Abstract: Outputs of a pulse sensor, a brain wave sensor, a conductivity sensor and an acceleration sensor are input to respectively corresponding condition detecting means, and the condition of the wearer (biological information, motion) is detected by the condition detecting means. The condition determining means determines the operation mode of the hearing aid from the condition of the wearer according to predetermined algorithm. Operation mode control portion drives an earphone based on the operation mode. By this, the characteristics of the hearing aid can be varied adapting to the wearer's condition.

Abstract: Input data are analyzed by FFT, etc. in an analyzing section and power every frequency band is calculated and sent to a control section. In a gain control section, changing characteristics of a gain used in the control section are calculated on the basis of hearing ability characteristics of a user obtained from a memory section and a gain setting memory section, a sound pressure for starting a reduction in gain, and a sound pressure for setting the gain to be equal to or greater than 0 dB. The calculated changing characteristics are sent to the control section. In the control section, the gain every frequency band required in a hearing sense compensating section is determined on the basis of analyzed results obtained from the analyzing section, the hearing ability characteristics of the user obtained from the memory section, and the changing characteristics of the gain obtained from the gain control section. The control section sends data of the gain to the hearing sense compensating section.

Abstract: A digital hearing aid enables a user to distinguish an alarm sound from other environmental sound. The hearing aid includes a control unit for determining amplifications for respective frequency band required for acoustic sense compensation on the basis of the result of analysis by an analyzing unit, the hearing characteristics data from a storage unit, and presence and absence of the alarm sound per respective frequency bands from an alarm sound detecting unit for feeding amplification data, and an acoustic sense compensating unit for receiving the input data from an input unit and amplification data from the control unit, for performing an acoustic sense compensating process to increase amplification of the frequency band containing the alarm sound to be greater than those of other frequency bands when the alarm sound contained in a specific frequency band is detected by the alarm sound detecting unit, for outputting.

Abstract: A digitally programmable hearing aid modifies a digital signal representative of a piece of talk and background noise by using hearing aid parameters, and the hearing aid parameters are transferred between the digitally programmable hearing aid and an external system in the form of acoustic signal so as to delete an electric connector from the digitally programmable hearing aid.

Abstract: A digital hearing aid having a variable hearing compensating characteristics, comprises a hearing compensating circuit having a transposed transversal filter, an analyzer for frequency-analyzing an input signal, a memory storing a hearing characteristics of a person to be fitted with the hearing aid, and a controller receiving a frequency analysis result of the input signal and the hearing characteristics, for deriving coefficients for the transposed transversal filter to supply the derived coefficients to the transposed transversal filter. Since the transposed transversal filter is used, the S/N ration is improved, and the control of the characteristics of the filter becomes easy.

Abstract: A hearing aid stores a plurality of sets of hearing aid parameters in built-in memories, and tailors suitable hearing aid parameters through an interpolation between the sets of hearing aid parameters so as to cope with new working conditions, thereby allowing a user to adjust the hearing aid to his hearing sense.

Abstract: A digital hearing aid has input means for converting an input sound into a digital data for generating an input data, analyzing means for analyzing the input data converted by the input means by a digital conversion and calculating an acoustic pressure at each frequency band, control means for inputting a result of calculation by the analyzing means, acoustic sense characteristics storage means for preliminarily storing acoustic sense characteristics of a deafness and a person having healthy acoustic sense from a fitting means, gain calculation data storage means for preliminarily storing an acoustic pressure range the easiest to hear for the deafness from the fitting means, and acoustic sense compensating means for performing acoustic sense compensation process by amplifying the input data with a given gain.

Abstract: An external device to be used along with a hearing aid device comprises an input means through which voice data are inputted, a hearing aid processor coupled to the input means for receiving the voice data from the input means to make an acoustic sense compensation of the voice data, and a transmitter coupled to the hearing aid processor for receiving compensated voice data from the hearing aid processor and transmitting the compensated voice data to the hearing aid device.