Sleep-linked adjustment methods for prostheses
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsWendy POTTS, Naomi CROGHAN, Christopher Joseph LONG, Zachary Mark SMITH
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Abstract
A method, including providing stimulation to a recipient of a prosthesis, such as a hearing prosthesis, such as an implantable prosthesis, such as a cochlear implant, wherein the stimulation is provided at temporal locations associated with sleep of the recipient, and the stimulation is at least one of part of a measurement method or an auditory training method.
Claims24
A method, comprising:
- providing stimulation to a recipient of a hearing prosthesis, wherein
- the stimulation is provided at temporal locations associated with sleep of the recipient, and
- the stimulation is at least one of part of a measurement method or an auditory training method.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving input indicative of measurements executed using a hearing prosthesis while the recipient thereof is sleeping;
- analyzing the received input;
- and
- at least one of adjusting a setting of the hearing prosthesis or loading a new setting of the hearing prosthesis based on the analysis.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium having recorded thereon, a computer program for executing a method, the program including:
- code for determining a feature indicative of a sleep state of a recipient of a hearing prosthesis;
- and
- code for implementing measurements of the recipient based on the determination of the sleep state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.