Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hearing device configured to utilize non-audio information to process audio signals
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Application No.: US17379571Application Date: 2021-07-19
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Publication No.: US11689869B2Publication Date: 2023-06-27
- Inventor: Jesper Bruun Jensen , Sigurdur Sigurdsson
- 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: EP 192140 2018.09.02
- The original application number of the division: US16557120 2019.08.30
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00 ; G10L25/78 ; G06V40/16 ; H04N23/54

Abstract:
A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be worn by a user, e.g. fully or partially on the head of the user, comprises a) an input transducer for converting a sound comprising a target sound from a target talker and possible additional sound in an environment of the user, when the user wears the hearing device, to an electric sound signal representative of said sound, b) an auxiliary input unit configured to provide an auxiliary electric signal representative of said target signal or properties thereof, c) a processor connected to said input transducer and to said auxiliary input unit, and wherein said processor is configured to apply a processing algorithm to said electric sound signal, or a signal derived therefrom, to provide an enhanced signal by attenuating components of said additional sound relative to components of said target sound in said electric sound signal, or said signal derived therefrom. The auxiliary electric signal is derived from visual information, e.g. from a camera, containing information of current vibrations of a facial or throat region of said target talker, and the processing algorithm is configured to use the auxiliary electric signal or the signal derived therefrom to provide the enhanced signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210352417A1 HEARING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO UTILIZE NON-AUDIO INFORMATION TO PROCESS AUDIO SIGNALS Public/Granted day:2021-11-11
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