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US08391524B2 Hearing aid, hearing aid system, walking detection method, and hearing aid method 有权
助听器,助听器系统,步行检测方法和助听器方法

  • Patent Title: Hearing aid, hearing aid system, walking detection method, and hearing aid method
  • Patent Title (中): 助听器,助听器系统,步行检测方法和助听器方法
  • Application No.: US13057227
    Application Date: 2010-06-02
  • Publication No.: US08391524B2
    Publication Date: 2013-03-05
  • Inventor: Shinya Gozen
  • Applicant: Shinya Gozen
  • Applicant Address: JP Osaka
  • Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
  • Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
  • Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
  • Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
  • Priority: JP2009-132811 20090602
  • International Application: PCT/JP2010/003684 WO 20100602
  • International Announcement: WO2010/140358 WO 20101209
  • Main IPC: H04R25/00
  • IPC: H04R25/00
Hearing aid, hearing aid system, walking detection method, and hearing aid method
Abstract:
A hearing aid that analyzes a surrounding acoustic environment and automatically switches between a plurality of hearing aid processing reduces noise by limiting directionality, when the user is in a noisy outdoor location. However, in the case where directionality is limited to the front when the user is walking or the like, the user is put in extreme danger because he/she cannot notice sound of danger approaching from behind. Behavior analysis of identifying a walking state of the user is necessary in addition to environmental analysis, but typical walking detection using a sensor as in the case of a pedometer and the like is not applicable to a device worn at an ear such as a hearing aid. On the basis of an occurrence pattern of wind noise when walking, the walking state of the user is identified in the case where pulse-like wind noise occurs repeatedly. This enables walking detection to be performed using an existing structure, with there being no need to provide a sensor or the like. Hence, it is possible to provide a hearing aid that can be safely used even outdoors.
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