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公开(公告)号:US20250168579A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-22
申请号:US18929128
申请日:2024-10-28
Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Justin R. Burwinkel , Penny A. Tyson , Buye Xu , Darrell R. Bennington
Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to devices and related systems and methods for detecting falls. In an embodiment, a hearing assistance device is included having a first control circuit and a first motion sensor. The first motion sensor can be disposed in a fixed position relative to a head of a subject wearing the hearing assistance device. A first microphone and a first transducer for generating sound can be in operational communication with the first control circuit. The first control circuit can be configured to evaluate data from one or more sensors to detect a possible fall of a subject in physical contact with the hearing assistance device. The device can be configured to wirelessly transmit data regarding a possible fall to another device including an indication of whether the possible fall was detected binaurally or monoaurally. Other embodiments are included herein.
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公开(公告)号:US12300248B2
公开(公告)日:2025-05-13
申请号:US18410741
申请日:2024-01-11
Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Achintya Kumar Bhowmik , David Alan Fabry , Amit Shahar , Clifford Anthony Tallman
Abstract: A system and method of automatic transcription using a visual display device and an ear-wearable device. The system is configured to process an input audio signal at the display device to identify a first voice signal and a second voice signal from the input audio signal. A representation of the first voice signal and the second voice signal can be displayed on the display device and input can be received comprising the user selecting one of the first voice signal and the second voice signal as a selected voice signal. The system is configured to convert the selected voice signal to text data and display a transcript on the display device. The system can further generate an output signal sound at the first transducer of the ear-wearable device based on the input audio signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20250142271A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-01
申请号:US18906732
申请日:2024-10-04
Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Dave Fabry , Christopher Larry Howes , Hugh Anthony Cregg, III
IPC: H04R25/00
Abstract: A hearing instrument comprises a processor coupled to memory, a user interface operatively coupled to the processor, one or more microphones, and an acoustic transducer. Audio processing circuitry is coupled to the one or more microphones, the acoustic transducer, and the processor. The processor is configured to deliver, via the acoustic transducer, a series of supra-threshold audio stimuli to an ear of the wearer, receive, from the wearer via the user interface, an indication of the quality of perception of the stimuli, and store the indication of the quality of perception in the memory. The processor can be configured to present the indication of the quality of perception of the stimuli via the user interface. The user interface can be implemented by the hearing instrument or an external electronic device communicatively coupled to the hearing instrument.
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公开(公告)号:US20250126419A1
公开(公告)日:2025-04-17
申请号:US18915962
申请日:2024-10-15
Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Justin R. Burwinkel , Thomas O. Monsen , Mohammad Reza Movahedi
IPC: H04R25/00
Abstract: Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for mitigating interference within a telecoil signal for hearing devices. A system includes a first hearing device and a second hearing device. The first hearing device includes a magnetic sensor configured to sense an inductive signal, a first wireless radio configured for wireless communication, and a first near-field radio configured for near-field communication. The second hearing device includes a second wireless radio configured for wireless communication and a second near-field radio configured for near-field communication. The first hearing device is configured to selectively deactivate the first wireless radio when using the magnetic sensor to reduce interference in the sensed inductive signal, and further configured to transmit the sensed inductive signal to the second hearing device using the first near-field radio. The second hearing device is configured to receive the sensed inductive signal using the second near-field radio.
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公开(公告)号:US12256199B2
公开(公告)日:2025-03-18
申请号:US18512651
申请日:2023-11-17
Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Justin R. Burwinkel , Peter J. Tetrick , Jeffrey Paul Solum , Thomas Scheller
Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to assistive listening devices and systems for providing audio streams to device wearers within sound fields. In an embodiment an assistive listening device is included having a control circuit, an electroacoustic transducer for generating sound in electrical communication with the control circuit, a power supply circuit in electrical communication with the control circuit, and a communications circuit in electrical communication with the control circuit. The control circuit can be configured to issue a communication to an audio communication device or audio provisioning device including at least one of a language preference, a set of hearing requirements, data regarding a presentation delay, and an authorization status identifier, digital code, digital token, or digital key specific to a wearer of the assistive listening device. Other embodiments are also included herein.
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公开(公告)号:US12231856B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-18
申请号:US17663113
申请日:2022-05-12
Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Westley G. Gentry , Michael Karl Sacha , Craig C. Feldsien , Jay Stewart
IPC: H04R25/00 , B29C64/124 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y80/00
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hearing instrument includes placing a component support structure at least partially in a bath of a resin liquid, wherein one or more operative components of the hearing instrument are attached to or contained within the component support structure prior to the component support structure being at least partially placed in the bath of the resin liquid. While the component support structure is at least partially in the bath, volumetric 3-dimensional (3D) printing is performed to form a shell of the hearing instrument attached to the component support structure.
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公开(公告)号:US20250049398A1
公开(公告)日:2025-02-13
申请号:US18798595
申请日:2024-08-08
Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Edward John Cunningham , Archelle Georgiou Feldshon , Gregory John Haubrich , Brantly Sturgeon , David Alan Fabry
IPC: A61B5/00 , A61B5/0205 , A61B5/08 , G06N20/00 , G16H10/60
Abstract: An ear-wearable device comprising: a sensor configured to sense one or more physiological parameters of a user of the ear-wearable device; communications circuitry; and processing circuitry configured to: apply a machine learning (ML) model to the one or more sensed physiological parameters to determine whether the user is experiencing symptoms of a medical scenario, wherein the ML model is configured to be trained via a training set comprising a plurality of physiological parameter values and a corresponding plurality of symptoms of the medical scenario; and based on a determination that the user is experiencing symptoms of a medical scenario, cause the communications circuitry to transmit a notification indicating that the user is experiencing the symptoms of the medical scenario.
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公开(公告)号:US20250030989A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-23
申请号:US18910855
申请日:2024-10-09
Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Justin R. Burwinkel
IPC: H04R25/00
Abstract: Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods for an automatic hearing loop memory for hearing assistance systems. A method includes receiving an acoustic input at a microphone and receiving an inductive input at a magnetic sensor. The method further includes using an operatively connected processor of the hearing assistance system to process the acoustic input from the microphone using instructions stored in a first set of memory locations, and to process the inductive input from the magnetic sensor using instructions stored in a second set of memory locations, and to optionally discontinue processing the acoustic input when a demodulator circuit operatively connected to the processor detects a predetermined signal indicative of the presence of a hearing loop system.
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公开(公告)号:US12207059B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US18408661
申请日:2024-01-10
Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Wenyu Jin , Henning Schepker
Abstract: An individual cutoff frequency for an individual secondary path measurement is determined. First and second acoustic transducer-to-eardrum responses below and above the cutoff frequency are determined using an individual secondary path measurement, a reduced dimensionality estimate, and a least squares estimate. A sound pressure level at an eardrum of the user is predicted using the first and second receiver-to-eardrum responses.
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公开(公告)号:US20250024211A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-16
申请号:US18664923
申请日:2024-05-15
Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Achintya Kumar Bhowmik , Chaitanya Jidge
IPC: H04R25/00
Abstract: Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for wireless communication with hearing devices. A method includes configuring, using a first hearing device configured to be worn or implanted in a first ear of a user, a first device parameter data. The method further includes transmitting, from the first hearing device via a wireless connection to a second hearing device configured to be worn or implanted in a second ear of the user, the first device parameter data. The method also includes receiving, at the second hearing device via the wireless connection, the first device parameter data from the first hearing device, and configuring the second hearing device for coordinated binaural operations with the first hearing device using the first device parameter data.
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