41results about "Sets with desired directivity" patented technology

The present invention relates to a head wearable carrier system (10) configured to have a beamformed speaker system (16), where the carrier system (10) is configured to: position the beamformed speaker system (16, 16a, 16b) in use near a side of at least one ear (14), where the beamformed speaker system (16, 16a, 16b) is positioned near a side of the at least one ear (14), and where the beamformed speaker system (16, 16a, 16b) is positioned near the side of the at least one ear (14), where the beamformed speaker system (16, 16a, 16b) is positioned near the side of the at least one ear (14). The beamformed audio signal (15) is directed towards an ear channel opening (18) of the at least one ear (14).

A hearing device with an optical sensor includes: a light source (212, 300, 304, 308, 402) configured to emit light; a photodetector (214, 404) configured to detect light emitted by the light source after it has passed through tissue of a subject; an audio receiver (116, 202) configured to transmit sound to the subject; and a dome structure (120, 206) configured to conform to the shape of the ear canal when the hearing device is in the subject's ear canal. The output of the light source (212, 300, 304, 308, 402) and the input of the photodetector (214, 404) are separated by the dome structure (120, 206), and the dome structure (120, 206) absorbs and / or reflects at least a portion of the light emitted by the light source.

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a hearing aid system. The hearing aid system can include a hearing aid configured to be worn by a user. A remote input unit can be configured to provide a remote audio signal. One or more processing units can be configured to obtain the plurality of local input audio signals, obtain the remote audio signal, beamform the plurality of local input audio signals to determine a front-facing beamformed signal, and determine a prime candidate signal based on the front-facing beamformed signal and the remote audio signal.

The invention relates to a method for directional signal processing of signals of a microphone arrangement comprising a first microphone generating a first input signal from ambient sound and a second microphone generating a second input signal from ambient sound, wherein a reference signal is formed from the first input signal, wherein the reference signal is transformed into the frequency domain and a frequency space reference signal is generated, wherein the first and second input signal are each transformed into the frequency domain and a first frequency space directional signal is formed in the frequency domain from the so transformed first and second input signal, wherein a frequency-dependent first amplification factor is generated from a frequency-resolved comparison of the frequency space reference signal with the first frequency space directional signal or a signal derived from the first frequency space directional signal in the frequency domain, wherein a time filter is generated in the time domain from the first amplification factor, and wherein the reference signal is filtered by means of the time filter and an output signal is generated from the filtered reference signal.

A hearing aid system comprising a hearing aid configured to be worn by a user configured to provide a plurality of local input audio signals. A remote input unit configured to provide a remote audio signal. One or more processing units configured to obtain the plurality of local input audio signals, obtain the remote audio signal, beamform the plurality of local input audio signals to determine a front-facing beamformed signal, and determine a prime candidate signal based on the front-facing beamformed signal and the remote audio signal.

A method of operating an electronic device, the device having a receiver for receiving a wireless analogue signal, a converter for converting the received analogue signal to a digital input signal, a signal processor for generating a digital output signal from the input signal, and a transmitter for transmitting the output signal as a wireless digital signal, wherein the input signal is filtered to generate the output signal such that a noise signal in the input signal generated by the signal processor and / or the transmitter is reduced.

A method of configuring an in-the-ear (ITE) hearing aid placed within an ear canal of a user, the method comprising receiving, by at least one input transducer of the ITE hearing aid, a first direct sound from a first audible sound at a first angle with respect to a horizontal plane of the hearing aid, and a first reflected sound from the first audible sound reflected by a pinna of the user, the first direct sound and the first reflected sound having a first delay between the first direct sound and the first reflected sound; receiving, by the at least one input transducer, a second direct sound from a second audible sound at a second angle with respect to a horizontal plane of the hearing aid, and a second reflected sound from the second audible sound reflected by the pinna of the user, the second direct sound and the second reflected sound having a second delay between the second direct sound and the second reflected sound, wherein the second angle is different from the first angle; determining, by a processing unit of the ITE hearing aid, based the first delay, a first incidence angle of the first direct audio and, based the second delay, a second incidence angle of the second direct audio; and configuring, by the processing unit, based on the first incidence angle and the second incidence angle, beamforming of the hearing aid.

The present application discloses personalization of algorithm parameters of a hearing device, wherein a method of personalizing one or more parameters of a processing algorithm used in a processor of a hearing aid for a specific user comprises: performing a predictive test for estimating the hearing ability of a user when the user listens to test signals having different characteristics; analyzing the results of the predictive test of the user and providing a hearing ability measure of the user; selecting a specific processing algorithm of the hearing aid; selecting a cost-benefit function and / or a key value for the specific processing algorithm related to the hearing ability of the user from one or more related psychometric functions according to the characteristics of the test signals; and determining one or more personalization parameters of the specific processing algorithm for the user according to the hearing ability measure and the cost-benefit function.

The present application discloses a hearing aid comprising a target quality evaluation unit wherein the hearing aid comprises: an input unit configured to provide an electrical audio input signal representing sound; a plurality of first beamformers configured to provide a plurality of first beamformed signals based on the electrical audio input signal, where each of the first beamformers is configured to point to a different fixed direction and to be associated with a different first processing parameter; a second beamformer configured to provide a second beamformed signal based on the electrical audio input signal and a second processing parameter, where a directivity of the second beamformed signal is determined as a direction in which an evaluation value is maximized; a target quality evaluation function configured to determine a plurality of evaluation values based on the plurality of first beamforming signals and the second beamforming signals; a correction unit configured to correct the second processing parameter based on the evaluation value; and an output unit configured to output an output signal determined based on the corrected second processing parameter.

A hearing instrument (1) is described, comprising a device body (2) to be worn on the body, in particular on the head, of a user, a CW radar unit (10) which is arranged in or on the device body (2) and which is configured to emit a CW radar signal, in particular unmodulated, and to receive a corresponding reflected radar signal, and a controller (6) which is configured to detect a signal component characteristic of a micro-Doppler effect from a radar reception signal output by the CW radar unit (10) upon reception of the reflected radar signal and to determine from this a distance of the device body (2) to an object (20) in the user's environment.

The invention provides a method and a device for optimizing a hearing aid environment, the method and the device are applied to a digital hearing aid, and the method comprises the following steps: acquiring sound information around the digital hearing aid through audio acquisition equipment arranged in an array, and carrying out differential filtering processing on the sound information to obtain a plurality of pieces of audio information; judging the position of a sound source according to the time difference of acquiring the same audio information by different audio acquisition devices; different audio information is amplified differentially according to the position of the sound source position relative to a preset communication range, the sound source position is acquired by means of an audio acquisition device array, in the area within the preset communication range, the sound loudness is increased along with the increase of the distance from the hearing aid, and in the area outside the preset communication range, the sound loudness is increased along with the increase of the distance from the hearing aid. The sound loudness is weakened along with the increase of the distance with the hearing aid, the influence of operation noise, wind noise and friction noise of the hearing aid is weakened to the maximum extent, the filtering burden of hearing aid is reduced, and the rigid gain design of a traditional hearing aid is abandoned.

The resent invention is related to a head wearable carrier system (10) configured with a beam forming loudspeaker system (16), wherein the carrier system (10) is configured to arrange the beam forming loudspeaker system (16, 16a, 16b) in proximity of a side of at least one ear (14) when in use, wherein beamformed audio signals (15) are directed towards an ear channel opening (18) of the at least one ear (14).

An exemplary spatial enhancement system performs frequency-specific localization and speech comprehension enhancement. Specifically, the system receives an audio signal presented to a recipient of a hearing device, and generates, based on the audio signal, a first frequency signal and a second frequency signal. The first frequency signal includes a portion of the audio signal associated with a first frequency range, and the second frequency signal includes a portion of the audio signal associated with a second frequency range. Based on the first and second frequency signals, the system generates an output frequency signal that is associated with the first and second frequency ranges and that is configured for use by the hearing device in stimulating aural perception by the recipient. This generating of the output frequency signal includes processing the first frequency signal to apply a localization enhancement and processing the second frequency signal to apply a speech comprehension enhancement.

A method, computer-implemented, for determining an optical parameter of a progressive addition lens to be worn by a wearer, the progressive addition lens having an optical parameter relating to vision correction, the wearer being equipped with a hearing aid device adapted to acquire, amplify and transmit sounds to the wearer, the hearing aid device having a sensitivity which is maximum along a main direction, the method including determining a behavior parameter representative of a head response of the wearer, when he is equipped with the hearing aid device, to an auditive stimulation spatially offset from the main direction, determining, based on the behavior parameter, the optical parameter of the progressive addition lens.

The invention relates to a hearing aid (2), in particular a hearing aid device, comprising a transmitter circuit (24) for wireless signal transmission, wherein the transmitter circuit (24) comprises an electrical resonant circuit (28) with at least one controllable semiconductor switch (34, 34a, 34b) and with at least one capacitor (32, 32a, 32b) as well as with a transmitter coil (30), and wherein the at least one semiconductor switch (34, 34a, 34b) is controlled by a pulse phase modulator (36).

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a hearing aid. The hearing aid can include an input unit configured to provide an electrical audio input signal representing a sound, a signal processing unit configured to provide a processed signal based on the electrical audio input signal using a first processing parameter, and a target quality assessment unit configured to determine an assessment value based on the processed signal. The signal processing can be is configured to determine an output signal based on the assessment value.

The invention relates to a biomimetic microphone, a product comprising at least one biomimetic microphone, such as a hearing aid, wherein the hearing implant may comprise a cochlear implant, or a vibrating implant, or both, a method of operating a hearing implant, and a hearing implant computer program comprising instructions for operating the hearing implant.

A brain-inspired hearing aid method is provided. The method includes: acquiring a noisy voice signal from a complex acoustic environment where a hearing aid wearer is located, and an electroencephalogram signal and an eye movement signal of the hearing aid wearer; performing decoding of the electroencephalogram signal to obtain a feature representation of a voice signal of an auditory attention target; performing decoding of the eye movement signal to obtain an auditory attention orientation; extracting the voice signal of the auditory attention target from the noisy voice signal in a complex acoustic environment based on the feature representation; extracting a voice signal of the auditory attention orientation from the noisy voice signal in a complex acoustic environment based on the auditory attention orientation; and fusing the voice signal of the auditory attention target with the voice signal of the auditory attention orientation to obtain to-be-outputted auditory attention voice signal.

A hearing instrument has a device body to be worn on the body, particularly on the head, of a user. A continuous wave radar (CW) unit is arranged in or on the device body and configured to send out a (unmodulated) CW radar signal and to receive a corresponding reflected radar signal. A controller is configured to detect a signal portion characteristic of a micro-Doppler effect from a radar reception signal that is output by the CW radar unit upon receiving the reflected radar signal and to establish therefrom a distance of the device body from an object in a vicinity of the user.

An electrooculography (EOG) signal capture system comprises a) a sensor array adapted for being located at one of a left or right ears of a user and / or for fully or partially being implanted in the head at left or right ears of a user, the sensor array comprising a number Ns of electric potential sensors, respectively, for sensing respective electric potentials from the user's head, where Ns is larger than or equal to two, b) electronic circuitry coupled to the sensor array and configured to provide at least two different beamformed signals (SBF1, SBF2), each being representative of a weighted combination of said electric potentials, or of signals derived therefrom, and wherein a difference between said at least two different beamformed signals (ΔPBF = SBF1 - SBF2) - at least in a specific electrooculography mode of operation - represents an electrooculography signal (ΔPEOG) from one or both eyes of said user. A single-sensor EOG-system is further proposed. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing aids or other electronic wearables.

An exemplary spatial enhancement system performs frequency-specific localization and speech comprehension enhancement. Specifically, the system receives an audio signal presented to a recipient of a hearing device, and generates, based on the audio signal, a first frequency signal and a second frequency signal. The first frequency signal includes a portion of the audio signal associated with a first frequency range, and the second frequency signal includes a portion of the audio signal associated with a second frequency range. Based on the first and second frequency signals, the system generates an output frequency signal that is associated with the first and second frequency ranges and that is configured for use by the hearing device in stimulating aural perception by the recipient. This generating of the output frequency signal includes processing the first frequency signal to apply a localization enhancement and processing the second frequency signal to apply a speech comprehension enhancement.

A hearing instrument comprises: a communication system that includes one or more components, wherein the one or more components include an antenna, impedance matching circuitry, and a transceiver electrically connected to the antenna via the impedance matching circuitry; and one or more processors configured to: obtain communication performance data for a device-configuration combination, wherein, for each respective system configuration of a plurality of system configurations, the communication performance data for the device-configuration combination is indicative of values of one or more Quality of Service (QoS) parameters of Radio Frequency (RF) communication between the hearing instrument and a counterpart device while the communication system uses the respective system configuration; select, based on the communication performance data, a system configuration; and configure the communication system to use the selected system configuration.

A method (32) for operating a hearing device system (2) containing a hearing device (4) that has a signal processing device (12) by way of which an output signal (24) is produced from an input signal (22) according to an n-dimensional parameter vector (26). The parameter vector (26) is restricted to a subspace (48) of the n-dimensional parameter space (40), the restriction being produced according to a behavior of a user. There is also described a hearing device system (2).

To provide customized audio processing based on user-specific audio information and hardware-specific audio information.SOLUTION: A method of audio signal processing comprises: accessing user-specific audio processing information for a particular user; determining identity information of an audio device for producing sound output from an audio signal; based on the identity information of the audio device, accessing device-specific audio processing information for the audio device; generating a customized audio-processing procedure for the audio signal based on the user-specific audio processing information and the device-specific audio processing information; and generating a customized audio signal by processing the audio signal with the customized audio-processing procedure.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relates to hearing aids. A hearing aid includes a plurality of microphones configured to receive an initial sound signal and convert the initial sound signal into an electrical signal; a processor configured to process the electrical signal and generate a control signal; and a speaker configured to convert the control signal into a hearing aid sound signal. To process the electrical signal and generate the control signal, the processor is configured to: adjust a directivity of the initial sound signal received by the plurality of microphones, so that a sound intensity of a first sound signal from a direction of the speaker in the initial sound signal is always greater than or always less than a sound intensity of a second sound signal from other directions around.

The invention relates to a biomimetic microphone, a product comprising at least one biomimetic microphone, such as a hearing aid, wherein the hearing implant may comprise a cochlear implant, or a vibrating implant, or both, a method of operating a hearing implant, and a hearing implant computer program comprising instructions for operating the hearing implant.

The present application discloses a hearing aid system for determining an audio signal of interest, comprising: a hearing aid comprising a local input interface configured to provide a plurality of local input audio signals, an output interface configured to output an output audio signal to a user, and a local communication interface; a remote input unit comprising a remote input interface configured to provide a remote audio signal and a remote communication interface; one or more processing units configured to: obtain a plurality of local input audio signals; acquiring a remote audio signal; beamforming the plurality of local input audio signals to determine a forward beamformed signal, the forward beamformed signal configured to focus on sound from a direction in which the hearing aid user faces; a master candidate signal is determined based on a forward beamformed signal and a remote audio signal, the master candidate signal being a sound source separation audio signal originating from the remote audio signal and determined based on a similarity measure to the forward beamformed signal.

Provided is a method of audio transmission between at least two audio communication systems, the audio communication systems comprising a transmitting audio communication system having first and second audio transmitting devices and a receiving audio communication system having at least one audio receiving device. The method comprises: transmitting, by the first audio transmitting device, a first wireless audio stream via a first wireless audio link and transmitting, by the second audio transmitting device, a second wireless audio stream via a second wireless audio link; and selecting, by the at least one audio receiving device, one of the first wireless audio stream or the second wireless audio stream based on quality parameters of the first wireless audio link and the second wireless audio link.

The application provides a Bluetooth hearing aid mode switching method, system and hearing aid, and the method comprises the following steps: a single-ear Bluetooth hearing aid receives switching data for switching the working mode of the single-ear Bluetooth hearing aid sent by a terminal device, and the working mode comprises at least one of a first earphone mode, a first hearing aid mode and a free switching mode; the single-ear Bluetooth hearing aid detects whether the current working mode is consistent with the working mode of the switching data; if the single-ear Bluetooth hearing aid detects that the current working mode is not consistent with the working mode of the switching data, the single-ear Bluetooth hearing aid switches the current working mode to the working mode of the switching data. By using the Bluetooth hearing aid mode switching method, different working modes can be realized for Bluetooth hearing aids on different sides, the user with poor hearing on a single ear can use conveniently, and the use experience of the user with poor hearing on a single ear is improved.