公开(公告)号：US10334356B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-25

申请号：US16155608

申请日：2018-10-09

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Martin Larsen ,  Jesper Pedersen ,  Rasmus Andersson ,  Morten Fuglsang-Philip ,  Gorm Dannesboe ,  Mario Stoll

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  H04R1/32 ,  H04R19/01 ,  H04R19/00 ,  H04R31/00 ,  H04R19/04 ,  G10K11/00

Abstract: A hearing aid includes a microphone unit arranged in a hearing aid housing. The microphone unit is oriented in the housing relative to a microphone inlet element to cause a pressure equalization that allows acoustic cancellation of vibrations in the microphone unit.

公开(公告)号：US10306382B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-28

申请号：US16164051

申请日：2018-10-18

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Jens Troelsen ,  Oliver Sundberg ,  Kåre Tais Christensen ,  Henning Knak Poulsen

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  H01Q1/27 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q1/38

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an RF antenna adapted to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic RF signals within a first frequency range enclosing a first frequency of resonance of the RF antenna, the RF antenna comprising: an electrically conductive antenna element having a feed for electrically connecting to an RF transmitter and/or an RF receiver; an electronic component adapted to receive and/or provide one or more electric signals from/to an electronic circuit within a second frequency range not overlapping the first frequency range; and one or more electric leads electrically connected to lead the one or more electric signals between the electronic component and the electronic circuit, each of the one or more electric leads being electrically connected to the electronic circuit through a respective inductor adapted to reflect and/or attenuate signals within the first frequency range and pass signals within the second frequency range.

公开(公告)号：US20190141458A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-09

申请号：US16180818

申请日：2018-11-05

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Dorothea WENDT ,  Thomas LUNNER ,  Patrycja KSIAZEK ,  Emina ALICKOVIC

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  A61B5/048 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A61B5/12 ,  A61B5/00

Abstract: The disclosure presents a hearing device system and a method for adjusting hearing aid configuration, where a user is wearing a hearing device, the method comprising transmitting a first background sound signal to the hearing device, transmitting a first sound pattern to the hearing device, evaluating, via a camera unit, a first pupillary information of a first eye of the user in response to a first sound scene comprising the first background sound signal and the first sound pattern. The evaluating may be repeated providing at least a second pupillary information of the first eye of the user in response to a second sound scene being different from the first sound scene, and where an averaged pupillary information is provided based on an average between the first pupillary information and at least the second pupillary information, and selecting a pupillary fitting model based on the averaged pupillary information, determining a first parameter and at least a second parameter of the pupillary fitting model based on the averaged pupillary information, classifying the averaged pupillary information into either a first category or at least a second category based on the first parameter and the at least second parameter, and wherein the hearing aid configuration is adjusted if the averaged pupillary information is in the first category, and the hearing aid configuration is not adjusted if the averaged pupillary information is in the second category.

公开(公告)号：US10244300B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-26

申请号：US15727135

申请日：2017-10-06

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Adis Bjelosevic ,  Ole Fogh Olsen ,  Ariane Laplante-Lévesque

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  G01S13/42 ,  G06F3/01 ,  H04R25/00

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus having a directional antenna system having adaptable directionality and a direction determination system configured to determine a desired direction, the directionality of the directional antenna system may be modified or adapted based on the desired direction.

公开(公告)号：US20190028822A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-24

申请号：US16138463

申请日：2018-09-21

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Svend Oscar PETERSEN ,  Morten Friis KARLSEN ,  Martin LINDEBJERG

IPC: H04R25/00

Abstract: A replaceable filter member for a hearing aid device is disclosed. The filter member comprising an unit with a housing configured to be inserted into the ear canal of a user of the hearing aid device. The filter member is configured to prevent ear wax from entering an opening in the housing. The filter member is a one-piece body that is configured to cover several openings in the unit while being attached to the unit.

公开(公告)号：US20190014424A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-10

申请号：US16026655

申请日：2018-07-03

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Christophe LESIMPLE ,  Daniel BUEB

IPC: H04R25/00

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hearing assistance system and a system signal processing unit for a hearing assistance system wherein the hearing assistance system comprises at least two binaural hearing systems including a first binaural hearing system and a second binaural hearing system is provided.The system signal processing unit comprises or is operatively connected to a wireless data communication interface for wirelessly communicating with at least one of said at least two binaural hearing systems. The system signal processing unit is configured to receive a first system electric audio signal and first system spatial information related to said first system electric audio signal originating from said first binaural hearing system, said first system spatial information comprising at least one of a first system angle of incidence of incoming sound and a first system time delay between capturing sound by the two spaced apart hearing devices of said first hearing aid system, and to receive a second system electric audio signal and a second system spatial information related to said second system electric audio signal originating from said second binaural hearing system, said second system spatial information comprising at least one of a second system angle of incidence of incoming sound and a second system time delay between capturing sound by the two spaced apart hearing devices of said second hearing aid system.The system signal processing unit is further configured to process said first and second system electric audio signals based on said first and second system spatial information and to generate an enhanced electric audio signal.

公开(公告)号：US10176821B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-08

申请号：US15445472

申请日：2017-02-28

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Jesper Jensen ,  Jan Mark De Haan ,  Asger Heidemann Andersen

IPC: G10L21/02 ,  G10L21/0232 ,  G10L21/038 ,  G10L25/06 ,  G10L25/60 ,  A61N1/378 ,  H04R25/00

Abstract: A monaural intrusive speech intelligibility predictor unit comprises: first and second input units for providing time-frequency representations s(k,m) and x(k,m) of noise-free and noisy and/or processed versions of a target signal, respectively, k being a frequency bin index, k=1, 2, . . . , K, and m being a time index; first and second envelope extraction units for providing time-frequency sub-band representations of the signals sj(m) and xj(m), j being a frequency sub-band index, j=1, 2, . . . , J; first and second time-frequency segment division units for dividing the time-frequency sub-band representations sj(m) and xj(m) into time-frequency segments Sm and Xm corresponding to a number N of successive samples of the sub-band signals; an intermediate speech intelligibility calculation unit adapted for providing intermediate speech intelligibility coefficients dm estimating an intelligibility of said time-frequency segment Xm, based on said time-frequency segments Sm and Xm or normalized and/or transformed versions {tilde over (S)}m, and {tilde over (X)}m thereof; and a final monaural speech intelligibility calculation unit for calculating a final monaural speech intelligibility predictor d estimating an intelligibility of said noisy and/or processed version x of the target signal by combining said intermediate speech intelligibility coefficients dm, or a transformed version thereof, over time. A hearing aid comprises a monaural, intrusive intelligibility predictor unit, and a configurable signal processor adapted to control or influence the processing of one or more electric input signals representing environment sound to maximize the final speech intelligibility predictor d. A binaural hearing aid system comprises first and second hearing aids.

公开(公告)号：US10171921B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-01

申请号：US15257333

申请日：2016-09-06

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Michael Syskind Pedersen ,  Jan Thor Lunddahl Larsen

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  H04R29/00

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for performing a microphone matching of a hearing aid comprising a first microphone, a second microphone and a receiver in a predetermined spatial arrangement to each other. The method comprises the steps of: generating an output sound signal by means of the receiver; picking up a first and second input sound signal by the first and second microphones while the output sound signal is generated; converting the first and second input sound signals into a first and second electrical microphone output signal by means of the microphones; determining a first and second microphone response of the microphones; determining a microphone response difference between the first microphone response and the second microphone response; determining a matching difference between the microphone response difference and a predetermined reference microphone response difference; and adapting at least a first microphone gain of the first microphone according to the matching difference to reduce the matching difference.

公开(公告)号：US10142745B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-27

申请号：US15821365

申请日：2017-11-22

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Svend Oscar Petersen ,  Anders Thule

IPC: H04R5/00 ,  H04R25/00

Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, adapted for being arranged at least partly on a user's head or at least partly implanted in a user's head is provided. The hearing device comprises an own voice detector comprising first and second signal strength detectors for providing signal strength estimates of first and second electric input signals. The own voice detector comprises a comparison unit operationally coupled to the first and second signal strength detectors and configured to compare the signal strength estimates of the first and second electric input signals and to provide an indication of the difference between said signal strength estimates; and a control unit for providing an own voice detection signal indicative of a user's own voice being present or not present in the current sound in the environment of the user, the own voice detection signal being dependent on said signal strength comparison measure.

公开(公告)号：US20180255408A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-06

申请号：US15957164

申请日：2018-04-19

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Michael Syskind PEDERSEN ,  Jesper JENSEN

IPC: H04R25/00

CPC classification number: H04R25/552 ,  H04R25/305 ,  H04R25/407 ,  H04R25/505 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R25/558 ,  H04R2225/43 ,  H04R2225/55

Abstract: The disclosure relates to binaural hearing instruments and more particularly to reduction of processing time required in a binaural hearing aid system. According to the disclosure, there is provided a method comprising mono-directional transmission of data blocks comprising audio and/or information frames from one hearing instrument to the other hearing instrument or vice versa in a binaural hearing aid. According to the disclosure, the direction of transmission is determined by a quantity characterizing the presence of usable information content in the sound signal picked up by the hearing instruments of the binaural hearing aid. It is proposed to use one or more of local SNR, local voice activity detection indication, local level, local speech intelligibility estimate to determine the direction of transmission, although other quantities may be used.