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US 10,945,086 B2Granted
Hearing device with user driven settings adjustment
AssigneeStarkey Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsSwapan Gandhi, Karrie LaRae Recker, Donald James Reynolds
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Abstract
The present subject matter provides a hearing device with selective adjustment of processor settings based on various characteristics of an input sound, in response to adjustment of output sound volume by a user. This addresses problems of undesirable sound effects resulting from applying same changes to processor settings to input sounds of all levels, frequencies, and classes.
Claims20
A hearing device for delivering an output sound to a user, the hearing device comprising:
- a microphone configured to receive an input sound and to produce a microphone signal representative of the received input sound;
- a volume controller configured to receive a volume control (VC) command for controlling a volume of the output sound;
- an audio processor configured to produce an output audio signal by processing the microphone signal according to processor settings including a gain of the hearing device, the audio processor including:
- an environmental parameter detector configured to detect one or more environmental parameters using the microphone signal;
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- a processing adjuster configured to adjust the gain and one or more other processor settings of the processor settings, in response to the received VC command, based on the VC command, a level of the input sound, and a recorded preference of the user for an acoustic environment indicated by the detected one or more environmental parameters;
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- a speaker configured to produce the output sound using the output audio signal.
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A method for operating a hearing device to deliver an output sound to a user, the method comprising:
- receiving an input sound and producing a microphone signal representative of the input sound using a microphone of the hearing device;
- receiving a volume control (VC) command for controlling a volume of the output sound;
- processing the microphone signal to produce an output audio signal using an audio processor of the hearing device according to processor settings including a gain of the hearing device;
- detecting one or more environmental parameters from the microphone signal;
- adjusting the gain and one or more other processor settings of the processor settings, in response to the received VC command, based on the VC command, a level of the input sound, and a recorded preference of the user for an acoustic environment indicated by the detected one or more environmental parameters;
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- producing the output sound based on the output audio signal using a speaker of the hearing device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.