids. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a sound at a hearing aid, the sound being an alarm. The method further includes determining a type of the alarm. The method further includes generating a notification based on the type of alarm.

A method of head-tracking of a subject in a hearing system comprising a first hearing device and a second hearing device is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining, from a first accelerometer of the first hearing device, first accelerometer data. The method comprises obtaining, from a second accelerometer of the second hearing device, second accelerometer data. The method comprises determining a head parameter indicative of position and / or movement of the head of the subject based on the first accelerometer data and the second accelerometer data. The method comprises providing an output indicative of the head parameter.

The application discloses a hearing aid health analysis method based on physiological signal monitoring function, comprising the following steps: collecting physiological signal data of a user in real time through a multi-modal biological sensor array integrated in a hearing aid body; the hearing aid body comprises a digital signal processor and a wireless communication module; the physiological signal data at least comprises an electroencephalogram signal, a galvanic skin response signal and a temporal artery pulse signal; the physiological signal data is subjected to motion artifact elimination processing through an adaptive filtering algorithm; a preprocessed physiological signal is subjected to feature extraction through an embedded health analysis engine, and a composite health feature vector comprising a sympathetic nerve activity index, a cognitive load metric and a cardiovascular function index is generated; a health risk assessment report is dynamically generated based on the association between the composite health feature vector and a preset hearing scene; and a graded health alarm signal is output through a bone conduction vibration unit and an audio synthesis module of the hearing aid body.