Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100098286 | Earphone Facility with vibration-isolated earphone - An earphone facility is proposed to reduce feedback in hearing devices with an external earphone. The earphone facility includes an earphone, which is embodied to convert electrical signals, and an earpiece, which lies snugly against the auditory canal when the earphone facility is being worn. A stem is attached to the earphone, having a smaller circumference than the smallest circumference of the earphone. Also a support element is disposed between the stem and an internal wall of the earpiece, said support element holding the stem in the earpiece in a movable manner. With this structure vibrations of the earphone are barely transmitted to the earpiece so that feedback is ultimately reduced. | 04-22-2010 |
20110207094 | METHOD FOR TRAINING SPEECH PERCEPTION AND TRAINING DEVICE - The speech perception of hearing-aid wearers and wearers of other hearing devices is intended to be improved. To this end, a method for training the speech perception of a person, who is wearing a hearing device, is provided, in which a first speech component is presented acoustically and the latter is identified by the person wearing the hearing device. Subsequently, there is automated modification of the acoustic presentation of the presented speech component and the aforementioned steps are repeated with the modified presentation until, if the identification is incorrect, a prescribed maximum number of repetitions has been reached. Otherwise, if the first speech component is identified correctly or if the number of incorrect identifications of the first speech component is one more than the maximum repetition number, a second speech component is presented acoustically. This allows a plurality of speech components to be trained in respectively a number of steps. | 08-25-2011 |
20120114156 | HEARING AID AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING AID WITH A HUMIDITY SENSOR - A hearing aid has a hearing aid housing and an associated method for operating the hearing aid. The hearing aid contains a first humidity sensor which determines a first ambient humidity and a modification unit, which modifies an operating state and/or an operating parameter of the hearing aid in dependence on the first ambient humidity detected. The hearing aid takes account of the effect of the humidity of the environment on the hearing aid properties and takes measures to compensate for the humidity. | 05-10-2012 |
20120134505 | METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF A HEARING DEVICE AND HEARING DEVICE WITH A LENGTHENING OF FRICATIVES - A method operates a hearing device and an associated hearing device has at least one microphone for recording an ambient sound and an earpiece emitting an output sound. A fricative of the ambient sound is reproduced in a temporally lengthened form by the hearing device in the output sound. Speech intelligibility for the hearing-impaired can be improved by the lengthening of fricatives. | 05-31-2012 |
20120216418 | CONFIGURATION AND METHOD FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF HEARING DEVICES - A configuration and an associated method dry a hearing device. The configuration includes a heating unit for generating warm air, at least one hearing device, a first humidity sensor of the hearing device for determining first ambient humidity measured values, a signal output unit of the hearing device for outputting the first ambient humidity measured values, a signal recording unit for recording the first ambient humidity measured values, and a control unit for controlling the heating unit in dependence on the first ambient humidity measured values. Accordingly the drying process can be controlled precisely by the heating device in respect of duration and temperature. | 08-30-2012 |
20120250917 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE COMPREHENSIBILITY OF SPEECH WITH A HEARING AID, TOGETHER WITH A HEARING AID - The understanding of speech is to be improved in cases of hearing loss in which certain frequency ranges can no longer be perceived even at high volume or amplification, as applicable. A frequency transposition is performed on an input signal coming into a hearing aid and specific features of an electrical input signal are detected and a transposed signal is filtered as a function of the specific features detected in the electrical input signal. The hearing aid provides appropriate facilities for detecting specific features of the electrical input signal and filtering facilities for filtering the transposed signal. The objective of this is to detect particular properties of the input signal, in particular signal properties which are characteristic of fricatives, which may possibly be lost as a result of the frequency transposition, and at least partially to restore them in the transposed signal. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250918 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE COMPREHENSIBILITY OF SPEECH WITH A HEARING AID, TOGETHER WITH A HEARING AID - The understanding of speech is to be improved in cases of hearing loss in which certain frequency ranges can no longer be perceived. A hearing aid has an input transducer for receiving an input signal and converting it into an electrical input signal, a signal processing unit for processing the electrical input signal and effecting frequency-dependent amplification of it, and generates an electrical output signal, and an output transducer for converting the electrical output signal into an acoustic output signal. The hearing aid further has a sound detector device for recognizing sounds in a voice signal coming into the hearing aid, a lookup table, in which a specific output code is assigned in each instance to certain sounds, and a coding device, by which the sounds contained in the electrical input signal are replaced by associated output code in the electrical output signal. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250919 | HEARING AID DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING AID DEVICE - A hearing aid device has an input converter for receiving an input signal and converting the signal into an electrical input signal, a signal processing unit for processing and frequency-dependent amplification of the electrical input signal and generating an electrical output signal, an output converter for converting the electrical output signal into an acoustic output signal, and a sound detector facility for identifying sounds in a signal. Facilities increase an amplification above a normal amplification for a frequency range in which an identified sound contains signal components. Further facilities set the normal amplification of an electrical input signal in dependence on a signal frequency. The amplification is restricted to a maximum amplification in a specific frequency range. The amplification exceeds the normal amplification or the maximum amplification for the duration of the identified sound and at most for a duration which lies below a setting time of a feedback whistling. | 10-04-2012 |
20130230182 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING A HEARING APPARATUS WITH THE AID OF THE SENSORY MEMORY - Individual adjustment of a hearing apparatus, and in particular a hearing aid, is improved by testing the auditory sensory memory of a user of the hearing apparatus. At least one test result is obtained and the hearing apparatus is adjusted in dependence on the at least one test result. The test person must detect, perceive and be able to reproduce changes in a signal. | 09-05-2013 |
20130230198 | AMPLIFICATION OF A SPEECH SIGNAL IN DEPENDENCE ON THE INPUT LEVEL - Hearing apparatuses, in particular hearing aids, have improved intelligibility. This is accomplished by a method for amplifying a speech signal for a hearing apparatus by detection of an input sound, determining an input level of the input sound and amplification of the input sound. A mean input level of the input sound is determined and it is established whether the input sound has a speech component. If not, the input signal is amplified in dependence on the input level in accordance with a predefined first amplification characteristic. However, if a speech component is found, the input signal is amplified in dependence on the input level in accordance with a predefined second amplification characteristic. The second amplification characteristic is formed in dependence on the mean input level such that amplification is increased with respect to first amplification characteristic in a predefined level interval below the mean input level. | 09-05-2013 |