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US 2017/0304620 A1Published application
Downshifting of output in a sense prosthesis
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsSean LINEAWEAVER, John Michael HEASMAN
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Abstract
A method, including the action of operating a sense prosthesis, such as a retinal implant, according to a first operating regime while the recipient has a first fatigue level, and operating the sense prosthesis according to a second operating regime while the recipient has a second fatigue level that is greater than the first fatigue level.
Claims31
A method, comprising:
- operating a sense prosthesis according to a first operating regime during a first temporal period while the recipient has a first fatigue level;
- and
- operating the sense prosthesis according to a second operating regime during a second temporal period different from the first temporal period while the recipient has a second fatigue level that is greater than the first fatigue level.
A method, comprising:
- operating the implanted hearing prosthesis during a first temporal period by at least in part processing sounds;
- and
- in a second temporal period subsequent to the first temporal period, operating the implanted hearing prosthesis differently than the way that the prosthesis was operated during the first temporal period because the recipient has less conative capacity relative to that which was the case during operation of the prosthesis during the first temporal period, wherein the operation of the implanted hearing prosthesis during the second temporal period includes at least in part processing sounds.
A method, comprising:
- first processing first captured sounds during a first temporal period on an output side of a sound processing system of a hearing prosthesis to evoke a first artificial hearing percept in a recipient while the hearing prosthesis is in a first mode;
- and
- second processing second captured sounds during a second temporal period with the output side of the sound processing system evoke a second artificial hearing percept in the recipient while the hearing prosthesis is in a second mode, wherein
- all things being equal, the second processing is such that the recipient must devote less effort to generally understand the captured sounds than that which is the case with the first processing.
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A hearing prosthesis comprising:
- a sound processor;
- and
- a tissue stimulator configured to stimulate tissue to evoke a hearing percept, wherein
- the hearing prosthesis is configured to receive input indicative of at least one of a dynamic cognitive capacity or a fatigue state of a recipient, and
- the hearing prosthesis is configured to quantitatively vary output of the tissue stimulator based on the input.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.