Hearing device with input transducer and wireless receiver

    公开(公告)号:US10070231B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-04

    申请号:US14449372

    申请日:2014-08-01

    Applicant: Oticon A/S

    Abstract: The present disclosure regards a hearing device comprising a power source, electric circuitry, a loudspeaker, at least one microphone for sound from an acoustic environment, and at least one wireless receiver for wirelessly received sound signals. The microphone is configured to generate an environment sound signal. The wireless receiver is configured generate a source sound signal. The electric circuitry is configured to estimate at least one parameter of an impulse response from the location of the origin of the wirelessly received signal to the location of a user of the hearing device in dependence on the source sound signal and the environment sound signal. The electric circuitry is further configured to process the environment sound signal in dependence on the estimated at least one impulse-response parameter, thereby generating an output sound signal. The output sound signal is processed into sound by the loudspeaker.

    RF ANTENNA AND HEARING DEVICE WITH RF ANTENNA
    113.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180213338A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-26

    申请号:US15937074

    申请日:2018-03-27

    Applicant: Oticon A/S

    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.

    HEARING DEVICE
    114.
    发明申请
    HEARING DEVICE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20180192213A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-05

    申请号:US15906531

    申请日:2018-02-27

    Applicant: Oticon A/S

    Abstract: A hearing device configured to be worn at an ear of a user, where the hearing device comprising an antenna unit. The antenna unit comprises an active unit being connected to a ground unit by a feeder unit, the active unit includes an active surface, and a shield unit having a continuous surface, where a first section of the continuous surface may be arranged adjacent to the active surface. Furthermore, the active surface may be configured to transmit an electric field in a direction along or perpendicular to an ear-to-ear axis of the user when the hearing device may be worn in its operational position by the user, whereby the electric field may be coupled by a capacitive coupling towards the first section generating an electromagnetic near field, and where the shield unit may be configured to focus the electromagnetic near field inside the hearing device.

    HEARING DEVICE INCLUDING AN EXTERNAL ANTENNA AND AN INTERNAL PARASITIC ELEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20180192210A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-05

    申请号:US15856915

    申请日:2017-12-28

    Applicant: Oticon A/S

    Abstract: The disclosure presents a method and a hearing device comprising a first portion adapted for being arranged behind an ear of a user for providing a signal, an output transducer for converting the signal to an acoustic output, a coupling element coupling to the first portion, an antenna comprising an external antenna arranged at least externally to the first portion and an internal parasitic element, a feeding unit configured to supply a current to the external antenna, and the feeding unit is further configured to supply the current to the internal parasitic element via a wireless coupling, a wireless interface for receiving and/or transmitting data by means of the antenna, and wherein the coupling element comprises the external antenna.

    METHOD OF REDUCING NOISE IN AN AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20180167747A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-14

    申请号:US15838688

    申请日:2017-12-12

    Applicant: Oticon A/S

    Abstract: The application relates to a method of reducing reverberation in an audio processing device and to an audio processing device. The object of the present application is to provide an alternative method of reducing noise, e.g. reverberation, in a sound signal. The method comprises the steps of a) providing a time variant electric input signal representative of a sound; b) providing a logarithmic representation of said electric input signal; c) providing a predefined statistical model of the likelihood that a specific slope of the logarithmic representation of the electric input signal is due to reverberation; d) identifying time instances of the electric input signal being reverberant according to the statistical model; and e) applying an attenuation to the time instances identified as reverberant. This has the advantage of providing an enhanced sound signal. The invention may e.g. be used for enhancing noisy, e.g. reverberant, signals.

    Binaural hearing system configured to localize a sound source

    公开(公告)号:US09992587B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-05

    申请号:US15669020

    申请日:2017-08-04

    Applicant: Oticon A/S

    Abstract: A hearing aid system comprising a pair of hearing devices, e.g. hearing aids, worn at the ears of a user receives a target signal generated by a target signal source and transmitted through an acoustic channel to microphones of the hearing aid system. Due to (potential) additive environmental noise, a noisy acoustic signal is received at the microphones of the hearing system. An essentially noise-free version of the target signal is simultaneously transmitted to the hearing devices of the hearing system via a wireless connection. Based on a sound propagation model of the acoustic propagation channel from the target sound source to the microphones of the hearing aid system, and on relative transfer functions representing direction-dependent filtering effects of the head and torso of the user in the form of direction-dependent acoustic transfer functions from a microphone on one side of the head, to a microphone on the other side of the head, a direction-of-arrival (DoA) of the target sound signal relative to the user is determined using a maximum likelihood approach.

    Peer to peer hearing system
    120.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09949040B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-17

    申请号:US15170261

    申请日:2016-06-01

    Applicant: Oticon A/S

    Abstract: The application relates to: A hearing system comprising first and second hearing aid systems, each being configured to be worn by first and second persons and adapted to exchange audio data between them. The application further relates to a method of operating a hearing system. The object of the present application is to provide improved perception of a (target) sound source for a wearer of a hearing device (e.g. a hearing aid or a headset) in a difficult listening situation. The problem is solved in that each of the first and second hearing aid systems comprising an input unit for providing a multitude of electric input signals representing sound in the environment of the hearing aid system; a beamformer unit for spatially filtering the electric input signals; antenna and transceiver circuitry allowing a wireless communication link between the first and second hearing aid systems to be established to allow the exchange of said audio data between them; and a control unit for controlling the beamformer unit and the antenna and transceiver circuitry; wherein the control unit—at least in a dedicated partner mode of operation of the hearing aid system—is arranged to configure the beamformer unit to retrieve an own voice signal of the person wearing the hearing aid system from the electric input signals, and to transmit the own voice signal to the other hearing aid system via the antenna and transceiver circuitry. This has the advantage of eliminating the need for a partner microphone while still providing a boost in SNR of a target speaker. The invention may e.g. be used for the hearing aids, head sets, active ear protection devices or combinations thereof.

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