Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hearing aid comprising a directional microphone system
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Application No.: US16362056Application Date: 2019-03-22
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Publication No.: US10587962B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Michael Syskind Pedersen , Andreas Thelander Bertelsen
- 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: EP16164350 20160408
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00

Abstract:
A hearing aid comprises a BTE-part adapted for being located behind an ear (ear) of a user, and comprising a) a multitude M of microphones, which—when located behind the ear of the user—are characterized by respective transfer functions, HBTEi(θ, φ, r, k), representative of propagation of sound from sound sources S to the respective microphones b) a memory unit comprising complex, frequency dependent constants Wi(k)′, i=1, . . . , M, c) a beamformer filtering unit for providing a beamformed signal Y as a weighted combination of the microphone signals using said complex, frequency dependent constants The frequency dependent constants are determined to provide a resulting transfer function Hpinna(θ, φ, r, k)=Σi=1MWi(k)·HBTEi(θ, φ, r, k), so that a difference between the resulting transfer function Hpinna(θ, φ, r, k) and a transfer function HITE(θ, φ, r, k) of a microphone located close to or in the ear canal fulfils a predefined criterion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190222942A1 HEARING AID COMPRISING A DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2019-07-18
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