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US 12,009,008 B2Granted
Habilitation and/or rehabilitation methods and systems
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsJanette Oliver, Jim May, Christopher Bennett
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Abstract
A method, including capturing an individual's voice with a machine, and logging data corresponding to events and/or actions of the individual's real world auditory environment, wherein the individual is speaking while using a hearing assistance device, and the hearing assistance device at least one of corresponds to the machine or is a device used to execute the action of logging data.
Claims27
A method, comprising:
- capturing an individual's voice with a machine;
- and
- logging data corresponding to events and/or actions of the individual's real world auditory environment, wherein
- the individual is speaking while using a hearing assistance device, and the hearing assistance device at least one of corresponds to the machine or is a device used to execute the action of logging data,
- the individual is a hearing impaired person, and
- the method further comprises analyzing the captured voice and the logged data to identify a weakness in a habilitation or rehabilitation regime of the individual.
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A method, comprising:
- capturing sound in a natural language environment with a machine;
- analyzing the sound captured by the machine to determine at least one higher level characteristic of an auditory skill development of a hearing impaired person;
- and
- at least one of:
- identifying a revision to a habilitation and/or rehabilitation regime of the person based on the analysis;
- developing a habilitation and/or rehabilitation regime for the person based on the analysis;
- or
- replacing a habilitation and/or rehabilitation regime for the person with a new regime based on the analysis.
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A method, comprising:
- capturing voice sound with a hearing device, wherein the speaker is a recipient of the hearing device;
- evaluating data, wherein the data is based on the captured voice sound;
- determining a hearing habilitation and/or rehabilitation related feature based on the evaluation;
- and
- automatically classifying, using a machine, a sound scene, the sound scene being present at the time that the voice sound was captured, wherein
- the data is also based on the classified sound scene.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.