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US 2017/0374477 A1Published application
Control of a hearing device
AssigneeOticon A/S
InventorsAntonello SALVATUCCI, Svend Oscar PETERSEN, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Justyna WALASZEK, Morten GULD, Caroline EKELUND
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Abstract
A hearing aid device for augmenting environment sounds to alleviate a hearing loss of the user. The hearing aid device comprises a sensor to sense an input from the user in order to change one or more operating parameters of the hearing aid.
Claims15
A hearing aid comprising:
- an input transducer providing an electrical signal in response to receiving acoustic signals from the environment, a processor adapted to apply a signal processing algorithm to the electrical signal to compensate for a user's specific hearing loss, an output transducer outputting the processed signal which the user then perceives as sound, a wireless interface adapted to communicate with an external device,
- a sensor adapted to provide a signal representing a physical parameter, wherein the sensor is a tilt sensor, the tilt sensor configured to sense the hearing aid being tilted along either one, two or three axes and generate a corresponding tilt sensor signal,
- a controller configured for controlling the operation of the processor receiving the electrical signal and the controller being adapted to provide a control signal based on the signal from the sensor, the controller changing the state of the processor and/or the wireless interface based on the control signal.
A hearing aid comprising:
- an input transducer providing an electrical signal in response to receiving acoustic signals from the environment, a processor adapted to apply a signal processing algorithm to the electrical signal to compensate for a user's specific hearing loss, an output transducer outputting the processed signal which the user then perceives as sound, a wireless interface adapted to communicate with an external device,
- a wind noise detector connected to the input transducer, the wind noise detector configured to detect the presence of wind noise in the electrical signal, the controller being configured to changing the state of the digital processor and/or the wireless interface based on the presence of a wind noise pattern.
A hearing aid comprising:
- an input transducer providing an electrical signal in response to receiving acoustic signals from the environment, a processor adapted to apply a signal processing algorithm to the electrical signal to compensate for a user's specific hearing loss, an output transducer outputting the processed signal which the user then perceives as sound, a wireless interface adapted to communicate with an external device,
- a sensor configured to sense or detect a parameter characterizing a magnetic field, wherein the hearing aid is configured to detect presence or absence of a static or varying magnetic field and/or the duration of presence and/or absence of the static or varying magnetic field and/or frequency of the varying magnetic field,
- a controller being configured to changing the state of the digital processor and/or a wireless interface based on the parameter characterizing a magnetic field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.