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公开(公告)号：US11813460B2
公开(公告)日：2023-11-14
申请号：US17261775
申请日：2019-07-16
Applicant: Cochlear Limited
Inventor： Zachary Mark Smith
CPC classification number: A61N1/36146 , A61N1/0541 , A61N1/36038 , H04R25/70 , A61N1/36171
Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for adapting/transitioning operation of a medical prosthesis, such as an auditory prosthesis, from a first or initial group of settings to a second or target group of settings. The adaptation in the operation of the medical prosthesis from the first group of settings to the second group of settings occurs over a period of time and in a series of individualized (recipient-specific) incremental steps. That is, the adaptation process occurs in incremental steps that are set based on attributes/characteristics of the recipient of the specific medical prosthesis so that the adaptation is made as unobtrusive to the recipient as possible.
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公开(公告)号：US20230309891A1
公开(公告)日：2023-10-05
申请号：US18022472
申请日：2021-09-07
Applicant: Cochlear Limited
Inventor： Zachary Mark Smith , Matthew Zygorodimos , Ryan Orin Melman
CPC classification number: A61B5/279 , A61B5/6817 , A61N1/36038 , A61N1/0541
Abstract: A method includes receiving a measurement set comprising a plurality of measurement values generated using a plurality of electrodes distributed along an elongate structure configured to be implanted in and/or on a body portion of a recipient. The measurement set is indicative of a pose of the elongate structure relative to the body portion. The method further includes generating, in response at least in part to the measurement set, a gradient vector dataset comprising a plurality of gradient vector phase values. The method further includes generating, in response at least in part to the gradient vector dataset, an evaluation of the pose of the elongate structure relative to the body portion.
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公开(公告)号：US20210069495A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-11
申请号：US17025365
申请日：2020-09-18
Applicant: Cochlear Limited
Inventor： Stefan Jozef Mauger , Zachary Mark Smith
Abstract: Presented herein are dynamic current steering techniques in which a dynamic stimulation pulse is delivered to a recipient as current stimulation applied across a plurality of stimulation channels. The current stimulation is weighted and applied in a pattern that results in a time varying progressive change in the location of a locus of the current stimulation across the plurality of channels.
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公开(公告)号：US20200382878A1
公开(公告)日：2020-12-03
申请号：US16929434
申请日：2020-07-15
Applicant: Cochlear Limited
Inventor： Zachary Mark Smith
Abstract: Presented herein are techniques that use acoustic scene (environmental) analysis to determine the sound class of sound signals received at a hearing prosthesis and, accordingly, assess the estimated listening difficulty that the acoustic environment presents to a recipient of the hearing prosthesis. This difficulty of the recipient's listening situation can be used to adjust, adapt, or otherwise set the resolution of the electrical stimulation signals delivered to the recipient to evoke perception of the sound signals. In other words, the resolution of the electrical stimulation signals is dynamically adapted based on the present acoustic environment of the hearing prosthesis.
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公开(公告)号：US10111017B2
公开(公告)日：2018-10-23
申请号：US14855783
申请日：2015-09-16
Applicant: Cochlear Limited
Inventor： Martin Evert Gustaf Hillbratt , Tobias Good , Zachary Mark Smith
IPC: H04R25/00
Abstract: A device, including an actuator configured to evoke a hearing percept via actuation thereof, wherein the device is configured to make a detection of at least one phenomenon related to the actuator that is indicative of a recipient of the device speaking and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to control an operation of the device based on the detection.
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公开(公告)号：US12090327B2
公开(公告)日：2024-09-17
申请号：US17294138
申请日：2020-10-26
Applicant: Cochlear Limited
Inventor： Brett Anthony Swanson , Zachary Mark Smith
CPC classification number: A61N1/36192 , A61N1/36038 , A61N1/36171 , H04R25/606
Abstract: Presented herein are binaural hearing prosthesis systems that are configured to provide a recipient with pitch cues at both ears, while preserving/retaining binaural timing cues.
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公开(公告)号：US12081942B2
公开(公告)日：2024-09-03
申请号：US17956165
申请日：2022-09-29
Applicant: Cochlear Limited
Inventor： Zachary Mark Smith
CPC classification number: H04R25/305 , A61N1/36036 , A61N1/36038 , A61N1/36039 , A61N1/0541 , H04R2225/41 , H04R2225/67
Abstract: Presented herein are techniques that use acoustic scene (environmental) analysis to determine the sound class of sound signals received at a hearing prosthesis and, accordingly, assess the estimated listening difficulty that the acoustic environment presents to a recipient of the hearing prosthesis. This difficulty of the recipient's listening situation can be used to adjust, adapt, or otherwise set the resolution of the electrical stimulation signals delivered to the recipient to evoke perception of the sound signals. In other words, the resolution of the electrical stimulation signals is dynamically adapted based on the present acoustic environment of the hearing prosthesis.
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公开(公告)号：US09956406B2
公开(公告)日：2018-05-01
申请号：US14547862
申请日：2014-11-19
Applicant: Cochlear Limited
Inventor： Christopher Joseph Long , Joerg Pesch , Zachary Mark Smith
CPC classification number: A61N1/36036 , A61N1/0541
Abstract: A method including reducing a stimulation artifact of an implantable stimulator including a plurality of stimulating electrodes by obtaining respective information on respective artifact voltages at a first location resulting from stimulation by one electrode group or respective electrode groups of the implanted stimulator and determining an adjustment regime based on the obtained information that results in a reduction of the stimulation artifact at the first location relative to that which would be the case in the absence of the regime.
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公开(公告)号：US09844670B2
公开(公告)日：2017-12-19
申请号：US14971059
申请日：2015-12-16
Applicant: Cochlear Limited
Inventor： Zachary Mark Smith , Christopher Joseph Long , Jan Raymond Janssen
CPC classification number: A61N1/36036 , A61N1/0541 , A61N1/36185
Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for determining an arrangement of complex stimulation channels to optimally distribute sensory information across the channels of a multi-channel tissue-stimulating prosthesis. A tissue-stimulating prosthesis may initially be associated with a set of complex stimulation channels. A stimulation efficiency is determined for each complex stimulation channel within the set of complex stimulation channels. A first complex stimulation channel from the set of complex stimulation channels that has an associated stimulation efficiency that is below a stimulation efficiency limit is identified. The first complex stimulation channel is combined with an adjacent/neighboring complex stimulation channel to create a combined complex stimulation channel. The combined complex stimulation channel replaces both the first complex stimulation channel and the adjacent complex stimulation channel within the set of complex stimulation channels.
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公开(公告)号：US11812227B2
公开(公告)日：2023-11-07
申请号：US17269048
申请日：2019-11-15
Applicant: Cochlear Limited
Inventor： Wendy Potts , Sara Ingrid Duran , Zachary Mark Smith
IPC: H04R25/00
CPC classification number: H04R25/70
Abstract: A method of at least partially fitting a hearing prosthesis device to a recipient, including obtaining access to a sensory prosthesis that has been used to evoke a sensory percept using a first focusing regime for a temporal period corresponding to at least acclimation to the first focusing regime and adjusting a control setting of the prosthesis to increase focusing relative to that which is the case with respect to the first focusing regime, wherein the action of adjusting the control setting includes purposely adjusting the control setting to have focusing that is effectively less focused than a maximum focus possible.
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