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US 11,596,793 B2Granted
Shifting of output in a sense prosthesis
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsSean Lineaweaver, John Michael Heasman
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Abstract
A method, including the action of operating a sense prosthesis, such as a retinal implant, according to a first operating regime while the recipient has a first fatigue level, and operating the sense prosthesis according to a second operating regime while the recipient has a second fatigue level that is greater than the first fatigue level.
Claims30
A method, comprising:
- operating a bone conduction hearing prosthesis, wherein the action of operating includes operating the prosthesis at a given output level;
- adjusting the output level of the bone conduction device based on a changed cognitive capacity of the recipient;
- and
- operating the bone conduction hearing prosthesis at the adjusted output level.
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A method, comprising:
- capturing sound with a transducer;
- obtaining data indicative of latent variables having a nexus with a recipient of a hearing prosthesis being fatigued;
- and
- evoking a hearing percept using the hearing prosthesis based on the captured sound, wherein
- the evoked hearing percept is evoked based on processing output of the transducer in a manner that takes into account the obtained data, thereby influencing the evoked hearing percept in such a manner that affirmatively takes into account recipient fatigue, and
- the method is automatically executed using a system that is trained to recognize the latent variables and automatically adjust the processing based on the recognition.
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A hearing prosthesis comprising:
- a sound processor;
- and
- a sound capture device, wherein
- the hearing prosthesis is configured to provide a signal based on sound captured by the sound capture device to the sound processor and configured to provide output to a recipient of the hearing prosthesis based on output from the sound processor that is based on the signal to evoke a hearing percept in the recipient via the output provided to the recipient,
- the hearing prosthesis is configured to adjust the output based on cognitive capacity of the recipient, and
- the hearing prosthesis is a bone conduction device.
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A non-transitory computer-readable media having recorded thereon a computer program for executing the following actions:
- automatically adjusting an output level of a bone conduction hearing prosthesis based on a fatigue level of a recipient of the prosthesis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.