Hearing assist device fitting method and software
AssigneeIntriCon Corporation
InventorAndreas Perscheid
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Abstract
A method and software program is used by patients for fitting and refitting of a DSP-based hearing assistance device. An audiologist user interface and patient user interface include soundmaps and slidebars to control collections of hearing parameters within the DSP of the device. Based on cognitive testing and training of the patient, the range of adjustment allowed within at least the patient user interface is limited. The software therefore always maintains 100% safety for the patient and/or user to finetune the hearing aid parameters without worrying about selecting parameter values which would leading to slowing the cognitive learning of the patient.
Claims19
A method for fitting a hearing assist device for a patient, comprising:
- conducting a test to assess aural cognitive abilities of the patient;
- and
- providing a user interface which allows adjustment of a plurality of sound processing parameter values within a digital signal processor in the hearing assist device, in which the range of sound processing parameter values permitted in the user interface is a limited subset of the values allowed within the digital signal processor, limited based on the assessed aural cognitive abilities.
A graphical user interface for fitting a hearing assist device for a particular patient, comprising:
- a two dimensional sound map allowing simultaneous adjustment of at least two controls, each of the two controls allowing a limited adjustment of a set of parameters in a digital signal processor of the hearing assist device, wherein parameter values are limited based on an input value for assessed aural cognitive abilities of a patient.
A software system for fitting a hearing assist device for a particular patient, comprising:
- an audiologist graphical user interface allowing simultaneous adjustment of a plurality of parameters in a digital signal processor of the hearing assist device, each parameter being settable to a parameter value within a range;
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- a patient graphical user interface allowing simultaneous adjustment of the plurality of parameters in the digital signal processor of the hearing assist device;
- wherein the ranges of parameter values which are settable using the patient graphical user interface are limited relative to the ranges of parameter values which are settable using the audiologist graphical user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.