WO2008145409A3 - Hearing instrument and method for providing hearing assistance to a user - Google Patents

Hearing instrument and method for providing hearing assistance to a user Download PDF

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WO2008145409A3
WO2008145409A3 PCT/EP2008/007093 EP2008007093W WO2008145409A3 WO 2008145409 A3 WO2008145409 A3 WO 2008145409A3 EP 2008007093 W EP2008007093 W EP 2008007093W WO 2008145409 A3 WO2008145409 A3 WO 2008145409A3
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Bernd Waldmann
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Sonova Holding AG
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Phonak AG
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Priority to US13/061,193 priority patent/US20110158444A1/en
Priority to EP08801770A priority patent/EP2319252A2/en
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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
    • H04R25/60—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles
    • H04R25/604—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of acoustic or vibrational transducers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2410/00—Microphones
    • H04R2410/01—Noise reduction using microphones having different directional characteristics
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2430/00—Signal processing covered by H04R, not provided for in its groups
    • H04R2430/20—Processing of the output signals of the acoustic transducers of an array for obtaining a desired directivity characteristic
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2460/00—Details of hearing devices, i.e. of ear- or headphones covered by H04R1/10 or H04R5/033 but not provided for in any of their subgroups, or of hearing aids covered by H04R25/00 but not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2460/13—Hearing devices using bone conduction transducers

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  • General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Neurosurgery (AREA)
  • Otolaryngology (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
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  • Acoustics & Sound (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Details Of Audible-Bandwidth Transducers (AREA)
  • Circuit For Audible Band Transducer (AREA)

Abstract

The invention relates to a hearing instrument comprising an audio signal processing unit (16) for processing audio signals and means (20) for vibrating at least one of the a user's eyeballs (22) in the audible frequence range according to the processed audio signals in order to stimualate the user's hearing sense.
PCT/EP2008/007093 2008-08-29 2008-08-29 Hearing instrument and method for providing hearing assistance to a user Ceased WO2008145409A2 (en)

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AU2008258098A AU2008258098A1 (en) 2008-08-29 2008-08-29 Hearing instrument and method for providing hearing assistance to a user
PCT/EP2008/007093 WO2008145409A2 (en) 2008-08-29 2008-08-29 Hearing instrument and method for providing hearing assistance to a user
US13/061,193 US20110158444A1 (en) 2008-08-29 2008-08-29 Hearing instrument and method for providing hearing assistance to a user
EP08801770A EP2319252A2 (en) 2008-08-29 2008-08-29 Hearing instrument and method for providing hearing assistance to a user

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