Patents Assigned to Sonic Innovations, Inc.
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Publication number: 20160345111Abstract: A computer-implemented method for obtaining hearing enhancement fittings for a hearing aid device is described. A plurality of audiograms is collected. The plurality of audiograms is divided into one or more sets of audiograms. A representative audiogram is created for each set of audiograms. A hearing enhancement fitting is computed from each representative audiogram. A hearing aid device is programmed with one or more hearing enhancement fittings computed from each representative audiogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: SONIC INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventor: Gerald A. WILSON
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Patent number: 9426590Abstract: A computer-implemented method for obtaining hearing enhancement fittings for a hearing aid device is described. A plurality of audiograms is collected. The plurality of audiograms is divided into one or more sets of audiograms. A representative audiogram is created for each set of audiograms. A hearing enhancement fitting is computed from each representative audiogram. A hearing aid device is programmed with one or more hearing enhancement fittings computed from each representative audiogram.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: SONIC INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventor: Gerald A. Wilson
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Patent number: 8989415Abstract: A computer-implemented method including receiving a first signal from an input device of a hearing aid. The first signal may include a noise signal. The computer-implemented method may include low-pass filtering first periodic samples of the first signal, and the first periodic samples may be approximately periodic with respect to a period of the noise signal. The computer-implemented method may further include low-pass filtering second periodic samples of the first signal, and the second periodic samples may be approximately periodic with respect to the period of the noise signal. The second periodic samples may also be phase shifted relative to the first periodic samples. Hearing aid systems and apparatuses are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventor: Gerald Wilson
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Publication number: 20130343554Abstract: A computer-implemented method for obtaining hearing enhancement fittings for a hearing aid device is described. A plurality of audiograms is collected. The plurality of audiograms is divided into one or more sets of audiograms. A representative audiogram is created for each set of audiograms. A hearing enhancement fitting is computed from each representative audiogram. A hearing aid device is programmed with one or more hearing enhancement fittings computed from each representative audiogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: SONIC INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventor: Gerald A. WILSON
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Patent number: 8538033Abstract: A computer-implemented method for obtaining hearing enhancement fittings for a hearing aid device is described. A plurality of audiograms is collected. The plurality of audiograms is divided into one or more sets of audiograms. A representative audiogram is created for each set of audiograms. A hearing enhancement fitting is computed from each representative audiogram. A hearing aid device is programmed with one or more hearing enhancement fittings computed from each representative audiogram.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventor: Gerald A. Wilson
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Publication number: 20130077807Abstract: A computer-implemented method including receiving a first signal from an input device of a hearing aid. The first signal may include a noise signal. The computer-implemented method may include low-pass filtering first periodic samples of the first signal, and the first periodic samples may be approximately periodic with respect to a period of the noise signal. The computer-implemented method may further include low-pass filtering second periodic samples of the first signal, and the second periodic samples may be approximately periodic with respect to the period of the noise signal. The second periodic samples may also be phase shifted relative to the first periodic samples. Hearing aid systems and apparatuses are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: SONIC INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventor: SONIC INNOVATIONS, INC.
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Patent number: 8374368Abstract: A hearing aid is described. The hearing aid includes a control surface and a control element. The hearing aid further includes a plurality of components in addition to the control surface and the control element. A portion of the control surface is configured to engage a portion of the control element. The control surface at least partially circumscribes at least one of the plurality of components.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Owen D. Brimhall, Craig M. Collotzi
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Patent number: 8363869Abstract: A hearing aid including an audio-processing device. The audio-processing device may be configured to receive a signal from a microphone and send the signal to a receiver. The hearing aid may include a hearing aid housing coupled to the audio-processing device. The hearing aid housing may have a body and a battery door. The battery door may be coupled to the body to form a battery cavity. The battery door may be movable about an axis of rotation that extends through a circular cross section of the battery cavity. Additional hearing aid housing configurations and methods for manufacturing hearing aids are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Owen Brimhall, Jeremy Horton, Craig Collotzi
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Patent number: 8340333Abstract: A computer-implemented method including receiving a first signal from an input device of a hearing aid. The first signal may include a noise signal. The computer-implemented method may include low-pass filtering first periodic samples of the first signal, and the first periodic samples may be approximately periodic with respect to a period of the noise signal. The computer-implemented method may further include low-pass filtering second periodic samples of the first signal, and the second periodic samples may be approximately periodic with respect to the period of the noise signal. The second periodic samples may also be phase shifted relative to the first periodic samples. Hearing aid systems and apparatuses are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventor: Gerald Wilson
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Patent number: 8331594Abstract: A hearing aid device is described. The device including a housing having a plurality of sides, the housing also having a first color. At least one electrical component is held within the housing. A clip removably attachable to the housing is provided. The clip has a second color. The clip covers at least a portion of the plurality of sides of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Owen D. Brimhall, Craig M. Collotzi
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Publication number: 20110235834Abstract: A hearing aid is described. The hearing aid includes a control surface and a control element. The hearing aid further includes a plurality of components in addition to the control surface and the control element. A portion of the control surface is configured to engage a portion of the control element. The control surface at least partially circumscribes at least one of the plurality of components.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: SONIC INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventors: Owen D. Brimhall, Craig M. Collotzi
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Publication number: 20110170722Abstract: A hearing aid device is described. The device including a housing having a plurality of sides, the housing also having a first color. At least one electrical component is held within the housing. A clip removably attachable to the housing is provided. The clip has a second color. The clip covers at least a portion of the plurality of sides of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Owen D. Brimhall, Craig M. Collotzi
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Patent number: 7903827Abstract: In accordance with the present invention the hearing aid programmer includes a program memory for receiving firmware programming instructions and a parameter memory for receiving patient-specific hearing aid parameters to be programmed into a coupled programmable hearing aid. A software hearing aid fitting system executed on a computer such as a PC provides the parameters. In response to a user command, the computer causes a firmware program (selected from one or more firmware programs stored on the computer) appropriate to the hearing aid to be programmed to be downloaded to the programmer.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2004Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Scott William Lockwood, David Rex Scott
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Publication number: 20110051942Abstract: A computer-implemented method for obtaining hearing enhancement fittings for a hearing aid device is described. A plurality of audiograms is collected. The plurality of audiograms is divided into one or more sets of audiograms. A representative audiogram is created for each set of audiograms. A hearing enhancement fitting is computed from each representative audiogram. A hearing aid device is programmed with one or more hearing enhancement fittings computed from each representative audiogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: Sonic Innovations Inc.Inventor: Gerald A. Wilson
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Publication number: 20090279727Abstract: A hearing aid including an audio-processing device. The audio-processing device may be configured to receive a signal from a microphone and send the signal to a receiver. The hearing aid may include a hearing aid housing coupled to the audio-processing device. The hearing aid housing may have a body and a battery door. The battery door may be coupled to the body to form a battery cavity. The battery door may be movable about an axis of rotation that extends through a circular cross section of the battery cavity. Additional hearing aid housing configurations and methods for manufacturing hearing aids are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2008Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Owen Brimhall, Jeremy Horton, Craig Collotzi
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Publication number: 20090220114Abstract: A computer-implemented method including receiving a first signal from an input device of a hearing aid. The first signal may include a noise signal. The computer-implemented method may include low-pass filtering first periodic samples of the first signal, and the first periodic samples may be approximately periodic with respect to a period of the noise signal. The computer-implemented method may further include low-pass filtering second periodic samples of the first signal, and the second periodic samples may be approximately periodic with respect to the period of the noise signal. The second periodic samples may also be phase shifted relative to the first periodic samples. Hearing aid systems and apparatuses are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2008Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventor: Gerald Wilson
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Patent number: 7362875Abstract: A self-expanding hearing device is disclosed. The device includes a body, a membrane coupled to the body, and a frame coupled to the body, so that a user can compress the frame for insertion into the user's ear canal, and when the user releases compression the frame expands so that the device is lodged in the ear canal.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2004Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Gary M. Saxton, Ross S. Tsugita, Jobert P. Balceta
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Patent number: 7274794Abstract: A sound processing system including at least one microphone, an audio processor, and at least one output device. The audio processor includes an analog beamformer, a microphone equalizer, and an apparent incidence processor. Two different embodiments of the apparent incidence processor are disclosed, that is, a wave generation method and a forward filtering method. Both embodiments use the same principles to estimate the properties of the individual waves of the sound field. With the present invention, it is possible to implement arbitrary directivity responses using a small number of microphones only, that is, two or three microphones. The present invention offers improved noise reduction also for environments with many independent noise sources. Furthermore, the present invention works for signals and noises with arbitrary statistics.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2001Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventor: Erik Witthoefft Rasmussen
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Patent number: 7020297Abstract: A new subband feedback cancellation scheme is proposed, capable of providing additional stable gain without introducing audible artifacts. The subband feedback cancellation scheme employs a cascade of two narrow-band filters Ai(Z) and Bi(Z) along with a fixed delay, instead of a single filter Wi(Z) and a delay to represent the feedback path in each subband. The first filter, Ai(Z), is called the training filter, and models the static portion of the feedback path in ith subband, including microphone, receiver, ear canal resonance, and other relatively static parameters. The training filter can be implemented as a FIR filter or as an IIR filter. The second filter, BI(Z), is called a tracking filter and is typically implemented as a FIR filter with fewer taps than the training filter. This second filter tracks the variations of the feedback path in the ith subband caused by jaw movement or objects close to the ears of the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2003Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Xiaoling Fang, Gerald Wilson, Brad Giles
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Patent number: D634848Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Sonic Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Owen D. Brimhall, Craig M. Collotzi