Tinnitus Treatment Device With Interactive Audio Pitch Debugging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional tinnitus treatment devices are unable to generate personalized treatment prescriptions, leading to suboptimal therapeutic effects due to their limited capability in programmable debugging for individual tinnitus cases.
Innovation Solution
A tinnitus treatment device comprising a diagnostic-prescriptive module and a treatment programmer module that generates and processes audio pitch signals for both ears, allowing for comprehensive, optimized, and balanced program debugging, including hearing compensation functions and remote diagnostic capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional tinnitus treatment devices are used, then the device structure is simple, but the therapeutic effect is suboptimal due to inability to generate personalized treatment prescriptions
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into three functional modules: a diagnostic-prescriptive module for generating personalized prescriptions, a treatment programmer module for processing audio signals, and a treatment instrument for delivery. This segmentation allows each module to specialize in specific tasks, improving overall therapeutic effectiveness while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The device incorporates interactive debugging capabilities where the treatment programmer module processes feedback from diagnostic prescriptions to generate optimized treatment prescriptions. This feedback loop enables the system to adjust treatment parameters based on individual patient responses, significantly improving therapeutic effect compared to static conventional devices.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional tinnitus treatment devices are used, then the device is easy to operate, but it cannot perform comprehensive program debugging for personalized treatment
Solution Approach 1:
The diagnostic-prescriptive module performs preliminary analysis of patient tinnitus characteristics and generates personalized treatment prescriptions before the actual treatment begins. This pre-processing of diagnostic information enables the system to be highly adaptable to individual patients while reducing the complexity of real-time operation during treatment sessions.
Solution Approach 2:
The treatment programmer module acts as an intermediary between the diagnostic-prescriptive module and the treatment instrument. It converts diagnostic prescriptions into processed treatment prescriptions through interactive debugging, serving as a bridge that enables personalized treatment capabilities while managing operational complexity through automated signal processing.
3Reliability
If simple treatment prescriptions are generated, then the device complexity is low, but the therapeutic effect is not good due to lack of optimized program debugging
Solution Approach 1:
The treatment programmer module dynamically processes audio pitch signals through interactive debugging, allowing the treatment prescription to be optimized based on individual patient needs. This dynamic adjustment capability significantly improves therapeutic effect compared to static prescriptions, while the modular architecture keeps device complexity manageable.
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AI summary
A tinnitus treatment device includes: a tinnitus diagnostic-prescriptive module configured to generate an audio pitch signal of a tinnitus diagnostic prescription of a left ear and an audio pitch signal of a tinnitus diagnostic prescription of a right ear respectively, and output the audio pitch signals of the tinnitus diagnostic prescriptions of the left ear and the right ear respectively to a tinnitus treatment programmer module; and a tinnitus treatment programmer module configured to convert the inputted audio pitch signals of the tinnitus diagnostic prescriptions of the left ear and the right ear respectively into audio pitch signals of tinnitus treatment prescriptions of the left ear and the right ear according to a predefined formula, interact with the patient to perform comprehensive, and optimized and balanced program debugging processing on the both ears.