Dynamic virtual hearing modelling
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsAlexander von Brasch, Stephen Fung
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Abstract
Presented herein are techniques for generating, updating, and/or using a virtual hearing model associated with a recipient of an auditory prosthesis. The virtual hearing model is generated and updated for the recipient based on psychoacoustics data associated with the recipient and, in certain cases, based on psychoacoustics data gathered from one or more selected populations of auditory prosthesis recipients. The recipient-specific virtual hearing model can be used, in real-time, to determine one or more settings for the auditory prosthesis.
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A method, comprising:
- at a computing system:
- receiving, from an auditory prosthesis configured to be worn by a recipient, a request for updated sound processing settings, wherein the request includes listening situation data representing an expected listening situation for the auditory prosthesis;
- determining, based on a recipient-specific virtual hearing model accounting for how the auditory prosthesis operates and aids a perception of the recipient, selected sound processing settings for use by the auditory prosthesis in the expected listening situation;
- and
- sending the selected sound processing settings to the auditory prosthesis.
A method, comprising:
- generating, based on recipient-specific psychoacoustics data, a virtual hearing model, wherein the virtual hearing model is holistic model of an auditory system of a recipient of an auditory prosthesis, and wherein the virtual hearing model accounts for, in a bilateral manner, operation of each of the outer ears, middle ears, and inner ear systems of the recipient, as well as a hearing cognition in an auditory cortex and brain of the recipient, and how the auditory prosthesis operates and aids a perception of the recipient;
- using the virtual hearing model to determine selected sound processing settings for use by the auditory prosthesis;
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- instantiating the selected sound processing settings at the auditory prosthesis.
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One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- obtain a recipient-specific virtual model associated with a recipient of an implantable medical device;
- obtain situation data representing expected future use situations for the implantable medical device;
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- determine updated settings for use by the implantable medical device in the expected future use situations based on the situation data and the recipient-specific virtual model.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.