Advanced hearing prosthesis recipient habilitation and/or rehabilitation
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsJim MAY, Janette OLIVER
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Abstract
A method of increasing an ability of a recipient of a hearing prosthesis' ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis, including obtaining data indicative of a first characteristic of content, wherein the content is an audio or an audio-visual content, obtaining data indicative of a second characteristic of the content, identifying, based on the first and second characteristics, specific content and using at least one item of the specific content with the hearing prosthesis such that a hearing percept in the recipient is evoked based on the at least one item of specific content.
Claims20
A method of improving a recipient of a hearing prosthesis' ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis, comprising:
- obtaining data indicative of a first characteristic of content, wherein the content is an audio or an audio-visual content;
- obtaining data indicative of a second characteristic of the content;
- identifying, based on the first and second characteristics, specific content;
- and
- using at least one item of the specific content with the hearing prosthesis such that a hearing percept in the recipient is evoked based on the at least one item of specific content.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, electronically, first input indicative of a recipient of a hearing prosthesis' desired media content;
- providing the recipient with one or more topic item selections based on the first received input;
- and
- training or retraining a recipient of a cochlear implant to recognize and/or distinguish sounds with the prosthesis using consumer readily available media content corresponding to the provided one or more topic item selections, wherein
- the training or retraining increases a training compliance relative to that which would be the case in the absence of the first input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.