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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128163 | METHOD AND PROCESSING UNIT FOR ADAPTIVE WIND NOISE SUPPRESSION IN A HEARING AID SYSTEM AND A HEARING AID SYSTEM A processing unit that adaptively suppresses wind noise in a hearing aid is provided. The processing unit (100) comprises a first microphone (105) and a second microphone (106). The analog signal from the first microphone is converted to a first dig... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120070008 | SOUND OUTPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A method of controlling a sound output apparatus is provided. The method includes determining frequency bands respectively corresponding to an audible band and an inaudible band in relation to a sound that is received via the sound output apparatus by referring to heari... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120008790 | METHOD FOR LOCALIZING AN AUDIO SOURCE, AND MULTICHANNEL HEARING SYSTEM Sound sources are reliably localized using a multichannel hearing system, in particular a binaural hearing system. The method localizes at least one audio source by detecting a signal in a prescribed class, the signal stemming from the audio source, in an input signal i... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008791 | HEARING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE WITH TWO-STAGE TRANSFORMATION A filter bank with a sufficiently high resolution for amplification and noise reduction and with the lowest possible computational complexity is provided for a hearing device and, in particular, for a hearing aid. Two-stage frequency transformation with little latency i... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110305345 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A MULTI-MICROPHONE NOISE REDUCTION A method for a multi microphone noise reduction in a complex noisy environment is proposed. A left and a right noise power spectral density for a left and a right noise input frame is estimated for computing a diffuse noise gain. A target speech power spectral density i... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110249823 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A BINAURAL HEARING AID SYSTEM AND BINAURAL HEARING AID SYSTEM Level compression applied to the acoustic signals (18) received by a binaural hearing aid system (1) counteracts the preservation of inter-aural level differences (ILD) and thereby reduces the user's ability to locate the sound source and consequently his ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110243339 | DUAL SETTING METHOD FOR A HEARING SYSTEM The perception of musical sound with a music component and a speech component is intended to be improved. To this end, a method is proposed for controlling a binaural hearing system with a left hearing-device for a left ear and a right hearing-device for a right ear, wh... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110188662 | METHOD OF RENDERING BINAURAL STEREO IN A HEARING AID SYSTEM AND A HEARING AID SYSTEM A hearing aid system comprising means (304) for receiving a multi-channel digitally encoded audio signal (301) and means (306) for rendering said received multi-channel signal into a binaural stereo signal. The invention further provides a method fo... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110176685 | Audio System with Feedback Detection Means The invention concerns in a first aspect an audio system comprising a microphone, audio signal processing means, an output transducer and means for detecting a possible feedback tone and the corresponding frequency of the feedback tone in the audio system between the ou... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110129094 | CONTROL OF OPERATING PARAMETERS IN A BINAURAL LISTENING SYSTEM The application relates to a binaural listening system comprising first and second listening devices adapted for being located at or in left and right ears, respectively, of a person during use of the listening system, each listening device comprising antenna and transc... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20100290631 | BINAURAL HEARING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A BINAURAL HEARING APPARATUS WITH FREQUENCY DISTORTION A binaural hearing apparatus has at least one left hearing device and at least one right hearing device. The apparatus further includes a first frequency distortion unit in the left hearing device, which distorts the frequency of an acoustic signal received by the left ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100254538 | METHOD FOR LOUDNESS-BASED ADJUSTMENT OF THE AMPLIFICATION OF A HEARING AID AND ASSOCIATED HEARING AID A method and an associated hearing aid for loudness-based adjustment of the amplification of the hearing aid by presenting test signals of a predefinable level and predefinable frequency. Blind signals are presented before and between the test signals, but the blind sig... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100183158 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BINAURAL HEARING ENHANCEMENT IN AUDITORY PROCESSING SYSTEMS According to one aspect, a system for binaural hearing enhancement, including at least one auditory receiver and at least one processor coupled to the at least one auditory receiver. The at least one auditory receiver is configured to receive an auditory signal that inc... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100172506 | HEARING AIDS The hearing aids comprise a microphone, a signal processor, and a receiver, and have a constitution in which the microphone generates an input signal from an input sound and generate an output signal and send it to the ear on the opposite side only when a specific condi... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100150356 | Body-worn hearing aid system A binaural hearing aid system for a user is set forth. The system includes a casing adapted and constructed to encase a hearing aid system suitable for wearing below the neck of the user. A first digital signal processor, having an audio input from a first microphone of... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100135500 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING BINAURAL HEARING ASSISTANCE A method of providing binaural hearing assistance to a user, comprising: capturing audio signals at an ear unit worn at each side of the users head; defining a target signal with regard to background noise; determining the difference in the target-signal-to-background-n... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100067707 | RIGHT/LEFT DETECTION IN HEARING AIDS In a hearing aid system having a first hearing aid and a second hearing aid for providing binaural hearing assistance to a user, the hearing aid for providing hearing assistance to the left ear can easily be confused with the hearing aid for providing hearing assistance... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100002888 | Method and device for low-delay joint-stereo coding In one aspect a coding of stereophonic audio signals based on inter-channel linear prediction is provided. Each of the two channels is predicted by filtering the center stereo image of both the channels. Optimal filter coefficients are calculated for both channels is a ... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20100002886 | HEARING SYSTEM AND METHOD IMPLEMENTING BINAURAL NOISE REDUCTION PRESERVING INTERAURAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS The binaural hearing system (1) comprises
| 01/07/2010 |
| 20100002887 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A BINAURAL HEARING SYSTEM AS WELL AS A BINAURAL HEARING SYSTEM A hearing system and a method for operating a binaural hearing system include at least two hearing devices to be at least partly inserted into or to be worn behind the left and right ear of a user. Each hearing device includes at least one microphone to generate an elec... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090304188 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING THE INTELLIGIBILITY OF SOUNDS A method of enhancing the intelligibility of sounds including the steps of: detecting primary sounds emanating from a first direction and producing a primary signal; detecting secondary sounds emanating from the left and right of the first direction and producing second... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090304187 | AUTOMATIC SWITCHING BETWEEN OMNIDIRECTIONAL AND DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONE MODES IN A HEARING AID The present invention pertains to a method of automatic switching between omnidirectional (OMNI) and directional (DIR) microphone modes in a binaural hearing aid comprising a first microphone system for the provision of a first input signal, a second microphone system f... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090296944 | COMPRESSION AND MIXING FOR HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICES This application relates to a system for compression and mixing for hearing assistance devices by application of compression to individual sound sources before mixing, according to one example. Variations of the present system using surround sound provide separate signa... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20080240449 | Method and facility for reproducing synthetically generated signals by means of a binaural hearing system Synthetically generated signals are reproduced via a binaural hearing system, which includes two hearing devices. After reproducing a first signal via the first hearing device a reproduction of a second signal via the second hearing device is also carried out delayed by... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080205659 | Method for improving spatial perception and corresponding hearing apparatus In order to improve spatial perception of acoustic signals an input signal is received via aid of a binaural hearing apparatus and optionally analyzed. At least one variable that influences spatial perception of the binaural output signal, based on the input signal, of ... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080123865 | Hearing system with remote control as a base station and corresponding communication method Hearing-aid wearers should be able to converse unimpeded even in noisy environments. Provided for this is a hearing system with a first hearing device, a second hearing device and a remote control for the operation of the first and/or second hearing device. The remote c... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080089523 | BINAURAL HEARING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A HEARING DEVICE SYSTEM A binaural hearing device system comprises a reception device (1) for one ear with at least two input acoustical/electrical converters (3a, 3b). Via a communication link (5) a signal (A1) which depends on both input c... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20070269049 | HEARING SYSTEM WITH NETWORK TIME The method of operating a hearing system comprising at least two devices comprises the step of establishing a common network time among said at least two devices. Said at least two devices can be provided with information on the number of network time units that passed ... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070167671 | DUAL FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM FOR IMPLANTABLE HEARING INSTRUMENT The invention is directed to an implanted microphone having reduced sensitivity to vibration. In this regard, the microphone differentiates between the desirable and undesirable vibration by utilizing at least one motion sensor to produce a motion signal when an implant... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070147624 | Method for controlling a hearing apparatus as a function of a switch-off period and corresponding hearing apparatus The sensitivity fluctuations of a hearing device wearer are to be catered for in an improved manner. A control method for a hearing device or another hearing apparatus is thus provided, by means of which a period of time is detected during which the hearing apparatus is... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070116308 | Hearing aid compatibility mode switching for a mobile station A mobile station (100) that includes a processor (212) that selectively disables at least one station component to reduce electromagnetic noise generated by the station in the frequency range below 20 kHz when the mobile station is operated in the hearing ... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20060245596 | Hearing aid system In the case of binaural coverage, the perception with one-sided sound reception should be improved. Provision is made for this purpose to transmit the receive signals of the hearing devices alternately and if necessary to generate a mono signal from the input signals wi... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060222192 | Listening device In a listening device such as for example a hearing aid (1) where an input signal (10) is received by a microphone (2), converted from analog to digital (3), digitally processed (4) including a conversion from a time domain into a freq... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060045278 | Methods and apparatus for aurally presenting notification message in an auditory canal Methods and apparatus for aurally presenting predefined notification messages within an auditory canal of a user are disclosed. Aural notification is provided by positioning a device at least partially within the auditory canal, processing a digitized notification signa... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20050226427 | Audio amplification apparatus A method of adjusting frequency-dependent amplification in an audio amplification apparatus. The audio amplification apparatus includes a forward transfer path (2) connectable to an output transducer, the forward transfer path including a frequency transposing el... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050074128 | Hearing system A hearing system includes a hearing device with an input acoustical/electrical converter. The system is controllably operable in at least first and second modes. A sensing unit senses behavior of an acoustical impedance of an acoustical input of the input converter. An ... | 04/07/2005 |
