公开(公告)号：US20230083192A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-16

申请号：US17982687

申请日：2022-11-08

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Poul HOANG ,  Jan M. DE HAAN ,  Jesper JENSEN ,  Michael Syskind PEDERSEN

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  G10K11/178 ,  H04R25/00

Abstract: A hearing device adapted for being located at or in an ear of a user, or for being fully or partially implanted in the head of a user comprises a) an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal representing sound in an environment of the user, said electric input signal comprising a target speech signal from a target sound source and additional signal components, termed noise signal components, from one or more other sound sources, b) a noise reduction system for providing an estimate of said target speech signal, wherein said noise signal components are at least partially attenuated, and c) an own voice detector for repeatedly estimating whether or not, or with what probability, said at least one electric input signal, or a signal derived therefrom, comprises speech originating from the voice of the user. The noise signal components are identified during time segments wherein the own voice detector indicates that the at least one electric input signal, or a signal derived therefrom, originates from the voice of the user, or originates from the voice of the user with a probability above an own voice presence probability (OVPP) threshold value. A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US20230073936A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-09

申请号：US17983733

申请日：2022-11-09

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Michael Syskind PEDERSEN ,  Kenneth Rueskov MØLLER ,  Svend Oscar PETERSEN ,  Niels Stubager KIEMER ,  Jesper Kofoed NIELSEN ,  Björn OHL ,  Marianne Kleist ELMLUND ,  Karin CARVALHO ,  Henrik BENDSEN ,  Regin Kopp PEDERSEN ,  Christian C. BÜRGER ,  Steen Michael MUNK ,  Morten CHRISTOPHERSEN ,  Julie Hefting PEDERSEN ,  Bo WESTERGÅRD ,  Maria OXENBØLL

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  H04R1/40 ,  H04R1/10

Abstract: A hearing aid device is disclosed. The hearing aid device comprises means to improve, augment and/or protect the hearing capability of a user by receiving acoustic signals from the surroundings of the user, generating corresponding audio signals, possibly modifying the audio signals and providing the possibly modified audio signals as audible signals to at least one of the user's ears. The hearing aid device comprises a sensor member for detecting the movement and/or acceleration and/or orientation (or spatial position) of the hearing aid device. The hearing aid device comprises at least two hearing aid microphones and a control unit for determining the position or a deviation from an intended position of the hearing aid device or hearing aid microphones. The hearing aid device is configured to compensate for a possible dislocation of the hearing aid microphones.

公开(公告)号：US20230056617A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-23

申请号：US17981648

申请日：2022-11-07

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Michael Syskind PEDERSEN ,  Asger Heidemann ANDERSEN ,  Jesper JENSEN ,  Nels Hede ROHDE ,  Anders Brødløs OLSEN ,  Michael Smed KRISTENSEN ,  Thomas BENTSEN ,  Svend Oscar PETERSEN

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  G06N3/063 ,  G10L15/08 ,  G10L17/00

Abstract: A hearing device comprises an input transducer comprising a microphone for providing an electric input signal representative of sound in the environment of the hearing device, a pre-processor for processing electric input signal and providing a multitude of feature vectors, each being representative of a time segment thereof, a neural network processor adapted to implement a neural network for implementing a detector configured to provide an output indicative of a characteristic property of the at least one electric input signal, the neural network being configured to receive said multitude of feature vectors as input vectors and to provide corresponding output vectors representative of said output of said detector in dependence of said input vectors. The hearing device further comprises a transceiver comprising a transmitter and a receiver for establishing a communication link to another part or device or server, at least in a particular adaptation-mode of operation, and a selector for—in said particular adaptation—mode of operation—routing said feature vectors to said transmitter for transmission to said another part or device or server, and—in a normal mode of operation—to route said feature vectors to said neural network processor for use as inputs to said neural network, a neural network controller connected to said neural network processor for—in said particular adaptation-mode of operation—receiving optimized node parameters, and to apply said optimized node parameters to said nodes of said neural network to thereby implement an optimized neural network in said neural network processor, wherein the optimized node parameters have been selected among a multitude of sets of node parameters for respective candidate neural networks according to a predefined criterion in dependence of said feature vectors. A method of selecting optimized parameters for a neural network for use in a portable hearing device is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing aids or headsets, or similar, e.g. wearable, devices.

公开(公告)号：US20230044634A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-09

申请号：US17970275

申请日：2022-10-20

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Nels Hede ROHDE ,  Thomas BENTSEN ,  Anders Brødløs OLSEN ,  Michael Syskind PEDERSEN ,  Svend FELDT ,  Jesper JENSEN

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  H04M1/72409 ,  G01B17/00

Abstract: A hearing aid system comprises a hearing aid, and a portable auxiliary device’ adapted to establish a communication link between them. The hearing aid comprises a microphone providing an electric input signal, a signal processor, and an output unit. The auxiliary device comprises a microphone providing an auxiliary electric input signal, and a user control interface allowing a user to initiate a specific calibration mode of operation of the hearing aid system. The signal processor of the hearing aid is configured to receive corresponding time segments of said electric input signal and said auxiliary electric input signal to provide an estimate of an acoustic transfer function from said microphone of said auxiliary device to said microphone of said hearing aid. A method of operating a hearing aid system is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in various applications related to own voice detection and estimation.

公开(公告)号：US20220353623A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-03

申请号：US17731700

申请日：2022-04-28

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Thomas BEHRENS ,  Michael Syskind PEDERSEN ,  Meng GUO

IPC: H04R25/00

Abstract: A hearing aid configured to be worn at, and/or in, an ear of a user, comprises a forward path for processing sound from the environment of the user. The forward path comprises a) at least one first microphone providing at least one first electric input signal representing said sound as received at the respective at least one first microphones, said at least one first microphone being located away from a first ear canal of the user, b) an audio signal processor for processing said at least one first electric input signal, or a signal or signals originating therefrom, and for providing a processed signal, c) an output transducer for providing stimuli perceivable as sound to the user in dependence of said processed signal, and d) at least one second microphone connected to said audio signal processor, the at least one second microphone being configured to provide at least one second electric input signal representing said sound as received at the at least one second microphone, the at least one second microphone being located at or in said first ear canal of the user, and e) a feature extractor for extracting acoustic characteristics of said ear of the user from said at least one second electric input signal, or a signal originating therefrom. The hearing aid is configured to include said acoustic characteristics in the processed signal. The invention may e.g. provide improved sound localization in hearing aids.

公开(公告)号：US20220232331A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-21

申请号：US17580493

申请日：2022-01-20

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Zuzana JELCICOVÁ ,  Rasmus JONES ,  David Thorn BLIX ,  Michael Syskind PEDERSEN ,  Jesper JENSEN ,  Asger Heidemann ANDERSEN

IPC: H04R25/00

Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid or a headset, configured to be worn by a comprises an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal in a time-frequency representation; and a signal processor comprising a target signal estimator for providing an estimate of the target signal; a noise estimator for providing an estimate of the noise; and a gain estimator for providing respective gain values in dependence of said target signal estimate and said noise estimate. The gain estimator comprises a trained neural network, wherein the outputs of the neural network comprise real or complex valued gains, or separate real valued gains and real valued phases. The signal processor is configured—at a given time instance t—to calculate changes Δx(i,t)=x(i,t)−{circumflex over (x)}(i,t−1), and Δh(j,t−1)=h(j,t−1)−ĥ(j,t−2) to an input vector x(t) and to the hidden state vector h(t−1), respectively, from one time instance, t-1, to the next, t, and where {circumflex over (x)}(i,t−1) and ĥ(j,t−2) are estimated values of x(i,t−1) and h(j,t−2), respectively, where indices i, j refers to the ith input neuron and the jth neuron of the hidden state, respectively, where 1≤i≤Nch,x and 1≤j≤Nch,oh, wherein Nch,x and Nch,oh is the number of processing channels of the input vector x and the hidden state vector h, respectively, and wherein the signal processor is further configured to provide that the number of updated channels among said Nch,x and said Nch,oh processing channels of the modified gated recurrent unit for said input vector x(t) and said hidden state vector h(t−1), respectively, at said given time instance t is limited to a number of peak values Np,x, and Np,oh, respectively, where Np,x is smaller than Nch,x, and Np,oh, is smaller than Nch,oh.

公开(公告)号：US20220149800A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-12

申请号：US17580898

申请日：2022-01-21

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Michael Syskind PEDERSEN ,  Gary JONES ,  Søren Kamaric RIIS ,  Karsten Bo RASMUSSEN ,  Julian SKOVGAARD

IPC: H03G9/02 ,  H04R25/00

Abstract: The invention relates to a hearing aid a cochlear implant comprising a) at least one input transducer for capturing incoming sound and for generating electric audio signals which represent frequency bands of the incoming sound, b) a sound processor which is configured to analyze and to process the electric audio signals, c) a transmitter that sends the processed electric audio signals, d) a receiver/stimulator, which receives the processed electric audio signals from the transmitter and converts the processed electric audio signals into electric pulses, e) an electrode array embedded in the cochlear comprising a number of electrodes for stimulating the cochlear nerve with said electric pulses, and f) a control unit configured to control the distribution of said electric pulses to the number of said electrodes. The control unit is configured to distribute said electric pulses to the number of said electrodes by applying one out of a plurality of different coding schemes, and wherein the applied coding scheme is selected according to characteristics of the incoming sound.

公开(公告)号：US20220124444A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-21

申请号：US17562612

申请日：2021-12-27

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Asger Heidemann ANDERSEN ,  Jesper JENSEN ,  Michael Syskind PEDERSEN ,  Nels Hede ROHDE ,  Anders Brødløs OLSEN ,  Michael Smed KRISTENSEN ,  Thomas BENTSEN ,  Andreas Thelander BERTELSEN

IPC: H04R25/00

Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be worn by a user at or in an ear or to be fully or partially implanted in the head at an ear of the user. The hearing device comprises a) an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal in a time frequency representation k, m, where k and m are frequency and time indices, respectively, and k represents a frequency channel, the at least one electric input signal being representative of sound and comprising target signal components and noise components; and b) a signal processor comprising b1) a target signal estimator for providing an estimate of the target signal; b2) a noise estimator for providing an estimate of the noise; b3) a gain estimator for providing respective gain values in said time frequency representation in dependence of said target signal estimate and said noise estimate, wherein said gain estimator comprises a neural network, wherein the weights of the neural network have been trained with a plurality of training signals, and wherein the outputs of the neural network comprise real or complex valued gains, or separate real valued gains and real valued phases. The invention may e.g. be used in audio devices, such as hearing aids, headsets, mobile telephones, etc., operating in noisy acoustic environments.

公开(公告)号：US20220109939A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-07

申请号：US17062097

申请日：2020-10-02

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Michael Syskind PEDERSEN ,  Jan M. DE HAAN ,  Nels Hede ROHDE ,  Angela JOSUPEIT ,  Sigurdur SIGURDSSON

IPC: H04R25/00

Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid or a headset, configured to be worn at or in an ear of a user, the hearing device comprising at least one input transducer for converting a sound in an environment of the hearing device to at least one electric input signal representing said sound; an own voice detector configured to estimate whether or not, or with what probability, said sound originates from the voice of the user, and to provide an own voice control signal indicative thereof, a face mask detector configured to estimate whether or not, or with what probability, said user wears a face mask while speaking, and to provide face mask control signal indicative thereof. A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed. Thereby an improved hearing aid or headset may be provided.

公开(公告)号：US20220038811A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：US17502570

申请日：2021-10-15

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Michael Syskind PEDERSEN ,  Jan M. DE HAAN ,  Andreas Thelander BERTELSEN ,  Matias Tofteby BACH ,  Rasmus Glarborg JENSEN ,  Franz TREUE ,  Kåre Tais CHRISTENSEN

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  G10L21/0208 ,  H04R25/00

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for reducing noise induced in one or more components in a hearing aid. The present disclosure provides methods for reducing noise induced in telecoils.