Hearing compensation in an audio device
AssigneeAviom, Inc.
InventorsCarl V. Bader, Brian Chapkovich, Frank Wartinger
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Abstract
Compensation for the hearing loss of a user may be provided in an audio device, based on the hearing information of a user input to the audio device, by applying one or more different forms of hearing loss compensation to an audio signal output via the audio device, while also enabling a user to control the degree to which the one or more different forms of hearing loss compensation are applied to the audio signal output via the audio device. A user may be presented with a selection of such hearing compensation controls based on which of a plurality of common hearing profiles the user's hearing information most closely matches.
Claims20
An audio device comprising:
- a user interface;
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to:
- determine hearing information of a user, wherein the hearing information indicates, for each of the left and right ears of the user, an amount of hearing loss exhibited by the user at each of a plurality of frequencies;
- determine, based on the hearing information of the user, a match between the hearing information of the user and one of a plurality of common hearing profiles;
- based on the common hearing profile determined to match the hearing information of the user, select one or more hearing compensation controls to be made available to the user via the user interface of the audio device, wherein each of the one or more hearing compensation controls is operable to modify an original audio signal;
- apply, based on user input from the selected one or more hearing compensation controls made available to the user via the user interface, one or more modifications to the original audio signal to generate a filtered audio signal;
- and
- output the filtered audio signal to the user.
A method comprising:
- determining, by an audio device, hearing information of a user, wherein the hearing information indicates, for each of the left and right ears of the user, an amount of hearing loss exhibited by the user at each of a plurality of frequencies;
- determining, based on the hearing information of the user, a match between the hearing information of the user and one of a plurality of common hearing profiles;
- based on the common hearing profile determined to match the hearing information of the user, selecting one or more hearing compensation controls to be made available to the user via a user interface of the audio device, wherein each of the one or more hearing compensation controls is operable to modify an original audio signal;
- applying, by the audio device and based on user input from the selected one or more hearing compensation controls made available to the user, one or more modifications to an original audio signal to generate a filtered audio signal;
- and
- outputting the filtered audio signal to the user.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause:
- determining, by an audio device, hearing information of a user, wherein the hearing information indicates, for each of the left and right ears of the user, an amount of hearing loss exhibited by the user at each of a plurality of frequencies;
- determining, based on the hearing information of the user, a match between the hearing information of the user and one of a plurality of common hearing profiles;
- based on the common hearing profile determined to match the hearing information of the user, selecting one or more hearing compensation controls to be made available to the user via a user interface of the audio device, wherein each of the one or more hearing compensation controls is operable to modify an original audio signal;
- applying, by the audio device and based on user input from the selected one or more hearing compensation controls made available to the user, one or more modifications to an original audio signal to generate a filtered audio signal;
- and
- outputting the filtered audio signal to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.