Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for beamforming in a binaural hearing aid
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Application No.: US16673045Application Date: 2019-11-04
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Publication No.: US10887704B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Hala As'Ad , Martin Bouchard , Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi
- Applicant: SIVANTOS PTE. LTD.
- Applicant Address: SG Singapore
- Assignee: SIVANTOS PTE. LTD.
- Current Assignee: SIVANTOS PTE. LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: SG Singapore
- Agent Laurence A. Greenberg; Werner H. Stemer; Ralph E. Locher
- Priority: EP18215514 20181221
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00 ; H04R3/00

Abstract:
The invention discloses a method for noise reduction in a binaural hearing aid, said binaural hearing aid comprising a first local unit and a second local unit, wherein the method comprises the following steps: generating a first main signal and a first auxiliary signal in the first local unit from an environment sound, and a second main signal in the second local unit from the environment sound, estimating a direction of arrival of a useful sound signal in the environment sound, assigning a first frequency range and a second frequency range, generating a first range beamformer signal in the first frequency range from the first main signal, the first auxiliary signal and the second main signal by imposing at least one spatial condition related to the estimated direction of arrival on the directional characteristic of the first range beamformer signal, generating a second range beamformer signal in the second frequency range from the first main signal and the second main signal by imposing at least one spatial condition related to the estimated direction of arrival on the directional characteristic of the second range beamformer signal, and generating a first local output signal from the first range beamformer signal and the second range beamformer signal, wherein the first local output signal is transduced into a first output sound by a first output transducer of the first local unit.
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