Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device, method, and program for adjustment of hearing aid
- Patent Title (中): 用于调节助听器的装置,方法和程序
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Application No.: US13085806Application Date: 2011-04-13
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Publication No.: US09149202B2Publication Date: 2015-10-06
- Inventor: Koji Morikawa , Shinobu Adachi
- Applicant: Koji Morikawa , Shinobu Adachi
- 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: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- Priority: JP2009-159115 20090703
- Main IPC: H04R29/00
- IPC: H04R29/00 ; A61B5/0484 ; H04R25/00 ; A61B5/00 ; G10L21/06

Abstract:
An adjustment device for a hearing aid includes: an audio extraction section for, through an acoustic process of a collected audio signal, utilizing information of a phoneme or syllable contained in the audio signal to output time information, the time information identifying a point of uttering the phoneme or syllable; an electroencephalogram measurement section for measuring an electroencephalogram signal of a user; a determination section for determining a difficulty of hearing of the phoneme or syllable by relying on an event-related potential in the electroencephalogram signal based on the identified point of uttering the phoneme or syllable as a starting point; a phoneme identification section for, when a plurality of phonemes or syllables are determined as difficult to hear, identifying a chronologically preceding phoneme or syllable among them to be difficult to hear; and a gain adjustment section for, with respect to the phoneme or syllable identified by the phoneme identification section, determining a gain adjustment method based on a type of the phoneme or syllable, and adjusting a gain for the phoneme or syllable in accordance with the determined gain adjustment method.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110188664A1 DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR ADJUSTMENT OF HEARING AID Public/Granted day:2011-08-04
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