Patents by Inventor Thomas Lunner

Thomas Lunner 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: 20240082599
    Abstract: A cochlear implant hearing aid system is disclosed. The cochlear implant hearing aid system comprises an external part. The external part includes a sound pickup unit configured to pick up sound from the environment and a sound processing unit configured to process said sound. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises an implant part. The implant part includes an implant processing unit and a plurality of cochlea stimulation electrodes for stimulation of a cochlea of a user. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises a near-infrared transmitter configured to transmit a near-infrared wave. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises a near-infrared receiver configured to receive said near-infrared wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Oticon Medical A/S
    Inventors: Søren Kamaric RIIS, Thomas LUNNER, Dorothea WENDT, Bradford BACKUS
  • Patent number: 11872408
    Abstract: A cochlear implant hearing aid system is disclosed. The cochlear implant hearing aid system comprises an external part. The external part includes a sound pickup unit configured to pick up sound from the environment and a sound processing unit configured to process said sound. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises an implant part. The implant part includes an implant processing unit and a plurality of cochlea stimulation electrodes for stimulation of a cochlea of a user. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises a near-infrared transmitter configured to transmit a near-infrared wave. The cochlear implant hearing aid system further comprises a near-infrared receiver configured to receive said near-infrared wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oticon Medical A/S
    Inventors: Søren Kamaric Riis, Thomas Lunner, Dorothea Wendt, Bradford Backus
  • Patent number: 11863938
    Abstract: The present application relates to a hearing aid adapted to be worn in or at an ear of a hearing aid user and/or to be fully or partially implanted in the head of the hearing aid user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Lars Bramsløw
  • Publication number: 20230412990
    Abstract: The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas LUNNER, Tanveer BHUIYAN, José Antonio ESPARZA ISASA, Sergi Rotger GRIFUL, Antonello SALVATUCCI, Gary JONES, Kim Tilgaard PETERSEN, Peter SOMMER
  • Patent number: 11785397
    Abstract: The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Tanveer Bhuiyan, José Antonio Esparza Isasa, Sergi Rotger Griful, Antonello Salvatucci, Gary Jones, Kim Tilgaard Petersen, Peter Sommer
  • Patent number: 11671769
    Abstract: A method of personalizing one or more parameters of a processing algorithm for use in a hearing aid of a specific user comprises Performing a predictive test for estimating a hearing ability of the user when listening to signals having different characteristics; Analyzing results of said predictive test for said user and providing a hearing ability measure for said user; Selecting a specific processing algorithm of said hearing aid, Selecting a cost-benefit function related to said user's hearing ability in dependence of said different characteristics for said algorithm; and Determining, for said user, one or more personalized parameters of said processing algorithm in dependence of said hearing ability measure and said cost-benefit function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Gary Jones, Lars Bramsløw, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Pauli Minnaar, Jesper Jensen, Michael Kai Petersen, Peter Sommer, Hongyan Sun, Jacob Schack Larsen
  • Publication number: 20220286791
    Abstract: The present application relates to a hearing aid adapted to be worn in or at an ear of a hearing aid user and/or to be fully or partially implanted in the head of the hearing aid user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas LUNNER, Lars BRAMSLØW
  • Patent number: 11375322
    Abstract: The present application relates to a hearing aid adapted to be worn in or at an ear of a hearing aid user and/or to be fully or partially implanted in the head of the hearing aid user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Lars Bramsløw
  • Publication number: 20220141601
    Abstract: A method for picking up body signals from the head of a user comprises a) placing first and second electrodes on first and second different positions at a first side of the user's head in direct or capacitive contact with the user's head, said first side comprising a first eye of the user, the first and second electrodes being configured to pick up first and second electric potentials, respectively, from the user's body, and b) providing an Electrooculography signal representative of a corneo-retinal potential difference of said first eye of the user in dependence of said at first and second electric potentials. The first and second positions may be (substantially) located in a plane including the first eye of the user. A portable electronic device providing an Electrooculography signal, and a hearing device utilizing an Electrooculography signal is further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas LUNNER, Alejandro LOPEZ VALDES, Henrik BENDSEN, Claus CHRISTENSEN, Peter SCHMIDT, Ole ANDERSEN, Mikkel NIELSEN, Tanveer BHUIYAN
  • Patent number: 11297448
    Abstract: A method for picking up body signals from the head of a user comprises a) placing first and second electrodes on first and second different positions at a first side of the user's head in direct or capacitive contact with the user's head, said first side comprising a first eye of the user, the first and second electrodes being configured to pick up first and second electric potentials, respectively, from the user's body, and b) providing an Electrooculography signal representative of a corneo-retinal potential difference of said first eye of the user in dependence of said at first and second electric potentials. The first and second positions may be (substantially) located in a plane including the first eye of the user. A portable electronic device providing an Electrooculography signal, and a hearing device utilizing an Electrooculography signal is further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Alejandro Lopez Valdes, Henrik Bendsen, Claus Christensen, Peter Schmidt, Ole Andersen, Mikkel Nielsen, Tanveer Bhuiyan
  • Patent number: 11297444
    Abstract: The invention concerns a hearing aid system that comprises an ear canal member comprising a sensor arrangement. The sensor arrangement comprises at least one surface electrode located at a surface of said ear canal member to allow said at least one surface electrode to contact the skin of a user when said ear canal member is operationally mounted on the user. The at least one surface electrode (150) is adapted to pick up a low voltage electric signal from the user's skin. The sensor arrangement further comprises a light sensor (180) located at a surface of said housing to allow emitting light through skin proximate to the light sensor (180) and capturing reflected and/or scattered light when said ear canal member is operationally mounted on the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Tanveer Bhuiyan, Ariane Laplante-Lévesque, José Antonio Esparza Isasa, Sergi Rotger Griful
  • Publication number: 20220007116
    Abstract: A method of personalizing one or more parameters of a processing algorithm for use in a hearing aid of a specific user comprises Performing a predictive test for estimating a hearing ability of the user when listening to signals having different characteristics; Analyzing results of said predictive test for said user and providing a hearing ability measure for said user; Selecting a specific processing algorithm of said hearing aid, Selecting a cost-benefit function related to said user's hearing ability in dependence of said different characteristics for said algorithm; and Determining, for said user, one or more personalized parameters of said processing algorithm in dependence of said hearing ability measure and said cost-benefit function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas LUNNER, Gary JONES, Lars BRAMSLØW, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Pauli MINNAAR, Jesper JENSEN, Michael Kai PETERSEN, Peter SOMMER, Hongyan SUN, Jacob Schack LARSEN
  • Publication number: 20210392446
    Abstract: The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas LUNNER, Tanveer BHUIYAN, José Antonio ESPARZA ISASA, Sergi Rotger GRIFUL, Antonello SALVATUCCI, Gary JONES, Kim Tilgaard PETERSEN, Peter SOMMER
  • Patent number: 11185257
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication devices. Such devices may comprise input for receiving sound signal to be processed and presented to a user, and output for outputting the processed signal to a user perceivable as sound. Such processing may be performed by use of a processor for processing the sound signal in dependence of a setting or a set of setting to compensate a hearing loss profile. Further, the communication device may comprise a bio-signal acquisition and amplifier component in communication with a user interface for providing the bio-signals as input to the user interface, the user interface controlling the setting or set of setting for operation of the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Niels Henrik Pontoppidan, Thomas Lunner, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Lars Ivar Hauschultz, Povl Koch, Graham Naylor, Eline Borch Petersen
  • Patent number: 11134351
    Abstract: The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Tanveer Bhuiyan, José Antonio Esparza Isasa, Sergi Rotger Griful, Antonello Salvatucci, Gary Jones, Kim Tilgaard Petersen, Peter Sommer
  • Publication number: 20210274294
    Abstract: The present application relates to a hearing aid adapted to be worn in or at an ear of a hearing aid user and/or to be fully or partially implanted in the head of the hearing aid user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas LUNNER, Lars BRAMSLØW
  • Publication number: 20210235203
    Abstract: A method for picking up body signals from the head of a user comprises a) placing first and second electrodes on first and second different positions at a first side of the user's head in direct or capacitive contact with the user's head, said first side comprising a first eye of the user, the first and second electrodes being configured to pick up first and second electric potentials, respectively, from the user's body, and b) providing an Electrooculography signal representative of a corneo-retinal potential difference of said first eye of the user in dependence of said at first and second electric potentials. The first and second positions may be (substantially) located in a plane including the first eye of the user. A portable electronic device providing an Electrooculography signal, and a hearing device utilizing an Electrooculography signal is further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas LUNNER, Alejandro LOPEZ VALDES, Henrik BENDSEN, Claus CHRISTENSEN, Peter SCHMIDT, Ole ANDERSEN, Mikkel NIELSEN, Tanveer BHUIYAN
  • Patent number: 11043210
    Abstract: There is provided a speech classification apparatus for hearing devices with electroencephalography, EEG, dependent sound processing, comprising a sound processing unit configured to capturing sound input signals from at least one external microphone and segmenting said captured sound input signals into segmented sound signals, a speech classification unit comprising a speech cepstrum calculation unit configured to calculate a speech cepstrum for each segmented sound signal, an EEG cepstrum calculation unit configured to calculate an EEG cepstrum for an EEG signal of a user's brain, a mapping unit configured to select a predetermined number of coefficients from each calculated sound cepstrum and from the calculated EEG cepstrum, and a correlation unit configured to calculate a correlation value for each captured sound input signal based on a correlation of the predetermined number of selected coefficients from the respective calculated sound cepstrum with the predetermined number of selected coefficients from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Carina Graversen, Emina Alickovic, Carlos Francisco Mendoza Lara, Andrew Segar
  • Patent number: 10945079
    Abstract: A hearing system is adapted to be worn by a user and configured to capture sound in an environment of the user and comprises a) a sensor array comprising M transducers for providing M electric input signals representing said sound and having a known geometrical configuration relative to each other; b) a detector unit for detecting movements over time of the hearing system, and providing location data of said sensor array at different points in time t, t=1, . . . , N; c) a first processor for receiving said electric input signals and—in case said sound comprises sound from a localized sound source S—for extracting sensor array configuration specific data ?ij of said sensor array indicative of differences between a time of arrival of sound from said localized sound source S at said respective input transducers, at said different points in time t, t=1, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Martin Skoglund, Thomas Lunner, Fredrik Gustafsson
  • Patent number: 10820121
    Abstract: A hearing system comprises a hearing device, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Martin Skoglund, Fredrik Gustafsson