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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8161816 | Hearing test method and apparatus A method and apparatus for administering a hearing test that emits a test sound with changing volume with respect to elapsed time. The volume changes according to a pre-determined relationship between the volume and elapsed time. The hearing test utilizes the elapse... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7793545 | Audiometer with interchangeable transducer An audiometer including a processor controlled test signal generator is adjustable so as to produce a uniform output signal when coupled with a transducer load. Each transducer set to be used with the test signal generator includes recordable indicia in written or e... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7464595 | Portable audiometer enclosed within a patient response mechanism housing A portable audiometer for performing hearing testing enclosed within a patient response mechanism housing is disclosed. The audiometer may include a printed circuit board containing circuitry, plugs or other connectors for wired or wireless headphones and bone condu... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7435228 | High fidelity hearing restoration Method for accurately measuring hearing loss includes the steps of selecting a series of audio tones within the normal range of hearing (502) and then measuring a relative sensitivity of a test subject with respect to the ability to hear each of the audio ton... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7370533 | Portable audiometer enclosed within a patient response mechanism housing A portable audiometer for performing hearing testing enclosed within a patient response mechanism housing is disclosed. The audiometer may include a printed circuit board containing circuitry, plugs or other connectors for wired or wireless headphones and bone condu... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7319762 | Headset with flashing light emitting diodes A headphone system is provided with two earbud headphones and a control module, each fitted with a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The LEDs may be of many different colors and flash to the beat of the music. Patterns, colors, and intensity may be adjusted... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317947 | Headset recharger for cranially implantable medical devices The invention is directed to a recharging system and associated techniques to recharge an implantable medical device (IMD). In particular, a recharging system according to the invention comprises a headset having an energy delivery module that delivers energy to a p... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310072 | Portable communication display device A head-mounted display system displays information via a matrix display element mounted within a housing that is positioned relative to at least eye of a user. The display is connected to a video or information source such that the user can view information or image... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7286678 | Hearing device with peripheral identification units Hearing aid fitted with a central processing unit (1) having peripherals (3E, 3A) connected to its input and output. Each peripheral includes an identification unit (5) having an output connected to a first input of a comparator (9... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7258671 | Wearable apparatus for conducting multiple diagnostic hearing tests A system for conducting multiple diagnostic hearing tests is disclosed. The system comprises a yoke wearable around the neck of a patient, for providing a housing for conduits and wiring to conduct the hearing tests. The yoke may also coupled to one or more ear prob... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254368 | Audio system and head attachment audio unit An audio system is provided that comprises a headphone for reading music information or the like recorded in a memory card attached to an external interface to reproduce audio signal and for outputting sound conforming to the audio signal; and a remote control unit ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251530 | Optimizing pitch and other speech stimuli allocation in a cochlear implant Errors in pitch (frequency) allocation within a cochlear implant are corrected in order to provide a significant and profound improvement in the quality of sound perceived by the cochlear implant user. In one embodiment, the user is stimulated with a reference signa... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7237205 | Parameter evaluation system A parameter evaluation system comprising a boundary input device for setting boundaries in a variation range of one or more parameters, thereby to define regions within said variation range, a label input device for associating labels with said regions, a rule input... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7223245 | Method and apparatus for automatic non-cooperative frequency specific assessment of hearing impairment and fitting of hearing aids A method and device for automatically assessing loss of hearing sensitivity and compression (recruitment) with user defined frequency resolution by means of extrapolated DPOAE I/O functions and ABRs as well as for automatically fitting hearing aids without any coope... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221765 | System and method for individualized training of hearing aid users In a method for individualized training of hearing aid users a number of hearing training courses are stored in a databank. An individual user profile is acquired in a training device. A transmission of the hearing training data from the databank to the training dev... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7210353 | Multimedia feature for diagnostic instrumentation A system and method for obtaining hearing ability related data from a subject outputs tones or sounds and monitors the subject's responses to the tones or sounds. An error condition is detected based on the responses, and corrective instructions are automatically de... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7181297 | System and method for delivering customized audio data A method for providing customized audio data products that includes the steps of (1) storing a machine readable hearing profile for a customer, (2) accepting via a data input device or data network for example, machine readable orders from the customer for a particu... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7164771 | Process and system for objective audio quality measurement A process and system for providing objective quality measurement of a target audio signal. Reference and target signals are processed by a peripheral ear processor, and compared to provide a basilar degradation signal. A cognitive processor employing a neural networ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7151835 | Personal noise monitoring apparatus and method The present invention relates to a method, system and device for monitoring noise received by individuals operating in noisy environments. The device comprises a substantially credit card size housing and can be worn as a “badge”. The device includes a mo... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149684 | Determining speech reception threshold An improved method and system for performing speech reception threshold testing includes calibrating one or more recorded spoken words to have substantially the same sound energy and presenting the one or more calibrated recorded spoken words to a test subject. A sp... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143031 | Determining speech intelligibility An improved method and system for performing speech intelligibility testing includes calibrating one or more recorded spoken words to have substantially the same sound energy and presenting the one or more calibrated recorded spoken words to a test subject. Speech i... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7132949 | Patient management in automated diagnostic hearing test Method and system are disclosed for automated testing of a patient's hearing. The automated hearing test allows the patient to quickly and accurately test his own hearing with minimal or no assistance from an audiologist or other hearing health professionals. The te... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120258 | Apparatus and methods for mitigating impairments due to central auditory nervous system binaural phase-time asynchrony Pathological binaural phase time delay (BPTD) asynchrony is measured at a variety of frequencies and to speech stimuli to develop a BPTD profile for a subject. Then a corrective device (600, 1000) is designed to apply clinical BPTD to compensate for the subje... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7058182 | Apparatus and methods for hearing aid performance measurement, fitting, and initialization A digital hearing aid according to the present invention is capable of measuring its own performance. The measurement and initialization capability may be entirely integral to the hearing aid, or an external processor may be used to download the measurement program ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054957 | System for programming hearing aids A hearing aid programming system with a host computer system including a program for programming a hearing aid. The host computer system includes a first communication interface for sending and receiving control and data signals. A hearing aid programming interface ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7048692 | Method and apparatus for estimating auditory filter shape A method for estimating the shape of an auditory filter by finding a coefficient p of a roex (p, r) filter which is used as a model for the shape of the auditory filter is provided, which comprises the steps of: generating a tone S′; generating a masker of a notch... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050592 | Hearing test apparatus and method having automatic starting functionality A hearing test device and method are disclosed which involve the placement of a testing probe in the ear canal of a test subject. The device analyzes responses to stimuli applied to the ear canal to determine whether the testing probe has been properly placed in the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7037274 | System and methods for conducting multiple diagnostic hearing tests with ambient noise measurement Systems and methods for conducting hearing tests with real-time ambient noise measurement are provided. More particularly, one or more microphones are provided to measure ambient noise in a test area during a time interval in which hearing test tones are provided to... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7025594 | Method and system for reproducing a progressive or regressive pattern of sonic variations The present invention relates to a system and method for increasing the cognitive function in a fetus. The system transmits a pattern of sonic variations to the fetus. The pattern of sonic variations is formed of a plurality of sequences of tones in which each seque... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024009 | Removable template for audio amplification system Disclosed is a removable template for recording custom settings on an audio amplification system, or components thereof. The template comprises a template blank shaped for accommodation by an amplifier control panel, the template blank having cut-outs or bores facil... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021142 | Mountable sound pressure level meter A mountable sound pressure level (SPL) meter is described that includes a mechanism for mounting the SPL meter within an motor vehicle to measure motor vehicle audio system SPL values within the motor vehicle. The automotive SPL meter includes an internal microphone... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024000 | Adjustment of a hearing aid using a phone A system and method for using a telephone to reconfigure or readjust the performance characteristics of a hearing aid or to check whether a user has a hearing problem. The telephone is used to generate one or more frequency tests covering the audible spectrum using ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020297 | Subband acoustic feedback cancellation in hearing aids A new subband feedback cancellation scheme is proposed, capable of providing additional stable gain without introducing audible artifacts. The subband feedback cancellation scheme employs a cascade of two narrow-band filters Ai(Z) and Bi(Z) alo... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020581 | Medical hearing aid analysis system A hearing aid analysis system for objective determination of speech perception enhancement for a hearing aid under test uses prerecorded speech and a computer system that includes a speech recognition program. Hearing aid analysis circuitry is provided to receive a ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016504 | Personal hearing evaluator A hand-held device includes an audio transducer (i.e., speaker) for delivering acoustic test stimuli to a test subject within the direct sound field range of the device. The device accurately delivers multi-level and multi-frequency test stimuli for the subjective r... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6974421 | Handheld audiometric device and method of testing hearing Handheld apparatus (100), and method for comprehensive hearing testing with pass/refer results applicable for large scale neonatal screening, adult screening, full hearing diagnostic is disclosed. The apparatus (100) contains a signal processor (1 | 12/13/2005 |
| 6964642 | Apparatus for bone conduction threshold hearing test An apparatus for bone conduction hearing testing is provided. The apparatus comprises a planar spring having opposed first and second elements to which are coupled, respectively, a bone conduction vibrator and an engagement element. The bone conduction vibrator cont... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6949074 | Method and apparatus for fetal audio stimulation The present invention is a method and apparatus for applying a focused, directed audio beam at a fetus to stimulate the fetus in utero. An ultrasound signal is amplitude modulated with an audio range signal, and directed to an ultrasound transducer positioned on the... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6916291 | Systems, methods and products for diagnostic hearing assessments distributed via the use of a computer network The systems, methods and associated devices performing diagnostic hearing tests which use a computer network to allow interaction between a test administration site and one or a plurality of remote patient sites. The test can be administered by an audiologist or cli... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6913578 | Method for customizing audio systems for hearing impaired Improved approaches to assist those having hearing loss are disclosed. One approach pertains to providing customization of personal audio systems for a hearing impaired individual. Another approach pertains to designing and producing an audio product that includes c... | 07/05/2005 |
