Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sound processor module
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Application No.: US15323068Application Date: 2014-07-28
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Publication No.: US10111019B2Publication Date: 2018-10-23
- Inventor: Patrick Joseph Boyle , Volkmar Hamacher
- Applicant: ADVANCED BIONICS AG
- Applicant Address: CH Staefa
- Assignee: Advanced Bionics AG
- Current Assignee: Advanced Bionics AG
- Current Assignee Address: CH Staefa
- Agency: ALG Intellectual Property, LLC
- International Application: PCT/EP2014/066158 WO 20140728
- International Announcement: WO2016/015744 WO 20160204
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00 ; A61N1/36

Abstract:
A behind-the-ear sound processor module includes a BTE-housing; an adjustable microphone module attached to the BTE-housing for capturing input audio signals from ambient sound; and a sound processor unit for generating, from the input audio signals, a neural hearing stimulation signal to be supplied to an implantable neural stimulation arrangement, wherein the microphone module comprises a plurality of microphones and a support element for carrying the microphones, wherein the support element is movable between a beamformer position enabling the plurality of microphones to act as a directional microphone array in a beamformer audio signal processing mode of the sound processor unit and a T-Mic position enabling at least one of the microphones to act as a T-Mic in a T-Mic audio signal processing mode of the sound processor unit at a position closer to the entrance of the ear canal than in the beamformer position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180176702A1 SOUND PROCESSOR MODULE Public/Granted day:2018-06-21
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