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US 11,706,575 B2Granted
Binaural hearing system for identifying a manual gesture, and method of its operation
AssigneeSonova AG
InventorsMelissa Lawrence, Alexander Markus
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a hearing system comprising a first hearing device and a second hearing device configured to be worn at a respective ear of a user, each hearing device comprising a displacement sensor configured to provide respective displacement data indicative of a rotational displacement and/or a translational displacement of the hearing device, and a processing unit communicatively coupled to the displacement sensors. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding method of operating a hearing system, and a computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the method.
Claims15
A hearing system comprising
- a first hearing device configured to be worn at a first ear of a user, the first hearing device comprising a first displacement sensor configured to provide first displacement data indicative of a rotational displacement and/or a translational displacement of the first hearing device;
- a second hearing device configured to be worn at a second ear of the user, the second hearing device comprising a second displacement sensor configured to provide second displacement data indicative of a rotational displacement and/or a translational displacement of the second hearing device;
- and
- a processing unit communicatively coupled to the first displacement sensor and to the second displacement sensor,
- characterized in that the processing unit is configured to
- determine, based on the first displacement data and the second displacement data, a variation measure indicative of a variation of an orientation of the first hearing device relative to an orientation of the second hearing device and/or a variation of a position of the first hearing device relative to a position of the second hearing device;
- to
- determine whether the variation measure matches a pattern characteristic for a manual gesture performed on the first hearing device and/or the second hearing device, the pattern defining a minimum amount of the variation and/or a temporal characteristic of the variation;
- and to
- control an operation of the hearing system when the variation measure matches the pattern.
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A hearing system comprising:
- a first hearing device configured to be worn at a first ear of a user, the first hearing device comprising a first displacement sensor configured to provide first displacement data indicative of a rotational displacement and/or a translational displacement of the first hearing device;
- a second hearing device configured to be worn at a second ear of the user, the second hearing device comprising a second displacement sensor configured to provide second displacement data indicative of a rotational displacement and/or a translational displacement of the second hearing device;
- and
- a processing unit communicatively coupled to the first displacement sensor and to the second displacement sensor,
- characterized in that the processing unit is configured to
- determine, based on the first displacement data and the second displacement data, a variation measure indicative of a variation of an orientation of the first hearing device relative to an orientation of the second hearing device and/or a variation of a position of the first hearing device relative to a position of the second hearing device;
- to
- determine whether the variation measure matches a pattern characteristic for a manual gesture performed on the first hearing device and/or the second hearing device;
- and to
- control an operation of the hearing system when the variation measure matches the pattern,
- wherein the pattern is a first pattern characteristic for a first manual gesture, wherein the processing unit is configured to determine whether the variation measure matches a second pattern characteristic for a second manual gesture performed on the first hearing device and/or the second hearing device.
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A method of operating a hearing system, the hearing system comprising
- a first hearing device configured to be worn at a first ear of a user, the first hearing device comprising a first displacement sensor configured to provide first displacement data indicative of a rotational displacement and/or a translational displacement of the first hearing device;
- and
- a second hearing device configured to be worn at a second ear of the user, the second hearing device comprising a second displacement sensor configured to provide second displacement data indicative of a rotational displacement and/or a translational displacement of the second hearing device,
- characterized in that the method comprises
- determining, based on the first displacement data and the second displacement data, a variation measure indicative of a variation of an orientation of the first hearing device relative to an orientation of the second hearing device and/or a variation of a position of the first hearing device relative to a position of the second hearing device;
- determining whether the variation matches a pattern characteristic for a manual gesture performed on the first hearing device and/or the second hearing device, the pattern defining a minimum amount of the variation and/or a temporal characteristic of the variation;
- and
- controlling an operation of the hearing system when the variation measure matches the pattern.
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