HEARING DEVICE INCLUDING IMAGE SENSOR
    1.
    发明申请
    HEARING DEVICE INCLUDING IMAGE SENSOR 审中-公开
    包括图像传感器的听觉装置

    公开(公告)号:WO2018053225A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-22

    申请号:PCT/US2017/051712

    申请日:2017-09-15

    Abstract: Various embodiments of a hearing device including an image sensor are disclosed. The hearing device can include a housing, a user sensory interface connected to the housing, an image sensor connected to the housing, and an acoustic sensor connected to the housing. The device can also include a processor that is adapted to process image data from the image sensor to identify an image object, process acoustic data from the acoustic sensor, and determine a spatial location of the image object based upon at least one of the processed image data and the processed acoustic data. The processor can also be adapted to provide the spatial location to the user sensory interface, which can provide a sensory stimulus to the user that is representative of the spatial location of the image object.

    Abstract translation: 公开了包括图像传感器的听力设备的各种实施例。 听力装置可以包括外壳,连接到外壳的用户传感接口,连接到外壳的图像传感器以及连接到外壳的声学传感器。 该设备还可以包括处理器,该处理器适于处理来自图像传感器的图像数据以识别图像对象,处理来自声学传感器的声学数据,并且基于处理后的图像中的至少一个来确定图像对象的空间位置 数据和处理后的声学数据。 处理器还可以适用于向用户传感接口提供空间位置,其可以向用户提供代表图像对象的空间位置的感官刺激。

    SYSTEM FOR MEASURING SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL
    2.
    发明申请
    SYSTEM FOR MEASURING SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL 审中-公开
    用于测量声压级的系统

    公开(公告)号:WO2010016925A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-02-11

    申请号:PCT/US2009/004528

    申请日:2009-08-07

    CPC classification number: A61B5/121

    Abstract: In various embodiments, a system is used to provide an apparatus configured to measure sound in an ear canal of a wearer's ear at a distance from a tympanic membrane of the ear. The sound is measured and received by the apparatus to produce a signal. A frequency analysis is performed on the signal to determine output as a function of the frequency and to determine the frequency of the minima (null). Further, a distance equal to a quarter wavelength of the null frequency is calculated. A correction factor associated with the quarter wavelength is retrieved and applied to the output to generate a corrected output. An estimated sound pressure level at the tympanic membrane from the corrected output is produced.

    Abstract translation: 在各种实施例中,系统用于提供被配置为在与耳朵的鼓膜距离一定距离处测量佩戴者耳朵的耳道中的声音的装置。 声音由设备测量和接收以产生信号。 对信号执行频率分析,以根据频率确定输出,并确定最小值(零)的频率。 此外,计算等于零频率的四分之一波长的距离。 检索与四分之一波长相关联的校正因子并将其应用于输出以产生校正输出。 产生来自校正输出的鼓膜的声压级。

    HEARING DEVICE WITH MOTION SENSOR USED TO DETECT FEEDBACK PATH INSTABILITY

    公开(公告)号:WO2021242571A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-02

    申请号:PCT/US2021/032928

    申请日:2021-05-18

    Abstract: An audio input signal is digitized via circuitry of an ear-wearable device. An adaptive feedback canceller has an adaptive filter producing an output that is inserted into the digitized audio input signal to cancel feedback. A motion detector provides a motion signal indicative of motion of the ear-wearable device. A processor is operable to determine a change in a feedback path based on the motion signal. The processor causes the adaptive filter to have faster adaption in response to the change in the feedback path is above a first threshold. The processor also causes the adaptive filter to have slower adaption in response to the change in the feedback path being below a second threshold.

    REDUCED-BANDWIDTH SPEECH ENHANCEMENT WITH BANDWIDTH EXTENSION

    公开(公告)号:WO2021207131A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-14

    申请号:PCT/US2021/025883

    申请日:2021-04-06

    Abstract: An ear-wearable electronic device is operable to apply a low-pass filter to the digitized voice signal to remove a high-frequency component and obtain a low-frequency component. Speech enhancement is applied to the low-frequency component. Blind bandwidth extension is applied to the enhanced low-frequency component to recover or synthesize an estimate of at least part of the high frequency component. An enhanced speech signal is output that is a combination of the enhanced low-frequency component and the bandwidth-extended high frequency component.

    HEARING DEVICE INCLUDING IMAGE SENSOR
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2018053225A9

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-22

    申请号:PCT/US2017/051712

    申请日:2017-09-15

    Abstract: Various embodiments of a hearing device including an image sensor are disclosed. The hearing device can include a housing, a user sensory interface connected to the housing, an image sensor connected to the housing, and an acoustic sensor connected to the housing. The device can also include a processor that is adapted to process image data from the image sensor to identify an image object, process acoustic data from the acoustic sensor, and determine a spatial location of the image object based upon at least one of the processed image data and the processed acoustic data. The processor can also be adapted to provide the spatial location to the user sensory interface, which can provide a sensory stimulus to the user that is representative of the spatial location of the image object.

    MOBILE DEVICE THAT PROVIDES SOUND ENHANCEMENT FOR HEARING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:WO2022051032A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-10

    申请号:PCT/US2021/041841

    申请日:2021-07-15

    Abstract: A system includes a mobile device that receives an audio signal from a microphone of the mobile device. The mobile device processes the audio signal via a neural network to obtain a speech-enhanced audio signal. The system includes an ear-wearable device comprising a data interface operable to communicate with the external data interface of the mobile device. The ear-wearable device includes an audio processing path coupled to the data interface and is operable to receive the speech-enhanced audio signal and reproduce the speech-enhanced audio in an ear of a user.

    EAR-WORN ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCORPORATING ANNOYANCE MODEL DRIVEN SELECTIVE ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL

    公开(公告)号:WO2019089530A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:PCT/US2018/058129

    申请日:2018-10-30

    Abstract: A system comprises an ear-worn electronic device configured to be worn by a wearer. The ear-worn electronic device comprises a processor and memory coupled to the processor. The memory is configured to store an annoying sound dictionary representative of a plurality of annoying sounds pre-identified by the wearer. A microphone is coupled to the processor and configured to monitor an acoustic environment of the wearer. A speaker or a receiver is coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to identify different background noises present in the acoustic environment, determine which of the background noises correspond to one or more of the plurality of annoying sounds, and attenuate the one or more annoying sounds in an output signal provided to the speaker or receiver.

    ACCOUSTIC FEEDBACK PATH MODELING FOR HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:WO2018049405A9

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-15

    申请号:PCT/US2017/051187

    申请日:2017-09-12

    Abstract: A system and method of determining a filter to cancel feedback signals from input signals in a hearing assistance device includes determining feedback signals for a plurality of feedback paths associated with the device, and determining a model of the plurality of feedback paths, with the model having an invariant portion and a time varying portion. A probable structure of the invariant portion is determined to generate a structural constraint to constrain the plurality of feedback paths, and probability distributions to impose the structural constraint on the invariant portion are determined. During an iterative process, the invariant portion is iteratively determined using the determined probability distributions and the feedback path measurements. A measurement noise variance representative of model mismatch is updated, for each iteration, to reduce a probability of a non-desirable determination of an invariant filter, and the invariant filter is determined in response to a criterion for ending the iterative process being satisfied.

    EAR-WEARABLE DEVICE SHELL MODELING
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2020102722A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-22

    申请号:PCT/US2019/061807

    申请日:2019-11-15

    Inventor: ZHANG, Tao

    Abstract: A computing device is described that obtains a representation of a target ear canal of a user. Using a machine-learned model that has been trained based at least in part on representations of previously fabricated ear-wearable devices, the computing device generates a representation of an ear-wearable device for the target ear canal.

    ACCOUSTIC FEEDBACK PATH MODELING FOR HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE
    10.
    发明申请
    ACCOUSTIC FEEDBACK PATH MODELING FOR HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE 审中-公开
    听力辅助装置的原因反馈路径建模

    公开(公告)号:WO2018049405A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-15

    申请号:PCT/US2017/051187

    申请日:2017-09-12

    CPC classification number: H04R25/453 H04R25/70

    Abstract: A system and method of determining a filter to cancel feedback signals from input signals in a hearing assistance device includes determining feedback signals for a plurality of feedback paths associated with the device, and determining a model of the plurality of feedback paths, with the model having an invariant portion and a time varying portion. A probable structure of the invariant portion is determined to generate a structural constraint to constrain the plurality of feedback paths, and probability distributions to impose the structural constraint on the invariant portion are determined. During an iterative process, the invariant portion is iteratively determined using the determined probability distributions and the feedback path measurements. A measurement noise variance representative of model mismatch is updated, for each iteration, to reduce a probability of a non-desirable determination of an invariant filter, and the invariant filter is determined in response to a criterion for ending the iterative process being satisfied.

    Abstract translation: 确定用于从助听设备中的输入信号中消除反馈信号的滤波器的系统和方法包括:确定与设备相关联的多个反馈路径的反馈信号;以及确定多个 的反馈路径,模型具有不变部分和时变部分。 确定不变部分的可能结构以产生约束多个反馈路径的结构约束,并且确定对不变部分施加结构约束的概率分布。 在迭代过程期间,使用所确定的概率分布和反馈路径测量来迭代地确定不变部分。 代表模型失配的测量噪声方差针对每次迭代被更新,以减少非期望确定不变滤波器的可能性,并且响应于用于结束迭代过程的标准被满足而确定不变滤波器。 / p>

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