Methods and systems for optimizing speech and music perception by a bilateral cochlear implant patient
AssigneeAdvanced Bionics AG
InventorAniket Saoji
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Abstract
An exemplary method of optimizing speech and music perception by a bilateral cochlear implant patient includes identifying a first ear of a bilateral cochlear implant patient as being relatively more suited for processing speech than a second ear of the patient, directing a first cochlear implant subsystem associated with the first ear to operate in accordance with a first sound processing program configured to enhance speech perception by the patient, and directing a second cochlear implant subsystem associated with the second ear to operate in accordance with a second sound processing program configured to enhance music perception by the patient. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- identifying, by a sound processing optimization system, a first ear of a bilateral cochlear implant patient as being relatively more suited for processing speech than a second ear of the patient;
- directing, by the sound processing optimization system, a first cochlear implant subsystem associated with the first ear to operate in accordance with a first sound processing program configured to enhance speech perception by the patient;
- and
- directing, by the sound processing optimization system, a second cochlear implant subsystem associated with the second ear to operate in accordance with a second sound processing program configured to enhance music perception by the patient.
A system comprising:
- a detection facility configured to identify a first ear of a bilateral cochlear implant patient as being relatively more suited for processing speech than a second ear of the patient;
- and
- a sound processing program management facility communicatively coupled to the detection facility and configured to
- direct a first cochlear implant subsystem associated with the first ear to operate in accordance with a first sound processing program configured to enhance speech perception by the patient, and
- direct a second cochlear implant subsystem associated with the second ear to operate in accordance with a second sound processing program configured to enhance music perception by the patient.
A system comprising:
- a first cochlear implant subsystem that is associated with a first ear of a bilateral cochlear implant patient and that operates in accordance with a first sound processing program configured to enhance speech perception by the patient;
- and
- a second cochlear implant subsystem that is associated with a second ear of the patient and that operates in accordance with a second sound processing program configured to enhance music perception by the patient.
The system of 19, wherein:
- the first cochlear implant subsystem provides electrical stimulation representative of the speech content to one or more stimulation sites within the first ear;
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- the second cochlear implant subsystem provides electrical stimulation representative of the music content to one or more stimulation sites within the second ear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.