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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150049 | Digital hearing aid adaptive to structures of human external ear canals The present invention relates to a digital hearing aid, which models the structures of external ear canals, sizes and shape characteristics of which differ between respective persons, obtains resonance gains generated due to the structural characteristics of the ext... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144884 | Stand-alone microphone test system for a hearing device The present invention provides a stand-alone microphone test system for a hearing device, comprising a hearing device having at least one microphone, a sound source in communication with the hearing device, wherein, when in operation, the sound source receives a sig... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144885 | Sound insulating device A sound insulating device used to carry out audio testing of a mobile phone is provided. The sound insulating device includes a sound speaker, a sound receiver, a clamping platform clamping the mobile phone thereon and a sound insulating chamber. The sound insulatin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139778 | Method for the time-controlled adjustment of a hearing apparatus and corresponding hearing apparatus The training of a hearing apparatus in respect of an individual adjustment is to be developed in a more user-friendly manner. To this end, provision is firstly made to automatically classify a hearing situation, to adjust a parameter of the signal processing facilit... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139779 | Method for the operational control of a hearing device and corresponding hearing device The aim of the invention is to make using a hearing device and in particular a hearing aid more comfortable and more effective for the user. To this end the setting of a portable hearing device is to be checked. First the acoustic data of a sound from the environmen... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135139 | Frequency transposition applications for improving spatial hearing abilities of subjects with high-frequency hearing losses A method of configuring a frequency transposition scheme for transposing a set of received frequencies of an audio signal received by a hearing aid worn by a subject to a transposed set of frequencies, wherein the method comprises determining at least one subject-de... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135138 | Hearing aid fitting procedure and processing based on subjective space representation A system for hearing assistance devices to assist hearing aid fitting applied to individual differences in hearing impairment. The system is also usable for assisting fitting and use of hearing assistance devices for listeners of music. The method uses a subjective ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8107635 | Auditory prosthesis, a method and a system for generation of a calibrated sound field An auditory prosthesis (14, 14′) is adapted for compensation of hearing loss and for sound pressure determination. During calibration of the sound field to be used during fine-tuning of the auditory prosthesis, the auditory prosthesis is positioned at an ob... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107636 | Individual audio receiver programmer Methods and devices to compensate for individual hearing loss when listening to audio systems are described. An individualized frequency configuration is applied to the output of an audio system wherein the volume of audio signals at one or more frequencies is adjus... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8081768 | Method and apparatus for determining a target amplification curve for a hearing device To determine target amplification curves in hearing devices, audiometric mismeasurements are to be corrected. To this end, it is proposed first to measure a bone conduction hearing threshold of a patient. Furthermore a database having typical sound conduction compon... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8064609 | Method and apparatuses related to hearing devices, in particular to maintaining hearing devices and to dispensing consumables therefore The method comprises the steps of automatically monitoring and detecting indications indicative of a forthcoming event concerning hearing systems; if such an indication is detected, retrieving identification data identifying... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8041044 | Method and apparatus for checking a measuring situation in the case of a hearing apparatus It should be possible to balance microphones and hearing apparatus more reliably. To this end, provision is made for a method for checking a measuring situation, wherein at least two measurement points of a frequency response of the hearing apparatus are recorded. A... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8027481 | Personal hearing control system and method A personal hearing control system includes a microphone located within a user's sealed ear canal, a speaker having a diaphragm which directs sound into the ear canal, and a controller which drives the speaker such that the system emulates the acoustics of the user's... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8005232 | Method for assisting a user of a hearing system and corresponding hearing system The hearing system comprises at least one request-receiving unit for receiving requests for assistance from a user of said hearing system and an assistance unit operationally connected to said request-receiving unit adapted to carrying out an assistance function pro... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986790 | System for evaluating hearing assistance device settings using detected sound environment The present subject matter provides method and apparatus for hearing assistance devices, and more particularly to a system for evaluating hearing assistance device settings using detected sound environment. Various examples of a hearing assistance device and method ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978861 | Method and apparatus for continuous noise exposure monitoring A method for continuously monitoring noise exposure level of a person via measuring sound level within an ear canal of the person using a sound measurement means linked to a sound level recording device external to the ear canal, wherein the sound measurement means ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970146 | Learning by provocation To improve the adjustment of the settings of a hearing aid or a hearing instrument respectively, a method is proposed according to which at least one setting of the hearing aid or instrument respectively for a particular acoustic environment is changed or deviated f... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965851 | Modular wireless auditory test instrument with intelligent transducers A method and apparatus for performing various auditory tests utilizing a hand-held, portable, wireless testing device is provided. Within the device is a diagnostic subsystem used to implement and analyze selected tests. Attached to the device, either directly or vi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7933419 | In-situ-fitted hearing device The hearing device is operable in a fitting mode and in a listening mode and comprises a transducer for receiving, in the fitting mode, audio test signals, and for converting the audio test signals into signals to be perceived by the user in the fitting mode. It com... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929711 | Apparatus and methods for mitigating impairments due to central auditory nervous system binaural phase-time asynchrony Pathological binaural phase time delay (PBTD) asynchrony is measured at a variety of frequencies and speech stimuli to develop a BPTD profile for a subject. A corrective device (600, 1000) is designed to apply clinical PBTD to compensate for the subject's pat... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7907737 | Acoustic apparatus According to one embodiment, an acoustic apparatus comprises a measuring signal generator, a transducer configured to convert a measuring signal to a measuring sound and to convert a characteristic vibration of the transducer due to the measuring sound, to a charact... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903827 | Hearing aid programming interface with configuration on demand In accordance with the present invention the hearing aid programmer includes a program memory for receiving firmware programming instructions and a parameter memory for receiving patient-specific hearing aid parameters to be programmed into a coupled programmable he... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7885416 | Device and method to adjust a hearing device If a hearing device user has become accustomed to the tone of a hearing device, it is difficult for him to change over to a new hearing device, since this normally possesses a different tone. Therefore, given a treatment with a second or subsequent device, the setti... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7876908 | Process for the visualization of hearing ability For the visualization of the hearing ability or hearing recognition respectively of a person with or without a hearing device at least one hearing dimension as for instance the loudness recognition is being made visible by means of a picture by varying at least one ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869606 | Automatically modifiable hearing aid For modifying or adapting at least one basic hearing aid setting such as volume, low/high frequency balance etc., it is suggested that at particular time intervals at least one current user-selected setting entered on the hearing aid is registered and combined or li... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864968 | Auditory front end customization A method and system for implementing an acoustical front end customization are disclosed. The customization is implemented to optimize the sound level for each individual cochlear implant user. A known audio signal is generated using a sound source and captured by a... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856107 | Hearing device with automatic determination of its fit in the ear and corresponding method The risk of inadequate hearing device provision for the hearing-impaired is to be reduced. To this end provision is made to determine the correct fit of the hearing device or the hearing device component in an auditory canal. To this end an acoustic measurement sign... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7844058 | Hearing processing method and hearing aid using the same A hearing aid device for processing an input sound signal via a microphone so as to output a sound signal from an earphone comprises a signal processing element, a couple of acoustic nerve excitation pattern calculation elements, a couple of acoustic filter shape me... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7778424 | Method and a device for real ear measurements An adapter for coupling a probe tube (6) for real ear measurements to a microphone of a hearing aid comprises a sleeve (2) adapted to be arranged around the housing (8) of a hearing aid. The sleeve comprises a sound opening allowing sound to pas... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7769185 | System for testing hearing assistance devices using a planar waveguide A system and method for testing and measuring hearing assistance devices using a plane wave tube is provided. According to an embodiment, a hearing assistance device is mounted proximal to an acoustic waveguide having a soundfield with acoustic waves propagating dow... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7764798 | Radio frequency interference reduction in connection with mobile phones A wireless communications apparatus comprises a monitor component that analyzes transmitter operating parameters of the wireless communications apparatus. A generator component generates an acoustic anti-phase burst based at least in part upon the analyzed transmitt... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7756276 | Audio amplification apparatus A method of adjusting frequency-dependent amplification in an audio amplification apparatus. The audio amplification apparatus includes a forward transfer path (2) connectable to an output transducer, the forward transfer path including a frequency transposin... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7747026 | Soundbridge test system The present invention relates to the field of devices and methods for improving testing of hearing devices, including soundbridges and direct drive middle ear implants. In particular, the present invention provides a microphone system utilizing reverse transfer func... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7724908 | System and method for programming a hearing aid A system for providing a talk-over functionality from an attendant to a hearing aid user comprises a hearing aid (4), a link device (5) connected to the hearing aid (4), a computer (7) with a talk-over microphone (9), and a communi... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715571 | Method for individually fitting a hearing instrument A method for individually fitting a hearing instrument to a user, by: starting operation of the hearing instrument; pre-defining a desired target loudness function perceived by the user defined as function of frequency and input sound pressure level at the microphon... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7688983 | Method and apparatus for objective assessment of in-ear device acoustical performance A method and apparatus for objectively assessing acoustical performance of an in-ear device having a passageway extending there through use a dual microphone probe that removably engages the passageway. The acoustical performance of the in-ear device is performed wi... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7639822 | Method of programming a hearing aid by a programming device A battery-powered hearing aid (1) is programmed via a programming device (2), the hearing aid (1) having a battery (11) and a line connection (3, 4) for connecting the battery (11) to the programming device (2). The p... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7634094 | Method for obtaining real ear measurements using a hearing aid The invention regards a method for measuring audio response of a real ear using the microphone of a hearing aid of an end user. The following sequence of steps is performed: provide a sound tight connection between the hearing aid microphone and a first end of a sou... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7627127 | Hearing aid adjusting apparatus, hearing aid, and program A hearing aid adjusting apparatus 104 for adjusting a parameter of a hearing aid 101 has an input device 201 for accepting an operation input, a storage 203 for storing the parameter for every predetermined surrounding setting, a controll... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7599500 | Processing signals representative of sound based on the identity of an input element Systems and techniques for processing signals representative of sound for conveyance to the auditory system of a subject based on the identity of an input device. In one implementation, a method includes identifying an input element to an audiological system that co... | 10/06/2009 |
