Cochlear implant utilizing multiple-resolution current sources and flexible data encoding
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[0018]Described and claimed herein is a programmable cochlear implant system utilizing multiple-resolution current sources and a flexible data-encoding scheme. In one embodiment, the system can support simultaneous and non-simultaneous stimulation as well as monopolar, bipolar, pseudo-tripolar, and tripolar electrode configurations.
[0019]One aspect of the invention is a cochlear implant having 2 to N−1 current sources for N electrodes. In one embodiment, the number of amplitude bits are balanced with the current resolution at a low stimulation level. By introducing an offset current circuit consisting of three current sources whose states are controlled by 2-bit range information, a four- range current source may be implemented with four different current resolutions of I, 2I, 4I, and 8I, where I is the minimum reference current. Compared with traditional single range current source, this embodiment improves current resolution by 4 times at low stimulation level, according to one em...
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