公开(公告)号：US12042356B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-23

申请号：US17968021

申请日：2022-10-18

申请人： Board of Regents, The University of Texas System

发明人： Michael P. Kilgard ,  Navzer Engineer ,  David Pierce

IPC分类号： A61F11/00 ,  A61B5/12 ,  A61N1/05 ,  A61N1/36 ,  A61N1/372 ,  G09B23/28 ,  H04R25/00

CPC分类号： A61F11/00 ,  A61B5/128 ,  A61N1/36053 ,  A61N1/361 ,  A61N1/36167 ,  A61N1/36171 ,  A61N1/36178 ,  A61N1/37235 ,  G09B23/28 ,  H04R25/75 ,  A61N1/0551 ,  A61N1/36092 ,  A61N1/36132 ,  A61N1/37247

摘要： A method (of treating a patient who has tinnitus) includes: providing to the patient a series of tones including at least a single tone which is at least a half-octave outside a tinnitus frequency of the patient; and applying vagus nerve stimulation to the patient to induce a period of plasticity in a cortex of the patient that is transitory and that represents a transitory opportunity for learning to occur; and wherein the at least a single tone occurs during the transitory opportunity for learning.

公开(公告)号：US20240157145A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-16

申请号：US18394755

申请日：2023-12-22

申请人： Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research

发明人： Matthew L. Carlson

IPC分类号： A61N1/36 ,  A61N1/05 ,  A61N1/375 ,  H04R25/00

CPC分类号： A61N1/361 ,  A61N1/0541 ,  A61N1/36038 ,  A61N1/37518 ,  H04R25/75 ,  H04R2225/67

摘要： Electrical stimulation devices can be used to treat tinnitus. For example, tinnitus can be treated using implantable electrodes and stimulation devices for delivering electrical stimulation to a patient's cochlear region. Cochlear surface electrode(s), endosteal electrode(s), subendosteal electrode(s), intraosseous electrode(s), or short intracochlear electrode(s) (or a combination thereof), connected to existing or modified cochlear implant receiver/stimulator technology, can provide a successful model for long-term treatment of tinnitus in a large number of patients. In some cases, patients can simply turn on the tinnitus implant when experiencing troublesome tinnitus and gain instant relief.

公开(公告)号：US20180271710A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-27

申请号：US15906867

申请日：2018-02-27

申请人： BRAGI GmbH

发明人： Peter Vincent Boesen ,  Darko Dragicevic ,  Felix Hägele

IPC分类号： A61F11/00 ,  H04R1/22 ,  A61B5/12 ,  A61B5/00

CPC分类号： A61F11/00 ,  A61B5/0004 ,  A61B5/128 ,  A61B5/6817 ,  A61B5/7203 ,  A61F2250/0002 ,  A61M21/00 ,  A61M2021/0027 ,  A61M2205/332 ,  A61M2205/3375 ,  A61M2205/3569 ,  A61M2205/3592 ,  A61M2205/8206 ,  A61M2230/06 ,  A61M2230/205 ,  A61M2230/30 ,  A61M2230/50 ,  A61M2230/62 ,  H04R1/1041 ,  H04R1/22 ,  H04R25/75 ,  H04R2420/07

摘要： A wireless earpiece in embodiments of the present invention may have one or more of the following features: (a) a housing for fitting in an ear of a user, (b) a logic engine controlling functionality of the wireless earpiece, (c) a plurality of sensors reading user input from the user, and (d) a transceiver communicating with at least a wireless device, wherein the logic engine receives a selection of audio through the plurality of sensors, determines whether a tinnitus frequency associated with a user wearing the wireless earpiece is present in the audio, filters the tinnitus frequency from the audio to generate filtered audio, and plays the filtered audio to the user utilizing one or more speakers.

公开(公告)号：US20180255410A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-06

申请号：US15971401

申请日：2018-05-04

申请人： Otoharmonics Corporation

发明人： Michael Baker ,  Brenda Edin ,  Daniel Drexler ,  Marisa Pedemonte Benvenuto ,  Dario Geisinger Yasky ,  Andres Bianco de Olea

IPC分类号： H04R25/00 ,  A61B5/00 ,  G16H15/00 ,  A61B5/12 ,  H03G3/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/75 ,  A61B5/0022 ,  A61B5/128 ,  A61B5/4836 ,  A61B5/4842 ,  A61B5/4848 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G16H15/00 ,  H03G3/00 ,  H04R25/50

摘要： The treatment of tinnitus may include a tinnitus therapy including generating a tinnitus therapy sound that is similar to a patient's perceived tinnitus sound. In one example, a method for tinnitus therapy may include tracking a tinnitus therapy over a duration, the tinnitus therapy including a tinnitus therapy sound matching a patient's perceived tinnitus played over the duration and presenting each of a volume evolution of the tinnitus therapy sound and usage data of the tinnitus therapy over the duration.

公开(公告)号：US10045133B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-07

申请号：US15148809

申请日：2016-05-06

申请人： Natan Bauman ,  Ralph T. Campagna

发明人： Natan Bauman ,  Ralph T. Campagna

IPC分类号： H04R3/00 ,  H04R25/00 ,  A61F11/08 ,  G10K11/16 ,  H03G3/04

CPC分类号： H04R25/75 ,  A61F11/08 ,  A61F2011/085 ,  G10K11/16 ,  H03G3/04 ,  H04R25/402 ,  H04R2225/61 ,  H04R2430/01

摘要： A device combining a variable sound attenuator with a hearing device, (such as a hearing aid or tinnitus device) that allows a user to adjust the amount of attenuation of environmental sound in a variable, continuous fashion or in a discrete controlled fashion from zero attenuation to maximum attenuation without removing the device from the ear. The attenuator includes a housing having a passageway, the passageway allowing for sound to pass through the housing and a variable control, the variable control able to control the size of the passageway through the housing and the device including a second passageway for transmitting amplified sound from the hearing device into the ear of the wearer.

公开(公告)号：US20180199142A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-12

申请号：US15849272

申请日：2017-12-20

申请人： OTICON A/S

发明人： Björn Ohl ,  Dorthe Hofman-Bang ,  Marianne Philipsson ,  Jacob Anders Roug ,  Jesper Nøhr Hansen ,  Gary Jones

IPC分类号： H04R25/00 ,  H03G3/30 ,  H03G3/02

CPC分类号： H04R25/75 ,  H03G3/02 ,  H03G3/3026 ,  H04R25/552 ,  H04R25/558 ,  H04R2225/39 ,  H04R2225/61 ,  H04R2430/01

摘要： A hearing instrument and a method for operating a hearing instrument is provided. The hearing instrument and/or the method includes a tinnitus relief sound.

公开(公告)号：US20180007479A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-04

申请号：US15651452

申请日：2017-07-17

申请人： Starkey Laboratories, Inc.

发明人： John Andrew Dundas

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/75 ,  H04R25/552 ,  H04R25/70 ,  H04R2225/41 ,  H04R2225/43 ,  H04R2225/61

摘要： Disclosed herein, among other things, are methods and apparatus for a user interface control to allow control of multiple parameters from a single control for a hearing assistance device. One aspect of the present subject matter relates to hearing assistance device for a wearer, including a housing, hearing assistance electronics housed in the housing, and a tinnitus therapy generator housed in the housing. A user interface control is connected to the electronics and the generator, and the control is configured to sense input from the wearer and provide for selection and adjustment of operational parameters for the electronics and the generator based on the sensed input. Other aspects are provided without departing from the scope of the present subject matter.

公开(公告)号：US20170347213A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-30

申请号：US15166691

申请日：2016-05-27

申请人： Michael Goorevich ,  Phyu Phyu Khing ,  Matthijs Johannes Petrus Killian ,  Bastiaan Van Dijk

发明人： Michael Goorevich ,  Phyu Phyu Khing ,  Matthijs Johannes Petrus Killian ,  Bastiaan Van Dijk

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/75 ,  H04R25/356 ,  H04R25/43 ,  H04R25/505 ,  H04R2460/01

摘要： Presented herein are techniques for providing tinnitus relief to recipients of a hearing prosthesis. In accordance with embodiments presented herein, a hearing prosthesis comprises a tinnitus relief system that is configured to generate a tinnitus masker signal that comprises a plurality of discrete (separate) components. The tinnitus relief system is configured to inject the components of the tinnitus masker signal directly into a sound processing path so that the masker components are combined with different processed portions of a channelized sound signal. The channelized sound signal and the components of the tinnitus masker signal are used to generate one or more output signals for use in compensation of a hearing loss of a recipient of the hearing prosthesis.

公开(公告)号：US09699571B2

公开(公告)日：2017-07-04

申请号：US14670133

申请日：2015-03-26

申请人： Widex A/S

发明人： Jakob Nielsen

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/45 ,  H04R25/353 ,  H04R25/356 ,  H04R25/40 ,  H04R25/407 ,  H04R25/502 ,  H04R25/505 ,  H04R25/75 ,  H04R2225/43 ,  H04R2430/03

摘要： A hearing aid (200) configured to provide enriched sound, by forming successive chords defined by a common musical scale. The invention further provides a method of providing enriched sound using a hearing aid system.

公开(公告)号：US20170188160A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-29

申请号：US15053558

申请日：2016-02-25

申请人： GN ReSound A/S

发明人： Soren Christian Voigt PEDERSEN

IPC分类号： H04R25/00 ,  H04R29/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/356 ,  A61F11/14 ,  A61F2011/145 ,  H04R25/353 ,  H04R25/505 ,  H04R25/652 ,  H04R25/75 ,  H04R29/001 ,  H04R2225/41

摘要： A hearing device includes: at least one microphone for converting sound received by the at least one microphone into an audio signal; a sound impulse detector configured for detecting a presence of an impulse in the audio signal; and a signal processor configured for processing the audio signal into a processed audio signal in response to the presence of the impulse in the audio signal as detected by the sound impulse detector; and a receiver coupled to the signal processor for converting the processed audio signal into an output sound signal for emission towards an eardrum of a user; wherein the sound impulse detector is configured for operation in a frequency domain for detecting presence of the impulse in the audio signal.