Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130315401 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING NOISE - A method of removing noise from a two-channel signal includes receiving channel signals constituting the two-channel signal; obtaining a noise signal for each channel by removing a target signal from each channel signal by subtracting another channel signal multiplied by a weighted value from each channel signal; estimating a power spectral density (PSD) of diffuse noise from each channel signal; obtaining a target signal including an interference signal for each channel by removing the diffuse noise from each channel signal using the estimated PSD of the diffuse noise; obtaining the interference signal for each channel by removing the diffuse noise from the noise signal for each channel using the estimated PSD of the diffuse noise; and removing the interference signal from the target signal including the interference signal for each channel. | 11-28-2013 |
20140146988 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS OF HEARING DEVICE - A wireless communication method of a hearing aid includes extracting an audio signal through a first hearing aid, determining a beam forming vector as a beam toward a rear of a user wearing the first hearing aid and a second hearing aid. The method may also include pre-coding of the audio signal using the beam forming vector, and transmitting the pre-coded audio signal to the second hearing aid through a first antenna. The first hearing aid may include the first antenna and the second hearing aid includes a second antenna. | 05-29-2014 |
20140153757 | METHOD OF PROCESSING SOUND AND HEARING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A hearing apparatus and a method thereof for processing a noise included in an input signal are provided. The method of processing noise involves: pairing a hearing apparatus with an electronic appliance; extracting noise characteristic information of the paired electronic appliance; and processing noise from the electronic appliance included in an input signal based on the noise characteristic information. | 06-05-2014 |
20140169574 | HEARING DEVICE CONSIDERING EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT OF USER AND CONTROL METHOD OF HEARING DEVICE - A hearing device and a method of the hearing aid are provided considering an external environment surrounding a user. The hearing device includes an external environment determination unit, an inquiry unit, and a parameter set unit. The external environment determination unit is configured to determine an external environment surrounding a user wearing the hearing device. The inquiry unit is configured to select a question corresponding to the external environment and inquire the question to the user. The parameter set unit is configured to set a parameter of the hearing device based on a response to the question and hearing loss information of the user. | 06-19-2014 |
20140205118 | METHOD OF DETERMINING OPERATION MODE OF HEARING DEVICE AND HEARING DEVICE - A method of determining an operation mode of a hearing device and the hearing device may include detecting an input signal of the hearing device, determining the operation mode of the hearing device by determining whether the input signal is a designated signal related to a programming mode of the hearing device, and controlling the hearing device according to the operation mode. | 07-24-2014 |
20140321521 | LINK PERFORMANCE ABSTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for link performance abstraction for a receiver employing Interference-Aware Communications (IAC) technology in a wireless communication system are provided. A method for operating a receiving apparatus for the link performance abstraction in the wireless communication system, includes receiving an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) over a plurality of spatial layers, splitting and post-processing the received signal based on the spatial layers, deriving a post-processing Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) of each spatial layer, converting the post-processing SINR of the spatial layers to a Mutual Information per coded Bit (MIB) adaptively tuned based on an instantaneous Interference-to-Signal Ratio (ISR), and estimating a Block Error Rate (BLER) from a mean of the MIB metrics of the spatial layers. | 10-30-2014 |
20140341122 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication, by a first Base Station (BS) is provided. The method includes receiving control information including information related to transmission of a Reference Signal (RS) of at least one second BS from the at least one second BS adjacent to the first BS and transmitting data by using a preset method based on the control information when an RS transmission mode of the at least one second BS is different from an RS transmission mode of the first BS. | 11-20-2014 |
20140369215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LINK QUALITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for measuring a link quality in a wireless communication are provided. The method of a receiver for measuring the link quality in the wireless communication system includes determining a modulation type for each of at least one reception stream received through at least one antenna based on a modulation order and channel information regarding each of signals transmitted from a plurality of transmission antennas, searching for a parameter corresponding to the determined modulation type from a pre-stored parameter table in which parameters for each modulation type are stored, and calculating a channel capacity for each of the at least one reception streams received through the at least one antenna by using the searched parameter. | 12-18-2014 |