219results 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

An electronic device according to various embodiments disclosed in the present document may comprise a communication circuit, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the communication circuit and the memory. The memory can store instructions that, when executed by the processor, enable the electronic device to: receive, through the communication circuit, two or more pieces of audio data simultaneously obtained by one or more external electronic devices; use user information acquired from the memory so as to identify user personal HRTF information acquired on the basis of reference HRTF information; identify sound source generation location information of the two or more pieces of audio data on the basis of the two or more pieces of audio data; perform inverse filtering on the two or more pieces of audio data on the basis of the user HRFT information so as to generate an audio signal; and transmit the audio signal and the sound source generation location information to another electronic device through the communication circuit.

[Problem] To provide an audio-input device with which it is possible to properly acquire also the audio of a conversation held between a wearer of said device and two other conversation participants.[Solution] This audio-input device 100 is provided with: a first arm 10 and a second arm 20 which can be arranged at positions such that a target sound source is interposed therebetween; and a plurality of sound collection parts 41-46 provided in a quantity of at least three for each of the first arm 10 and the second arm 20 (a total quantity of at least six).

It is to provide an information processing device and the like capable of giving the user a feeling as if a feature that would not give a feeling of strangeness even when speaking the content of which the user is to be notified were actually speaking the content. A feature that exists within a predetermined distance from the current location of the user and is permitted to issue an utterance of the content type of the content of which the user is to be notified is identified as an anthropomorphic feature on the basis of feature-related information in which content type information for permitting an utterance by a feature and location information about the feature are associated with each feature among a plurality of features, and the voice corresponding to the content is subjected to sound localization so as to be heard from the direction in which the anthropomorphic feature exists as viewed from the user, and is then output.

A method includes removably attaching an earbud to a pair of glasses worn by a person. The pair of glasses includes a first speaker configured to deliver sound externally through air or through bone conduction to an ear of the person. The earbud includes a second speaker configured to deliver sound into an ear canal of the person when the earbud is placed in the ear canal. The method further includes establishing a wireless connection between the pair of glasses and the earbud, and detecting a position of the earbud relative to the pair of glasses. The method further includes, when the earbud is detached from the pair of glasses, deactivating the first speaker in the pair of glasses, and activating the second speaker after the earbud is detached from the pair of glasses.

An over-ear wearable device includes a housing with a first portion configured to be worn behind an ear of a user and a second portion configured to extend over the ear to position an output near an ear canal of the user. A memory is disposed within the housing and stores map data for an airport. A navigation sensor is disposed within the housing and configured to generate location data. A multi-button user input interface is coupled to the first portion. A processor is disposed within the housing and configured to responsive to selection of a first button of the multi-button user input interface, iterate through a list of destinations identified in the map data, responsive to selection of a second button of the multi-button user input interface, designate a target destination, and generate verbal navigation instructions based on the location data, the map data, and the target destination.

A voice processing system according to an embodiment includes: an estimation processing unit which executes transmission and reception of voice data between microphone-speaker devices and a communication device, thereby estimating the position of each of the microphone-speaker devices relative to the communication device; and a display processing unit which displays, on a display, the position of the microphone-speaker device estimated by the estimation processing unit.

Various embodiments of a fall prediction system and method of using such system are disclosed. The system includes a hearing device for a user, a sensor operatively connected to the hearing device and adapted to detect a characteristic of the user and generate a sensor signal based on the characteristic, an accessory operatively connected to the hearing device, and a controller operatively connected to the hearing device. The controller is adapted to determine a fall risk value based on the sensor signal, compare the fall risk value to a fall risk threshold, and generate a fall prevention output if the fall risk value exceeds the fall risk threshold.

A wearable device including a body having fasteners and a frame coupled between two fasteners. The frame includes first and second sections. A first portion of the body including the first section of the frame and one fastener and a second portion of the body including the second section of the frame and the other fastener. A speaker and a microphone are connected to the first portion and another speaker and another microphone are connected to the second portion. The body also includes a processor, memory accessible to the processor, and programming in the memory for configuring the processor to selectively activate the speakers and microphones such that a first speaker emits an output sound signal while a first microphone and a second speaker are deactivated and a second microphone captures an input sound signal during the emission of the output sound signal by the first speaker.

An electronic device includes one or more pose sensors to detect a pose of a user of the electronic device relative to a first physical environment, and is in communication with one or more audio output devices. The electronic device provides audio content at a first simulated spatial location relative to the user when a first pose of the user satisfies first presentation criteria. The electronic device detects a change in the pose of the user from the first pose to a second pose. In response to detecting the change in the pose of the user, and in accordance with a determination that the second pose of the user does not satisfy the first presentation criteria, the electronic device provides audio content at a second simulated spatial location relative to the user that is different from the first simulated spatial location.

A control method of an electronic device capable of generating anti-noise for acoustic noise cancellation (ANC) is disclosed. The control method of the electronic device comprises the following steps: acquiring audio data and metadata of the audio data; classifying the audio data into a plurality of audio clusters based on features of the audio data and features of the metadata; detecting whether the plurality of audio clusters are respectively included in a plurality of pre-stored noise clusters; and adding information on audio clusters not included in the plurality of noise clusters among the plurality of audio clusters to the information on the plurality of noise clusters.

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.

An apparatus, method, and computer program product for receiving spatial audio information captured by a plurality of microphones, receiving captured audio objects from an audio device wirelessly connected to the apparatus, determining an audio audibility value related to the audio device, determining whether the audio audibility value satisfies at least one criterion, and activating inclusion of audio objects captured by the audio device in the spatial audio information captured by the plurality of microphones in response to determining that the audio audibility value satisfies the at least one criterion.

A device includes one or more processors configured to determine heading information based on position data from a navigation system. The one or more processors are configured to determine head rotation data based on sensor data associated with motion of a user's head. The one or more processors are further configured to determine, based on a comparison of the heading information and the head rotation data, whether to perform a spatial audio adjustment for audio playback.