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AssigneeExsilent Research B.V.
InventorsBlane ANDERSON, Larry HAGEN, Randall ROBERTS
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An ear-level hearing device and a handheld computer (e.g., smartphone) with a graphical user interface determines a subject's own hearing threshold. Hardware includes the smartphone, viewing screen of the smartphone, smartphone software, ear level hearing device, transmitter on the smartphone and receiver on the ear level device (ELD) communicating with the graphical user interface on the smartphone to the ear level hearing device. The interface software on the smartphone may include an automatic routine or buttons to vary frequency and amplitude of a frequency dependent sound presentation to the earpiece. Software installed on the hand-held smartphone system sends wireless signals to the ELD changing acoustic parameters in the listening device. The firmware/software in the ELD stores frequency/amplitude parameters of the thresholds and wirelessly delivers them to the smartphone. The smartphone device uses the threshold data to derive the appropriate amplified acoustical signal (relative to the thresholds) to the subject.
Hearing system comprising an ear-level hearing device having an electro-acoustic transducer to communicate with an ear canal of a subject, which transducer is driven by programmable sound processing means on basis of a programmable sound processing scheme, and comprising a control device to customize said sound processing scheme at least in part to said subject, characterized in that recording means are provided to record a drive signal between said sound processing unit and said transducer, in that said control means comprise a temporary control device held by a user enabling the user to select auditory signals at different amplitudes, in that said control device and said ear-level hearing device are provided with communication means to communicate user selected auditory signals to said transducer and to exchange corresponding drive signals as recorded by said recording means with said control device, in that said control device comprises an algorithm to translate threshold responses of said user in response to said auditory signals into a customized sound processing scheme, and in that said control device is provided with programming means to pass said customized sound processing scheme to said sound processing device.
Method of establishing a subject's hearing loss comprising a determination of at least one of a subject's thresholds by recording a drive signal necessary to drive a electro-acoustic transducer in an ear of said subject to a subject's threshold level.
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