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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128186 | CONVERSATION DETECTION APPARATUS, HEARING AID, AND CONVERSATION DETECTION METHOD A conversation detection apparatus uses a head-mounted microphone array to accurately determine whether a speaker in front is a conversing person or not. A conversation detection apparatus (100) includes a self-speech detection section (102) that detects a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128187 | HEARING AID, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Provided are a hearing aid, signal processing method, and program that enable TV sound to be made easier for a hearing aid user to hear when wishing to watch TV, and a person's voice to be made easier to hear when wishing to converse with that person. A hearing aid (... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120020505 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD A signal processing apparatus and signal processing method capable of correctly detecting that a conversation is established even in a daily environment are provided. In signal processing apparatus (100), excitation separation section (130) separates a mix... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120008807 | BEAMFORMING IN HEARING AIDS A hearing aid system includes a first microphone and a second microphone for provision of electrical input signals, a beamformer for provision of a first audio signal based at least in part on the electrical input signals, the first audio signal having a directional spa... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110228961 | HEARING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OMNIDIRECTIONAL DIRECTIONAL CHARACTERISTIC A hearing device is provided with a microphone array having a plurality of microphones. The signals from the microphones can then be processed by an appropriate apparatus of the hearing device such that this results in a directivity of the microphone array. The apparatu... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228960 | HEARING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING THE HEARING DEVICE FOR FEEDBACK-REDUCED OPERATION Sound from the receiver of a hearing device may be fed back to its microphones via acoustic feedback paths, which may cause undesirable whistling. It is particularly difficult to predict the creation of feedback in a microphone array with adjustable directional characte... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110216927 | Hearing System A hearing system for use by a user is presented. The hearing system includes an external portion for placement external the user. The external portion includes a sound processing unit for providing amplified acoustic sound to an ear of the user. The hearing system furth... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110188681 | METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY MATCHING MICROPHONES OF A HEARING SYSTEM AS WELL AS A HEARING SYSTEM A method and a hearing system for adaptively matching microphones (3, 4) of a hearing system are disclosed. The method comprising the steps of determining a true direction towards a sound source, determining an estimated direction towards the sound source using m... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110164771 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DIRECTIONALITY OF THE SOUND RECEIVING CHARACTERISTIC OF A HEARING AID AND A SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS A signal processing apparatus (100) for a hearing aid with a controllable directional characteristic is provided which comprises a directional controller (10) receiving first and second microphone signals (20, 30) and output an output signal (40<... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110150250 | METHOD AND HEARING DEVICE FOR FEEDBACK RECOGNITION AND SUPPRESSION WITH A DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONE A method operates a hearing device having at least two omnidirectional microphones emitting microphone signals and a detection unit for defining acoustic feedback. The method includes connecting a first electrical connection of the microphones to one another in order to... | 06/23/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110129105 | ARTIFICIAL EAR AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE DIRECTION OF A SOUND SOURCE USING THE SAME Disclosed herein are an artificial ear and a method for detecting the direction of a sound source using the same. The artificial ear includes a plurality of microphones; and one or more structures disposed between the plurality of microphones. In the artificial ear, the... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110116666 | HEARING AID WITH BEAMFORMING CAPABILITY A hearing aid includes a first microphone for providing a first audio input signal, a second microphone for providing a second audio input signal, a signal processor configured for generating a hearing loss compensated audio output signal based at least in part on the a... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110103626 | Hearing Instrument with Adaptive Directional Signal Processing A hearing instrument includes a signal processor, and at least two microphones for reception of sound and conversion of the received sound into corresponding electrical sound signals that are input to the signal processor, wherein the signal processor is configured to p... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110091057 | EYEGLASSES WITH A PLANAR ARRAY OF MICROPHONES FOR ASSISTING HEARING An apparatus implements directional sound detection. The apparatus includes a portable hearing aid device, a plurality of sound detectors, and electronic circuitry. The sound detectors are coupled to the portable hearing aid device. The sound detectors are arranged in a... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110085686 | INPUT SIGNAL MISMATCH COMPENSATION SYSTEM A system includes a plurality of inputs each configured to receive a filtered version of a source signal. The system extracts the energy information from each input signal and compares the energy information of a plurality of input signals. Alternatively, the system ext... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110069851 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DIRECTIONALITY OF SOUND DETECTED BY A HEARING AID This invention relates to a system (200) for determining directionality of a sound. The system (200) comprises a first audio device (202) placed on one side of a user's head (100) and having a first microphone unit (110, 112) for conve... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110044481 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING HEARING ASSISTANCE TO A USER There is provided a method for providing hearing assistance to a user (101, 301), comprising: capturing audio signals by a microphone arrangement (26) comprising at least two spaced apart microphones (M1, M2); estimating the total energy cont... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110019846 | HEARING AIDS CONFIGURED FOR DIRECTIONAL ACOUSTIC FITTING Hearing aids and a method of acoustically fitting the hearing aids comprises providing a plurality of audible tones, each having a predetermined frequency through a pair of hearing aids being worn by a patient. The tones are provided at specific sound pressure in each e... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100303267 | LISTENING DEVICE PROVIDING ENHANCED LOCALIZATION CUES, ITS USE AND A METHOD The invention relates to a listening device comprising an ear-part adapted for being worn in or at an ear of a user, a front and rear direction being defined relative to a person wearing the ear-part in an operational position. The invention further relates to a method ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100290632 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SOUND An apparatus for detecting sound includes a plurality of microphones, a sound inspecting unit, a direction estimating unit, a background noise removing unit, and an alerting unit. The microphones are used to collect sounds around a user. The sound inspecting unit is use... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100260364 | HEARING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM WITH OWN VOICE DETECTION An example of an apparatus configured to be worn by a person who has an ear and an ear canal includes a first microphone adapted to be worn about the ear of the person, and a second microphone adapted to be worn at a different location than the first microphone. The app... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100239100 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A DIRECTIONAL CHARACTERISTIC AND A HEARING APPARATUS The aim is to improve the adjustment of the directional characteristic of a hearing apparatus, and in particular of a hearing aid. A method is therefore provided in which a microphone signal having a plurality of frequency bands is derived from an input sound being obta... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100232631 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A FILTERED ACTIVITY PATTERN, SOURCE DIVIDER, METHOD FOR GENERATING A DEBUGGED AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A device for generating a filtered activity pattern based on a first activity pattern at an auditory model of a first ear and a second activity pattern at an auditory model of a second ear includes an identifier for identifying a first trajectory in the first activity p... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100208921 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BACKGROUND NOISE ESTIMATION WITH A BINAURAL HEARING DEVICE SUPPLY An apparatus and a method for background noise estimation use a first and a second hearing device for binaural supply of a hearing impaired person. In each case the hearing devices have a first and a second omnidirectional microphone and the two microphones of each hear... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100189292 | HEARING DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC ALGORITHM SWITCHING A hearing device with a plurality of microphones is intended to be able to be continued to be operated sensibly, even if a microphone fails. Therefore, a hearing device, and in particular a hearing aid, is proposed which provides a decision unit for deciding whether one... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100189291 | OPTICAL PIN-POINT MICROPHONE An optical pin-point microphone has a light source for directing a sensing beam to an object of interest so as to be reflected thereby as a reflected signal beam, a detector having multiple detector elements for receiving the reflected signal beam, and a summer for rece... | 07/29/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100158289 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING AID SYSTEM AND HEARING AID SYSTEM WITH A SOURCE SEPARATION DEVICE A method for operating a hearing aid system and a hearing aid system with a source separation device, include at least one hearing aid in which interference signals are intended to be suppressed and useful signals are intended to be accentuated with justifiable computat... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158290 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A PREFERRED DIRECTION OF A DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONE AND CORRESPONDING HEARING DEVICE The preferred direction of a directional microphone of a hearing device and, in particular, a hearing aid should be selected automatically in a quick and reliable fashion. To this end, provision is made for a method for operating a hearing device with such a microphone ... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100150385 | HEARING AID WHICH CAN BE WORN IN THE EAR WITH A DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONE Feedback should be prevented effectively in a hearing aid which can be worn in the ear. To this end, the arrangement of two microphones, electrically interconnected to form a directional microphone, and a receiver is proposed along a straight line. The directional effec... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100135511 | HEARING AID ALGORITHMS The invention relates to a method of operating an audio processing device. The invention further relates to an audio processing device, to a software program and to a medium having instructions stored thereon. The object of the present invention is to provide improvemen... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100092016 | BEHIND-THE-EAR HEARING AID WHOSE MICROPHONE IS SET IN AN ENTRANCE OF EAR CANAL There is provided a behind-the-ear hearing aid that makes it easy for a hearing aid wearer to estimate a position of a sound source with respect to a front-back direction and that enables an increase in aesthetic property when the hearing aid is worn. A behind-the-ear h... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100086152 | HEARING AID SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A CONVERSATION GROUP A hearing aid system adapted for establishing a conversation group with other hearing aid systems used by different users, comprises a hearing aid (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) with an associated relay device (11, 12, 13, 14, 15). The relay device is (11, 12, 13, 14,... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100080407 | Hearing aid device with a directional microphone system as well as method of operating such a hearing aid device In a hearing aid device with a directional microphone system it is always to be possible to set the highest possible level of both directional effect and also amplification. To this end it is proposed that the directional effect be set as a function of the amplification... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100074460 | SELF-STEERING DIRECTIONAL HEARING AID AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF A hearing aid and a method of enhancing sound. In one embodiment, the hearing aid includes: (1) a direction sensor configured to produce data for determining a direction in which attention of a user is directed, (2) microphones to provide output signals indicative of so... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100067721 | Hearing device and operation of a hearing device with frequency transposition The invention specifies a method for the operation of a hearing device and an associated hearing device with at least two omnidirectional microphones emitting microphone signals. Said microphones are connected electrically to one another in order to form a signal with d... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100046776 | Adaptive microphone system for a hearing device and associated operating method A microphone system and an associated method are proposed. The microphone system comprises at least two omnidirectional, microphone signal-emitting directional microphones connected electrically to one another to establish directivity, at least one filter unit with at l... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100046775 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING APPARATUS WITH DIRECTIONAL EFFECT AND AN ASSOCIATED HEARING APPARATUS A method for operating a hearing apparatus and an associated hearing apparatus is provided. A first and a second microphone emit a first and a second microphone signal. The first and the second microphone have a different directional effect, for instance as a result of ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100027821 | Hearing aid and method for operating a hearing aid The invention relates to a method for a hearing aid wearer to actively operate a hearing aid. A signal processing section of the hearing aid has a demixing module for separating audio signals and a postprocessor module which sets up a hold mode of operation for the hear... | 02/04/2010 |
