Patents Assigned to Varibel B.V.
  • Patent number: 8139801
    Abstract: Hearing glasses with a left temple and a right temple connected to a front portion supporting a pair of lenses, at least one temple with one single microphone and a processor connected to the single microphone. The single microphone is an omnidirectional microphone and located in the temple such that, when the hearing glasses are worn by a human's head where the at least one temple is at a predetermined side of the head, the single microphone can receive sound substantially unblocked by the head from sound sources both at a left and right frontal side of the head, as well as from one back side of the head corresponding to the predetermined side of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Varibel B.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Karel Sipkema, Jacob van der Zwan
  • Patent number: 7735996
    Abstract: Connector assembly for connecting an earpiece (27) of a hearing aid to a glasses temple (13). The glasses temple (13) has hearing aid components. The connector assembly (31) has a first connector housing (34) and a second connector housing (37). The first connector housing (34) is designed to be attached to the earpiece (27) via an intermediate unit (29) whereas the second connector housing (37) is designed to be attached to the glasses temple (13). The first and second connector housings (34, 37) are designed to engage one another by way of a disconnectable connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Varibel B.V.
    Inventors: Jacob van der Zwan, Marcus Karel Sipkema
  • Patent number: 7609842
    Abstract: A hearing aid/spectacles combination includes a spectacle frame and a first reproduction unit. The spectacle frame has a microphone array in a first spectacle arm. The microphone array is able to pick up a sound signal and is able to transmit a processed signal, produced on the basis of the sound signal, to the first reproduction unit. The hearing aid/spectacles combination includes a sound registration module that includes the microphone array; a beam forming module for forming a direction-dependent processed signal; a reproduction adaptation module for controlling a reproduction characteristic of the processed sound signal produced by the first reproduction unit; a reproduction module that comprises the first reproduction unit; and a reproduction control module for controlling a reproduction characteristic of the processed sound signal produced by the first reproduction unit; the beam forming module and the reproduction adaptation module can be based on digital techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Varibel B.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Karel Sipkema, Marinus Marias Boone, Thomas Alfred Hutjes
  • Publication number: 20090252360
    Abstract: Hearing glasses with a left temple and a right temple connected to a front portion supporting a pair of lenses, at least one temple with one single microphone and a processor connected to the single microphone. The single microphone is an omnidirectional microphone and located in the temple such that, when the hearing glasses are worn by a human's head where the at least one temple is at a predetermined side of the head, the single microphone can receive sound substantially unblocked by the head from sound sources both at a left and right frontal side of the head, as well as from one back side of the head corresponding to the predetermined side of the head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2007
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: VARIBEL B.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Karel Sipkema, Jacob van der Zwan