Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Smartphone-based hearing aid
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Application No.: US16462145Application Date: 2017-08-25
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Publication No.: US10993046B2Publication Date: 2021-04-27
- Inventor: Hong June Park , Seong Eun Cho , Ki Hwan Sung , Won Cheol Lee , Hyeon Kyu Noh , Im Soo Mok
- Applicant: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
- Applicant Address: KR Pohang-si
- Assignee: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
- Current Assignee: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
- Current Assignee Address: KR Pohang-si
- Agency: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Priority: KR10-2016-0153925 20161118
- International Application: PCT/KR2017/009320 WO 20170825
- International Announcement: WO2018/093019 WO 20180524
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00 ; H04M1/725 ; H04R3/00 ; H04M1/72409 ; G06F5/06 ; G06F13/10 ; G06F13/38

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a smartphone-based hearing aid which does not employ a separate power supply or digital signal processing device and instead has an analogue interface unit, configured with a single integrated circuit chip, connected between a plurality of microphones and a smartphone, thereby realizing a compact size, reducing the cost and enhancing the audio performance. Instead of employing a digital signal processing chip which is essentially used in the existing hearing aids or personal sound amplifiers, the smartphone-based hearing aid according to the present invention utilizes components such as a smartphone-embedded application processor (AP), RAM, digital-analogue converter, speaker and display and is therefore affordable. In particular, if a CPU and a GPU which are embedded in the application processor of the smartphone are utilized, digital signal processing necessary for the operation of the hearing aid can be performed within a short time of milliseconds (ms) just by using software.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200021921A1 SMARTPHONE-BASED HEARING AID Public/Granted day:2020-01-16
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