296results about "Position data use in hearing devices" patented technology

The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus for processing audio through a neural network contained in a hearing device. 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; 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 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 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.

A method for providing navigation assistance using a head-worn device that has a camera, several microphones, and several speakers. The method captures sound in an environment as a plurality of microphone audio signals, captures, using the camera, a scene of the environment as a digital image, and processes the digital image to detect an object therein. The method selects, in response to the detection of the object, one of several navigation audio rendering modes. The several navigation audio rendering modes include a first mode that activates an acoustic transparency function to cause the speakers to reproduce the sound of the environment, a second mode that sonifies the object and activates the acoustic transparency function, and a third mode that sonifies the object, partially activates the acoustic transparency function, and an activates active noise cancellation function.

The document describes systems and techniques directed at three-dimensional, direction-dependent audio for multi-entity telecommunication. In aspects, a remote device receives multi-stream content, including at least one audio stream, from one or more audio-producing entities and obtains orientation information associated with the one or more audio-producing entities. The remote device can then, using the at least one audio stream and the orientation information, provide direction-dependent, three-dimensional audio sufficient to enable a multi-stereo audio output device to reproduce the spatial audio as if the at least one audio stream is originating from a direction, an elevation, and / or a proximity that corresponds to a physical location of the one or more audio-producing entities.

The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus for processing audio through a neural network contained in a hearing device. 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; 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 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 wearable device may be worn in an ear of a user. The wearable device may include a biometric sensor that collects biometric information from the ear, and an environmental sensor that collects environmental information from the ear. The wearable device may receive the biometric information from the biometric sensor, and the environmental information from the environmental sensor, and send biofeedback determined from the biometric information, and an environmental condition determined from the environmental information, wirelessly to a communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A computer system outputs audio content via one or more audio output devices. If the audio content includes information that enables spatialization of the audio content, the system outputs the audio content in a simulated three-dimensional environment, including, if the audio content corresponds to a first category of content, causing the one or more audio output devices to simulate production of the audio content in a first virtual space, and if the audio content corresponds to a second category of content, causing the one or more audio output devices to simulate production of the audio content in a second virtual space that has different simulated acoustic properties than simulated acoustic properties of the first virtual space.

An audio system receives sounds from a local area with a set of sensors. The audio system analyzes the sounds to identify an amount of background noise in the environment. The audio system may also identify target sound in the environment, such as voice from a nearby speaker, to reinforce. The amount of background noise is then used to adaptively set a level of reinforcement for the target sound. In low-noise environments, the target sound may be minimally, or not reinforced, while in high-noise environments a reinforcement sound signal may be generated with the target sound so that a transducer array may generate reinforcing sounds for the target sound and increase its contrast with the noise in the environment. By applying the reinforcement dynamically, the system automatically adjusts for different sounds and environments.

Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for estimating acoustic properties of an environment. In an example method, a first audio signal is received via a microphone of a wearable head device. An envelope of the first audio signal is determined, and a first reverberation time is estimated based on the envelope of the first audio signal. A difference between the first reverberation time and a second reverberation time is determined. A change in the environment is determined based on the difference between the first reverberation time and the second reverberation time. A second audio signal is presented via a speaker of a wearable head device, wherein the second audio signal is based on the second reverberation time.

The subject technology disclosed herein may allow a device to provide guidance based on sound measurements, which may include crowd-sourced measurements of the sound level at various locations other than a current location of the user. The crowd-sourced measurements may be real time measurements and / or may be stored and / or indexed by time (day, time of day, week, month, etc.), type of activity at specific locations (happy hour, open-mic night, sports play-offs, etc.), or environmental context similar to other locations (touring band, protest, sporting event, etc.). The guidance based on the sound measurements may include a reminder notification to bring hearing protection to a location for which crowd-sourced sound level measurements have been obtained, before the user arrives at the location. The guidance may also, or alternatively, include a recommended location and / or a recommended route with a desired sound level, such as a quiet restaurant, or a quiet walking route.

A control method of an electronic apparatus for generating anti-noise for acoustic noise cancellation (ANC) is provided. The method includes obtaining audio data and metadata of the audio data, classifying the audio data into a plurality of audio clusters based on at least one of a feature of the audio data or a feature of the metadata, identifying whether each audio cluster of the plurality of audio clusters is included in a local database corresponding to the location information of a place where the audio data is obtained, based on the at least one of the plurality of the audio clusters being not included in the local database, updating the local database by adding information regarding the audio cluster that is not included in the plurality of noise clusters to information regarding the plurality of noise clusters and generating anti-noise data based on the information regarding the local database which is updated.

Embodiments herein relate to assistive listening devices and systems for providing audio streams to device wearers within sound fields. In an embodiment an assistive listening device is included having a control circuit, an electroacoustic transducer for generating sound in electrical communication with the control circuit, a power supply circuit in electrical communication with the control circuit, and a communications circuit in electrical communication with the control circuit. The control circuit can be configured to issue a communication to an audio communication device or audio provisioning device including at least one of a language preference, a set of hearing requirements, data regarding a presentation delay, and an authorization status identifier, digital code, digital token, or digital key specific to a wearer of the assistive listening device. Other embodiments are also included herein.

Systems and methods for context-based management of transparency profiles for audio headsets are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handing System (IHS) may include: a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to retrieve a transparency profile corresponding to a location of the IHS, and apply the transparency profile to an audio headset.

The disclosure describes an earphone that include a biometric sensor, where the biometric sensor can detect levels of gas concentration. Where the gas levels are reported to a user if exceeding a threshold value and where the earphone includes a microphone, speaker, memory and a processor.

An electronic device includes a speaker, a sensor, a communication circuit, a processor, and a memory to store instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause a wireless audio device to, while outputting a signal for reducing an external sound through the speaker, identify, using the communication circuit, an external electronic device, identify, using the sensor, a conversation responsive to a location of the external electronic device satisfying a specified condition, responsive to identifying the conversation, stop an output of the signal for reducing the external sound for a first period of time, and responsive to identifying a specified keyword included in the conversation, prolong stopping the output of the signal for reducing the external sound for a second period of time.

In some embodiments a computer-implemented method may include determining a position of a device relative to an environment, generating spatial audio content that provides natural language contextual descriptions of the environment based on the determined position of the device and presenting the spatial audio content to a user, wherein the spatial audio content dynamically updates in response to changes in the position of the device or the environment.

A first wearable audio output device that is in communication with a second wearable audio output device. While the first wearable audio output devices and the second set of wearable audio output device is in an audio communication session, outputting, via the first wearable audio output device, audio from the second wearable audio output device, including, as the first wearable audio output device is moved relative to the second wearable audio output devices. Adjusting the audio so as to position the audio at a simulated spatial location relative to the first wearable audio output devices that is determined based on a respective position of the second wearable audio output devices relative to the first wearable audio output devices. Adjusting an output property other than a simulated spatial location of the audio based on a distance of the second wearable audio output devices from the first wearable audio output devices.

In some embodiments, a method comprises executing, by a head-tracked audio system, a first algorithm configured to dynamically update a forward head angle and a spatial orientation in response to a detected head movement, and a second algorithm configured to adjust a recentering filter based on the detected head movements, and maintaining, by the head-tracked audio system through execution of the first algorithm and the second algorithm, a spatial audio placement relative to a wearer during the detected head movements.

A method performed by a programmed processor of an electronic device. The device obtains an audio signal, obtains, using one or more microphones, a microphone signal that includes audio of an environment in which the electronic device is located. The device determines a context of the device, and selects a volume compensation model from several models based on the determined context. The device processes the audio signal according to the selected volume compensation model and the microphone signal, and uses the processed audio signal to drive one or more speakers of the device.

A system, method, and wireless earpieces for implementing a virtual assistant in response to user preferences. User preferences associated with a user of the wireless earpieces are received. Data and information about the user and an environment of the user are automatically captured by the wireless earpieces based on the user preferences. A determination is made whether to provide automatic assistance to the user based on the user preferences utilizing the virtual assistant of the wireless earpieces. The automatic assistance is generated through the virtual assistant of the wireless earpieces utilizing the data and the information. The automatic assistance is communicated to the user through the virtual assistant of the wireless earpieces.

An earpiece in embodiments of the present invention may have one or more of the following features: (a) an earpiece housing, (b) at least one speaker, (c) a plurality of sensors disposed within the earpiece housing, and (d) a processor disposed within the earpiece housing and operatively connected to the plurality of sensors and the at least one speaker, wherein the processor is configured to use an artificial intelligence framework to evaluate sensor input from the plurality of sensors to provide advice to the user.

The present disclosure relates to an application to be executed by an electronic device. The electronic device communicates with a hearing device worn by a user. The hearing device comprises a battery and a processing unit configured to receive an input signal and provide a processed output signal for compensating a hearing loss of the user. The application is configured for transmitting a status request from the electronic device to the hearing device, receiving, at the electronic device, a status response from the hearing device, and generating a notification representing instructions for charging the battery. The notification is generated based on the received status response and predetermined settings of the application.

Various implementations include headphone systems configured to adapt to changes in user environment. In some particular cases, a headphone system includes at least one headphone including an acoustic transducer having a sound-radiating surface for providing an audio output; a sensor system configured to detect an environmental condition proximate the at least one headphone; and a control system coupled with the at least one headphone and the sensor system, the control system configured to: receive data about the environmental condition from the sensor system; and modify the audio output at the at least one headphone in response to a change in the environmental condition, wherein the audio output includes a continuous audio output provided across a transition between environmental conditions and is configured to vary with the change in the environmental condition.

The present disclosure relates to an application to be executed by an electronic device. The electronic device communicates with a hearing device worn by a user. The hearing device comprises a battery and a processing unit configured to receive an input signal and provide a processed output signal for compensating a hearing loss of the user. The application is configured for transmitting a status request from the electronic device to the hearing device, receiving, at the electronic device, a status response from the hearing device, and generating a notification representing instructions for charging the battery. The notification is generated based on the received status response and predetermined settings of the application.

A set of headphones has an audio system, a control system with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a digital content management system including a database of digital content, a user authentication system, a processor, and a memory storing executable instructions. The processor is configured to validate a user, download and store digital content upon user authentication, and decrypt and decode the digital content for output via the audio system to an authenticated user. A set of headphones enable one or more users to engage with story content with one or more biometric sensors to capture physiological and emotional responses, such as heart rate, skin conductivity, and / or motion, which are analyzed in real time by one or more of the processors. This adaptive system dynamically modifies the narrative path and content delivery based on the user's responses, creating personalized and immersive storytelling experiences.

A video headset comprises a left earphone assembly, a right earphone assembly, and a headband assembly having a headband frame. The headband frame comprises a left end portion movably coupled to the left earphone assembly and a right end portion movably coupled to the right earphone assembly. The headset comprises a video screen module connected to each earphone assembly via a boom module. The video screen module comprises video screens including a first video screen and a second video screen pivotally connected to a second video screen. The second video screen faces in an opposite direction from the first video screen. The headset enables to stream both audio and video data at the video screen module. The headset is further configured to connect with external devices and stream data from different external devices on different video screens. The headset has multiple cameras on the headset to enable 360 degree viewing.

A system for locating an audio event. The system comprises multiple audio device configured for being interconnected to form a wireless network. Each audio device system comprises one or more microphones, a memory, a wireless communication interface, a location module for determining position data of the audio device system, and a processing unit. The system further comprises a central processing unit. The central processing unit is configured to receive audio device system signals and position data associated with each respective audio device signal from the audio device systems, and to determine an audio event and a position of the audio event based on the audio device system signals and the position data.

A method comprises determining, based on signals from sensors of hearing instruments, current values of context parameters; determining, based on the current values of the context parameters, that a current context of the hearing instruments has changed or is likely to change from a first to a second context of a plurality of contexts, wherein each of the contexts corresponds to a different unique combination of potential values of the context parameters; updating statistics of the contexts, wherein for each of the contexts, the statistics of the context include statistics with respect to time the hearing instruments spent in the context; and based on the determination that the current context of the hearing instruments has changed or is likely to change from the first context to the second context, initiating, based on the statistics of at least one of the first or second contexts, one or more actions.