HEARING AID COMPRISING A PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20210392446A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-16

    申请号:US17459370

    申请日:2021-08-27

    Applicant: Oticon A/S

    Abstract: The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user. The system comprising an input unit for receiving an input sound signal from an environment of the hearing aid user and providing at least one electric input signal representing said input sound signal, an output unit for providing at least one set of stimuli perceivable as sound to the hearing aid user based on processed versions of said at least one electric input signal, a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimator for determining an SNR in the environment of the hearing aid user, a processing unit connected to said input unit and to said output unit and comprising signal processing parameters of the system to provide processed versions of said at least one electric input signal, a memory unit configured to store reference sets of SNR and pulse transition time (PTT) of the hearing aid user, at least a first and a second physiological sensor, wherein the system being configured to determine, based on the first physiological sensor, a first point in time at a first maximum upslope point of a first measured parameter, determine, based on the second physiological sensor, a second point in time at a second maximum upslope point of a second measured parameter, establish a current PTT by calculating a time difference between the first point in time and the second point in time, and determine, based on the current PTT and the stored reference sets of SNR and PTT, a current listening effort of the hearing aid user.

    HEARING DEVICE COMPRISING DIRECT SOUND COMPENSATION

    公开(公告)号:US20200221236A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-09

    申请号:US16737624

    申请日:2020-01-08

    Applicant: Oticon A/S

    Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, configured to play sound into an ear canal of a user, the hearing device comprising at least one input transducer (ITq) for picking up sound sq at said at least one input transducer from a sound field S around the hearing device and providing corresponding at least one electric input signal(s) INq representing said sound sq, i=1, . . . , Q, where Q≥1; an analogue to digital converter for converting said at least one electric input signal(s) to a digitized signal represented by discrete samples sq(p), where p is a time sample index, a processor for processing said at least one electric input signal sq(p) to a processed signal; an output transducer (OT) for converting an electric signal including said processed signal to an acoustic signal s″; a forward signal path of the hearing device being defined from an acoustic input to said at least one input transducer to an acoustic output of said output transducer having a forward signal propagation delay τHI of the hearing device, the hearing device further comprises a compensation unit for at least partially cancelling directly propagated sound from said sound field S that is propagated to the ear canal via a direct acoustic propagation path, wherein the compensation unit is configured to predict said directly propagated sound and to play it in opposite phase of said directly propagated sound. A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING NETWORK RESOURCES BETWEEN HEARING DEVICES
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    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING NETWORK RESOURCES BETWEEN HEARING DEVICES 有权
    用于在听觉设备之间共享网络资源的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20130272554A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-10-17

    申请号:US13838889

    申请日:2013-03-15

    Applicant: OTICON A/S

    Abstract: A system for enabling a hearing device wireless access to a communication network includes a first transceiver unit in the hearing device communicating according to a first communication protocol. The system also includes a server device including an input/output unit connected to the communication network and configured to communicate according to a second communication protocol. A second transceiver unit is connected wirelessly to the first transceiver unit and configured to communicate according to the first communication protocol. A translator unit interconnects the second transceiver unit and the input/output unit and is configured to translate between the first and second communication protocol. The hearing device is configured to upload and download data to and from the communication network through the server device, and the server device is incorporated in a mobile or cellular telephone.

    Abstract translation: 一种用于使听力设备无线接入通信网络的系统包括根据第一通信协议进行通信的听力设备中的第一收发器单元。 该系统还包括服务器设备,其包括连接到通信网络并被配置为根据第二通信协议进行通信的输入/输出单元。 第二收发器单元被无线连接到第一收发器单元并且被配置为根据第一通信协议进行通信。 翻译单元将第二收发器单元和输入/输出单元互连,并且被配置为在第一和第二通信协议之间进行转换。 听觉设备被配置为通过服务器设备上传和从通信网络下载数据,并且服务器设备被并入移动或蜂窝电话中。

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