公开(公告)号：US09313587B2

公开(公告)日：2016-04-12

申请号：US13576288

申请日：2010-02-12

申请人： Hans Bernhard ,  Volkmar Hamacher

发明人： Hans Bernhard ,  Volkmar Hamacher

IPC分类号： A61N1/372 ,  H04R25/00 ,  A61N1/05 ,  A61N1/36

CPC分类号： H04R25/606 ,  A61N1/0541 ,  A61N1/0558 ,  A61N1/36036 ,  H04R2225/023 ,  H04R2225/67

摘要： An at least partially implantable hearing aid has an input transducer (26) for capturing audio signals from ambient sound, an audio signal processing unit (32) for processing the captured audio signals, an actuator (20) for stimulating a patient's hearing, and a driver unit (44) for driving the actuator. The actuator has a rigid housing (64) closed on at least one side by a vibration diaphragm (66) that is driven by a piezoelectric transducer (68, 88). The housing is designed to float in the cochlea in direct contact with the cochlear liquids in order to couple vibration energy from the diaphragm directly into the cochlear liquids.

摘要翻译： 至少部分植入式助听器具有用于从环境声音捕获音频信号的输入传感器（26），用于处理所捕获的音频信号的音频信号处理单元（32），用于刺激患者听力的致动器（20） 驱动单元（44），用于驱动致动器。 致动器具有通过由压电换能器（68,88）驱动的振动膜（66）在至少一侧封闭的刚性壳体（64）。 壳体被设计成在与耳蜗液体直接接触的耳蜗中浮动，以将来自隔膜的振动能量直接耦合到耳蜗液体中。

公开(公告)号：US20120303097A1

公开(公告)日：2012-11-29

申请号：US13576288

申请日：2010-02-12

申请人： Hans Bernhard ,  Volkmar Hamacher

发明人： Hans Bernhard ,  Volkmar Hamacher

IPC分类号： A61N1/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/606 ,  A61N1/0541 ,  A61N1/0558 ,  A61N1/36036 ,  H04R2225/023 ,  H04R2225/67

摘要： An at least partially implantable hearing aid has an input transducer (26) for capturing audio signals from ambient sound, an audio signal processing unit (32) for processing the captured audio signals, an actuator (20) for stimulating a patient's hearing, and a driver unit (44) for driving the actuator. The actuator has a rigid housing (64) closed on at least one side by a vibration diaphragm (66) that is driven by a piezoelectric transducer (68, 88). The housing is designed to float in the cochlea in direct contact with the cochlear liquids in order to couple vibration energy from the diaphragm directly into the cochlear liquids.

摘要翻译： 至少部分植入式助听器具有用于从环境声音捕获音频信号的输入传感器（26），用于处理所捕获的音频信号的音频信号处理单元（32），用于刺激患者听力的致动器（20） 驱动单元（44），用于驱动致动器。 致动器具有通过由压电换能器（68,88）驱动的振动膜（66）在至少一侧封闭的刚性壳体（64）。 壳体被设计成在与耳蜗液体直接接触的耳蜗中浮动，以将来自隔膜的振动能量直接耦合到耳蜗液体中。

公开(公告)号：US07853031B2

公开(公告)日：2010-12-14

申请号：US11484915

申请日：2006-07-11

申请人： Volkmar Hamacher

发明人： Volkmar Hamacher

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/453 ,  H04R25/405

摘要： A hearing aid wearer's own voice frequently leads to artifacts and response errors in various hearing aid algorithms. It is provided that the user's own voice to be detected by a special analysis device, and the hearing aid algorithms can be controlled as a function of detection. This can be achieved by providing a microphone in the auditory channel whose signal level is compared with that of an external microphone. This allows some form of control, e.g., the automatic gain control of a hearing aid to be “frozen”, in the presence of the hearing aid wearer's own voice.

摘要翻译： 助听器佩戴者自己的声音经常导致各种助听器算法中的伪影和响应错误。 提供了由特殊分析装置检测到的用户自己的声音，并且可以将助听器算法作为检测的功能进行控制。 这可以通过在听觉通道中提供麦克风来实现，该麦克风的信号电平与外部麦克风的信号电平进行比较。 这允许在助听器佩戴者自己的声音的存在下进行某种形式的控制，例如助听器的自动增益控制被“冻结”。

公开(公告)号：US07324650B2

公开(公告)日：2008-01-29

申请号：US10636048

申请日：2003-08-07

申请人： Eghart Fischer ,  Volkmar Hamacher ,  Thomas Hies ,  Thomas Hopf ,  Frank Wagner

发明人： Eghart Fischer ,  Volkmar Hamacher ,  Thomas Hies ,  Thomas Hopf ,  Frank Wagner

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/558 ,  H04R25/505 ,  H04R25/70 ,  H04R2225/41

摘要： The correct recognition of the auditory situation “television” often poses a problem for hearing aid devices with automatic situation recognition, since a plurality of real situations are simulated by the television audio signal. To correctly recognize the situation “television”, the invention therefore provides to detect a line signal with a particular line signal frequency output by the television device, and given the existence of such a line signal to automatically implement the auditory situation “television”.

摘要翻译： 由于电视音频信号模拟了多个实际情况，因此对“电视”听觉状况的正确识别通常对具有自动情况识别的助听器具构成问题。 因此，为了正确识别“电视”的情况，本发明提供了利用电视机输出的特定线路信号频率来检测线路信号，并且考虑到存在这样的线路信号以自动实现听觉状况“电视”。

公开(公告)号：US07024011B1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-04

申请号：US09567894

申请日：2000-05-10

申请人： Volkmar Hamacher ,  Georg-Erwin Arndt ,  Tom Weidner

发明人： Volkmar Hamacher ,  Georg-Erwin Arndt ,  Tom Weidner

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/453

摘要： In a hearing aid having an oscillation detector and a method for establishing the presence of oscillations in a hearing aid, sinusoidal input signals of the microphone can be detected, and so oscillations that are present can also be detected. To this end, the number of digitized sample values in consecutive periods of the input signal is determined, and a long-term average value NL and a short-term average value NK are formed from these numbers. When NL and NK are essentially identical, the presence of oscillations is detected.

摘要翻译： 在具有振动检测器的助听器和用于建立助听器中振荡的存在的方法中，可以检测麦克风的正弦输入信号，因此也可以检测到存在的振荡。 为此，确定输入信号的连续周期中的数字化采样值的数量，并且确定长期平均值N L L和短期平均值N N / SUB>由这些数字形成。 当N L和N N个基本相同时，检测振荡的存在。

公开(公告)号：US20130345767A1

公开(公告)日：2013-12-26

申请号：US13994698

申请日：2010-12-16

申请人： Stefan D. Menzl ,  Hans-Uelii Roeck ,  Logan P. Palmer ,  Abhijit Kulkarni ,  Manish Vaishya ,  Volkmar Hamacher

发明人： Stefan D. Menzl ,  Hans-Uelii Roeck ,  Logan P. Palmer ,  Abhijit Kulkarni ,  Manish Vaishya ,  Volkmar Hamacher

IPC分类号： A61N1/36 ,  H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/70 ,  A61N1/36036 ,  H04R25/505 ,  H04R25/60 ,  H04R2225/41 ,  H04R2430/01 ,  H04R2430/03

摘要： An exemplary system includes an electro-acoustic stimulation (EAS) subsystem and a volume control subsystem communicatively coupled to the EAS subsystem. The EAS subsystem is configured to direct a cochlear implant to apply electrical stimulation representative of audio content included in a first frequency band to a patient and to direct a receiver to apply acoustic stimulation representative of audio content included in a second frequency band to the patient. The volume control subsystem is configured to facilitate independent control of a volume associated with the electrical stimulation and a volume associated with the acoustic stimulation. Corresponding systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.

摘要翻译： 示例性系统包括电声刺激（EAS）子系统和通信地耦合到EAS子系统的音量控制子系统。 EAS子系统被配置为引导耳蜗植入物将代表包括在第一频带中的音频内容的电刺激施加到患者，并且引导接收器将代表包括在第二频带中的音频内容的声学刺激应用于患者。 体积控制子系统被配置为促进对与电刺激相关联的体积的独立控制和与声刺激相关联的体积。 还公开了相应的系统，设备和方法。

公开(公告)号：US08111851B2

公开(公告)日：2012-02-07

申请号：US11729758

申请日：2007-03-29

申请人： Arthur Giesner ,  Volkmar Hamacher

发明人： Arthur Giesner ,  Volkmar Hamacher

IPC分类号： H04R25/00 ,  H04R29/00 ,  A61N1/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/70

摘要： Fine customization of a hearing aid to the individual hearing environments and habits of a user are to be simplified and improved. To this end, when the hearing aid is turned on or when the hearing aid is switched to a particular operating mode, neither the value most recently valid for the parameter prior to turning off or switching to a different operating mode nor the parameter value transferred to the hearing aid at the beginning of programming is set. Rather, from the changes to the value of the parameter taking place during operation of the hearing aid a new start value is ascertained and stored, which value is then set automatically after turning on or switching mode.

摘要翻译： 简化和改进助听器对用户个人听觉环境和习惯的精细定制。 为此，当助听器被接通或者当助听器切换到特定的操作模式时，最近在关闭或切换到不同的操作模式之前对于参数有效的值也不将参数值转移到 在编程开始时设置助听器。 相反，从助听器操作期间发生的参数的值的改变确定并存储新的起始值，然后在接通或切换模式之后自动设置该值。

公开(公告)号：US20110123056A1

公开(公告)日：2011-05-26

申请号：US12665793

申请日：2008-06-23

申请人： Tyseer Aboulnasr ,  Eghart Fischer ,  Christian Giguere ,  Wail Gueajeb ,  Volkmar Hamacher ,  Luc Lamarche

发明人： Tyseer Aboulnasr ,  Eghart Fischer ,  Christian Giguere ,  Wail Gueajeb ,  Volkmar Hamacher ,  Luc Lamarche

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/70 ,  H04R2225/41

摘要： A method for operating a hearing aid in a hearing aid system where the hearing aid is continuously learnable for the particular user. A sound environment classification system is provided for tracking and defining sound environment classes relevant to the user. In an ongoing learning process, the classes are redefined based on new environments to which the hearing aid is subjected by the user.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在助听器系统中操作助听器的方法，其中助听器能够为特定用户持续学习。 提供了一种声音环境分类系统，用于跟踪和定义与用户相关的声音环境类。 在正在进行的学习过程中，根据用户对助听器所经受的新环境重新定义这些类别。

公开(公告)号：US20060093173A1

公开(公告)日：2006-05-04

申请号：US11251457

申请日：2005-10-14

申请人： Volkmar Hamacher ,  Ulrich Kornagel

发明人： Volkmar Hamacher ,  Ulrich Kornagel

IPC分类号： H04R25/00 ,  A61F11/06

CPC分类号： H04R25/453 ,  H04R3/02

摘要： Feedback in audio systems and particularly in hearing aids needs to be detected more reliably, so that it can be filtered as appropriate. For this purpose, the invention provides for the output signal from a signal processing section is modified using a modulation unit to produce a modulated output signal. This modulation must be inaudible to the hearing aid wearer. The modulated signal is fed back via a feedback path to the microphone of the hearing aid. A feedback detector detects the signal modulation and accordingly controls an adaptive filter to compensate for the feedback.

摘要翻译： 需要更加可靠地检测音频系统，特别是助听器中的反馈信息，以便适当地过滤。 为此，本发明提供了使用调制单元修改来自信号处理部分的输出信号以产生调制输出信号。 助听器佩戴者必须听不到这种调制。 调制信号通过反馈路径反馈给助听器的麦克风。 反馈检测器检测信号调制，并相应地控制自适应滤波器来补偿反馈。

公开(公告)号：US20050147266A1

公开(公告)日：2005-07-07

申请号：US11009568

申请日：2004-12-10

申请人： Joachim Eggers ,  Volkmar Hamacher

发明人： Joachim Eggers ,  Volkmar Hamacher

IPC分类号： G10L21/00 ,  G10L21/02 ,  G10L21/0216 ,  H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/453 ,  G10L2021/02161 ,  H04R25/43 ,  H04R25/505 ,  H04R2225/43

摘要： Concurrent signal paths going pass a hearing aid bring about interferences in the auditory canal. These interferences are compensated by estimating an interfering signal from the input signal disturbed by interference from a microphone and applying to the interfering signal a transfer function, with which the concurrent acoustic signal path is simulated, thereby forming an interfering output signal, and combining a usable output signal from a signal-processing device with the interfering output signal. In this way, a noise suppression by directional microphone switching configurations can be made possible when concurrent signal paths do not make such directional microphone switching possible by conventional approaches.

摘要翻译： 通过助听器的并发信号路径会导致听觉器官的干扰。 这些干扰通过估计来自麦克风的干扰的输入信号的干扰信号，并向干扰信号施加传递函数来进行补偿，传递函数通过该传递函数模拟并行声信号路径，从而形成干扰输出信号， 来自具有干扰输出信号的信号处理装置的输出信号。 以这种方式，当并行信号路径不能通过常规方法使得这种定向麦克风切换成为可能时，可以使定向麦克风切换配置的噪声抑制成为可能。