Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hearing device comprising a beamformer filtering unit
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Application No.: US15482188Application Date: 2017-04-07
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Publication No.: US10165373B2Publication Date: 2018-12-25
- Inventor: Andreas Thelander Bertelsen , Michael Syskind Pedersen , Jesper Jensen , Thomas Kaulberg , Morten Christophersen
- Applicant: Oticon A/S
- Applicant Address: DK Smørum
- Assignee: Oticon A/S
- Current Assignee: Oticon A/S
- Current Assignee Address: DK Smørum
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: EP16164353 20160408
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00 ; G10L21/0232 ; G10L21/0216

Abstract:
A hearing aid comprises a) first and second microphones b) an adaptive beamformer filtering unit comprising, b1) a first and second memories comprising a first and second sets of complex frequency dependent weighting parameters representing a first and second beam patterns, where said first and second sets of weighting parameters are predetermined initial values or values updated during operation of the hearing aid, b3) an adaptive beamformer processing unit providing an adaptation parameter βopt(k) representing an adaptive beam pattern configured to attenuate unwanted noise under the constraint that sound from a target direction is essentially unaltered, b4) a third memory comprising a fixed adaptation parameter βfix(k) representing a third, fixed beam pattern, b5) a mixing unit providing a resulting complex, frequency dependent adaptation parameter βmix(k) as a combination of said fixed and adaptively determined frequency dependent adaptation parameters βfix(k) and βopt(k), respectively, and b6) a resulting beamformer (Y) for providing a resulting beamformed signal YBF based on first and second microphone signals, said first and second sets of complex frequency dependent weighting parameters, and said resulting complex, frequency dependent adaptation parameter βmix(k).
Public/Granted literature
- US20170295437A1 HEARING DEVICE COMPRISING A BEAMFORMER FILTERING UNIT Public/Granted day:2017-10-12
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