User control for hearing prostheses
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorKoen VAN DEN HEUVEL
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Abstract
A method of operating a hearing prosthesis. The hearing prosthesis includes memory and a clock and is configured to deliver stimuli to a user. The method includes determining the stimuli, with the hearing prosthesis, in response to a sound signal and at least in part by using one or more adjustable parameters stored in the memory. The method further includes receiving, from the user, a request to adjust at least one of the parameters, and determining whether to make the requested adjustment by reference to an amount of time, as determined by said clock, or a function based around an amount of time since a predefined event.
Claims20
A method of operating a hearing prosthesis comprising memory and a clock, the hearing prosthesis configured to deliver stimuli to a user, the method comprising:
- determining the stimuli, with said hearing prosthesis, in response to a sound signal and at least in part by using one or more adjustable parameters stored in the memory;
- receiving, from the user, a request to adjust at least one of the parameters;
- and
- determining whether to make the requested adjustment by reference to an amount of time, as determined by said clock, or a function based around an amount of time since a predefined event.
A method of operating a hearing prosthesis comprising memory and a clock, the hearing prosthesis configured to deliver stimuli to a user, the method comprising:
- determining the stimuli, with said hearing prosthesis, in response to a sound signal and at least in part by using one or more adjustable parameters stored in the memory;
- and
- triggering, by reference to an amount of time, as determined by said clock, or a function based around an amount of time since a predefined event, the execution of a process to adjust one or more of the parameters.
A method of operating a hearing prosthesis comprising memory and a clock, the hearing prosthesis configured to deliver stimuli to a user, the method comprising:
- determining the stimuli, with said hearing prosthesis, in response to a sound signal and at least in part by using one or more adjustable parameters stored in the memory;
- limiting the adjustment by the user of at least one of the parameters to a discrete maximum adjustment for a period determined by reference to an amount of time, as determined by said clock, or a function based around an amount of time since a predefined event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.