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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120070022 | SPEAKER, HEARING AID, EARPHONE, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE A speaker capable of suppressing deterioration of acoustic efficiency while allowing miniaturization of the speaker includes a first unit (20) and a second unit (21) each of which outputs sound. The first unit (20) includes: a diaphragm (25) ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120020504 | LIGHT ACTIVATED HEARING DEVICE The invention relates to a hearing aid device for humans with impaired hearing, who have an at least partially functional cochlea and a functional nervous signalling pathway from the cochlea via the auditory nerve to the brain. The hearing aid device contains a receiver... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020503 | HEARING AID SYSTEM Disclosed is a hearing aid system capable of increasing the clearness of sound spoken by a speaker while reproducing the incoming direction of the sound spoken by the speaker without using an inverse mapping rule. The hearing aid system includes a sound source input sec... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014546 | BALANCED ARMATURE DEVICES AND METHODS FOR HEARING A device to transmit an audio signal to a user comprises a transducer and a support. The support is configured for placement on the eardrum to drive the eardrum. The transducer is coupled to the support at a first outer location to decrease occlusion and a second inner ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110299708 | METHOD OF FORMING A CONNECTOR FOR A HEARING AID A method of forming a connector for a hearing aid, by providing a plug, a receiver housing and an interconnecting tube; providing or arranging one or more accommodated elements in the interconnecting tube, and elongating the interconnecting tube by forcing the first and... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110286618 | ENHANCED ENVELOPE ENCODED TONE, SOUND PROCESSOR AND SYSTEM There is disclosed a system (20) for processing sound signals for use in a hearing prosthesis, the system comprising a transducer (1) for converting a sound signal into an electrical signal (30). A first, processor (4) for processing said ele... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110280427 | Music Pre-Processing for Hearing Prostheses A method of pre-processing a sound signal including music for an auditory prosthesis is provided. An input sound signal is received. The sound signal is processed using music pre-processing software to produce a music pre-processed signal. The music pre-processed signal... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110274302 | HEARING AID A hearing aid includes: first and second microphones; first and second A/D converters; a microphone sensitivity correction unit; a hearing assistance processing unit; a microphone sensitivity correction value calculation unit; a storage unit; a failure detection unit; a... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110255725 | Beamforming Microphone System A system and method for generating a beamforming signal is disclosed. A beam forming signal is generated by disposing a first microphone and a second microphone in horizontal coplanar alignment. The first and second microphones are used to detect a known signal to gener... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249846 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING FEEDBACK CANCELLATION RESOURCES FOR HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICES Disclosed herein, among other things, are methods and apparatus for allocating feedback cancellation resources for improved acoustic feedback cancellation for hearing assistance devices. In various embodiments, a hearing assistance device includes a microphone and a pro... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110249835 | N BAND FM DEMODULATION TO AID COCHLEAR HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS The invention relates to: A signal processing device comprising a signal processing unit for processing an electrical SPU-input signal comprising frequencies in the audible frequency range between a minimum frequency and a maximum frequency, and providing a processed SP... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110245585 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED STIMULATION OF THE LIMBIC AUDITORY RESPONSE A loudspeaker system for the optimization of sound production so as to achieve limbic and cortical arousal, comprising a resistance-controlled (or partially mass-controlled) woofer system, a mass-controlled (or partially resistance-controlled) midrange system, and a res... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110202111 | PROGRAMMABLE AUDITORY PROSTHESIS WITH TRAINABLE AUTOMATIC ADAPTATION TO ACOUSTIC CONDITIONS An auditory prosthesis (30) comprising a microphone (27) for receiving the sound and producing a microphone signal responding to the received sound, an output device for providing audio signals in a form receivable by a user of the prosthesis (30), ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110150249 | ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEM ADAPTED FOR USING DECT The invention relates to an assistive listening system comprising an audio transmitting device adapted for transmitting an audio signal and/or a control signal to a multitude of receiving listening devices and at least one receiving listening device adapted for receivin... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110142268 | HEARING AID, RELAY DEVICE, HEARING-AID SYSTEM, HEARING-AID METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A hearing aid (51) includes: a sound collecting unit (500) configured to collect one of propagation sounds respectively output from external apparatuses; a radio wave receiving unit (560) that is an exemplary receiving unit configured to receive tra... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110135126 | HEARING AID, HEARING AID SYSTEM, WALKING DETECTION METHOD, AND HEARING AID METHOD A hearing aid that analyzes a surrounding acoustic environment and automatically switches between a plurality of hearing aid processing reduces noise by limiting directionality, when the user is in a noisy outdoor location. However, in the case where directionality is l... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110137656 | SOUND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR HEARING AIDS A hearing aid includes a sound classification module to classify environmental sound sensed by a microphone. The sound classification module executes an advanced sound classification algorithm. The hearing aid then processes the sound according to the classification.... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110110544 | METHOD OF COATING A HEARING AID COMPONENT AND A HEARING AID COMPRISING A COATED COMPONENT A method for coating of a hearing aid said method comprising the deposition of an adhesion layer that does not develop corrosive reaction products. The method comprises applying an organometallic compound to the surface of the hearing aid component using vapour phase de... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110103625 | AUDIO PROCESSING An audio processing arrangement (200) comprises a plurality of audio sources (101, 102) generating input audio signals, a processing circuit (110) for deriving processed audio signals from the input audio signals, a combining circuit (120) fo... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110091056 | HEARING AID This hearing aid comprises a microphone (101) and an external input terminal (102), a hearing aid processor (150) to which audio signals from the microphone (101) and the external input terminal (102) are inputted, and a receiver (1... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110064252 | HEARING AID WITH MEANS FOR DECORRELATING INPUT AND OUTPUT SIGNALS A hearing aid includes a microphone for converting sound into an audio input signal, a hearing loss processor configured for processing the audio input signal or a signal derived from the audio input signal in accordance with a hearing loss of a user of the hearing aid,... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110064253 | HEARING AID WITH MEANS FOR ADAPTIVE FEEDBACK COMPENSATION A hearing aid includes a microphone for converting sound into an audio input signal, a hearing loss processor, an adaptive feedback suppressor configured for generation of a feedback suppression signal by modelling a feedback signal path of the hearing aid, a subtractor... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110038497 | Microphone Devices and Methods for Tuning Microphone Devices The present invention relates generally to microphone devices useful, for example, in hearing aid devices. The present invention relates more particularly to tunable microphone devices, and methods used to tune them. One aspect of the present invention is a microphone d... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110004468 | HEARING AID AND HEARING-AID PROCESSING METHOD A hearing aid for improving diminished hearing caused by reduced temporal resolution includes: a speech input unit (201) which receives a speech signal from outside; a speech analysis unit (202) which detects a sound segment and a segment acoustically rega... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002489 | HEARING AID SYSTEM COMPRISING A RECEIVER IN THE EAR AND A SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFICATION OF THE TYPE OF RECEIVER The invention relates to a hearing aid system comprising a BTE-part adapted for being located at an ear of a user and an ITE-part adapted to be located in an ear canal of a user, the ITE-part comprising a receiver for converting an electric output signal comprising freq... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100322447 | MICROPHONE ASSEMBLY COMPRISING MAGNETICALLY ACTIVATABLE ELEMENT FOR SIGNAL SWITCHING AND FIELD INDICATION A microphone assembly comprising a transducer for receiving sound and outputting a corresponding control signal. The assembly also comprises means for detecting a magnetic field and outputting a signal relating to the field. A hearing aid comprising the assembly has a p... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322446 | Spatial Audio Object Coding (SAOC) Decoder and Postprocessor for Hearing Aids An audio processor device for a hearing impaired listener is described. An input signal decoder decodes an audio input data signal into a corresponding multi-channel audio output representing multiple audio objects and associated side information. An audio processor adj... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100316225 | ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC CONVERSION APPARATUS According to one embodiment, A microphone-earphone includes a speaker connected to an acoustic device configured to measure acoustic characteristics of a listener's external auditory canal, and configured to output an acoustic signal toward the listener's external audit... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100290651 | PULSE STIMULATION GENERATION METHOD A method of generating stimulation pulses for application by an auditory prosthesis. The method comprises: processing an audio input to obtain time shifted frequency data in which frequency data of one or more frequencies is temporally shifted relative to one or more ot... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100272297 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR FITTING A HEARING SYSTEM The method for adjusting a hearing system (2) to the preferences of a user (3) of the hearing system comprises
| 10/28/2010 |
| 20100272298 | METHOD OF OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE AND A HEARING DEVICE A method of operating a hearing device is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of:
| 10/28/2010 |
| 20100260363 | MIDI-COMPATIBLE HEARING DEVICE AND REPRODUCTION OF SPEECH SOUND IN A HEARING DEVICE The method for providing a user of a hearing device with speech sound comprises the step of
| 10/14/2010 |
| 20100254554 | HEARING AID, HEARING-AID APPARATUS, HEARING-AID METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT THEREOF A hearing aid (100) fits in an ear of a user and amplifies a sound and outputs the amplified sound. Specifically, the hearing aid includes: a microphone (110) as a pick-up unit which picks up the sound; a wireless communicating unit (130) which rece... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254551 | HEARING OPTIMIZATION DEVICE AND HEARING OPTIMIZATION METHOD A hearing optimization device and hearing optimization method having a high boost frequency characteristic reference live for high frequency range enhancement and a low boost frequency characteristic reference live for low frequency range enhancement to achieve separate... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100246866 | Method and Apparatus for Implementing Hearing Aid with Array of Processors A method and apparatus for operation of a hearing aid 205 with signal processing functions performed with an array processor 220. In one embodiment, a reconfiguration module 250 allows reconfiguration of the processors 220 in the field. Anoth... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100220878 | FSK RECEIVER FOR A HEARING AID AND A METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN FSK SIGNAL A hearing aid (40) comprises a frequency-shift-keying (FSK) receiver (30) comprising a first amplifier stage (13), a limiter stage (14) and a plurality of phase detection stages. Each phase detection stage comprises a local oscillator (15<... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100215200 | System and Method for Automatically Adjusting Hearing Aid Based on Acoustic Reflectance Method and system for automatically adjusting a hearing aid. The method includes measuring an acoustic reflectance associated with an ear canal as a function of an incident pressure and an acoustic frequency, processing information associated with the measured acoustic ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100195853 | Electrical Connector for a Hearing Device This invention relates to an electrical connector for generating an electrical connection between at least a first electric conductor and at least a second electric conductor, e.g. for generating an electrical connection between the lead wires of a connector mounted bet... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100183176 | HEARING SYSTEM WITH ASSISTANCE FUNCTIONALITY The hearing system (1) has an assistance functionality, which is capable of providing an individual (2) using said hearing system (1) with assistance information. Such assistance information comprises at least one of explanatory information; instruc... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100177915 | METHOD FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR A HEARING AID AND CORRESPONDING HEARING AID A method for signal processing for a hearing aid aims to better match signal processing for a hearing aid and in particular a hearing device to a situation and includes processing an input signal in accordance with a first processing algorithm to form a first intermedia... | 07/15/2010 |
