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：US11872408B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US16388363

申请日：2019-04-18

Applicant: Oticon Medical A/S

Inventor： Søren Kamaric Riis ,  Thomas Lunner ,  Dorothea Wendt ,  Bradford Backus

IPC: A61N5/06 ,  A61B5/24

CPC classification number: A61N5/0622 ,  A61B5/24 ,  A61N5/0603 ,  A61N2005/0605 ,  A61N2005/0626 ,  A61N2005/0659

Abstract: A cochlear implant hearing aid system is disclosed. The cochlear implant hearing aid system comprises an external part. The external part includes a sound pickup unit configured to pick up sound from the environment and a sound processing unit configured to process said sound. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises an implant part. The implant part includes an implant processing unit and a plurality of cochlea stimulation electrodes for stimulation of a cochlea of a user. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises a near-infrared transmitter configured to transmit a near-infrared wave. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises a near-infrared receiver configured to receive said near-infrared wave.

公开(公告)号：US20190321655A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-24

申请号：US16388363

申请日：2019-04-18

Applicant: Oticon Medical A/S

Inventor： Søren Kamaric RIIS ,  Thomas Lunner ,  Dorothea Wendt ,  Bradford Backus

IPC: A61N5/06 ,  A61B5/04

Abstract: A cochlear implant hearing aid system is disclosed. The cochlear implant hearing aid system comprises an external part. The external part includes a sound pickup unit configured to pick up sound from the environment and a sound processing unit configured to process said sound. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises an implant part. The implant part includes an implant processing unit and a plurality of cochlea stimulation electrodes for stimulation of a cochlea of a user. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises a near-infrared transmitter configured to transmit a near-infrared wave. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises a near-infrared receiver configured to receive said near-infrared wave.

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：US09432777B2

公开(公告)日：2016-08-30

申请号：US14048883

申请日：2013-10-08

Applicant: OTICON A/S

Inventor： Thomas Lunner ,  Fredrik Gustafsson

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A61B5/0484 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/12 ,  A61N1/05

CPC classification number: H04R25/50 ,  A61B5/0484 ,  A61B5/04845 ,  A61B5/121 ,  A61B5/68 ,  A61B5/6815 ,  A61N1/0541 ,  G06F3/015 ,  H04R25/70 ,  H04R2225/41

Abstract: A hearing device is adapted to be arranged on or at least partly implanted in an individual's head and comprises: an input unit providing an input audio signal; a signal processing circuit adapted to process the input audio signal; an output unit adapted to provide an audible signal to the individual; one or more electrodes adapted to detect electric brain potentials of the individual; and a brainwave measurement circuit adapted to determine one or more EEG signals from electric signals received from the one or more electrodes. The hearing device further comprises: a first spectrum analyzer determining first audio spectra; a reconstructor adapted to repeatedly reconstruct second audio spectra; a first correlator to determine coherence between the first and the second audio spectra; and a control unit adapted to alter said processing in dependence on the coherence.

Abstract translation: 听力装置适于布置在个人的头上或至少部分地植入个人的头部，并且包括：提供输入音频信号的输入单元; 适于处理输入音频信号的信号处理电路; 输出单元，适于向个人提供可听见的信号; 适于检测个体的电脑电位的一个或多个电极; 以及脑波测量电路，其适于从从所述一个或多个电极接收的电信号中确定一个或多个EEG信号。 听力装置还包括：第一频谱分析仪，其确定第一音频谱; 重建器，适于重复地重构第二音频谱; 第一相关器，用于确定第一和第二音频频谱之间的相干性; 以及控制单元，其适于根据所述一致性改变所述处理。

公开(公告)号：US11785397B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-10

申请号：US17459370

申请日：2021-08-27

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Thomas Lunner ,  Tanveer Bhuiyan ,  José Antonio Esparza Isasa ,  Sergi Rotger Griful ,  Antonello Salvatucci ,  Gary Jones ,  Kim Tilgaard Petersen ,  Peter Sommer

IPC: H04R25/00

CPC classification number: H04R25/505 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R2225/41

Abstract: The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user. The system comprising an input unit for receiving an input sound signal from an environment of the hearing aid user and providing at least one electric input signal representing said input sound signal, an output unit for providing at least one set of stimuli perceivable as sound to the hearing aid user based on processed versions of said at least one electric input signal, a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimator for determining an SNR in the environment of the hearing aid user, a processing unit connected to said input unit and to said output unit and comprising signal processing parameters of the system to provide processed versions of said at least one electric input signal, a memory unit configured to store reference sets of SNR and pulse transition time (PTT) of the hearing aid user, at least a first and a second physiological sensor, wherein the system being configured to determine, based on the first physiological sensor, a first point in time at a first maximum upslope point of a first measured parameter, determine, based on the second physiological sensor, a second point in time at a second maximum upslope point of a second measured parameter, establish a current PTT by calculating a time difference between the first point in time and the second point in time, and determine, based on the current PTT and the stored reference sets of SNR and PTT, a current listening effort of the hearing aid user.

公开(公告)号：US11671769B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-06

申请号：US16919735

申请日：2020-07-02

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Thomas Lunner ,  Gary Jones ,  Lars Bramsløw ,  Michael Syskind Pedersen ,  Pauli Minnaar ,  Jesper Jensen ,  Michael Kai Petersen ,  Peter Sommer ,  Hongyan Sun ,  Jacob Schack Larsen

IPC: H04R25/00

CPC classification number: H04R25/505 ,  H04R25/30 ,  H04R2225/43 ,  H04R2225/49

Abstract: A method of personalizing one or more parameters of a processing algorithm for use in a hearing aid of a specific user comprises



Performing a predictive test for estimating a hearing ability of the user when listening to signals having different characteristics;
Analyzing results of said predictive test for said user and providing a hearing ability measure for said user;
Selecting a specific processing algorithm of said hearing aid,
Selecting a cost-benefit function related to said user's hearing ability in dependence of said different characteristics for said algorithm; and
Determining, for said user, one or more personalized parameters of said processing algorithm in dependence of said hearing ability measure and said cost-benefit function.

公开(公告)号：US11043210B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-22

申请号：US16442037

申请日：2019-06-14

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Thomas Lunner ,  Carina Graversen ,  Emina Alickovic ,  Carlos Francisco Mendoza Lara ,  Andrew Segar

IPC: G10L15/16 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F17/18 ,  G10L25/51 ,  G10L25/06 ,  G10L25/24 ,  G10L25/30

Abstract: There is provided a speech classification apparatus for hearing devices with electroencephalography, EEG, dependent sound processing, comprising a sound processing unit configured to capturing sound input signals from at least one external microphone and segmenting said captured sound input signals into segmented sound signals, a speech classification unit comprising a speech cepstrum calculation unit configured to calculate a speech cepstrum for each segmented sound signal, an EEG cepstrum calculation unit configured to calculate an EEG cepstrum for an EEG signal of a user's brain, a mapping unit configured to select a predetermined number of coefficients from each calculated sound cepstrum and from the calculated EEG cepstrum, and a correlation unit configured to calculate a correlation value for each captured sound input signal based on a correlation of the predetermined number of selected coefficients from the respective calculated sound cepstrum with the predetermined number of selected coefficients from the calculated EEG cepstrum, wherein an attended speech source is classified based on the obtained correlation values.

公开(公告)号：US10609493B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-31

申请号：US16180818

申请日：2018-11-05

Applicant: Oticon A/S

Inventor： Dorothea Wendt ,  Thomas Lunner ,  Patrycja Ksia̧żek ,  Emina Alickovic

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  A61B3/11 ,  A61B5/048 ,  A61B5/12 ,  A61B5/00 ,  G06F3/01 ,  H04R27/00 ,  A61B5/0478 ,  A61B5/0484

Abstract: The disclosure presents a hearing device system and a method for adjusting hearing aid configuration, where a user is wearing a hearing device, the method comprising transmitting a first background sound signal to the hearing device, transmitting a first sound pattern to the hearing device, evaluating, via a camera unit, a first pupillary information of a first eye of the user in response to a first sound scene comprising the first background sound signal and the first sound pattern. The evaluating may be repeated providing at least a second pupillary information of the first eye of the user in response to a second sound scene being different from the first sound scene, and where an averaged pupillary information is provided based on an average between the first pupillary information and at least the second pupillary information, and selecting a pupillary fitting model based on the averaged pupillary information, determining a first parameter and at least a second parameter of the pupillary fitting model based on the averaged pupillary information, classifying the averaged pupillary information into either a first category or at least a second category based on the first parameter and the at least second parameter, and wherein the hearing aid configuration is adjusted if the averaged pupillary information is in the first category, and the hearing aid configuration is not adjusted if the averaged pupillary information is in the second category.

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.