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US 11,641,556 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 system for delivering an output sound to a user, the system comprising:
- a microphone configured to receive an input sound and to produce a microphone signal representative of the received input sound;
- a user interface configured to receive a user command;
- an audio processor configured to produce an output audio signal by processing the microphone signal, the audio processor including:
- an environmental parameter detector configured to detect environmental parameters using the microphone signal, the environmental parameters characterizing a listening environment associated with the input sound received when the user command is received and including a level of the input sound and at least another parameter representing a characteristic of the input sound or a geographic location of the user;
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- a processing adjuster configured to adjust the processing of the microphone signal based on the user command, the environmental parameters, and one or more preferences of the user relating listening goals of the user to the user command and the listening environment characterized by the 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;
- processing the microphone signal to produce an output audio signal using an audio processor of the hearing device;
- receiving a user command;
- detecting environmental parameters from the microphone signal, the environmental parameters characterizing a listening environment associated with the input sound received when the user command is received and including a level of the input sound and at least another parameter representing a characteristic of the input sound or a geographic location of the hearing device;
- adjusting the processing of the microphone signal based on the user command and one or more preferences of the user relating listening goals of the user to the user command and the listening environment characterized by the 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.