Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital hearing aid adaptive to structures of human external ear canals
- Patent Title (中): 适用于人体外耳道结构的数字助听器
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Application No.: US11876490Application Date: 2007-10-22
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Publication No.: US08150049B2Publication Date: 2012-04-03
- Inventor: Hoi-Jun Yoo , Sun-Young Kim , Seung-Jin Lee
- Applicant: Hoi-Jun Yoo , Sun-Young Kim , Seung-Jin Lee
- Applicant Address: KR Daejeon-si
- Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daejeon-si
- Agency: H.C. Park & Associates, PLC
- Priority: KR10-2006-0103478 20061024
- Main IPC: H04R29/00
- IPC: H04R29/00

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a digital hearing aid, which models the structures of external ear canals, sizes and shape characteristics of which differ between respective persons, obtains resonance gains generated due to the structural characteristics of the external ear canals, and performs digitization and signal processing to allow the resonance gains to be used as the gain factors of the digital hearing aid, and thus applies the gain factors to digital signal processing units. Further, the present invention proposes a gain obtainment unit capable of taking both resonance gains, generated due to the structural characteristics, and gains, obtained through a hearing test, into account, thus reducing the time required for gain fitting and possible errors, and optimizing the performance of the digital hearing aid for each individual.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080273726A1 DIGITAL HEARING AID ADAPTIVE TO STRUCTURES OF HUMAN EXTERNAL EAR CANALS Public/Granted day:2008-11-06
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