Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hearing device comprising a noise reduction system
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Application No.: US16785167Application Date: 2020-02-07
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Publication No.: US11245993B2Publication Date: 2022-02-08
- Inventor: Asger Heidemann Andersen , Jesper Jensen , Michael Syskind Pedersen , Nels Hede Rohde , Anders Brødløs Olsen , Michael Smed Kristensen , Thomas Bentsen , 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: EP19156307 20190208,EP19177163 20190529
- Main IPC: G06N3/08
- IPC: G06N3/08 ; G10L25/51 ; H04R25/00

Abstract:
A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be worn by a user at or in an ear or to be fully or partially implanted in the head at an ear of the user. The hearing device comprises a) an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal in a time frequency representation k, m, where k and m are frequency and time indices, respectively, and k represents a frequency channel, the at least one electric input signal being representative of sound and comprising target signal components and noise components; and b) a signal processor comprising b1) an SNR estimator for providing a target signal-to-noise ratio estimate for said at least one electric input signal in said time frequency representation; and b2) an SNR-to-gain converter for converting said target signal-to-noise ratio estimate to respective gain values in said time frequency representation. The signal processor comprises a neural network, wherein the weights of the neural network have been trained with a plurality of training signals. A method of operating a hearing aid is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in audio devices, such as hearing aids, headsets, mobile telephones, etc., operating in noisy acoustic environments.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200260198A1 HEARING DEVICE COMPRISING A NOISE REDUCTION SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2020-08-13
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