51 results about "Audiological evaluation" patented technology

The systems, methods and associated devices performing diagnostic hearing tests which use a computer network to allow interaction between a test administration site and one or a plurality of remote patient sites. The test can be administered by an audiologist or clinician at a site remote from the patient, in a manner, which can allow interaction between the user and the clinician during at least a portion of the administration of the test. The diagnostic hearing tests can be performed such that they meet standardized guidelines such as ANSI requirements or certification standards and can include distortion product emission level measurements or middle ear compliance measurements.

According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a system for audiometric assessment and user-specific acoustic enhancement, comprising an audiometry management module, a tone generator coupled to the audiometry management module and adapted to generate streams of acoustical output, and a hearing profile data file, is disclosed. According to the embodiment, the audiometry management module, in a plurality of sessions, instructs the tone generator to send a series of streams of acoustical output of varying acoustical intensity, and, on receiving a series of user responses responsive to audible perception of sounds generated from the streams of acoustical data, the audiometric management module determines, for each of a plurality of frequencies, a hearing threshold, and stores at least that threshold in the hearing profile data file.

An apparatus and method for evaluation of hearing loss is disclosed. The apparatus and method use evoked Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR) to determine if the subject is able to hear iteratively administered click stimuli. The present invention evaluates the sufficiency of the patient connections, namely earphones and electrodes, to the evaluation device. More particularly, the present invention determines if the earphones are detached or deformed, if the electrodes have been reversed, or if the electrodes have become detached.

An apparatus and method for evaluation of hearing loss is disclosed. The apparatus and method use evoked Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR) to determine if the subject is able to hear repeatedly administered click stimuli. In order to optimize evaluation, the present invention uses normative data to accurately weight the auditory responses, so that evaluation will be possible in different or changing noise conditions.

An apparatus and method for evaluation of hearing loss is disclosed. The apparatus and method use evoked Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR) to determine if the subject is able to hear click stimuli that are repeatedly administered. In order to facilitate efficient differentiation of the ABR from the accompanying noise, normative data is used to detect test conditions where physiological, non-physiological, and ambient acoustic noise would interfere with the progression of test.

A system that enables a hearing test administrator to reduce false indications of hearing loss in a patient and administer an interactive hearing assessment in a test environment is described. The system includes a sound measuring device to measure one or more background sounds of the test environment, and a data processor to process the background sounds, and determine the frequency and amplitude of the background sounds. The system may further include a memory that stores the backgrounds sounds, and its frequency and / or amplitude. The system may analyze whether the background sounds are above the maximum permissible ambient noise levels of the test environment and generate a report for analysis by the hearing test administrator.

The systems, methods and associated devices performing diagnostic hearing tests which use a computer network to allow interaction between a test administration site and one or a plurality of remote patient sites. The test can be administered by an audiologist or clinician at a site remote from the patient, in a manner, which can allow interaction between the user and the clinician during at least a portion of the administration of the test. The diagnostic hearing tests can be performed such that they meet standardized guidelines such as ANSI requirements or certification standards and can include distortion product emission level measurements or middle ear compliance measurements.

An apparatus and method for evaluation of hearing loss is disclosed. The apparatus and method use evoked Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR) to determine if the subject is able to hear repeatedly administered click stimuli. In order to optimize evaluation, the present invention uses normative data to accurately weight the auditory responses, so that evaluation will be possible in different or changing noise conditions.

The invention relates to a hearing evaluation detection system, and the system a hearing test module, a sound field detecting module, a speech evaluation module and an upper computer. The hearing testmodule uses single-frequency sinusoidal sound for sound generation, and determines the minimum sound at various frequencies that can be heard by an ear, so as to understand the hearing loss at each frequency, and draw an audiogram, and judge the degree and nature of the deafness according to the audiogram. The speech evaluation module is used for performing the speech test of a vocabulary to understand the hearing state of a patient, and performs the discrimination and diagnosis of the hearing loss status and characteristics. The sound field detecting module is configured to determine a soundfield hearing threshold level of a bare ear and a hearing threshold level after a functional gain. The upper computer is used for controlling the hearing test module, the speech evaluation module andthe sound field detecting module, and performs the integration and preservation of the detection data result, in order to obtain a hearing evaluation test result. The economic investment of the system is low, and the accuracy of the hearing damage evaluation test result is improved, the beneficiary personnel are expanded, and the society is benefited.

Methods and systems for rapidly determining and displaying the depth of ear tip placement to improve the reliability of hearing tests may comprise in a hearing assessment system comprising a control system and a probe with a sealing ear tip, a microphone, and a sound source: measuring a pressure versus frequency of an ear canal, determining a first half-wavelength frequency of the ear canal using the measured pressure versus frequency and / or or from the phase of the ear canal reflectance, and calculating a distance between the hearing probe and an eardrum in the ear canal based on the determined first half-wavelength frequency. Subsequent measurements of the ear canal may be performed using the calculated distance. The calculated distance may be stored in a memory in the control system for the subsequent measurements of the ear canal. The calculated distance may be displayed on a gauge on the control system.

The invention discloses a hearing test device, comprising a headset and a stimulating sound source; the headset is used for receiving stimulating sound wave emitted by the stimulating sound source. The hearing test device also comprises a data processor and an evaluation module connected with the data processor; a speaker and an otoacoustic sensor embedded in the headset, the speaker is connected with the stimulating sound source, the otoacoustic sensor is used for picking an otoacoustic signal generated in the cochlea of a subject and transmitting the otoacoustic signal to the data processor for signal processing, and the evaluating module evaluates hearing condition of the subject and sends out hearing test results. The hearing test device can provide hearing test for the subject when the subject enjoys music or converses; the otoacoustic sensor in the headset may receive the otoacoustic emission signal from the cochlea; the data processor and the evaluation module evaluate hearing of the subject; evaluation is not limited by ambient and stimulating sound source frequency; hearing hest can be performed anytime and anywhere.

A portable hearing evaluation system is provided including: a portable computing device configured to provide audiometric testing of a patient according to one or more audiological standards; and a transducer, coupled to the portable computing device. The portable computing device is configured generate a plurality of test signals based at least in part according to one or more parameters and to be provided on an output of the portable computing device for playback on the transducer.

A smart voice system is disclosed. The smart voice system includes a data receiving module, a voice message receiving module, a voice response module and a voice message output module. The data receiving module receives a hearing evaluation data of a user, and acquiring a hearing parameter according to the hearing evaluation data. The voice message receiving module receives a voice message inputted by the user. The voice response module acquires a response voice message corresponding to the voice message and the frequency of the response voice message is adjusted according to the hearing parameter. The voice message output module outputs the response voice message.

A system and a method for a healthcare provider to easily, accurately and efficiently provide a diagnostic hearing assessment, for their patients, in a way that accurately detects hearing loss and provides recommendations for seeking further assistance from remotely-located ear specialists is provided.

The invention provides a hearing aid control method and device, hearing aid equipment and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of wearable equipment. The hearing aid control method comprises the following steps: playing a hearing detection audio to obtain a feedback signal of a user wearing the hearing aid device based on the hearing detection audio, and determining a hearing evaluation result of the user based on the feedback signal; when it is determined that display operation needs to be executed by the hearing aid device based on the hearing evaluation result, collecting voice information needing auxiliary processing; and when the voice information is collected, converting the voice information into text information, and displaying the text information in a window area of the AR glasses. According to the technical scheme of the invention, hearing aid in the direction from auditory sense to visual sense is realized, so that the effect of hearing aid operation can be improved.

A system and a method for a healthcare provider to easily, accurately and efficiently provide a hearing test and a pressure test, i.e., a hearing assessment, for their patients, in a way that accurately detects hearing loss and provides recommendations for seeking further assistance from qualified hearing health specialists is provided.

A system for a healthcare provider to administer a portable interactive hearing assessment is provided. The system allows the healthcare provider to administer the hearing assessment in a way that accurately detects hearing loss and provides recommendations for seeking further assistance from qualified hearing health specialists and / or an ENT physician. The system includes a hearing test device, and a processor that receives and processes a pressure test result associated with each of the patient's ear from a tympanometer and the patient's response to one or more pure tone frequencies transmitted by the hearing test device. The processor may also provide a report and recommendation based on received pressure test result and the determined hearing results, and demonstrate effects of any hearing loss to a person accompanying the patient so that the accompanying person understands a scope of the patient's hearing loss.

The invention discloses a speech training hearing aid system carrying an AI speech anomaly assessment algorithm, and relates to the AI speech anomaly assessment algorithm, which is characterized in that comprehensive hearing assessment is carried out by collecting a composite signal and formulating an age adaptation rule base, hearing threshold dispersion and signal-to-noise ratio attenuation are obtained, and then a hearing level assessment coefficient is obtained; daily speech evaluation is carried out by collecting speech feature data and formulating a standard speech comparison library, a daily speech anomaly evaluation model is constructed by using a convolutional neural network learning model, and then a daily speech evaluation coefficient is obtained; by collecting multi-dimensional data, professional speech evaluation is carried out, and then a professional speech evaluation coefficient is obtained; and according to the hearing level evaluation coefficient, the daily speech evaluation coefficient and the professional speech evaluation coefficient, analysis is performed to obtain an analysis result, and a comprehensive analysis scheme is formulated, so that the accuracy is greatly improved.

A system and a method for a healthcare provider to easily, accurately and efficiently provide a diagnostic hearing assessment, for their patients, in a way that accurately detects hearing loss and provides recommendations for seeking further assistance from remotely-located ear specialists is provided.

The invention relates to the technical field of crossing of medical instruments and artificial intelligence, and provides a hearing threshold detection method based on multi-mode hearing electrophysiological signal fusion. Comprising stimulation frequency otoacoustic emission and auditory brainstem response induced by sweep frequency stimulation sound, distortion product otoacoustic emission induced by dual-tone stimulation and middle ear sound immittance / reflection signals, and a multi-task deep learning model is constructed to perform fusion analysis on the signals. According to the method, accurate quantitative regression prediction of hearing thresholds with any frequency resolution and automatic classification and discrimination of hearing loss properties are synchronously realized, the problems of single evaluation dimension and insufficient complex hearing loss analysis ability in the prior art are effectively solved, the comprehensiveness, accuracy and clinical operation efficiency of objective hearing evaluation are remarkably improved, and the method is suitable for popularization and application. And an innovative system solution is provided for fine diagnosis of the auditory function.

A method for performing a hearing assessment procedure includes: performing a computational prediction of a hearing loss at at least one frequency different from one or more given frequencies for which a hearing loss indication is obtained by measurement, selecting a configuration for performing the hearing assessment procedure using at least the predicted hearing loss at the at least one frequency.

A system for a healthcare provider to administer a portable interactive hearing assessment is provided. The system allows the healthcare provider to administer the hearing assessment in a way that accurately detects hearing loss and provides recommendations for seeking further assistance from qualified hearing health specialists and / or an ENT physician. The system includes a hearing test device, and a processor that receives and processes a pressure test result associated with each of the patient's ear from a tympanometer and the patient's response to one or more pure tone frequencies transmitted by the hearing test device. The processor may also provide a report and recommendation based on received pressure test result and the determined hearing results, and demonstrate effects of any hearing loss to a person accompanying the patient so that the accompanying person understands a scope of the patient's hearing loss.

The invention provides a hearing aid system with cloud background support. According to the invention, the cloud background for the hearing aid is built, the hearing tracking evaluation terminal is also provided, and the hearing aid and the hearing tracking evaluation terminal can realize remote data transmission with the cloud background through a wireless communication technology. The cloud background determines the debugging parameters of the hearing aid according to the hearing evaluation data of the hearing tracking evaluation terminal and the sound environment data collected by the hearing aid, and transmits the debugging parameters to the hearing aid, thereby remotely supporting the debugging of the hearing aid, on the premise of guaranteeing that the hearing aid is matched with thesound recognition capability of a user and adapts to the actual sound environment, convenience is provided for the user to the maximum extent.

A hearing estimation system (100) adapted to use a latent representation to provide a predictive distribution of a complete audiogram for a specific person.

The present invention discloses a speech training hearing aid system equipped with an AI speech anomaly evaluation algorithm, which relates to the AI speech anomaly evaluation algorithm. By collecting composite signals and formulating an age-adapted rule base, comprehensive hearing evaluation is carried out to obtain the hearing threshold dispersion and the signal-to-noise ratio attenuation amount, and then the hearing level evaluation coefficient is obtained; by collecting speech feature data and formulating a standard speech comparison library, daily speech evaluation is carried out, and a daily speech anomaly evaluation model is constructed using a convolutional neural network learning model, and then the daily speech evaluation coefficient is obtained; by collecting multi-dimensional data, professional speech evaluation is carried out, and then the professional speech evaluation coefficient is obtained; according to the hearing level evaluation coefficient, the daily speech evaluation coefficient and the professional speech evaluation coefficient, analysis is carried out to obtain the analysis result, and a comprehensive analysis plan is formulated, greatly improving the accuracy.

The invention relates to the technical field, and discloses a construction method and system of an occupational noise hearing loss risk screening model, which are independent of hearing evaluation and direct noise exposure measurement and do not depend on traditional hearing detection equipment and data thereof. The method comprises the following steps: constructing a high-precision occupational noise hearing loss risk screening model by using demographic characteristic data, biochemical metabolism index data and hematology index data of occupational noise hearing loss people and noise exposure hearing normal people and a machine learning algorithm; the model can efficiently and accurately screen occupational noise-induced hearing loss risks, assists in realizing accurate occupational noise-induced hearing loss diagnosis and treatment decision, effectively saves manpower and material resources, and has a huge application prospect in screening and early prevention of noise-induced hearing loss.

The invention discloses a software unit intended for hearing assessment, said software unit being arranged to perform a method comprising the steps of:-performing a reference frequency hearing test to establish a reference frequency for each ear of a test subject; and-performing an equal loudness hearing test for each ear wherein the step of performing the reference frequency hearing test involves: providing sound to the test subject at a set sound level starting from a first frequency positioned within a given frequency range to obtain or not obtain a hearing response, the set sound level selects the lowest test sound level in a range of-10 Phon to 50 Phon; changing the sound level at a first frequency; selecting a first frequency as a reference frequency if the test subject provides a hearing response at the selected lowest test sound level in the range of-10 Phon to 50 Phon, otherwise selecting another frequency in a given frequency range; and repeating the iterative process at a new frequency within a given frequency range until the software unit detects a frequency X for which the test subject provides a hearing response at the selected lowest test sound level within the range of-10 Phon to 50 Phon, or the frequency is a frequency having a lowest sound level hearing response from the test subject for a set frequency to be tested, and then selecting the frequency X as a reference frequency.

One of the objectives of this invention is to allow the conduction of audiometric evaluations in natural or artificial sound spaces, in a way that can be monitored and reproduced.For that purpose, the inventors propose to create virtual environments which reproduce sound and visual characteristics of natural or artificial spaces.In practice, a user experience is initiated between a subject and a virtual environment so as to simulate a specific audiometry test. Finally, a spatial auditory localization score is determined from measurements that will be carried out in the virtual environment.

A portable hearing evaluation system is provided including: a portable computing device configured to provide audiometric testing of a patient according to one or more audiological standards; and a transducer, coupled to the portable computing device. The portable computing device is configured generate a plurality of test signals based at least in part according to one or more parameters and to be provided on an output of the portable computing device for playback on the transducer.