Bizarre Patents
Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111848 | Hearing aid with acoustical signal direction of arrival control Acoustical signals from the acoustical surrounding (U) which impinge upon a reception unit 30 are evaluated and direction of arrival (DOA) of such signals is determined. From signals indicative of such direction of arrival (DOA) a histogram is formed in unit ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103030 | Differential directional microphone system and hearing aid device with such a differential directional microphone system A differential direction microphone system for a hearing aid device is described, comprising: a first directional microphone stage with a first differential directional microphone, and a second directional microphone stage with a further differential directional mic... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8068627 | System for automatic reception enhancement of hearing assistance devices Method and apparatus for automatic reception enhancement of hearing assistance devices. The present subject matter relates to methods and apparatus for automatic reception enhancement in hearing assistance devices. It provides a power estimation scheme that is relia... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7936890 | System and method for generating auditory spatial cues This invention relates to a hearing aid system (100, 200, 300) for generating auditory spatial cues. The hearing aid system (100, 200, 300) comprises a first microphone unit (306) adapted to convert sound received at a first microphone (102 | 05/03/2011 |
| 7929721 | Hearing aid with directional microphone system, and method for operating a hearing aid The invention relates to a hearing aid with a signal processing unit and at least two microphones which can be coupled together to form directional microphone systems of a different order, where microphone signals emitted by directional microphone systems of a diffe... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925034 | Method for operating a hearing device as well as a hearing device In order to switch between different hearing programs to adjust to a momentary acoustic surround situation, a method is provided to operate a hearing device as well as a hearing device. Signals, or parameters of a transfer function, are changed smoothly in order to ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916882 | Hearing aid with automatic switching between modes of operation The present application relates to a hearing aid, especially a hearing aid with multiple modes of operation and efficient switching between these modes of operation. The hearing aid comprises means for performing a first mode of operation, means for performing a sec... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7881486 | Directional microphone assembly A microphone capsule for an in-the-ear hearing aid is disclosed. The capsule can include a top plate having first and second spaced openings defining front and rear sound inlets, and a directional microphone cartridge enclosing a diaphragm. The diaphragm is oriented... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7860262 | Method to operate a hearing device and arrangement with a hearing device A hearing device has a transfer function adjustable by a set of parameters. The hearing device can have two microphones, a processing unit, and a speaker unit. A direction identification unit is operationally connected to the processing unit. Communication between a... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7826632 | Method of adjusting a hearing instrument The present invention provides a method of adjusting a hearing instrument that is at least partially insertable into an ear canal, the hearing instrument (1) comprising at least two microphones, the method comprising the steps of: ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822217 | Hearing assistance systems for providing second-order gradient directional signals Systems, devices and methods are provided for diotically presenting second-order gradient directional hearing aid signals. The present subject matter provides an improved signal-to-noise ratio, and presents a desired directional signal to each ear. One aspect is a h... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809149 | Microphone placement in hearing assistance devices to provide controlled directivity The present disclosure includes various methods and apparatus for controlling directionality of a hearing assistance device including a pair of directional microphones. In various examples, the hearing assistance device includes a pair of directional microphones and... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7756282 | Hearing aid employing electret and silicon microphones In a hearing device with multiple microphones, and a signal generation method, the dynamic range of hearing devices is improved by using a combination including a silicon microphone and an electret microphone for the hearing device input. Low frequencies thus can be... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7653205 | Method for operating a hearing device as well as a hearing device In order to switch between different hearing programs to adjust to a momentary acoustic scene, a method for adjusting a hearing device, in which one of several possible hearing programs can be selected in order to adjust to a momentary acoustic scene, the method com... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7590253 | Hearing aid having switchable first and second order directional responses A hearing aid apparatus is disclosed that employs both an omnidirectional microphone and at least one directional microphone of at least the first order. The electrical signals output from the directional microphone are supplied to an equalization amplifier which at... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587058 | Method and device for matching the phases of microphone signals of a directional microphone of a hearing aid The phase differences of microphones of a hearing aid microphone are to be reduced. To do this, the level of an output signal (y1(t)) of a directional microphone is compared with an omnidirectional signal (y1′(t)). If the level of the o... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7577266 | Systems and methods for interference suppression with directional sensing patterns System (10) is disclosed including an acoustic sensor array (20) coupled to processor (42). System (10) processes inputs from array (20) to extract a desired acoustic signal through the suppression of interfering signals. The extra... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7542580 | Microphone placement in hearing assistance devices to provide controlled directivity The present disclosure includes various methods and apparatus for controlling directionality of a hearing assistance device including a pair of directional microphones. In various examples, the hearing assistance device includes a pair of directional microphones and... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7474758 | Directional hearing given binaural hearing aid coverage Directional hearing is improved given the binaural coverage for a hearing aid user with two hearing aid devices wearable at the ears. The respective signal transit times and/or signal amplitudes and/or amplifications of an electrical signal are respectively measured... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7457426 | Method to operate a hearing device and arrangement with a hearing device A hearing device has a transfer function adjustable by a set of parameters. The hearing device can have two microphones, a processing unit, and a speaker unit. A direction identification unit is operationally connected to the processing unit. Communication between a... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7450731 | Hearing aid device and corresponding operating method A comfortable device that combines the functionality of a hearing aid with that of a headset is to be provided. A hearing aid device (H) is thus provided which comprises a rotary switch, on which is arranged a directional microphone. In a first rotary position corre... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7433482 | Microphone in a cylindrical housing having elliptical end faces The device is now a squarely-truncated horizontal cylinder capped at each end by a circular disc central to which is placed a transducer. With amplification the device yields the sound spectrum which can be heard in consciousness. The cylinder is extended just suffi... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433481 | Digital hearing aid system A digital hearing aid is provided that includes front and rear microphones, a sound processor, and a speaker. Embodiments of the digital hearing aid include an occlusion subsystem, and a directional processor and headroom expander. The front microphone receives a fr... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7409068 | Low-noise directional microphone system A low-noise directional microphone system includes a front microphone, a rear microphone, a low-noise phase-shifting circuit and a summation circuit. The front microphone generates a front microphone signal, and the rear microphone generates a rear microphone signal... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7388962 | Directional hearing enhancement systems A hearing enhancement system that enhances a user's hearing based on a directional speaker is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system can include an interface unit that has a directional speaker and a microphone. The microphone captures input audio signals that are... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386141 | Hearing device and method of operating a hearing device The interference noise suppression in hearing devices is to be optimized. A hearing device, in particular a hearing aid (HG) is thus proposed, comprising a directional detection device (RM) for detecting a direction from which an audio signal comes in from the sound... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7372973 | Hearing aid A hearing device has a housing with an acoustic input aperture and an acoustic output aperture. A cover element overlays the input aperture. The material of the cover element permits passage of sound received at the input aperture though the material. Two microphone... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369669 | Diotic presentation of second-order gradient directional hearing aid signals Systems, devices and methods are provided for diotically presenting second-order gradient directional hearing aid signals. The present subject matter provides an improved signal-to-noise ratio, and presents a desired directional signal to each ear. One aspect is a h... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7358593 | Microfabricated miniature grids A grid structure and method for manufacturing the same. The grid is used for gating a stream of charged particles in certain types of particle measurement instruments, such as ion mobility spectrometers and the like. The methods include various microfabrication tech... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7346176 | Auto-adjust noise canceling microphone with position sensor A system and method detects whether or not a microphone apparatus is positioned incorrectly relative to an acoustic source and of automatically compensating for such mispositioning. A position estimation circuit determines whether the microphone apparatus is misposi... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343021 | Optimum solution method, hearing aid fitting apparatus utilizing the optimum solution method, and system optimization adjusting method and apparatus A parameter writing element converts a solution vector found by an optimum solution method that determines optimum n-dimensional solution vector, based on a plurality of optimum n-dimensional solution vector candidates to an adjustment parameter values of a programm... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340073 | Hearing aid and operating method with switching among different directional characteristics In a hearing aid having a microphone system composed of multiple microphone units, in order to avoid artefacts from being created when switching between different directional characteristics, the signal levels of microphone signals that respectively originate from d... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340068 | Device and method for detecting wind noise A device for detecting the presence of wind noise in an array of microphones including two or more separate sound inlet openings, and a sound to electrical converting element or microphone in relation to each sound inlet opening. The microphones each generate time d... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330557 | Hearing aid, method, and programmer for adjusting the directional characteristic dependent on the rest hearing threshold or masking threshold For improving the directionality of a hearing aid having a microphone system formed by two or more microphones without in the process creating an increase in the microphone noise that the hearing aid wearer finds to be disturbing, the microphone system is adjusted s... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330556 | 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... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328080 | Manufacturing methods and systems for rapid production of hearing-aid shells Methods, apparatus and computer program products provide efficient techniques for designing and printing shells of hearing-aid devices with a high degree of quality assurance and reliability and with a reduced number of manual and time consuming production steps and... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324649 | Hearing aid device, comprising a directional microphone system and a method for operating a hearing aid device The invention relates to a hearing aid with a signal processing unit (14) and at least two microphones (1, 2, 3) which can be coupled together to form directional microphone systems of a different order, where microphone signals (11, 12, 13) emi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321661 | Current feedback system for improving crossover frequency response A loudspeaker is provided for receiving an incoming electrical signal and transmitting an acoustical signal. The loudspeaker may include a power amplifier that has an input and an output, where the input receives the incoming electrical signal. The loudspeaker may a... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313241 | Hearing aid device, and operating and adjustment methods therefor, with microphone disposed outside of the auditory canal For a hearing-impaired person provided with a hearing aid device with which sound acquisition ensues outside of the auditory canals of the person, the localization capability with regard to a signal source is lost. To compensate the information loss that occurs due ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295676 | Hearing aid and method of adapting a hearing aid With the adaptation of a hearing aid to a multitude of acoustic sources, head movements can be taken into consideration more rapidly. To this end, a position determining device (PB) for determining the current position of the head of the hearing aid wearer is provid... | 11/13/2007 |
