USER ADJUSTABLE VOLUME CONTROL THAT ACCOMMODATES HEARING
    2.
    发明公开
    USER ADJUSTABLE VOLUME CONTROL THAT ACCOMMODATES HEARING 有权
    用户可调节音量控制HÖRANPASSUNG

    公开(公告)号:EP1076928A1

    公开(公告)日:2001-02-21

    申请号:EP99918510.1

    申请日:1999-04-14

    IPC分类号: H03G3/00 H03G3/20 H04B1/00

    摘要: The present invention is a method for mixing audio signals based on the preference from hearing impaired listeners, as well as non-hearing impaired listeners, without forcing hearing impaired individuals to employ special hearing-impaired equipment. A user activated controller (10, 11) controls a mixture of a preferred audio signal and a remaining audio signal across a range sufficiently wide enough to encompass all individuals. The preferred audio is recorded and maintained separated from all remaining audio and delivered to the listener in a manner that maintains this separation. The controller (10, 11) enables the user to specify a range about the ratio in which the audio may vary, which permits the listener to expand the audio across a continuous range to whatever dynamic range his hearing can accommodate. The controller (10, 11) automatically adjusts to changes in incoming audio. The controller (10, 11) can react to relatively slowly moving changes or prevent short bursts of sound in remaining audio from modifying the signal levels. The combination of the ability to control the mixing ratio and to specify the dynamic range of the ratio in which the audio may vary, coupled with the ability to automatically adjust the signal levels in response to sudden changes in incoming audio, provides a powerful user capability that truly optimizes the listening experience for any listener.

    VOICE-TO-REMAINING AUDIO (VRA) INTERACTIVE HEARING AID & AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT
    4.
    发明公开
    VOICE-TO-REMAINING AUDIO (VRA) INTERACTIVE HEARING AID & AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT 有权
    互动演讲,RESTTON的助听和辅助设备

    公开(公告)号:EP1190597A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-03-27

    申请号:EP00944676.6

    申请日:2000-06-15

    IPC分类号: H04R3/00

    摘要: An integrated individual listening device and decoder (309) for receiving an audio signal including a decoder (309) for decoding the audio signal by separating the audio signal into a voice signal and a background signal, a first end-user adjustable amplifier (311) coupled to the voice signal and amplifying the voice signal; a second end-user adjustable amplifier (310) coupled to the background signal and amplifying the background signal; a summing amplifier (312) coupled to the outputs of the first and second end-user adjustable amplifiers and outputting a total audio signal, said total signal being coupled to an individual listening device.

    Method and apparatus for providing end user adjustment capability that accommodates hearing impaired and non-hearing impaired listener preferences
    5.
    发明公开
    Method and apparatus for providing end user adjustment capability that accommodates hearing impaired and non-hearing impaired listener preferences 有权
    调整方法和装置,其使得最终用户,对于听力障碍者和非听力听者偏好受损

    公开(公告)号:EP2009785A3

    公开(公告)日:2009-03-25

    申请号:EP08164762.0

    申请日:1999-04-14

    摘要: A method for processing audio signals optimizes the listening experience for hearing impaired listeners, as well as non-hearing impaired listeners, without forcing hearing impaired individuals to feel stigmatized by requiring them to employ special hearing-impaired equipment. A user actuated controller controls a mixture of a preferred audio signal and a remaining audio signal across a range sufficiently wide enough to encompass all individuals. The preferred audio is recorded and maintained separate from all remaining audio and delivered to the listener in a manner that maintains the separateness of the preferred audio and the remaining audio. The user actuated controller includes the capability of automatically maintaining the listener established ratio in the face of changes in the audio signal. The user actuated controller enables the user to specify a range about the ratio in which the audio may vary, which permits the listener to expand the audio across a continuous range to whatever dynamic range his hearing can accommodate. The controller automatically adjusts to changes in incoming audio. The controller can react to relatively slowly moving changes or prevent short bursts of sound in the remaining audio from modifying the signal levels. The combination of the above aspects provides a heretofore not possible listening experience that can accommodate the listening desires of all listeners. The combination of the ability to control the ratio of preferred audio to remaining audio and to specify the dynamic range about the ratio in which the audio may vary, coupled with the ability of the controller to automatically adjust the signal levels in response to sudden changes in incoming audio, provides a powerful user capability that truly optimizes the listening experience for any listener.

    Personal listening device
    6.
    发明公开
    Personal listening device 审中-公开
    PersönlicheHörvorrichtung

    公开(公告)号:EP1998477A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-12-03

    申请号:EP08160819.2

    申请日:2001-01-30

    IPC分类号: H04H1/02

    摘要: A personal listening device useful in a listening environment having a plurality of listeners, comprises a receiver that receives a first audio signal and a second audio signal, the first audio signal including a voice signal and being different than the second audio signal; an adjustment device that allows a listener to adjust the first audio signal and the second audio signal independent of each other; and a transducer that receives the adjusted first and/or second audio signals, combines the received first and second audio signals, and outputs an audible sound based on the combined first and second audio signals to the listener without interfering with other listeners in the listening environment.

    摘要翻译: 一种在具有多个收听者的收听环境中有用的个人聆听装置,包括接收第一音频信号和第二音频信号的接收机,所述第一音频信号包括语音信号并且不同于所述第二音频信号; 调节装置,其允许收听者彼此独立地调整第一音频信号和第二音频信号; 以及接收经调整的第一和/或第二音频信号的换能器,组合接收到的第一和第二音频信号,并且将基于组合的第一和第二音频信号的可听见的声音输出到收听者,而不会干扰收听环境中的其他聆听者 。

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCOMMODATING PRIMARY CONTENT AUDIO AND SECONDARY CONTENT REMAINING AUDIO CAPABILITY IN THE DIGITAL AUDIO PRODUCTION PROCESS
    8.
    发明公开
    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCOMMODATING PRIMARY CONTENT AUDIO AND SECONDARY CONTENT REMAINING AUDIO CAPABILITY IN THE DIGITAL AUDIO PRODUCTION PROCESS 审中-公开
    DEVICE AND METHOD FOR第一音频内容和第二扶手音频内容在数字音频播放控制

    公开(公告)号:EP1264300A2

    公开(公告)日:2002-12-11

    申请号:EP01916361.7

    申请日:2001-03-02

    IPC分类号: G10H1/36

    CPC分类号: H04S3/00 H04S2420/03

    摘要: The invention enables the inclusion of voice and remaining audio information at different parts of the audio production process. In particular, the invention embodies special techniques for VRA-capable digital mastering (510) and accommodations of VRA by thoseclasses of audio compression formats that sustain less losses of audio data as compared to any codecs that sustain comparable net losses equal or greater than the AC3 compression format. The invention facilitates an end-listener's voice-to-remaining audio (VRA) adjustment (535) upon the playback of digital audio media formats by focusing on new configurations of multiple parts of the entire digital audio system, thereby enabling a new technique intended to benefit audio end-users (end-listeners) who wish to control the ratio of the primary vocal/dialog content of an audio program relative to the remaining portion of the audio content in that program.

    USER ADJUSTABLE VOLUME CONTROL THAT ACCOMMODATES HEARING
    9.
    发明授权
    USER ADJUSTABLE VOLUME CONTROL THAT ACCOMMODATES HEARING 有权
    VOM BENUTZER EINSTELLBARELAUTSTÄRKENSTEUERUNGZURHÖRANPASSUNG

    公开(公告)号:EP1076928B1

    公开(公告)日:2010-06-23

    申请号:EP99918510.1

    申请日:1999-04-14

    摘要: The present invention is a method for mixing audio signals based on the preference from hearing impaired listeners, as well as non-hearing impaired listeners, without forcing hearing impaired individuals to employ special hearing-impaired equipment. A user activated controller (10, 11) controls a mixture of a preferred audio signal and a remaining audio signal across a range sufficiently wide enough to encompass all individuals. The preferred audio is recorded and maintained separated from all remaining audio and delivered to the listener in a manner that maintains this separation. The controller (10, 11) enables the user to specify a range about the ratio in which the audio may vary, which permits the listener to expand the audio across a continuous range to whatever dynamic range his hearing can accommodate. The controller (10, 11) automatically adjusts to changes in incoming audio. The controller (10, 11) can react to relatively slowly moving changes or prevent short bursts of sound in remaining audio from modifying the signal levels. The combination of the ability to control the mixing ratio and to specify the dynamic range of the ratio in which the audio may vary, coupled with the ability to automatically adjust the signal levels in response to sudden changes in incoming audio, provides a powerful user capability that truly optimizes the listening experience for any listener.

    摘要翻译: 用于处理音频信号的方法优化听力受损听众以及非听力障碍听众的听觉体验,而不会强迫听力受损的个人因要求他们使用特殊的听力受损设备而感到耻辱。 用户致动的控制器控制优选音频信号和剩余音频信号的混合,该范围足够宽以至足以包含所有个体。 优选的音频被记录和保持与所有剩余的音频分离并且以保持优选音频和剩余音频的分离的方式传送到收听者。 用户激活的控制器包括在面对音频信号的变化时自动维持听众建立的比率的能力。 用户激活的控制器使得用户能够指定关于音频可能变化的比率的范围,这允许听众将音频跨越连续范围扩展到他的听力可以容纳的任何动态范围。 控制器自动调整进入音频的变化。 控制器可以对相对缓慢移动的变化做出反应,或者防止剩余音频中的短暂的声音突然改变信号电平。 上述方面的组合提供了迄今为止不可能的聆听体验,可以适应所有听众的听觉欲望。 控制优选音频与剩余音频的比率的能力的组合,并且指定关于音频可能变化的比率的动态范围,加上控制器响应于突然变化而自动调整信号电平的能力 传入音频,提供强大的用户功能,真正优化任何听众的聆听体验。

    VOICE-TO-REMAINING AUDIO (VRA) INTERACTIVE HEARING AID & AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT
    10.
    发明授权
    VOICE-TO-REMAINING AUDIO (VRA) INTERACTIVE HEARING AID & AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT 有权
    互动演讲,RESTTON的助听和辅助设备

    公开(公告)号:EP1190597B1

    公开(公告)日:2009-07-22

    申请号:EP00944676.6

    申请日:2000-06-15

    IPC分类号: H04R3/00

    摘要: An integrated individual listening device and decoder (309) for receiving an audio signal including a decoder (309) for decoding the audio signal by separating the audio signal into a voice signal and a background signal, a first end-user adjustable amplifier (311) coupled to the voice signal and amplifying the voice signal; a second end-user adjustable amplifier (310) coupled to the background signal and amplifying the background signal; a summing amplifier (312) coupled to the outputs of the first and second end-user adjustable amplifiers and outputting a total audio signal, said total signal being coupled to an individual listening device.