52 results about "Persons With Hearing Impairments" patented technology

A system consisting of interconnectible, hearing-assistive, portable “units” which can address communication problems that persons who are hard of hearing experience in many social settings (such as while dining out with friends in a noisy restaurant). The system allows each unit operator to share multiple audio input signals coming into any of the connected units with the other participants using the system. The operator is also able to selectively amplify one or more of the incoming audio signals (such as from the voices of one or more of the participants) while blocking out or turning down another (such as from background music). The units are capable of integrating audio signals with video, word processing and internet data. An innovative method for improving communication for persons who are hard of hearing in public and private settings is also claimed.

A holding unit and a vibration transmission system are disclosed. The holding unit comprising a holding plate is configured to be attached to the skin by means of magnetic attraction between a number of external magnets that are either:a) integrated within the holding plate;b) mechanically attached to the holding plate; orc) constituting the holding plateand a number of internal magnets implanted under the skin of a hearing impaired person. The holding unit comprises a transmission member or plate member configured to transfer mechanical vibrations from a vibrator through the skin to the bone of the person. The transmission member or plate member is interconnected by a mechanical flexible coupling to the magnet(s) of the holding plate.

The purpose is to provide a cellular phone attachment for a hearing-impaired person. The attachment is adapted to be used as a hearing aid for catching a voice sound issued from the conversation partners when the hearing-impaired person makes conversation to his or her partners through the cellular phone. The attachment is constructed of: a microphone disposed closely adjacent to a receiver opening of the cellular phone in use; a bone conduction speaker adapted to be brought into contact with a portion of the person's head; a main body portion provided with an amplifier and a battery; and, a fitting means for mounting each of the microphone, the bone conduction speaker and the main body portion on the cellular phone.

Hearing aid for improving the hearing ability of the hard of hearing, comprising an array of microphones, the electrical output signals of which are fed to at least one transmission path belonging to an ear. Means are provided for deriving two array output signals from the output signals of the microphones, the array having two main sensitivity directions running at an angle with respect to one another and each of which is associated to an array output signal. Each array output signal is fed to its own transmission path belonging to one ear of a person who is hard of hearing.

The invention provides an audio processing device and system for far-field pickup and mobile charging, and the device comprises a Bluetooth module, a central processor, a waking-up module, a voice input module, a power module, a cellphone, an APP application, and a display screen. The power module is used for supplying power to the device, and the waking-up module wakes up the voice input module. The voice input module collects the external sound information, and the central processor carries out the noise reduction, reverberation removal, echo removal and voice enhancement of the sound information. The Bluetooth module enables the processed audio information to be transmitted to the cellphone, and the cellphone APP carries out the voice recognition of the audio information, and transmits a waking-up instruction to the waking-up module. The display screen displays the recognized text information in real time. The device provided by the invention achieves a purpose that a person with hearing impairment can clearly know the speaking content of a speaker through the text information displayed by the display screen, brings convenience to the person with the hearing impairment for conversation.

The present application takes advantage of a simultaneous three pronged approach that converts sound to electricity and subsequently to vibration and ultrasound. The vibrations and electricity are transmitted via skin nerves to the brain to give the deaf or hard of hearing person “hearing sensation” through conditional reflex. The ultrasound wave is transmitted wirelessly to skull and then via bone conduction to the brain and inner ear. This hearing device is not solely dependent on the partially or totally damaged or absent inner ear.

A comprehension assistance system 10 assists the comprehension of a hearing-impaired person who enjoys a service for taking notes. The comprehension assistance system 10 includes a comprehension assistance server 1, clients 2 for use by note-takers, a client 4 for use by a checker who checks notes taken by the note-takers, and a client 3 for use by the hearing-impaired person. A comprehension assistance server device 1 includes a text receiving unit 11 configured to receive, from the client 2, text data obtained by the notes by the note-takers, a text transmitting unit 17 configured to transmit the received text data to the client 4, and a data communication unit 16 configured to receive the checked text data from the client 4 and transmit the checked text data to the client 3.

A telephone with a receiver arousing bone-conduction and air-conduction hearing converts an input electric voice signal into vibration and acoustic signals. Since a conventional telephone has a receiver for only air-conduction hearing, a hearing impaired person cannot use the conventional telephone. In case of a bone-conduction telephone using a bone-conduction vibrator as a receiver, this vibrator is only used for bone-conduction hearing, so that an additional telephone is needed when the ordinary person and the hearing impaired person live in the same place. The telephone with a receiver arousing bone-conduction and air-conduction hearing uses a vibrator of smoothly arousing bone-conduction and air-conduction hearing as a receiver, is capable of hearing a vibration signal through bone-conduction hearing as well as an acoustic signal through air-conduction hearing, makes a hearing-impaired person with conductive hearing loss and an old person who has difficulty in air-conduction hearing use bone-conduction hearing, and makes an ordinary person having a normal sense of hearing use either bone-conduction hearing in a noise environment or air-conduction hearing in a normal environment.

Problem: To provide a bone conduction speaker that, while it is a bone conduction speaker, additionally has a structure allowing a respiratory tract sound to be generated, thereby the high frequency characteristics thereof being improved, and thus, that, in the case where it is used by a hearing non-impaired person, communications at a good voice level can be made as well as in the case where it is used by a hearing impaired person, and further, when the hearing non-impaired person uses it to listen to a music, the music can be enjoyed with a high sound quality.Solution: A second diaphragm 3 is fixed to a bottom face of a bone conduction speaker unit 2 incorporated in a housing 1; a peripheral part of the second diaphragm 3 is fixed to an inner surface of the housing 1 over its entire periphery, thereby an upper air chamber 4 being formed on the upper side of the second diaphragm 3, and a lower air chamber being formed on the lower side thereof; and a sound emitting port 6 is formed in a side face or a bottom face of the lower air chamber 5.

The present invention relates to a direction guide vibration system of a vehicle operating with a navigation and control method thereof, which applies vibration to a driver's seat on which a driver sits at the spot where a left turn or a right turn and a U turn are expected, on a path to move to a driver's intended destination, informs a driver thereof in advance for people and the hearing impaired using a navigation and informs the driver thereof before an enforcement area in which an over-speed camera is installed, thereby securing a safe driving of a vehicle.

The present invention discloses a computer aided training method for mouth-shape recognition ability which solves the technique problem of increasing training efficiency, saving time of teacher and parents. The method includes steps as follows: the user can select self-selection method or random method, when self-selection method is selected, the user watches pronouncing mouth-shape video and simulates pronouncing mouth-shape action and pronunciation; when random method is selected, computer plays pronouncing mouth-shape video, and interface displays letter, the user judges and computer gives correct answer. By comparison with present technique, the method can make computer replacing teacher or parents for training mouth-shape recognition ability by using computer multimedia function, so the method can save time of teacher or parents and has active action for increasing viability of deaf and dumb people and other hearing impaired people. The method is especially suitable for training mouth-shape recognition ability of hearing impaired people, such as deaf and dumb people, half-deafness people.

The invention provides a caption display method and apparatus, a mobile terminal and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: receiving audio information, and performing audio clustering analysis on the audio information to obtain an audio analysis result; performing color marking on corresponding display captions according to the audio analysis result; and when the audio information is played, displaying the audio information at captions with different colors according to the color marking results of the display captions. By adoption of the caption display method and apparatus, the viewing effect when a user views a multimedia video program with captions is improved, and when a hearing-impaired user views the program with captions, the user can identify the incidence relation between the sound producer and the caption content through the color of the caption, thereby improving the viewing experience of the user.

The invention discloses a single-film bone conduction earphone with double functions and double sound effects. A cover without holes is mounted at the opening of an accommodating cavity inside an earphone shell in an embedded mode; an audio cable is mounted and arranged on the opposite side, at the position of the opening of the accommodating cavity, of the earphone shell; a vibration assembly and an audio signal input assembly are mounted in the accommodating cavity in the embedded mode; the audio signal input assembly comprises hollow voice coil windings and an audio signal connecting plate; the vibration assembly comprises a cylinder-shaped concentrating flux plate, annular permanent magnets and a cylinder-shaped permanent magnet; heteropolar surfaces of the cylinder-shaped permanent magnet and the annular permanent magnets are tightly adsorbed to the cylinder-shaped concentrating flux plate; the cylinder-shaped concentrating flux plate is coaxially and seamlessly riveted to a circular vibration sound film on the opposite side of the cylinder-shaped permanent magnet. Through the structural design, the earphone can obtain double sound effects by taking bone conduction as the principal thing and taking air conduction as the auxiliary thing, and has double functions that the earphone is suitable for both hearing normal people and hearing handicapped; the earphone is novel in design and simple in structure, and can effectively alleviate burden and direct stimulation for eardrums to relieve early ear hearing loss.

The portable robot for two-way communication with the hearing-impaired provides for translation of audio into hand movements, hand shapes, hand orientations; the location of the hands around the body, the movements of the body and the head, facial expressions and lip movements to provide communication from a non-hearing-impaired individual(s) to hearing-impaired individual(s). The robot also translates hand movements, hand shapes, hand orientations; the location of the hands around the body, the movements of the body and the head, facial expressions and lip movements into audio to provide communication from hearing-impaired individual(s) to non-hearing-impaired individual(s). A communication system is provided to allow remote communication with non-hearing-impaired individual(s).

A method and system are disclosed for enabling indirect person-to-person calls between deaf, hard of hearing, or speech impaired (D-HOH-SI) inmates in a correctional institution and D-HOH-SI called parties outside the correctional institution. A man-in-the-middle approach enables a complete separation of the inmate and called party, preventing any possible non-ASL communications between them, thereby ensuring the safety and security of inmates, called parties, and the public in general. Standard restrictions on allowed called parties are implemented, along with protection of confidential calls from being recorded. A first VRS system enables video communication between the inmate and the man-in-the-middle who is a sign language interpreter, while a second video communications system enables video communication between the man-in-the-middle and the called party. No direct video contact between the inmate and called party is allowed or required.

The present application takes advantage of a simultaneous three pronged approach that converts sound to electricity and subsequently to vibration and ultrasound. The vibrations and electricity are transmitted via skin nerves to the brain to give the deaf or hard of hearing person “hearing sensation” through conditional reflex. The ultrasound wave is transmitted wirelessly to skull and then via bone conduction to the brain and inner ear. This hearing device is not solely dependent on the partially or totally damaged or absent inner ear.

The invention provides a music player, relates to the sound wave conversion technique of the music player and belongs to the music player technical field. The music player at least comprises a vibrator and a controller; the controller converts sound wave signals in a digital file into mechanical vibration signals; and the vibrator carries out rhythmic vibration and / or intensive and weak vibration according to the mechanical vibration signals provided by the controller. With the music player of the invention adopted, music transfer can be realized through multi-contact vibration. The music player can be used by people with hearing disorder and can feel the charm of music.

An alarm system with an integral high-intensity illumination means comprising reflective beads for increased visibility is intended to provide alarm notification for the hard-of-hearing or deaf individuals. The illumination means on the bottom provides visual notification to deaf or hard of hearing building occupants and those who may outside of the building. To aid in the visual observation of the illumination means, a series of reflective beads are hung from the bottom of the detector.

IP text relay or phone captioning is described herein, to facilitate communication through the use of traditional phone or VOW or internet telephone system between people of hearing impaired and those who can hear. This service and device will enable users to communicate with users of hearing via assistance of an operator who will transcribe the call, while also receiving the Caller ID of the calling party and not the relay center.

A smartphone-based telephone translation system includes a translation machine that starts a call translation process when the call translation is set to ON. The system detects an incoming call or dials, translates a voice signal to obtain a translation text for the ON call state. The voice signal of the caller is received and recognized. A voice signal is translated to obtain a translation text for the ON call state. The localized voice signal is recognized, using a TTS machine to obtain a reply voice signal and sent to the caller. The system performs voice recognition and text translation on the call voice, translates the language into localized language, and performs the function of calling between different languages in real time, so as to realize a telephone communication between two persons speaking different languages. The system supports communication with a hearing-impaired person or deaf-mute person.

A system and method for the translation of sign languages into synthetic voices. The present invention refers to the field of assistive technologies, and comprises an instantaneous communication system between hearing- and speech-impaired individuals with hearing-able individuals. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for translating, in real time, the sign language of one individual into oral language by employing biometric sensors, wireless data communication, and a built-in software in a cellphone or another compatible mobile computing device. In certain exemplar embodiments, the invention facilitates associating the recognition of movements and gestures to letters, words, and sentences, and synthesizing the same into an electronic voice.

The invention discloses a manufacturing method of a 3D-printed hearing aid casing. The method includes the following steps that firstly, three-dimensional reconstruction is performed on medical imagedata of a hearing-impaired person, three-dimensional data of the ear canal of the person are obtained, a model is formed by the aid of three-dimensional software and then is designed and optimized bythe aid of the three-dimensional software according to the reconstructed three-dimensional data, the optimized model is printed by the aid of a 3D metal printer to form the casing, and aftertreatmentwork is performed on the casing. According to the manufacturing method of the 3D-printed hearing aid casing, technical materials for printing adopt titanium or titanium alloys, printing is performed by the aid of the 3D metal printer, customization can be realized according to personal information, the casing can be relatively thin, multiple hearing aid elements can be placed inside the casing andinclude electronic elements and various other structures, the person can wear the casing comfortably, and mounting of hearing aid equipment is facilitated. The casing has the relatively high fittingdegree, so that the wearer can feel stable sound transmission, the tone quality is clearer, and the wearer is not prone to allergies.

The invention discloses moving equipment with a bone conduction function. The moving equipment comprises a vibrator, a circuit board and carrier equipment, the vibrator and the circuit board are arranged on the carrier equipment and electrically connected, and the carrier equipment can generate or receive sound signals. By the moving equipment, a user can receive sound transmitted by a mobile terminal only by enabling a part, of the body, like a finger to contact an ear of the user without using wired or wireless communication equipment like other accessories such as a Bluetooth earphone and a wired earphone, so that simplicity and convenience are realized, and overall expense can be reduced. In addition, the moving equipment is a highly-useful mobile terminal for hearing impaired people and people working in noisy construction sites, markets and special fields.

The invention discloses an intelligent switchable backlight door bell by which a user can timely know a home security situation and home visitor information. The intelligent switchable backlight door bell consists of two parts, namely an outdoor unit and an indoor unit, which are connected through an A / D (Analog / Digital) conversion circuit, wherein the intelligent switchable backlight door bell has a backlight function, a non-disturb function and a number pre-storage function; a user mobile phone can be dialed through a pre-stored number to communicate with a visitor; a backlight panel automatically emits light while a microphone emits sound, so that the reliability for use of the door bell under a noise environment is increased, and the use of hearing disabilities is facilitated; a microcomputer chip processor is placed in the indoor unit; and when the user goes out, the microcomputer chip processor controls DTMF (Dual Tone Multiple Frequency) dialing to realize an intercommunication function of the mobile phone and the door bell so as to inform the user of guest visit information; a key operation system is connected with a number change processor of a microcomputer processing chip to store the number; when the number is wrong and is reset, the number is newly input through the key operation system for pre-storage; and when a door bell component becomes loose to fall or is stolen, an anti-theft alarm device emits alarm sound.

A method and system are disclosed for enabling members of the deaf, hard of hearing, or speech-impaired (D-HOH-SI) community to start and control communications conducted through a video relay service (VRS) without the need for a remote-control device. A combination of standard-ASL and non-ASL hand commands are interpreted using “hand recognition” (similar to “face recognition”) to control the operation of a VRS system through multiple operating modes. The “hand recognition” process employs a camera / codec connected to a CPU which executes commands which may be stored in a non-volatile computer-readable storage device.

The invention discloses a headband bone conduction hearing aid with voice communication. The headband bone conduction hearing aid comprises a headband body, a microphone, an audio amplifier circuit, a filter circuit, a bone conduction driving chip and a bone conduction vibrator, wherein the microphone is arranged on the headband body; the audio amplifier circuit is connected with the microphone; the filter circuit is connected with the audio amplifier circuit, and used for filtering clutter generated in the circuit; the bone conduction driving chip is connected with the filter circuit, and used for driving the bone conduction vibrator; the bone conduction vibrator is arranged on the headband body, and driven by the bone conduction driving chip to convert an amplified sound electrical wave signal into a bone conduction vibration signal; and the bone conduction driving chip is connected with the bone conduction vibrator. Through adoption of the headband bone conduction hearing aid, sound signals are transmitted into a skull in a vibrating way, and vibration directly enters brain auditory nerves in a solid transmission way after a user wears an intelligent headband, so that a person with a hearing impairment can have a dialogue with other persons with hearing impairments or communicate with able-bodied persons.

The invention provides a piezoelectric ceramic bone conduction vibrator. Two groups of piezoelectric ceramic pieces with opposite polarity are attached on one elastic metal piece to form the vibrator, anodes and cathodes of the piezoelectric ceramic pieces are led out through wires, and organic silicon gel is used for packaging the vibrator. The piezoelectric ceramic bone conduction vibrator enables those with heating disorder to hear sound through the skull, achieves clear conversation in communication under high-noise environment, achieves the aim of greatly removing noise and simultaneously achieves the waterproof function of an underwater communication device.

The invention provides a piezoelectric ceramic bone-conduction receiver vibrator and a mounting structure thereof. The vibrator is composed of multi-layer piezoelectric ceramic bimorphs and leading-out wires. Electric audio signals are directly converted into mechanical vibration signals through a piezoelectric ceramic vibrator in a piezoelectric ceramic energy conversion mode, vibration is transmitted and sound is made by the aid of a mobile phone screen, a bluetooth headset casing and the like, and the bone-conduction receiver function is achieved. The vibrator is applied to a mobile phone or a bluetooth headset to serve as a bone-conduction receiver for achieving electric-acoustic energy conversion. The vibrator has the advantages of being simple in structure, small in thickness and free of magnetic field radiation and needing no sound outlet. Besides, the conversation voice is clear, clear conversation can be achieved in the noise environment, and an anti-noise purpose is achieved; sound outlets are not required, and a water-proof function can be easily achieved; meanwhile, the bone-conduction function has a hearing aiding effect, so that audio vibration can be transmitted to auditory nerves through the skull for the hearing handicapped, and sounds are heard.