Hearing Device System with Psychoacoustic Model for Dynamic Fitting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current hearing device fitting methods often occur in inappropriate times, locations, or situations, and may not accurately match the user's daily needs, as they are either performed by professionals in artificial settings or provide users with too many controls, leading to a trial-and-error process.
Innovation Solution
A hearing device system with a user interface that uses a psychoacoustic model to derive and dynamically present modification proposals based on hearing relevant data, including user properties and sound analysis, to solve specific hearing issues, thereby providing the most appropriate adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a user is provided with multiple controls to adjust hearing device parameters, then the ability to solve various hearing issues improves, but the complexity of operation increases and the user experience deteriorates due to trial and error
Solution Approach 1:
The hearing device automatically monitors its own performance and generates modification proposals based on detected hearing issues, enabling the device to serve itself rather than requiring extensive user manipulation of multiple controls
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback loop where the hearing device continuously monitors hearing issues, evaluates the effect of potential modifications using a psychoacoustic model, and dynamically presents tailored proposals to the user, creating an adaptive cycle that reduces operational complexity
2Manufacturing precision
If fitting is performed by a hearing care professional in an office setting, then the fitting process can be comprehensive, but the fitting occurs in artificial situations that do not match daily life needs
Solution Approach 1:
The fitting process transitions from a static office-based procedure to a dynamic real-time process that continuously adapts to the user's actual hearing needs in various daily life situations through automatic monitoring and dynamic presentation of modification proposals
Solution Approach 2:
The hearing device autonomously identifies hearing issues and generates modification proposals in real-life conditions without requiring continuous professional intervention, enabling accurate fitting adapted to actual usage environments
3Ease of operation
If fitting is performed based on user retrospection of hearing issues, then the fitting can occur in convenient settings, but the hearing issue may not be actively present during fitting
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary automatic detection and monitoring of hearing issues continuously in real-time, so that when the user seeks fitting, the device has already identified and is actively monitoring the hearing issue, enabling accurate fitting at the moment of need
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AI summary
A hearing device system including a hearing device, a user interface communicatively coupled to the hearing device, and a module for processing a psychoacoustic model. The psychoacoustic model is adapted to derive a modification proposal based on hearing relevant data, wherein the modification proposal is adapted to solve a hearing issue of the user of the hearing device. The hearing device system is adapted to dynamically present the modification proposal to the user via the user interface, and to adapt the user interface such to receive inputs made by the user to the dynamically presented modification proposal.