Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hearing aid, signal processing method, and program
- Patent Title (中): 助听器,信号处理方法和程序
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Application No.: US13388494Application Date: 2011-06-16
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Publication No.: US09124984B2Publication Date: 2015-09-01
- Inventor: Maki Yamada , Mitsuru Endo , Koichiro Mizushima
- Applicant: Maki Yamada , Mitsuru Endo , Koichiro Mizushima
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-139726 20100618
- International Application: PCT/JP2011/003426 WO 20110616
- International Announcement: WO2011/158506 WO 20111222
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00

Abstract:
A hearing aid, signal processing method and program enables TV sound to be made easier for a hearing aid user to hear when wishing to watch TV, and a person's voice to be made easier to hear when wishing to converse with that person. The hearing aid includes another-person's speech detection section that detects speech of a speaker other than the wearer using detected sound source direction information, an own-speech detection result, and a TV sound detection result, and a per-sound-source frequency calculation section that calculates the frequency of each sound source using an own-speech detection result, TV sound detection result, other-speaker's speech detection result, and sound source direction information. A scene determination section determines a scene using sound source direction information and a per-sound-source frequency; and an output sound control section controls hearing of the hearing aid according to a determined scene.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120128187A1 HEARING AID, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2012-05-24
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