Patents by Inventor Peter Magnus Norgaard

Peter Magnus Norgaard 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: 20100086155
    Abstract: A hearing aid is adapted for issuing, at at least one predetermined notification time, a notification to a hearing aid user wearing the hearing aid. The hearing aid comprises digital circuitry (16, 17) including a digital processor (16), means (18) for generating a first time base for the digital circuitry (16, 17) of the hearing aid, digital storage means (13) for storing data corresponding to a time limit at which a notification is to occur, and a compensation factor value indicating a relative difference between said first time base and a second external time base. Furthermore the hearing aid comprises means for determining, based on said data indicating the predetermined notification time, said first time base and said compensation factor value, when said predetermined notification time has been reached and issuing the notification. The invention further provides a method for issuing a notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Widex A/S
    Inventor: Peter Magnus NORGAARD
  • Publication number: 20090067651
    Abstract: A hearing aid comprises at least one microphone (M) for converting input sound into an input signal, a subtraction node for subtracting a feedback cancellation signal from the input signal thereby generating a processor input signal, a hearing aid processor (G) for producing a processor output signal by applying an amplification gain to the processor input signal, a receiver (R) for converting the processor output signal into output sound, an adaptive feedback cancellation filter for adaptively deriving the feedback cancellation signal from the processor output signal by applying filter coefficients, calculation means for calculating the autocorrelation of a reference signal, and an adaptation means for adjusting the filter coefficients with an adaptation rate, wherein the adaptation rate is controlled in dependency of the autocorrelation of the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Widex A/S
    Inventors: Kristian Tjalfe Klinkby, Peter Magnus Norgaard, Helge Pontoppidan Foeh
  • Publication number: 20080298615
    Abstract: A hearing aid (200) with multiple microphones comprises a first microphone (1) for converting sound into a first audio signal, a second microphone (20) for converting sound into a second audio signal, directional processing means for combining the first and said second audio signal according to a mixing ratio to form a spatial signal, estimating means for estimating a first acoustic feedback signal entering the first microphone and a second acoustic feedback signal entering the second microphone, processing means (4) for processing said spatial signal by applying a gain not exceeding a resulting maximum gain limit to form a hearing loss compensation signal, wherein the resulting maximum gain limit is derived from the first and second acoustic feedback signals and the mixing ratio, and an output transducer (3) for converting the hearing loss compensation signal into an acoustic output. The invention further provides a method and a computer program product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: Widex A/S
    Inventors: Kristian Tjalfe Klinkby, Peter Magnus Norgaard, Helge Pontoppidan Foh, Thilo Volker Thiede
  • Publication number: 20080253596
    Abstract: A hearing aid comprises two microphones, directional processing means for combining the respective audio signals to form a spatial signal, a beamformer for controlling the directional processing means to provide adaptation of the spatial signal, and means for boosting low frequencies of the spatial signal. A feedback estimator generates a feedback compensation signal, which is combined with the boosted spatial signal. By applying feedback compensation only after directional processing and low frequency boosting, the device avoids interference by the feedback estimator with the function of the beamformer. The invention also provides a method of processing signals in a hearing aid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: Widex A/S
    Inventors: Kristian Tjalfe Klinkby, Jorgen Cederberg, Helge Pontoppidan Foeh, Peter Magnus Norgaard, Thilo Volker Thiede