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公开(公告)号：US20180249245A1
公开(公告)日：2018-08-30
申请号：US15746030
申请日：2015-07-27
Applicant: Sonova AG
Inventor： Marc Secall
Abstract: There is provided a clip-on microphone assembly comprising a clip-on mechanism (16) for attaching the microphone assembly (10) to the cloths of a user (11); at least three microphones (20, 21, 22) for capturing audio signals from the user's voice, the microphones defining a microphone plane; an acceleration sensor (32) for generating an orientation signal by sensing gravitational acceleration in at least two orthogonal dimensions, an audio signal processing unit (34) for producing an output audio signal (36) from the captured audio signals, comprising a beamformer unit (24) for processing the captured audio signals, in order to generate the output audio signal, in a manner so as to create an acoustic beam having a direction, a DOA unit (30) for determining the direction of arrival of sound by analyzing the captured audio signals; and a control unit (26) for controlling the beamforming unit, the control unit being adapted to determine an allowed angular sector (40) of the direction of the acoustic beam according to the orientation signal and to steer the direction of the acoustic beam within the allowed angular sector according to the determined direction of arrival.
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2.发明申请PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH TUNABLE ANTENNA AND METHOD OF OPERATING SUCH PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE 有权具有可控天线的便携式通信设备和操作这种便携式通信设备的方法公开(公告)号：US20170041043A1
公开(公告)日：2017-02-09
申请号：US15303312
申请日：2014-04-16
Applicant: SONOVA AG
Inventor： Marc Secall
IPC: H04B1/7156 , H04B17/318 , H04B1/40
CPC classification number: H04B1/7156 , H04B1/1027 , H04B1/18 , H04B1/40 , H04B1/713 , H04B17/318 , H04B2001/71563 , H04R2225/55
Abstract: A portable communication device having a transceiver unit (30) for establishing a wireless communication link (16) using a digital modulation scheme with a packet-based frequency hopping scheme including at least one advertising channel, an antenna (32), an antenna tuning circuit (34) connected to the transceiver unit and the antenna for tuning the antenna, and a control unit (36) for controlling the antenna tuning circuit. The transceiver unit is adapted to estimate the strength of signals received in the at least one advertising channel and to supply the control unit with a signal representative of the estimated signal strength in the at least one advertising channel. The control unit is adapted to control the antenna tuning circuit such that the antenna is tuned according to the signal representative of the estimated signal strength in the at least one advertising channel.
Abstract translation: 一种便携式通信设备，具有收发器单元（30），用于使用包括至少一个广告信道的基于分组的跳频方案的数字调制方案来建立无线通信链路（16），天线（32），天线调谐电路 （34）和用于调谐天线的天线，以及用于控制天线调谐电路的控制单元（36）。 收发器单元适于估计在至少一个广告信道中接收的信号的强度，并向控制单元提供表示至少一个广告信道中的估计信号强度的信号。 控制单元适于控制天线调谐电路，使得根据表示至少一个广告信道中的估计信号强度的信号来调谐天线。
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公开(公告)号：US20210235189A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-29
申请号：US15734561
申请日：2018-06-07
Applicant: Sonova AG
Inventor： Marc Secall , Benjamin Heldner
Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to a microphone device configured to receive sound from different beams, where each beam has a different spatial orientation and is configured to receive sound from different directions. The microphone device is also configured to process the received sound using a generic or specific head related transfer function (HRTF) to generate processed audio and transmit the processed audio to hearing devices worn by a hearing-impaired user. Additionally, the microphone device can use a reference line and/or reference point when processing the received audio.
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公开(公告)号：US09955519B1
公开(公告)日：2018-04-24
申请号：US15582415
申请日：2017-04-28
Applicant: SONOVA AG
Inventor： Marc Secall
IPC: H04B7/00 , H04W76/02 , H04B1/3827 , H04B17/318 , H04R25/00
CPC classification number: H04W76/14 , H04R25/554 , H04R25/556 , H04R2225/31 , H04R2225/61
Abstract: A communication system maintains a signal processing license within a memory of the communication system. The signal processing license allows the communication system to perform a license-enabled signal processing function on signals received from one or more devices external to the communication system while the signal processing license is maintained within the memory. As such, the communication system detects that an additional communication system is within a transfer range of the communication system, and, in response, performs a transfer operation in which the signal processing license is transferred from the communication system to the additional communication system such that the signal processing license is no longer maintained within the memory once the transfer operation is completely performed. Consequently, subsequent to the transfer operation, the additional communication system is enabled to perform the license-enabled signal processing function while the communication system is prevented from performing the license-enabled signal processing function.
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公开(公告)号：US09866975B2
公开(公告)日：2018-01-09
申请号：US15308924
申请日：2014-05-28
Applicant: SONOVA AG
Inventor： Marc Secall , Amre El-Hoiydi , Stephan Gehring , Hilmar Meier
CPC classification number: H04R25/554 , H04R2225/55 , H04R2460/03 , H04W8/005
Abstract: A hearing assistance system having a hearing assistance device to be worn at one of a user's ears and a scanning device, the hearing assistance device and the scanning device both having an interface for wireless data exchange between the hearing assistance device and the scanning device, wherein the hearing assistance device is adapted for wireless data exchange with an external device, wherein the scanning device is adapted to scan for wireless signals from the external device and to transmit, once such signals have been received by the scanning device, a message to the hearing assistance device for notifying the hearing assistance device of the availability of the external device, and wherein the hearing assistance device is adapted to decide, upon receipt of such notification message from the scanning device, whether on not to initiate wireless data exchange with the external device.
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公开(公告)号：US20220007201A1
公开(公告)日：2022-01-06
申请号：US17293959
申请日：2018-11-14
Applicant: Sonova AG
Inventor： Jonas Högberg , Daniel Lucas-Hirtz , Amre El-Hoiydi , Federico Ferrari , Marc Secall , Michael Osterwalder , Georg Dickmann
Abstract: A communication device, including a wireless interface including a transceiver unit, and a controller configured to control the transceiver unit when applying a first protocol which is a Bluetooth Low Energy protocol and a second protocol which is suitable for exchanging both audio data and non-audio data. The controller is further configured to apply a first control configuration while the transceiver unit is not used for audio data reception and/or transmission of audio data via the second protocol, and to apply a second control configuration while the transceiver unit is used for audio data reception and/or transmission of audio data via the second protocol. In the second control configuration duration of BLE connection events is limited to a maximum duration shorter than the maximum duration of BLE connection events in the first control configuration.
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公开(公告)号：US10278223B2
公开(公告)日：2019-04-30
申请号：US15950197
申请日：2018-04-11
Applicant: Sonova AG
Inventor： Marc Secall
IPC: H04W76/14 , H04R25/00 , H04B17/318 , H04B1/3827
Abstract: A communication system maintains a signal processing license within a memory of the communication system. The signal processing license allows the communication system to perform a license-enabled signal processing function on signals received from one or more devices external to the communication system while the signal processing license is maintained within the memory. As such, the communication system detects that an additional communication system is within a transfer range of the communication system, and, in response, performs a transfer operation in which the signal processing license is transferred from the communication system to the additional communication system such that the signal processing license is no longer maintained within the memory once the transfer operation is completely performed. Consequently, subsequent to the transfer operation, the additional communication system is enabled to perform the license-enabled signal processing function while the communication system is prevented from performing the license-enabled signal processing function.
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公开(公告)号：US09826321B2
公开(公告)日：2017-11-21
申请号：US15589033
申请日：2017-05-08
Applicant: SONOVA AG
Inventor： Amre El-Hoiydi , Marc Secall
IPC: H04B3/00 , H04R25/00 , G10L19/005 , G10L19/018 , H04R27/00
CPC classification number: H04R25/554 , G10L19/005 , G10L19/018 , H04R25/558 , H04R27/00 , H04R2227/003 , H04R2420/07
Abstract: Method for providing sound to at least one user, involves supplying audio signals from an audio signal source to a transmission unit; compressing the audio signals to generate compressed audio data; transmitting compressed audio data from the transmission unit to at least one receiver unit; decompressing the compressed audio data to generate decompressed audio signals; and stimulating the hearing of the user(s) according to decompressed audio signals supplied from the receiver unit. During certain time periods, transmission of compressed audio data is interrupted, and instead, at least one control data block is generated by the transmission unit in such a manner that audio data transmission is replaced by control data block transmission, thereby temporarily interrupting flow of received compressed audio data, each control data block includes a marker recognized by the at least one receiver unit as a control data block and a command for control of the receiver unit.
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公开(公告)号：US20170311092A1
公开(公告)日：2017-10-26
申请号：US15510342
申请日：2014-10-02
Applicant: Sonova AG
Inventor： Marc Secall , Hans-Ueli Roeck , Francois Callias , Manuela Feilner
CPC classification number: H04R25/505 , G10L25/60 , H04R25/405 , H04R25/407 , H04R25/43 , H04R25/554 , H04R2225/43 , H04R2225/55
Abstract: A method of providing hearing assistance to a at least one user wearing at least one receiver hearing assistance device from at least one audio transmission device worn by a another user, involving: automatically pairing and connecting the audio transmission device with the receiver hearing assistance device to form an ad-hoc network for exchanging network and/or control information, estimating at least one of an angular direction of the audio transmission device with regard to a viewing direction of the user of the receiver hearing assistance device and an angular direction of the receiver hearing assistance device with regard to a viewing direction of the user of the audio transmission device, admitting the audio transmission device to a wireless local acoustic area network for exchanging audio signals only if, as a predefined admission rule, the transmission device is within a field of view of one of the users.
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公开(公告)号：US11457308B2
公开(公告)日：2022-09-27
申请号：US15734561
申请日：2018-06-07
Applicant: Sonova AG
Inventor： Marc Secall , Benjamin Heldner
Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to a microphone device configured to receive sound from different beams, where each beam has a different spatial orientation and is configured to receive sound from different directions. The microphone device is also configured to process the received sound using a generic or specific head related transfer function (HRTF) to generate processed audio and transmit the processed audio to hearing devices worn by a hearing-impaired user. Additionally, the microphone device can use a reference line and/or reference point when processing the received audio.
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