公开(公告)号：US20040264721A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-30

申请号：US10794912

申请日：2004-03-05

申请人： Phonak AG

发明人： Silvia Allegro ,  Olegs Timms ,  Adam Hersbach ,  Hugh McDermott ,  Evert Dijkstra

IPC分类号： H04R025/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/353 ,  H04R25/356 ,  H04R2225/43

摘要： A method for frequency transposition in a communication device Or a hearing device, respectively, is disclosed by transforming an acoustical signal into an electrical signal (s) and by transforming the electrical signal from time domain into frequency domain to obtain a spectrum (S). A frequency transposition is being applied to the spectrum (S) in order to obtain a transposed spectrum (Snull), whereby the frequency transposition is being defined by a nonlinear frequency transposition function. Thereby, it is possible to transpose lower frequencies almost linearly, while higher frequencies are transposed more strongly. As a result thereof, harmonic relationships are not distorted in the lower frequency range, and at the same time, higher frequencies can be moved to a lower frequency range, namely to an audible frequency range of the hearing impaired person. The transposition scheme can be applied to the complete signal spectrum without the need for switching between non-transposition and transposition processing for different parts of the signal. Therefore, no artifacts due to switching are encountered. A higher transmission quality is obtained because more information is taken into account for the transmission.