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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107654 | Mixing of in-the-ear microphone and outside-the-ear microphone signals to enhance spatial perception This document provides a hearing assistance device for playing processed sound inside a wearer's ear canal, the hearing assistance device comprising a first housing, signal processing electronics disposed at least partially within the first housing, a first micropho... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103029 | Earset assembly using acoustic waveguide An earset assembly including a first earpiece, a second earpiece, and an electrical circuit. The first earpiece includes an internal microphone to capture speech of a user and an internal speaker, and is positionable with respect to a first ear of the user so that t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094847 | Method for manufacturing acoustical devices and for reducing especially wind disturbances A method for manufacturing an acoustical device, especially a hearing device. A device casing is provided with an acoustical/electrical input converter arrangement with an electric output. An audio signal processing unit establishes audio signal processing of the de... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094846 | Deep sub-micron MOS preamplifier with thick-oxide input stage transistor The present invention relates to a condenser microphone assembly comprising a condenser microphone transducer comprising adjacently positioned diaphragm and back-plate members having an air gap there between. Moreover, the assembly comprises a deep sub-micron MOS in... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090126 | Apparatus and method for generating a speaker signal on the basis of a randomly occurring audio source A particle generator for generating a speaker signal for a speaker channel in a multi-channel reproduction environment includes a position generator for providing a plurality of positions where the audio source is to occur, as well as a time generator for providing ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090127 | Method for manufacturing a fitted hearing device A method for: Adjusting a hearing device in a computer-aided manner towards the needs of an individual, and storing a workflow data of the adjusting. The workflow data may include adjusting steps, fitting operations, timing of performing of the adjusting steps or fi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085959 | Hearing compensation system incorporating signal processing techniques A hearing compensation system comprises a plurality of bandpass filters having an input connected to an input transducer and each bandpass filter having an output connected to the input of one of a plurality of multiplicative automatic gain control (MAGC) circuits w... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8054999 | Audio system with varying time delay and method for processing audio signals The invention regards a method for processing audio signals whereby an audio signal is captured, digitized and processed in the digital domain by a digital signal processing unit or DSP, and where a processed output signal from the digital signal processing unit is ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055000 | Hearing aid with sudden sound alert A multichannel hearing aid (20) comprises at least one frequency channel having a compressor (38) with a compression threshold at an output level below the hearing threshold and an attack time above 0.5 seconds whereby hearing of a sudden sound in a st... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050435 | Hearing aid fitting apparatus There is provided a hearing aid fitting apparatus with which the needs of a hearing aid user can be satisfied. The present invention is constituted such that this apparatus comprises an adjustment value input part 2 and a display part 3 on which is dis... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8036404 | Binaural signal enhancement system A signal processing system, such as a hearing aid system, adapted to enhance binaural input signals is provided. The signal processing system is essentially a system with a first signal channel having a first filter and a second signal channel having a second filter... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027495 | 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 inp... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8014548 | Hearing instrument, and a method of operating a hearing instrument A hearing instrument in accordance with the invention comprises an in-the-ear-canal component to be worn at least partially in the ear of a user. When the hearing instrument is worn, a remaining volume between the in-the-ear-canal component and the user's eardrum is... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009848 | Hearing device system, hearing device maintenance system, and method for maintaining a hearing device system The hearing device system having at least one hearing device includes an input transducer for receiving incoming acoustical sound and converting the incoming acoustical sound into audio-representing signals; an output transducer for converting audio-representing sig... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7978867 | Audio signal system An audio signal system is provided having, in one embodiment, a magnetostrictive core of varying shapes, sizes, and permeability. The core is wound with a wire, thereby forming an inductor for producing a magnetic field when current is passed through the wire. A spe... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978868 | Adaptive dynamic range optimization sound processor In one embodiment, an apparatus for processing sound includes a means (401) for analyzing a sound signal into a number of frequency bands and a means (403) for applying variable gain to each frequency band independently. Gain in applied under control o... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974426 | IC chip type hearing aid module for mobile communication terminal Disclosed is an IC chip type hearing aid module for use in a mobile communication terminal having a hearing aid circuit including: a first section having a resistor R1 and an inductor L1 which are connected in series on a first output line Receiver_P b... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7957548 | Hearing device with transfer function adjusted according to predetermined acoustic environments A hearing device has an adjustable transfer function comprising M≧1 sub-functions (M is an integer). A method for operating the hearing device includes deriving input audio signals from a current acoustic environment. For each of the M sub-functions, derive, based... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953237 | Method for operating a hearing aid device system for the binaural supply of a user In a hearing aid device system with a hearing aid device which can be worn on or in the left ear of a user and a hearing aid device which can be worn on or in the right ear of the user for the binaural supply of the user, the aim is to reduce feedback tendency. To t... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949144 | Method for monitoring a hearing device and hearing device with self-monitoring function There is provided a method for monitoring a hearing device having an electroacoustic output transducer worn at a user's ear or in a user's ear canal, the method includes the steps of measuring the electrical impedance of the output transducer; analyzing the measured... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945064 | Intrabody communication with ultrasound A hearing system has a first device and a second device. The first device acoustically couples to skin of a user of the hearing system and includes a sensor to detect acoustic signals. The second device includes a hearing stimulator arrangement to stimulate hearing ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7933423 | 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 ( | 04/26/2011 |
| 7916881 | Hearing device and method for determination of a room acoustic A hearing device, in particular of a hearing aid, in addition to a first sound output device for acoustic supply to the ear of the user, has a second sound output device for output of a test sound in a room in which the hearing device is located. The hearing device ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7864971 | 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 c... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860261 | Method for hearing aid identification and hearing aid with visual identification The invention relates to a hearing aid with an identification element (4) for visual identification of the hearing aid (1). According to the invention the hearing aid comprises a programmable signal processor (2), a battery (3) connectabl... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853029 | Output stage for a hearing aid and method of driving output stage In an output stage for a hearing aid (62), a reduction in the power consumption for low level input signals is obtained through the use of a time-averaging output driver (42), whereby the output transducer is subject to three different conditions of op... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853028 | Hearing aid and method for its adjustment A hearing aid and appertaining method of adjustment permit adjusting a hearing aid more conveniently and more specifically. For this purpose, parameters for real hearing situations are stored in a storage device in the hearing aid or in the remote control for an adj... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844062 | Method for the synchronization of signal tones and corresponding hearing aids The output of signal tones from hearing aids for binaural coverage is to be synchronized. To this end, it is provided that the counters of the two hearing aids are equalized by a synchronization signal. By transmitting a control signal with a count value or before a... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7831056 | Hearing device without reference clock component A hearing device, in particular a hearing aid, occupies a small volume and has high data transmission speeds for wireless transmission. In order to avoid using large volume frequency-stable components, for this purpose, an oscillator unit with a free-running oscilla... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831055 | Presence activated hearing assistive system An electronic device includes a receiver, a processor, and a presence activation sensor configured to receive a signal from a user. The user signal includes a user specific performance parameter, or the user specific performance parameter may be accessed from a memo... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826631 | Hearing aid with automatic sound storage and corresponding method The adaptation of a hearing aid to the wearer is made more convenient according to a hearing aid and method of use. A hearing situation is classified according to a hearing situation at any one time, the sound of the hearing aid is stored, and subsequently the sound... | 11/02/2010 |
| RE41775 | Synchronized binaural hearing system A wireless binaural hearing aid system that utilises direct sequence spread spectrum technology to synchronize operation between individual hearing prostheses is provided. ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801318 | Hearing aid device with means for feedback compensation With a hearing aid device, filter parameters of filters are to be adjusted for feedback suppression. It is hereby proposed that test signals are emitted via an earpiece in order to estimate the transmission behavior of the feedback path, and response signals to thes... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796769 | Methods and apparatus for processing audio signals Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device w... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7783066 | Method for improving the fitting of hearing aids and device for implementing the method The invention relates to a method for fitting a hearing aid to the needs of a hearing aid user, the method comprising collecting statistical data characterising physical or psychological properties of environments in which use of the hearing aid is desired and utili... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7742611 | Hearing aid A hearing device is to be developed for hearing device wearers who speak different national languages. For this purpose, pro-vision is made to equip a hearing device with a storage facility for storing first data which is characteristic of a first language and a pro... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7715577 | 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 acous... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7715576 | Method for controlling a hearing aid The invention relates to a method for controlling a hearing aid (1a, 1b) using a control unit (7), which is linked to the hearing aid (1a, 1b). The latter receives acoustic signals via a microphone (2... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711132 | Hearing aid The object is to ensure that device signals intended, for example, to inform hearing aid wearers about program changes or the end of a battery's life are perceived independently of ambient noise. Provision is therefore made, for instance, for reducing the level of t... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7697704 | Hearing aid with a current limiter A hearing aid having a microphone for conversion of sound into an input audiosignal, a signal processor for processing the input audiosignal, a receiver for conversion of the processed signal into sound, an audio amplifier for supplying current to the receiver in re... | 04/13/2010 |
