Patents by Inventor Doris Zahnd

Doris Zahnd has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240121560
    Abstract: A method includes providing processed sound to a user wearing a hearing device, wherein the hearing device receives environmental sound from an environment of the user, processes the environmental sound with a fitting into the processed sound and outputs the processed sound to the user, wherein the fitting comprises sound processing parameters, which are adapted to needs of the user; receiving, via a user interface, a user text, input by the user, to indicate a problem of the user with the hearing device; and determining a problem diagnosis text and/or a fitting solution from the user text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Charlotte Vercammen, Doris Zahnd, Sebastian Griepentrog
  • Patent number: 11510020
    Abstract: A binaural hearing system includes first and second hearing devices communicatively coupled by way of a binaural communication link. The first hearing device determines that a signal quality measure of a wireless signal transmitted by the remote audio source is greater than an upper threshold level. In response, both hearing devices enter a wireless audio rendering mode in which they render a remote audio stream from the remote audio source to a user. While operating in the wireless audio rendering mode, both hearing devices determine that a signal quality measure of the remote audio stream drops below a lower threshold level. In response to this determination, both hearing devices exit the wireless audio rendering mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Sonova AG
    Inventors: Georg Dickmann, Daniel Lucas-Hirtz, Doris Zahnd
  • Publication number: 20210360357
    Abstract: A binaural hearing system includes first and second hearing devices communicatively coupled by way of a binaural communication link. The first hearing device determines that a signal quality measure of a wireless signal transmitted by the remote audio source is greater than an upper threshold level. In response, both hearing devices enter a wireless audio rendering mode in which they render a remote audio stream from the remote audio source to a user. While operating in the wireless audio rendering mode, both hearing devices determine that a signal quality measure of the remote audio stream drops below a lower threshold level. In response to this determination, both hearing devices exit the wireless audio rendering mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Georg Dickmann, Daniel Lucas-Hirtz, Doris Zahnd
  • Patent number: 11089411
    Abstract: A binaural hearing system includes first and second hearing devices communicatively coupled by way of a binaural communication link. The first hearing device determines that a signal quality measure of a wireless signal transmitted by the remote audio source is greater than an upper threshold level. In response, both hearing devices enter a wireless audio rendering mode in which they render a remote audio stream from the remote audio source to a user. While operating in the wireless audio rendering mode, both hearing devices determine that a signal quality measure of the remote audio stream drops below a lower threshold level. In response to this determination, both hearing devices exit the wireless audio rendering mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Sonova AG
    Inventors: Georg Dickman, Daniel Lucas-Hirtz, Doris Zahnd
  • Publication number: 20200196070
    Abstract: A binaural hearing system includes first and second hearing devices communicatively coupled by way of a binaural communication link. The first hearing device determines that a signal quality measure of a wireless signal transmitted by the remote audio source is greater than an upper threshold level. In response, both hearing devices enter a wireless audio rendering mode in which they render a remote audio stream from the remote audio source to a user. While operating in the wireless audio rendering mode, both hearing devices determine that a signal quality measure of the remote audio stream drops below a lower threshold level. In response to this determination, both hearing devices exit the wireless audio rendering mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Georg Dickman, Daniel Lucas-Hirtz, Doris Zahnd