公开(公告)号：US10313802B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-04

申请号：US16001419

申请日：2018-06-06

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Lars Pinnerup Frederiksen ,  Thorvaldur Oli Bodvarsson ,  Søren Hesselballe Larsen ,  Lars Bramsløw ,  Niels Søgaard Jensen ,  Filip Marchman Rønne ,  Ariane Laplante-Lévesque ,  Eline Borch Petersen ,  Carina Graversen ,  Lasse Juul Villadsen ,  Rikke Birksteen Rossing ,  Adis Bjelosevic

IPC: H04R29/00 ,  A61B5/00 ,  H04R25/00 ,  G06F19/00 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/046 ,  A61B5/0464

Abstract: A system for monitoring the status and/or performance of one or more hearing devices is disclosed. The system comprises a number of access points configured to receive wireless signals transmitted by the hearing devices, wherein the access points are connected to a central unit communicatively connected to the Internet/cloud, wherein the system is configured to automatically monitor the status and/or performance of one or more parameter of the one or more hearing devices received by access points, wherein the monitored parameters are accessible from the central unit and/or from a cloud service.

公开(公告)号：US10743121B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-11

申请号：US16504060

申请日：2019-07-05

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Niels Henrik Pontoppidan ,  Thomas Lunner ,  Michael Syskind Pedersen ,  Lars Ivar Hauschultz ,  Povl Koch ,  Graham Naylor ,  Eline Borch Petersen

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  A61B5/0478 ,  A61B5/0484 ,  A61B5/12 ,  A61B5/00 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A61B5/16 ,  A61B5/048 ,  A61B5/0482

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication devices. Such devices may comprise input for receiving sound signal to be processed and presented to a user, and output for outputting the processed signal to a user perceivable as sound. Such processing may be performed by use of a processor for processing the sound signal in dependence of a setting or a set of setting to compensate a hearing loss profile. Further, the communication device may comprise a bio-signal acquisition and amplifier component in communication with a user interface for providing the bio-signals as input to the user interface, the user interface controlling the setting or set of setting for operation of the communication device.

公开(公告)号：US10015601B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-03

申请号：US15472621

申请日：2017-03-29

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Lars Pinnerup Frederiksen ,  Thorvaldur Oli Bodvarsson ,  Søren Hesselballe Larsen ,  Lars Bramsløw ,  Niels Søgaard Jensen ,  Filip Marchman Rønne ,  Ariane Laplante-Lévesque ,  Eline Borch Petersen ,  Carina Graversen ,  Lasse Juul Villadsen ,  Rikke Birksteen Rossing ,  Adis Bjelosevic

IPC: H04R29/00 ,  H04R25/00 ,  A61B5/00

CPC classification number: H04R25/305 ,  A61B5/0006 ,  A61B5/0008 ,  A61B5/0022 ,  A61B5/02438 ,  A61B5/046 ,  A61B5/0464 ,  A61B5/6817 ,  G06F19/3418 ,  G16H40/63 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R2225/39 ,  H04R2225/55

Abstract: A system for monitoring the status and/or performance of one or more hearing devices is disclosed. The system comprises a number of access points configured to receive wireless signals transmitted by the hearing devices, wherein the access points are connected to a central unit communicatively connected to the Internet/cloud, wherein the system is configured to automatically monitor the status and/or performance of one or more parameter of the one or more hearing devices received by access points, wherein the monitored parameters are accessible from the central unit and/or from a cloud service.

公开(公告)号：US11185257B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-30

申请号：US16917319

申请日：2020-06-30

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Niels Henrik Pontoppidan ,  Thomas Lunner ,  Michael Syskind Pedersen ,  Lars Ivar Hauschultz ,  Povl Koch ,  Graham Naylor ,  Eline Borch Petersen

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  A61B5/12 ,  G06K9/00 ,  A61B5/00 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A61B5/38 ,  A61B5/291 ,  A61B5/16 ,  A61B5/374 ,  A61B5/375

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication devices. Such devices may comprise input for receiving sound signal to be processed and presented to a user, and output for outputting the processed signal to a user perceivable as sound. Such processing may be performed by use of a processor for processing the sound signal in dependence of a setting or a set of setting to compensate a hearing loss profile. Further, the communication device may comprise a bio-signal acquisition and amplifier component in communication with a user interface for providing the bio-signals as input to the user interface, the user interface controlling the setting or set of setting for operation of the communication device.

公开(公告)号：US20190182606A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-13

申请号：US16217831

申请日：2018-12-12

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Eline Borch Petersen ,  Thomas Lunner ,  Thomas Gleerup

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  A61B5/0476 ,  A61B5/04 ,  A61N1/36 ,  A61N1/05

CPC classification number: H04R25/505 ,  A61B5/04012 ,  A61B5/0408 ,  A61B5/0476 ,  A61B5/0478 ,  A61B5/04845 ,  A61B5/6817 ,  A61F11/06 ,  A61N1/0529 ,  A61N1/36036 ,  A61N1/36038 ,  H04R25/50 ,  H04R25/70 ,  H04R2225/39 ,  H04R2225/41 ,  H04R2225/43 ,  H04R2225/67 ,  H04R2225/81

Abstract: The invention refers to a hearing aid system that comprises an electric audio signal input, an audio input signal processing unit that is configured to process electric audio input signals in the first processing mode or in the second processing mode and to provide an electric audio output signal, and an output transducer. The hearing aid system further comprises an audio input signal analysing unit that is configured to continuously monitor the electric audio input signal as a function of time and to determine and to provide a number of audio signal values each representing a characteristic of the electric audio input signal at a given time instance.The hearing aid system further comprises a plurality of electrodes that are configured to be brought into contact with the skin of a user and which are configured—when operationally mounted—to receive an electric signal that rep-resents a user's brain activity and to provide a respective EEG-related signal. The hearing aid system further comprises an EEG-related signal analysing unit that is configured to continuously monitor the EEG-related signal as a function of time and to determine and to provide a number of EEG-related values each representing the EEG-related signal at a given time instance, a memory unit which is configured to store a number of audio signal values such that a first history of respective audio signal values is created and/or to store a number of EEG-related values such that a second history of respective EEG-related values is created and a signal comparison unit that is configured to compare a current audio signal value with at least one preceding audio signal value of the first history to determine and to provide a deviation signal and/or to compare a current EEG-related value with at least one preceding EEG-related value of the second history to determine a measure of a user's current cognitive load and to provide a cognitive load representing output signal accordingly.The audio input signal processing unit is further configured to apply the first processing mode or the at least second processing mode depending on said deviation signal and/or depending on said cognitive load representing output signal

公开(公告)号：US10743115B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-11

申请号：US16386593

申请日：2019-04-17

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Lars Pinnerup Frederiksen ,  Thorvaldur Oli Bodvarsson ,  Søren Hesselballe Larsen ,  Lars Bramsløw ,  Niels Søgaard Jensen ,  Filip Marchman Rønne ,  Ariane Laplante-Lévesque ,  Eline Borch Petersen ,  Carina Graversen ,  Lasse Juul Villadsen ,  Rikke Birksteen Rossing ,  Adis Bjelosevic

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/046 ,  A61B5/0464 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G16H40/63

Abstract: A system for monitoring the status and/or performance of one or more hearing devices is disclosed. The system comprises a number of access points configured to receive wireless signals transmitted by the hearing devices, wherein the access points are connected to a central unit communicatively connected to the Internet/cloud, wherein the system is configured to automatically monitor the status and/or performance of one or more parameter of the one or more hearing devices received by access points, wherein the monitored parameters are accessible from the central unit and/or from a cloud service.

公开(公告)号：US10542355B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-21

申请号：US16217831

申请日：2018-12-12

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Eline Borch Petersen ,  Thomas Lunner ,  Thomas Gleerup

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  A61B5/0476 ,  A61B5/04 ,  A61N1/36 ,  A61N1/05 ,  A61F11/06

Abstract: A hearing aid system includes an electric audio signal input, an audio input signal processing unit that is configured to process electric audio input signals in the first processing mode or in the second processing mode and to provide an electric audio output signal, and an output transducer. The hearing aid system further includes an audio input signal analysing unit that is configured to continuously monitor the electric audio input signal as a function of time and to determine and to provide a number of audio signal values each representing a characteristic of the electric audio input signal at a given time instance. The hearing aid system further includes a plurality of electrodes that are configured to be brought into contact with the skin of a user and which are configured—when operationally mounted to receive an electric signal that rep-resents a user's brain activity and to provide a respective EEG-related signal. The hearing aid system further includes an EEG-related signal analysing unit that is configured to continuously monitor the EEG-related signal as a function of time and to determine and to provide a number of EEG-related values each representing the EEG-related signal at a given time instance, a memory unit which is configured to store a number of audio signal values such that a first history of respective audio signal values is created and/or to store a number of EEG-related values such that a second history of respective EEG-related values is created and a signal comparison unit that is configured to compare a current audio signal value with at least one preceding audio signal value of the first history to determine and to provide a deviation signal and/or to compare a current EEG-related value with at least one preceding EEG-related value of the second history to determine a measure of a user's current cognitive load and to provide a cognitive load representing output signal accordingly. The audio input signal processing unit is further configured to apply the first processing mode or the at least second processing mode depending on the deviation signal and/or depending on the cognitive load representing output signal.

公开(公告)号：US10561335B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-18

申请号：US15497775

申请日：2017-04-26

Applicant: Oticon A/S ,  Oticon Medical A/S

Inventor： Claus Nielsen ,  Thomas Lunner ,  Regin Kopp Pedersen ,  Carina Graversen ,  Dorothea Wendt ,  Karsten Bo Rasmussen ,  Eline Borch Petersen ,  Troels Holm Pedersen ,  Martin Lindebjerg

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/0484 ,  A61B5/0496

Abstract: The application relates to a hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, comprising a first part for being inserted in an ear canal or fully or partially implanted in the head of a user, the first part comprising at least one electrode unit, termed a PR-electrode unit, for making contact to skin or tissue of a user when mounted or implanted in an operational condition, the at least one PR-electrode unit being configured to pick up a physiological response from the user, and wherein the at least one PR-electrode unit comprises an electrically conductive material, e.g. a shape memory alloy. The first part may comprise an implanted part, e.g. in combination with an external part adapted for being located in an ear canal, wherein both parts comprise one or more PR-electrode units. The invention may e.g. be used hearing aids, headsets, ear phones, active ear protection systems, or combinations thereof, e.g. to control processing of the hearing device or to monitor a condition of the user wearing the hearing device.

公开(公告)号：US09743197B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-22

申请号：US15061000

申请日：2016-03-04

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Eline Borch Petersen ,  Thomas Lunner ,  Niels Henrik Pontoppidan

IPC: H04H60/33 ,  H04R25/00 ,  A61N1/36 ,  A61B5/0476 ,  A61B5/0496 ,  A61B5/0402 ,  A61B5/053 ,  A61B5/12 ,  A61M21/00 ,  A61B5/16 ,  H04R3/00

CPC classification number: H04R25/505 ,  A61B5/0402 ,  A61B5/0476 ,  A61B5/0496 ,  A61B5/0531 ,  A61B5/125 ,  A61B5/16 ,  A61K47/6883 ,  A61M21/00 ,  A61N1/36036 ,  H04R3/00 ,  H04R25/50 ,  H04R25/75 ,  H04R2225/41 ,  H04R2225/43

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for reducing a listener's task-irrelevant auditory perception, the method comprising providing a measuring device or system configured for measuring the listener's alpha, beta gamma and/or theta activity and providing a generation device or system configured for generating an alpha, beta, gamma and/or theta activity boosting signal that, when provided to the listener will increase the listener's ongoing alpha, beta, gamma and/or theta activity. The listener's alpha, beta, gamma and/or theta activity is measured and if the measured alpha, beta, gamma and/or theta activity is below a predefined threshold, the listener's ongoing alpha, beta, gamma and/or theta activity is increased by the provision of the alpha, beta, gamma and/or theta activity boosting signal to the listener. This results in the listener's ongoing alpha, beta, gamma and/or theta activity being increased, resulting in facilitating reduction of task-irrelevant auditory perception, such as the auditory perception of noise or tinnitus, and thereby also increasing the listener's ability to understand speech under adverse listening conditions. The present disclosure further suggests using the listener's measured alpha, beta, gamma and/or theta activity to judge if the listener is ready to understand speech, and if this is not the case to delay a speech signal until a sufficiently high activity is present.

公开(公告)号：US09210517B2

公开(公告)日：2015-12-08

申请号：US14303844

申请日：2014-06-13

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Niels Henrik Pontoppidan ,  Thomas Lunner ,  Michael Syskind Pedersen ,  Lars Ivar Hauschultz ,  Povl Koch ,  Graham Naylor ,  Eline Borch Petersen

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  A61B5/0478 ,  A61B5/0484 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06K9/00 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/048 ,  A61B5/0482 ,  A61B5/12

CPC classification number: H04R25/606 ,  A61B5/0478 ,  A61B5/048 ,  A61B5/0482 ,  A61B5/04845 ,  A61B5/121 ,  A61B5/165 ,  A61B5/4836 ,  A61B5/6817 ,  A61B5/6868 ,  A61B5/746 ,  G06F3/013 ,  G06F3/015 ,  G06K9/00604 ,  H04R25/00 ,  H04R25/305 ,  H04R25/40 ,  H04R25/453 ,  H04R25/505 ,  H04R25/552 ,  H04R25/70 ,  H04R2225/41 ,  H04R2225/43 ,  H04R2225/61 ,  H04R2225/67

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication devices. Such devices may comprise input for receiving sound signal to be processed and presented to a user, and output for outputting the processed signal to a user perceivable as sound. Such processing may be performed by use of a processor for processing the sound signal in dependence of a setting or a set of setting to compensate a hearing loss profile. Further, the communication device may comprise a bio-signal acquisition and amplifier component in communication with a user interface for providing the bio-signals as input to the user interface, the user interface controlling the setting or set of setting for operation of the communication device.

Abstract translation: 本公开涉及通信设备。 这样的设备可以包括用于接收要处理和呈现给用户的声音信号的输入，并且输出用于将处理的信号输出到可感知为声音的用户。 这种处理可以通过使用处理器来执行，该处理器根据设置或一组设置来补偿听力损失曲线来处理声音信号。 此外，通信设备可以包括与用户界面通信的生物信号采集和放大器组件，用于将生物信号提供给用户界面的输入，用户界面控制通信设备的操作设置或设置集 。