EP2043389A2 - Dispositif de commande pour un appareil auditif - Google Patents

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EP2043389A2
EP2043389A2 EP08105230A EP08105230A EP2043389A2 EP 2043389 A2 EP2043389 A2 EP 2043389A2 EP 08105230 A EP08105230 A EP 08105230A EP 08105230 A EP08105230 A EP 08105230A EP 2043389 A2 EP2043389 A2 EP 2043389A2
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fingerprint sensor
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Mihail Boguslavskij
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
    • H04R25/50—Customised settings for obtaining desired overall acoustical characteristics
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/30—Individual registration on entry or exit not involving the use of a pass
    • G07C9/32—Individual registration on entry or exit not involving the use of a pass in combination with an identity check
    • G07C9/37—Individual registration on entry or exit not involving the use of a pass in combination with an identity check using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2225/00—Details of deaf aids covered by H04R25/00, not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2225/61—Aspects relating to mechanical or electronic switches or control elements, e.g. functioning
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
    • H04R25/60—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles
    • H04R25/603—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of mechanical or electronic switches or control elements

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  • the invention relates to an operating device for a hearing aid device, which comprises at least one user-operable control element, wherein at least one parameter influencing the signal processing in the hearing aid device can be changed by a single actuation of the operating element with a finger of the user.
  • a number of different possibilities are known for operating electrical devices by a user.
  • One way to generate different user inputs for a device is to use a keyboard with a certain number of manually operated buttons.
  • keypads have the disadvantage that they occupy a relatively large amount of space and therefore, especially in control devices where a particularly small design is in the foreground, are not or only poorly suited.
  • switches which allow a plurality of lockable positions, so that it can be distinguished by different switch positions between different output states of the relevant operating device. For example, it is possible to switch over between the operating modes “microphone” and “telephone coil” with the "MTO switch” customary in hearing aids and to switch the hearing aid on and off.
  • MTO switch customary in hearing aids
  • controls are known in which the switching function depends on the number of actuations by the user.
  • the program selection button of a hearing aid is called, in which the selection of the hearing program depends on the number of actuations by the user.
  • a disadvantage of the operation of a hearing aid by means of program selection button is that the user must always count how many times he has pressed the program selector button.
  • only a relatively limited number of hearing programs can be distinguished in practice.
  • a hearing aid is known with a pressure sensor in film design, by means of which can be performed by touching a finger of a user switching and control functions in the hearing aid.
  • Object of the present invention is to provide an operating device for a hearing aid that allows a small amount of space a large number of different operating functions and in which the user can easily distinguish the different operating functions.
  • the basic idea of the invention is to design at least one operating element of the operating device of a hearing aid as a fingerprint sensor, whereby different operating functions are assigned to different fingers of a user are.
  • By distinguishing individual fingers of the user is thus a multiple assignment of a "button" of the control device created, the distinction of individual operating functions is not achieved through a cumbersome menu, but simply by pressing with different fingers of the user.
  • the operating device comprises a fingerprint sensor for receiving a fingerprint. Furthermore, the operating device comprises a memory and a signal processor, so that data can be obtained by means of the fingerprint sensor and stored in the memory. Finally, an association of the fingerprints belonging to different fingers of a person to different operating functions of the operating device takes place. The selection and assignment of the operating functions to individual fingers of the user can also take place in conjunction with a programmer which can be connected to the relevant hearing aid device.
  • fingerprint sensors Due to the progressive miniaturization in the field of fingerprint sensor technology, fingerprint sensors are now available on the market, the areal extent of which hardly exceeds the areal extent of a fingertip to be detected and whose depth lies in the millimeter or submillimeter range. Also, the power consumption of the fingerprint sensor required to acquire a fingerprint is comparatively low, so that therefore also the operation in a battery or battery-powered hearing aid or a remote control for the relevant hearing aid is possible.
  • An embodiment of the invention which allows a particularly small footprint of the operating device provides a fingerprint sensor which, in a scanning interval, at least substantially only one-dimensional area, i. detects a "line" of a finger to be detected.
  • a complete fingerprint is obtained only by sweeping the sensor with your finger.
  • the fingerprint can be generated both by sweeping the sensor in the longitudinal direction of the finger and transversely to the longitudinal direction.
  • the operating device may itself be part of the hearing aid to be operated, i. be integrated in this.
  • the operating device can also be designed as a remote from the hearing aid portable remote control for the hearing aid.
  • a complete numeric keypad with the numbers 0 to 9 can be replaced by a single fingerprint sensor.
  • several fingerprints can be detected in succession according to the invention, whereby, for example, the input of multi-digit decimal numbers with a single fingerprint sensor is possible.
  • the operating device according to the invention comprises a single fingerprint sensor as the only user-operable control element of the operating device. This allows a particularly small design of the operating device according to the invention.
  • the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to an embodiment.
  • the figure shows a hearing aid with a strip-like fingerprint sensor and a Remote control for the hearing aid with a rectangular fingerprint sensor.
  • the figure shows a behind the ear portable hearing aid 1, which has a microphone 2 for receiving an acoustic input signal and conversion into an electrical input signal.
  • the electrical input signal emanating from the microphone 2 is supplied to a signal processing unit 3, in which a frequency-dependent signal processing and amplification of the electrical input signal takes place.
  • the signal processing unit 3 supplies at its signal output an electrical output signal which is fed to a receiver 4 for conversion into an acoustic output signal.
  • the acoustic output signal is supplied via a support hook 5, which is traversed by a sound channel, a sound tube and an ear tip (not shown) to the user's hearing.
  • the hearing aid device 1 according to the embodiment also comprises an on / off switch 6 and a battery 10 for supplying power to the electronic components of the hearing aid device 1.
  • the signal processing in the signal processing unit 3 can be adapted in the hearing aid device 1 to different listening environments.
  • Such listening environments are, for example, “conversation at rest”, “conversation in noise”, “telephoning”, “driving in the car”, etc.
  • optimized parameter values are set in the signal processing unit 3 for the respective hearing situation.
  • These sets of parameter values are also referred to as "listening programs.”
  • the hearing aid users In addition to the manual setting of a hearing aid suitable for a specific listening environment, the hearing aid users often wish to have further setting options, in particular the setting of a pleasant volume. To ensure these adjustment options, hearing aids have been provided with a number of controls so far. The attachment and operation of several controls on a hearing aid designed but because of the targeted at these devices miniaturization as extraordinary difficult. The remedy is the use of a remote control, which then has to be carried as another, additional device.
  • the operating device of the hearing aid device 1 comprises a fingerprint sensor 7, by which a manual adaptation of the signal processing in the hearing aid by the user is possible.
  • a fingerprint sensor 7 according to the invention can be made in a simple manner with a single control a variety of different operating functions.
  • a one-dimensionally designed fingerprint sensor was selected. That is, the sensor array of the fingerprint sensor 7 extends substantially only in one direction.
  • the use of a two-dimensionally formed fingerprint sensor would also be possible, especially in the case of hearing aid devices that can be worn behind the ear.
  • the operating device of the hearing aid 1 comprises in addition to the fingerprint sensor 7 and the on / off switch 6, a signal processing and storage unit 9, are stored in the records regarding the fingerprints of several different fingers of a user and by means of which after sweeping the fingerprint sensor 7 with a finger the relevant finger is detected. Furthermore, an association between the data sets of the fingerprints and the associated operating functions is also stored in the signal processing and storage unit 9. For example, the thumb is assigned the "hearing program 1", the index finger the "hearing program 2" and so on. If the user touches the fingerprint sensor 7 with the index finger, the parameter values associated with the "hearing program 2" are correspondingly set in the signal processing unit 3.
  • the operating device of the hearing aid device 1 also has means for comparing the fingerprints obtained line by line with the data sets stored in the memory of the operating device with respect to the different fingerprints and also to the direction of movement can be closed, with the finger was passed over the fingerprint sensor 7.
  • the user alone with the fingers of one hand in conjunction with the fingerprint sensor 7 perform a variety of different operating functions.
  • the index finger aligned parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fingerprint sensor 7, which is moved transversely to this longitudinal axis, can be assigned the volume setting.
  • the means for detecting the direction of movement with which the respective user's finger is moved relative to the one-dimensional fingerprint sensor 7 via the fingerprint sensor 7 advantageously comprise at least one further sensor for detecting the corresponding direction of movement.
  • a rotatable wheel or a rotatable ball can be arranged in close proximity to the fingerprint sensor, which is set by the sweeping with the finger in a rotational movement, which can be concluded from the rotational movement on the direction of movement of the finger.
  • the operating device could also be provided with a number of "immovable" sensors which detect whether they are covered by a finger. Also from this it can be concluded from a comparison of the output signals of several such sensors at different times on the direction of movement of the finger.
  • the data records relating to the stored fingerprints serve as comparison data records.
  • Corresponding software algorithms are known from scanner technology and in particular from medical diagnostics by means of imaging examination apparatus, in which a line-by-line scanning of an examination object is also frequently carried out, with the obtained line signals being too two or even three-dimensional records are joined together.
  • the selected finger can be clearly identified. This also makes it possible to detect as an additional component in the operation as a further parameter the distance by which the respective finger is moved via the fingerprint sensor 7. If, for example, the index finger of the right hand is moved across the fingerprint sensor 7 transversely to the fingerprint sensor 7 only a few millimeters above the fingerprint sensor 7, this results in a slight increase in the volume. If, on the other hand, the finger is moved completely over the fingerprint sensor 7, this means a large increase in the volume. A sweep in the opposite direction causes a corresponding reduction in the volume.
  • Another operating function with one and the same finger can be achieved by "turning" the finger through 90 °, i. in the embodiment transversely to the longitudinal axis of the fingerprint sensor 7 is moved over this.
  • this finger and the associated movement can for example be assigned the functions of turning the hearing aid on or off, which are usually performed with the hearing aid removed.
  • the assignment of individual fingers and possibly their direction of movement when sweeping the fingerprint sensor 7 to individual operating functions ie at least in Essentially the selection and adjustment of individual parameters of the signal processing unit 3, in conjunction with a programming device (not shown), with which the hearing aid 1 is connectable.
  • the hearing aid 1 also has an antenna 8, through which it can wirelessly exchange data with a remote control 20.
  • the remote control 20 also represents an operating device according to the invention of the hearing aid device 1.
  • an operating device for this purpose, in addition to a display 22, a signal processing and storage unit 23, an antenna 24 and a battery 25 via a fingerprint sensor 21.
  • Analogous to the previously in connection with the hearing aid 1 described also takes place in the remote control 20 an assignment of operating functions (ie a selection of parameters and their setting) to the individual fingers of the user.
  • the fingerprint sensor 21 is advantageously formed two-dimensionally, so that the finger in question can be recognized immediately by a single touch.
  • a control signal is then generated in the signal processing and storage unit 23 and transmitted to the hearing aid device 1, by means of which an operating function assigned to the relevant finger is executed in the hearing aid device 1.
  • the remote control 20 comprises, in addition to the fingerprint sensor 21, no further user-operable controls, so that a particularly small configuration of the remote control 20 is made possible by the invention.

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