24 results about "Auditory system" patented technology

Methods of classifying and using acoustic filters for active noise control in hearing systems, such as headphones. The acoustic filters are determined and stored in a memory in the hearing system, making it therefore possible to quickly and efficiently select and use a certain filter in order to improve filter performance and filter stability in the hearing system.

A hearing device includes input transducers providing a transducer input, the input transducers comprising a first input transducer for provision of a first transducer input signal, wherein the transducer input is based on the first transducer input signal; a processor configured to provide an electrical output signal based on the transducer input; and a receiver to provide an audio output signal based on the electrical output signal; wherein the processor is configured to process the transducer input for provision of a first input and a second input; apply a neural network to the second input for provision of a second output that is a prediction of future noise; provide a noise estimate based on the second output; and subtract the noise estimate from a magnitude of the first input for provision of a first output, wherein the electrical output signal is based on the first output.

The invention discloses an equipment network distribution method and an equipment network distribution system. Specifically, a second device can send a detection sound wave signal with a signal frequency in a range of 18-22kHz after accessing a network, a first device carries out validity detection on the detection sound wave signal after obtaining the detection sound wave signal sent by the second device, and automatically obtains distribution network information from the second device after passing the validity detection. And executing network distribution operation based on the network distribution information. In the whole process, a user can realize automatic network distribution of the second equipment without operating on the first equipment and the second equipment, so that the problem of low network distribution success rate caused by complicated operation of a traditional network distribution mode is solved, and the network distribution success rate is effectively improved. The frequency range of the detected sound wave signals is limited in the range of 18-22 kHz, on the basis of achieving accurate equipment detection, the human ear sensitive frequency interval can be avoided, the influence of the detected sound wave signals on the auditory system of a user is avoided, and non-inductive network distribution is achieved.

A computer-implemented method of testing processing speed, including presenting a first set of instructions to a subject, administering a first test, based on the first set of instructions, to the subject, presenting a second set of instructions to the subject, administering a second test, based on the second set of instructions, to the subject, calculating results of at least one of the first test and the second test, and displaying the results on a graphic user interface (GUI).

An illustrative system is configured to perform a process comprising: directing stimulation to be applied to a recipient of a bilateral hearing system that includes a first cochlear implant associated with a first ear of the recipient and a second cochlear implant associated with a second ear of the recipient; and causing the first cochlear implant and the second cochlear implant to simultaneously record, during an acquisition time window, one or more evoked responses within the recipient that are elicited by the stimulation.

A personal acoustic device with passive noise blocking or noise attenuation characteristics for use in high noise environments or for acoustic isolation from an external environment allowing for continuous sound blocking without any power or additional infrastructure. Passive systems have limited ways to fail versus active systems such as active noise cancellation with their complexity that can fail unexpectedly or are unavailable when power is absent. The device comprises an outer cup with an inner cup connected by one or more elements for at least one of locating, retaining and limiting motion of the inner cup with respect to the outer cup, wherein the inner cup fits over a user's car.

An equine audio system for modulating sound input to a horse comprises anatomically-shaped earbuds with speakers configured to fit securely in the horse's ears. A digital audio processor receives an input audio signal, applies signal processing to generate an output audio signal optimized for an equine auditory system, and transmits the output audio signal to the speakers. The signal processing includes noise cancellation, frequency equalization to emphasize frequencies within the equine hearing range, and dynamic range compression. The earbuds attenuate ambient noise and may include acoustically optimized sound tubes. The system may further include a wireless receiver, a remote control device, an accelerometer for motion-based audio adjustment, and sudden loud noise detection and gradual attenuation capabilities.

This disclosure relates to stimulation control. This document presents techniques for controlling stimulation provided by an implantable device. Stimulation control can be performed at an external device and can utilize machine learning (e.g., artificial intelligence (AI)). The techniques provide a cochlear implant stimulation strategy that utilizes computational models of the healthy hearing system and the implanted hearing system to more closely simulate natural acoustic hearing.

The invention relates to the technical field of wireless audio, and provides a multi-device wireless audio synchronization and sound field expansion method and system. Ultrahigh synchronization precision: through hierarchical clock synchronization and audio feedback calibration, the audio synchronization precision among multiple devices is improved to be within 500 microseconds from 10-50 milliseconds of a traditional scheme, and is far beyond a perception threshold of a human auditory system for synchronization differences; self-adaptive sound field expansion: through a virtual positioning technology, a user can intuitively configure a multi-device space layout, and a system automatically calculates sound channel allocation, delay compensation and frequency equalization parameters to realize immersive sound field experience; a double-link redundancy transmission and dynamic path switching strategy is adopted, and stable connection and synchronization quality are kept in a complex wireless environment.

A computer-implemented method of testing processing speed, including presenting a first set of instructions to a subject, administering a first test, based on the first set of instructions, to the subject, presenting a second set of instructions to the subject, administering a second test, based on the second set of instructions, to the subject, calculating results of at least one of the first test and the second test, and displaying the results on a graphic user interface (GUI).

The application discloses a subcutaneous speech enhancement method based on SATF estimation and stream matching, which constructs a simulation adaptive framework containing SATF estimation and stream matching noise simulation double branches, performs normalized cross-correlation pre-alignment on a subcutaneous speech pair and executes an STFT transformation, constructs an SATF library through STFT domain least square estimation and frequency smoothing, and synthesizes band-pass channel colored simulation speech based on the SATF library and dynamic noise; scene-related structured residual noise is generated by combining stream matching, simulation speech and structured residual noise are fused to obtain final simulation noisy speech, and the final simulation noisy speech is paired with clean speech to generate aligned simulation training speech pairs, and a pre-training speech enhancement model is adaptively trained by using the training speech pairs. The application can effectively alleviate the problems of subcutaneous speech data scarcity and alignment deviation, improve speech enhancement effect, and adapt to applications of full-implantable cochlear implants and other implantable hearing systems.

The present invention relates to a polypeptide that induces ribbon synapse formation in the inner ear or increases the number of ribbon synapses in the inner ear, or improves the function of ribbon synapses. The present invention also relates to a polypeptide having the ability to promote neurite outgrowth or increase branch points of spiral ganglion neurons. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a polypeptide, a nucleic acid molecule encoding the polypeptide, a vector comprising the nucleic acid molecule, recombinant viral particles comprising the vector and a capsid protein, a cell comprising the vector, a cell transformed with the vector, or a combination thereof, of the present invention, prevents or ameliorates damage to or abnormality of the auditory system or the equilibrium system (vestibular system), and thus can be effectively used as a therapeutic agent for inner ear diseases.

A computing system comprises an auditory system exposed to an environment. The auditory system comprises a microphone that receives sonic waveforms and outputs audio signals. A baffle structure comprising multiple paths for every arriving sonic waveform is located between the microphone and the environment. The baffle structure is configured to, based at least on an angle of arrival for a sonic waveform, induce frequency dependent amplitude differences and phase differences for the sonic waveform over a range of frequencies. A processing system is communicatively coupled to the microphone. The processing system is configured to receive audio signals from the microphone representing the sonic waveform, to identify a source of the sonic waveform based at least on the received audio signals, and to output an estimated angle of arrival for the sonic waveform based at least on amplitudes and phases of the received audio signals and characteristics of the baffle structure.

This invention discloses a method and apparatus for classifying and determining the target of intake order noise based on a harmonic signal generator. The method includes dividing in-vehicle noise into in-vehicle intake order noise and in-vehicle background noise caused by other factors, and acquiring the in-vehicle background noise; calculating the characteristic loudness of the corresponding in-vehicle background noise under various driving conditions, and classifying the target of intake order noise based on the characteristic loudness of the in-vehicle background noise; simulating intake order noise at the intake through a harmonic signal generator so that the frequency and amplitude of the intake order noise transmitted into the vehicle are the same as the frequency and amplitude of the corresponding target intake order noise at each level; acquiring the simulated intake order noise, and classifying the target of intake order noise based on the simulated intake order noise. This invention achieves the separation of in-vehicle intake order noise from other background noise, the setting of target of in-vehicle intake order noise based on human auditory system perception, and the decomposition of in-vehicle intake order noise into intake order noise based on quantitative active sound generation.

A computing system comprises an auditory system exposed to an environment. The auditory system comprises a microphone that receives sonic waveforms and outputs audio signals. A baffle structure comprising multiple paths for every arriving sonic waveform is located between the microphone and the environment. The baffle structure is configured to, based at least on an angle of arrival for a sonic waveform, induce frequency dependent amplitude differences and phase differences for the sonic waveform over a range of frequencies. A processing system is communicatively coupled to the microphone. The processing system is configured to receive audio signals from the microphone representing the sonic waveform, to identify a source of the sonic waveform based at least on the received audio signals, and to output an estimated angle of arrival for the sonic waveform based at least on amplitudes and phases of the received audio signals and characteristics of the baffle structure.

This invention relates to the field of novel pharmaceutical uses, disclosing the application of methyl jasmonate in the preparation of drugs for delaying age-related hearing loss. This invention is the first to clearly discover that methyl jasmonate can significantly improve the auditory function of aged mice, significantly enhance the pure tone hearing threshold and speech recognition ability of aged mice, effectively protect the structural integrity of the cochlea, reduce apoptosis of cochlear hair cells and spiral ganglion cells, inhibit the inflammatory response and oxidative stress damage of the auditory system, and delay the degenerative process of the auditory system from a pathological perspective, which has important clinical translational potential and market value.

The utility model relates to a kind of bionic decoy with noise device, including frog body, the two sides of the frog body are connected with the frog leg of movable structure, the inner chamber of the frog body is provided with bait groove, the inner chamber of the bait groove is filled with bait, the opening of the bait groove is fixedly connected with mesh plate, the utility model relates to the technical field of decoy.It is a kind of bionic decoy with noise device, composite sound wave fish attracting: double mode sound emitting system can produce 80-1200Hz wide frequency sound wave, wherein 800Hz high frequency band effectively stimulates predatory fish auditory system, low-frequency vibration wave propagation distance is improved by 40%, intelligent bait control: the micro-control release system formed by mesh plate and closure plate, bait slow-release is realized by 0.5mm aperture array, cooperate the elastic sealing structure of rubber pad, ensure continuous fog.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a bridging artificial neuron unit based on a memristor circuit and a bionic auditory positioning system, and relates to the field of neuromorphic calculation and artificial intelligence hardware. A bridging artificial neuron unit comprises a first memristor analog circuit connected with a first capacitor and a first load resistor and a second memristor analog circuit connected with a second capacitor and a second load resistor, and the first memristor analog circuit and the second memristor analog circuit are connected through a first bridging capacitor and are coupled with an external circuit through a second bridging capacitor. The unit can simulate pulse distribution and non-stress behaviors of biological neurons. A plurality of units are connected in series to construct a one-way pulse propagation chain to form a pulse propagation network. The coincidence detector constructed based on the network can detect the tiny time difference of multiple paths of input signals, and is applied to a bionic auditory system to realize sound source positioning. The device is simple in structure, high in modularization degree and capable of achieving high-reliability analog pulse propagation and high-time-precision coincidence detection.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an interaction control method and device, electronic equipment, storage medium and vehicle. The interaction control method comprises: in the case that a cross-screen playing instruction is acquired, determining a current display screen and a target display screen according to the cross-screen playing instruction; playing a guide sound, the guide sound being a stereophonic sound in which a simulated sound source position is gradually moved from the position of the current display screen to the position of the target display screen. Since the simulated sound source position of the guide sound is gradually moved from the position of the current display screen to the position of the target display screen, the user's auditory system can perceive the gradual change of the position of the guide sound, and the problem of abrupt auditory sensation caused by instantaneous switching is avoided, thereby improving the user experience.

1. The name of the design product: dog repeller (Q07). 2. The use of the design product: using high-frequency sound waves to interfere with the auditory system of dogs, so that they feel uncomfortable, so as to achieve the purpose of driving. 3. The design points of the design product: in the front view. 4. The picture or photo that best shows the design points: front view.

A computer-based system is used to generate audio files through the auditory system. This depends on the corresponding auditory signal from which the auditory signal is generated. In a sequence, multiple objects within a location generate metadata containing spatial characteristics. In a location where the order is defined for objects, and the transmission of audio files via audio and metadata. For an object to be transferred to a first electronic device in order to cause the first electronic device to produce... The actual presence or presence in a given location is achieved by playing or displaying audio files through the auditory system, depending on the spatial characteristics. In metadata.

Ammonia oxidizing microorganism preparations for delivery to the visual and auditory systems, kits including ammonia oxidizing preparations for delivery to the visual and auditory systems, and devices for administering ammonia oxidizing preparations to the visual and auditory systems are provided. Methods of introducing ammonia oxidizing microorganisms to the eye are provided. Methods of introducing ammonia oxidizing microorganisms to the ear are provided. Methods of treating disorders, including eye disorders, ear disorders, and inflammatory disorders, with ammonia oxidizing microorganism preparations are provided.

The present disclosure relates to an audio processing method, device, medium and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of computers. The method obtains target audio generated by a target sound source in a virtual scene, determines a target loudness corresponding to the target audio according to a target distance between the target sound source and a virtual object in combination with a loudness decay curve, and outputs the target audio according to the target loudness. The loudness of the generated audio can be presented as a sound source with no fixed position effect in the virtual scene. The target audio generated by the sound source in the virtual scene can present a real hearing sensation, thereby creating a more real atmosphere in the virtual scene and enabling players to have a more immersive game experience.

A method operates a hearing system that has first and second hearing devices. In the first hearing device, a first reference signal and a first auxiliary signal are generated from an environment sound collected by microphones. A first pre-processed signal is generated by applying a direction-sensitive pre-processing to the first reference and auxiliary signals using first reference and first auxiliary pre-processing coefficients. For the microphones, a respective first reference head related transfer function and first auxiliary head related transfer function are provided, and a first head related transfer function is derived from the first reference and first auxiliary pre-processing coefficients and from the first reference and auxiliary head related transfer functions. For the second hearing device a second pre-processed signal is generated using second microphones, and a second position related transfer function is provided. A direction-sensitive signal processing task is performed on the first and second pre-processed signals.