8 results about "Auditory canal" patented technology

An in-ear device (IED) of a wearable system captures audio data from within the ear canal of a user indicative of the user's heartbeat. The IED when worn occludes the user's ear canal, causing amplification of low frequency sounds due to the occlusion effect, and improving the ability of the acoustic sensor to detect the user's heartbeat sounds. The wearable system classifies the audio data to identify portions of the audio data corresponding to a first heart sound and a second heart sound, which correspond to different portions of the heartbeat of the user. The wearable system estimates a blood pressure level of the user based upon the identified heart sounds.

This utility model discloses a pediatric examination illumination device, belonging to the field of medical device technology. The device includes a cylindrical body and an illumination mechanism. The cylindrical body consists of a shell, a telescopic joint, a universal flexible tube, and a lamp holder. The illumination mechanism includes a power module, a microcontroller, and a touch switch. The microcontroller is integrated into the shell and electrically connected to the LED lamp, power module, and switch. The telescopic joint and universal flexible tube allow for flexible adjustment of the illumination angle and distance. The touch switch, combined with three brightness levels, adapts to different examination scenarios. Medical-grade materials ensure safety and comfort, while the non-slip grip and retractable design enhance ease of operation and portability. It is suitable for precise illumination examinations of deep cavities such as the pediatric oral cavity, ear canal, and nasal cavity.

The application discloses a medicine sprayer for ear-nose-throat patient nursing, and relates to the technical field of ear-nose-throat patient nursing, which comprises a support, a main snake neck pipe is installed on one temple of the support, the medicine sprayer for ear-nose-throat patient nursing provides a stable platform through a glasses type support, the position of a medicine bottle and an ear clip can be independently and multidimensionally adjusted in combination with the main snake neck pipe and a branch snake neck pipe, and the medicine bottle spout and the ear canal can be quickly and accurately aligned. The patient can lie down to operate, a precise mechanical transmission system of a push key-rack-driving gear-piston cylinder is used to convert one-time pressing operation of a user into extrusion of the medicine bottle, the stroke end point of the push key is set through a stop block and a screw, one or two first piston cylinders are controlled to work, the switching between a small dose and a standard dose can be realized, and the accurate dose requirement of different prescriptions and diseases can be met.

Disclosed is a hearing device comprising an input transducer configured to be arranged in an ear canal of a user and to provide an input signal. The hearing device further comprises a signal processing unit configured to receive the input signal from the input transducer and to generate a processed signal. The signal processing unit comprises an adaptive feedback filter characterized by its filter coefficients. The filter coefficients are configured to change in response to changes of the input signal. The signal processing unit is configured to monitor the filter coefficients. The signal processing unit is also configured to determine a state of the hearing device based on a threshold and the filter coefficients.

A system and method for noninvasive sleep monitoring are disclosed. The system includes an in-ear biosensor system (“biosensor system”) and a data analysis system. The biosensor system includes at least one earbud placed at or within an ear canal of an individual. The earbud includes an acoustic sensor that detects biosignals including infrasonic and audible signals from the individual in the ear canal. A controller board of the biosensor system collects and forwards the biosignals to the data analysis system. The data analysis system analyzes the biosignals to identify and monitor physiological information of the individual during sleep. The physiological information includes sleep stages, sleeping position information, sleep events including snore, breathing cessation and bruxism events, and sleep disorders, in examples. The system can also induce changes to the physiological information during sleep using external stimuli to improve a quality of sleep.

The present disclosure relates to a communication system configured to be used in a demanding environment, the communication system comprising a first in-ear device (103, 303a, 303b) comprising a tip (323, 323a, 323b, 337), the tip (323, 323a, 323b, 337) having a distal end (331) and a proximal end (333) and being configured to be inserted into an ear canal of a user (101) with the proximal end (333) being closer to an inner ear of the user (101) than the distal end (331) when the user (101) is wearing the in-ear device (103, 303a, 303b), wherein the tip (323, 323a, 323b, 337) comprises a user compressible material (337) and is further configured to be inserted into the ear canal of the user (101) in a compressed state and, to expand over time into a less compressed state where at least a part of an exterior of the tip (323, 323a, 323b, 337) touches and engages with the ear canal of the user (101) thereby attenuating sound from the demanding environment before reaching the inner ear of the user, wherein the user compressible material (323, 323a, 323b, 337) has a predetermined expansion time so that the tip (323) expands from the compressed state at a first point in time (T0) to the less compressed 15 state at a second point in time (T1), where a sound attenuation effect of the tip (323, 323a, 323b, 337), at the second point in time (T1), has reached at predetermined attenuation level, and where the time between the first (T0) and second points in time (T1) is at least greater than 40 seconds.

The application discloses a kind of self-adapting audio compensation method and system based on acoustic impedance real-time monitoring of ear canal, at least one ear canal standing wave resonance frequency is identified by establishing individualized reference impedance spectrum in advance, in normal audio playing process, narrow-band oscillation component near the resonance frequency generated by normal audio signal itself excitation is extracted in real time using feedback microphone, so that only in initial calibration, weak detection signal with amplitude lower than hearing threshold or normal playing level is allowed to be used, in normal listening process, any active detection signal is not used at all, the influence on hearing is minimized, and there is no need to interrupt or superimpose test tone, the problems that existing active detection mode interferes with normal listening experience, measurement results lack real-time, compensation lags behind continuous change of ear canal state are solved.

An apparatus includes a housing configured to be positioned within an ear canal of a recipient, at least one transducer, and at least one communication circuit. The at least one transducer is configured to respond to sound within the ear canal by generating output signals indicative of the sound. The at least one communication circuit has at least one resonance frequency and is configured to receive the output signals from the at least one transducer and to modulate the at least one resonance frequency in response to the output signals from the at least one transducer.