479results about "Hearing aids signal processing" patented technology

The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus to improve a user's understanding of speech in real-time conversations by processing the audio through a neural network contained in a hearing device. The hearing device may be a headphone or hearing aid. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to an apparatus to enhance incoming audio signal. The apparatus includes a controller to receive an incoming signal and provide a controller output signal; a neural network engine (NNE) circuitry in communication with the controller, the NNE circuitry activatable by the controller, the NNE circuitry configured to generate an NNE output signal from the controller output signal; and a digital signal processing (DSP) circuitry to receive one or more of controller output signal or the NNE circuitry output signal to thereby generate a processed signal; wherein the controller determines a processing path of the controller output signal through one of the DSP or the NNE circuitries as a function of one or more of predefined parameters, incoming signal characteristics and NNE circuitry feedback.

The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus to improve a user's understanding of speech in real-time conversations by processing the audio through a neural network contained in a hearing device. The hearing device may be a headphone or hearing aid. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to an apparatus to enhance incoming audio signal. The apparatus includes a controller to receive an incoming signal and provide a controller output signal; a neural network engine (NNE) circuitry in communication with the controller, the NNE circuitry activatable by the controller, the NNE circuitry configured to generate an NNE output signal from the controller output signal; and a digital signal processing (DSP) circuitry to receive one or more of controller output signal or the NNE circuitry output signal to thereby generate a processed signal; wherein the controller determines a processing path of the controller output signal through one of the DSP or the NNE circuitries as a function of one or more of predefined parameters, incoming signal characteristics and NNE circuitry feedback.

The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus to improve a user's understanding of speech in real-time conversations by processing the audio through a neural network contained in a hearing device. The hearing device may be a headphone or hearing aid. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to an apparatus to enhance incoming audio signal. The apparatus includes a controller to receive an incoming signal and provide a controller output signal; a neural network engine (NNE) circuitry in communication with the controller, the NNE circuitry activatable by the controller, the NNE circuitry configured to generate an NNE output signal from the controller output signal; and a digital signal processing (DSP) circuitry to receive one or more of controller output signal or the NNE circuitry output signal to thereby generate a processed signal; wherein the controller determines a processing path of the controller output signal through one of the DSP or the NNE circuitries as a function of one or more of predefined parameters, incoming signal characteristics and NNE circuitry feedback.

A hearing aid system comprises a hearing aid, and a portable auxiliary device’ adapted to establish a communication link between them. The hearing aid comprises a microphone providing an electric input signal, a signal processor, and an output unit. The auxiliary device comprises a microphone providing an auxiliary electric input signal, and a user control interface allowing a user to initiate a specific calibration mode of operation of the hearing aid system. The signal processor of the hearing aid is configured to receive corresponding time segments of said electric input signal and said auxiliary electric input signal to provide an estimate of an acoustic transfer function from said microphone of said auxiliary device to said microphone of said hearing aid. A method of operating a hearing aid system is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in various applications related to own voice detection and estimation.

An auditory neural interface device for sound perception by an individual that may be used as a hearing aid. The auditory neural interface device includes a receiver configured to receive sound signals, a processor operably connected to the receiver and configured to encode a received sound signal as a multi-channel neurostimulation signal, and a neurostimulation device operably connected to the processor and configured to apply the multi-channel neurostimulation signal to a neurostimulation electrode of the individual. The neurostimulation signal is configured to directly stimulate afferent sensory neurons of the central nervous system of the individual and thereby to elicit, for each channel of the neurostimulation signal, one or more non-auditory, preferably somatosensory, perceptions in a cortex area of the individual. Each channel of the neurostimulation signal is associated with a different non-auditory perception.

A system for hearing assistance includes an array of microphones, which are configured be mounted in proximity to a head of a user of the system and to output electrical signals in response to first acoustic waves that are incident on the microphones. A speaker is configured for mounting in proximity to an ear of the user and configured to output second acoustic waves in response to a drive signal applied to the speaker. Processing circuitry is configured to generate the drive signal by amplifying and filtering the electrical signals using a beamforming filter that emphasizes first sounds that impinge on the array of microphones within a selected angular range while suppressing second sounds that are spoken by the user.

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to reduce noise in audio. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to determine a noise signal in one or more speech signals.

A system, product and method comprising: capturing, by two or more microphones of a separate device physically separate from a hearable device of a user, a noisy audio signal from an environment of the user, wherein a plurality of people is present in the environment, the hearable device is used for providing audio output to the user; processing the noisy audio signal, thereby obtaining an enhanced audio signal, said processing comprises applying speech separation on the noisy audio signal to obtain a separate speech segment of a person of the plurality of people, wherein the speech separation utilizes an acoustic fingerprint of the person for extracting the separate speech segment of the person; and outputting the enhanced audio signal to the user via the at least one hearable device.

An illustrative hearing system may be configured to receive, from an input transducer included in a hearing device configured to be worn by a user, audio data representative of one or more audio signals presented to the user and acquire motion data representative of head movements of the user while the user wears the hearing device and / or own-voice data representative of an own-voice activity of the user. The hearing system may be further configured to determine, based the motion data and / or own-voice data, a listening state of the user with respect to the one or more audio signals and perform, based on the listening state, an operation associated with the hearing device.

A method for training a speech enhancement neural network for being executed on a hearing device comprises: providing a speech enhancement neural network, providing a speech style transfer algorithm for converting speech samples with a first speech style into speech samples with a second speech style, obtaining at least one training data set and applying supervised training on the speech enhancement neural network. The speech enhancement neural network has a network audio input for receiving an input audio signal, one or more network layers for predicting an enhanced audio signal and / or a filter mask for filtering the input audio signal, and a network output for outputting the enhanced audio signal and / or the filter mask. The at least one training data set comprises a training input audio signal comprising a speech sample and a target speech sample.

The invention discloses an intelligent exoskeleton bone auxiliary conduction hearing aid system capable of being remotely controlled and having an electroencephalogram control function, and relates to the technical field of intelligent rehabilitation robots and hearing aid devices. The wearable mechanical part comprises a flexible actuator, an elastic fabric base material, an inertial measurement unit IMU, a plantar pressure sensor array, a surface myoelectricity EMG sensor and an electroencephalogram EEG sensor. And the information processing communication part comprises a central controller, a bone conduction hearing aid module, a multi-mode sensor, an embedded SoC, a DSP / AI accelerator, a 4G / 5G / Wi-Fi module and a power management unit. The flexible exoskeleton walking aid system and the bone conduction hearing aid module are integrated, the electroencephalogram EEG sensor is additionally arranged to achieve the electroencephalogram control function, and cooperation of the three functions of movement assistance, auditory perception and neural intention recognition is achieved. A user can directly control the exoskeleton action mode through electroencephalogram signals, meanwhile, intelligent assistance of lower limb joints is obtained in the walking process, and environment sounds and voice prompts are clearly received in a bone conduction mode. According to the system, the perception ability, the control flexibility and the social participation degree of old people or rehabilitation patients who are inconvenient to move and accompanied with hearing impairment in a complex environment are remarkably improved, and more natural and convenient man-machine interaction experience is provided for users.

Some individuals may have hearing impairments and / or may be in situations that include impediments to hearing. The present disclosure relates to a method (800) comprising: generating (810) an audio signal based on sound received by one or more microphones of an open-ear device; and performing (820) a hearing enhancement process in response to user input, the hearing enhancement process comprising: detecting (830) a speech component of the audio signal; applying (840) a gain function to the speech component of the audio signal based on a plurality of gain parameters to generate a modified output signal; and operating (850) one or more loudspeakers of the open-ear device to produce sound according to the modified output signal.

A hearing system comprises a hearing device configured to be worn by a wearer, the hearing device comprising one or more microphones, an acoustic transducer, audio circuitry coupled to the one or more microphones and the acoustic transducer, and a controller coupled to the audio circuitry. The controller is configured to detect a wearer interaction with the hearing device, determine a context of the wearer's use of the hearing device, obtain user data for groups of a population of hearing device users based on user interaction with, and context of use of, the users' hearing devices, determine an operational change to the hearing device based on the wearer interaction, the context, and the user data that corresponds to the wearer's interaction and context, and apply the operational change to the hearing device.

A system and associated processes include a left and right eyewear stem, each including a microphone array comprising a plurality of microphones, and a digital hearing aid that receives content from the microphone array and extracts a desired signal from the content, the digital hearing aid applying frequency-dependent gain to the desired signal to compensate for a user's hearing loss profile. The system further includes processes that receive the desired signal modified with the frequency-dependent gains to acoustically render the desired modified signal proximate to the ear of the user without anything physical being placed within an entrance to an ear canal. A rechargeable battery may be included, along with a front face of the eyewear configured to hold a pair of eyewear lenses, where the front face lacks an electrical conductor connecting the right and left eyewear stem.

The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus to improve a user's understanding of speech in real-time conversations by processing the audio through a neural network contained in a hearing device. The hearing device may be a headphone or hearing aid. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to an apparatus to enhance incoming audio signal. The apparatus includes a controller to receive an incoming signal and provide a controller output signal; a neural network engine (NNE) circuitry in communication with the controller, the NNE circuitry activatable by the controller, the NNE circuitry configured to generate an NNE output signal from the controller output signal; and a digital signal processing (DSP) circuitry to receive one or more of controller output signal or the NNE circuitry output signal to thereby generate a processed signal; wherein the controller determines a processing path of the controller output signal through one of the DSP or the NNE circuitries as a function of one or more of predefined parameters, incoming signal characteristics and NNE circuitry feedback.

A method for noise suppression in a hearing instrument includes using an acousto-electric input transducer of the hearing instrument to generate an input signal from ambient sound. A frequency-band-wise noise suppression is applied to a processing signal derived from the input signal. Stationary noise is detected in the respective frequency band, and depending on the detected stationary noise, an amplification factor of the processing signal is set for the relevant frequency band. An analysis adapted to detect stationary and non-stationary noise is applied to the processing signal. The analysis has a lower frequency resolution than the frequency-band-wise noise suppression and, upon detected presence of stationary and / or non-stationary noise in the analysis of the processing signal, the stationary noise in the frequency-band-wise noise suppression is presumed to be detected in each frequency band, and the corresponding amplification factors are set.

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 the field of chip clamps, in particular to a hearing aid output limit adjusting method, which comprises an adjusting system, and the adjusting system comprises a hardware module and a software module. The hardware module comprises a DSP module, a collection module, a power amplifier module and a power supply module. The software module comprises a signal processing module, a user interface module and a system management module; the DSP module is used for realizing a complex signal processing algorithm and analyzing sound signals in real time through cooperation of an efficient digital signal processor and an artificial intelligence algorithm, and the method is used through modular connection, collects and analyzes user hearing signals in real time, dynamically adjusts output limitation in combination with hearing conditions and environmental factors of a user, and improves the user experience. In this way, comfort of the user in various hearing scenes can be guaranteed, hearing of the user can be effectively protected, perfect balance between the amplification effect and the comfort of the user is achieved, habits of the user are conveniently recorded in cooperation with the DSP module and the system management module, and user experience is improved.

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method performed by a hearing aid and a hearing aid including one or more processors, a memory, two or more microphones, and an output transducer. The hearing aid is configured to generate a first processed signal (y) based on input signals from the two or more microphones and a steering value, wherein a target direction is associated with the steering value. The steering value can be changed depending on certain criterion.

The invention relates to a method for operating a hearing device (2), comprising: a receiving unit (4) for receiving speech information and converting the speech information into a speech signal (S); a signal processing unit (12) for signal processing of the speech signal and generating an output signal (A); and an output unit (18) for outputting the output signal to a user of the hearing device, in which the voice information is converted into a voice signal, in which the voice signal is processed by the signal processing unit into the output signal in order to output the output signal to the user of the hearing device, at least one emotion-related feature (F1,..., F18, F1 ',..., F18') is determined from the speech signal and the output signal in each case, the emotion-related features determined from the speech signal and the output signal are compared to each other and a comparison result is determined, and wherein the signal processing unit (12) is set depending on the comparison result.

The application provides a method, device, electronic equipment and readable storage medium for using a hearing aid, the method is applied to the technical field of the hearing aid, and the method comprises the steps of receiving a gesture instruction sent by the hearing aid; determining a target terminal device working mode matched with a target gesture indicated by the gesture instruction according to a preset gesture and a corresponding relationship of the terminal device working mode; and in the case that the target terminal device working mode is a hearing aid volume adjustment mode, adjusting the volume of the hearing aid by performing a posture adjustment operation on the terminal device. The volume of the hearing aid is adjusted through the posture adjustment operation of the terminal device, which not only can reduce the operation of the user and bring a good experience to the user, but also can improve the adjustment efficiency.

A hearing aid comprising an input unit configured to provide first and second digitized signals associated with first and second sampling rates, respectively, the first and second digitized signals comprising a plurality of first frames and a plurality of second frames; a first analysis filter bank configured to generate first frequency domain signals associated with a first frequency range and a second frequency range based on the first digitized signals; a second analysis filter bank configured to generate second frequency domain signals associated with the first frequency range based on the second digitized signals; wherein the first frequency range of the first frequency domain signals and the second frequency domain signals comprise the same frequency band; and a signal processing unit configured to generate a first processed signal based on the first frequency range of the first frequency domain signals and the second frequency domain signals; an output unit configured to output an audible signal based on the first processed signal.

The invention describes a method for noise reduction in a hearing instrument (1), wherein an acousto-electrical input transducer (E1) of the hearing instrument (1) generates an input signal (E1) from ambient sound (2), wherein a frequency-bandwise noise reduction (21) is applied to a processing signal (V1) derived from the input signal (E1), in which stationary noise in the respective frequency band (Bj, Bk) is detected, and depending on the detected stationary noise, a gain factor (Gk) of the processing signal (V1) for the respective frequency band (Bj, Bk) is set, wherein an analysis (12) is applied to the processing signal (V1), which is configured to detect both stationary and non-stationary noise, wherein said analysis (12) has a lower frequency resolution than the frequency-bandwise noise reduction (21).and wherein, in the case of a detected presence (Y) of stationary and / or non-stationary noise in said analysis (12) of the processing signal (V1), the stationary noise is assumed to be detected in the frequency-bandwise noise suppression (21) in each frequency band (Bj, Bk), and the corresponding gain factors (Gk) are set.

Disclosed herein is a method for determining a characteristic of a hearing instrument, the hearing instrument including at least one input transducer operable to provide an input audio signal responsive to sensing sound in the environment of the hearing instrument, a signal processing unit and at least one output transducer, the method comprising: emitting an acoustic probe signal by the output transducer, receiving an input audio signal from the microphone, analyzing the received input audio signal to determine the characteristic of the hearing instrument from an input transducer response to the emitted acoustic probe signal, wherein the method further comprises filtering the received input audio signal to selectively attenuate one or more signal components corresponding to the acoustic probe signal and wherein emitting the acoustic probe signal comprises emitting a combined acoustic output signal comprising the acoustic probe signal and an acoustic hearing instrument signal obtained from the filtered input audio signal.

The invention discloses a hearing aid speech enhancement method and device based on artificial intelligence, and a medium, and relates to the technical field of speech signal processing, and the method comprises the steps: inputting a standardized speech enhancement input feature into a direction perception high-frequency speech enhancement model, extracting a coding feature through a shared coding part in the direction perception high-frequency speech enhancement model, and carrying out the recognition of the coding feature; determining a target sound source direction through a direction information generation part in a direction perception high-frequency speech enhancement model, converting the target sound source direction into direction-related information, and combining the direction-related information with the encoding features to generate direction enhancement features; and inputting the direction enhancement feature into a high-frequency recovery part of a direction perception high-frequency speech enhancement model, performing enhancement processing on a high-frequency band corresponding to the target sound source to obtain high-frequency enhancement data, and compensating the high-frequency enhancement data according to the audiogram of the wearer to obtain individualized high-frequency enhancement frequency domain amplitude data. According to the invention, the recognition capability of the wearer on the target voice is improved.

A method for a wireless personal communication using a hearing system (10) with a hearing device (12) comprises: monitoring and analyzing the user's acoustic environment by the hearing device (12) to recognize one or more speaking persons based on content-independent speaker voiceprints saved in the hearing system (10); and presenting a user interface to the user for notifying the user about a recognized speaking person and for establishing, joining or leaving a wireless personal communication connection between the hearing device (12) and one or more communication devices used by the one or more recognized speaking persons.

The invention relates to a method (24) for operating a hearing aid (2) in which an input signal (16) is generated by means of a microphone (6) based on ambient sound (7). Based on the input signal (16), an output signal (18) is provided, and an output sound (22) is emitted by means of a receiver (10) based on the output signal (18). The unprocessed ambient sound (22) present in the vicinity of the receiver (10) is determined, and the ratio (36) between the unprocessed ambient sound (22) and the output sound (12) is determined for different frequency bands. The amplitude of the output signal (18) for the frequency band is varied, whereby the ratio (36) lies between an upper limit (38) and a lower limit (40). The invention further relates to a hearing aid (2).

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a hearing aid configured to receive a wireless signal including a succession of frames including a first frame including first encoded audio samples, and determine a first codec, perform an error check based on the first frame, and in accordance with a determination that the first frame fails to pass the error check, perform a test.

The invention relates to a method for fitting a hearing device (2), wherein the hearing device (2) has at least one input transducer (6) for receiving an acoustic signal and converting it into an input signal (8) and a signal processing device (10) for signal amplification of the input signal (8) and generation of an output signal (12) and an output transducer (14) for converting the output signal (12) into a sound signal, wherein at least one test measurement (20, 24) is carried out in which a test signal is generated as an acoustic signal, and in which the hearing device user assesses the resulting sound signal as a test result (22, 26, 28), a fitting formula (32) being determined on the basis of the test result (22, 26, 28), and the signal processing device (10) being set on the basis of the fitting formula (32) in such a way that if, during operation of the hearing device (2), a rise time of a signal start of the input signal (8) is less than or equal to a stored threshold value, then the signal start of the output signal (12) is amplified by a higher gain value than the remaining output signal (12).

The invention relates to a method (14) for operating a hearing device (2), in which an input signal (20) is generated as a function of ambient sound (18). A first signal component (32) and a second signal component (43) are extracted from the input signal (20), the first signal component (32) corresponding to speech (22) of a user and the second signal component (34) corresponding to speech (24) of another person. A first processed signal (42) is generated from the first signal component (32) and the first amplification factor (40), and a second processed signal (54) is generated from the second signal component (34) and the second amplification factor (52). The two processed signals (42, 54) are combined into an output signal (80). In this case, the second amplification factor (52) is selected as a function of a difference (48) between a level of the first processed signal (42) and a level of the second processed signal (54). The invention also relates to a hearing device (2).