Patents by Inventor Alexander von Brasch
Alexander von Brasch 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).
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Publication number: 20240089679Abstract: Treatment actions can be taken based on an analysis of the ability of a recipient of an auditory prosthesis to perceive musical activities. The occurrence of musical activities and the recipient's response thereto can be determined based on transducers. The recipient's musical perception can be determined by analyzing the signals from the transducers as stand-alone measures or by comparing the signals against known music. The treatment actions can relate to the treatment of a hearing-impairment of the recipient of the auditory prosthesis, such as by modifying the settings of the auditory prosthesis to affect the ongoing operation of the auditory prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Ivana Popovac, Alexander von Brasch, Justin James Gilmour, Matthew Zygorodimos, Rishi Wadhwani, James Davies
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Patent number: 11877123Abstract: Presented herein are audio training techniques that facilitate the rehabilitation of a recipient of an auditory prosthesis. In certain embodiments, the audio training techniques presented herein may include real time training aspects in which the recipient's surrounding (ambient) auditory environment, including the sounds present therein, is analyzed in real time. The recipient can then be provided with a real time identity (e.g., audible or visible representation/description) of the sounds present in the auditory environment. The identity of the sounds can be provided to the recipient automatically and/or in response to recipient queries.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Alexander von Brasch, Stephen Fung, Kartik Natarajan
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Patent number: 11843919Abstract: Treatment actions can be taken based on an analysis of the ability of a recipient of an auditory prosthesis to perceive musical activities. The occurrence of musical activities and the recipients response thereto can be determined based on transducers. The recipients musical perception can be determined by analyzing the signals from the transducers as stand-alone measures or by comparing the signals against known music. The treatment actions can relate to the treatment of a hearing-impairment of the recipient of the auditory prosthesis, such as by modifying the settings of the auditory prosthesis to affect the ongoing operation of the auditory prosthesis.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Ivana Popovac, Alexander von Brasch, Justin James Gilmour, Matthew Zygorodimos, Rishi Wadhwani, James Davies
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Publication number: 20230352165Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for generating, updating, and/or using a virtual hearing model associated with a recipient of an auditory prosthesis. The virtual hearing model is generated and updated for the recipient based on psychoacoustics data associated with the recipient and, in certain cases, based on psychoacoustics data gathered from one or more selected populations of auditory prosthesis recipients. The recipient-specific virtual hearing model can be used, in real-time, to determine one or more settings for the auditory prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Alexander von Brasch, Stephen Fung
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Publication number: 20230329912Abstract: A method, including automatically obtaining data indicative of at least one of physiological features past and/or present of a person who experiences recurring tinnitus or ambient environmental conditions past and/or present of the person, analyzing the obtained data to determine at least one of that a tinnitus event is occurring or that a tinnitus event has a statistical likelihood of occurring in the near term and initiating a tinnitus mitigation method based on the action of analyzing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Alexander VON BRASCH, Stephen FUNG
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Publication number: 20230283966Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for adapting settings/operations of a remote microphone device associated with an auditory prosthesis based on a desired/preferred listening direction of a recipient of the auditory prosthesis. More specifically, an auditory prosthesis worn by a recipient and a remote microphone device, which are configured to wirelessly communicate with one another, are both positioned in the same spatial area. At least one of a recipient-specified (e.g., recipient-preferred) region of interest within the spatial area, or a recipient-specified listening direction, is determined. Based on a determined relative positioning (e.g., location and orientation) of the remote microphone device and the auditory prosthesis, operation of the remote microphone device is dynamically adapted so that the remote microphone device can focus on (e.g., have increased sensitivity to) sounds originating from the recipient-specified region of interest/listening direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Soren Nilsson, Kenneth Oplinger, Alexander von Brasch, Roger Smith, Richard Murphy
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Patent number: 11735318Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for generating, updating, and/or using a virtual hearing model associated with a recipient of an auditory prosthesis. The virtual hearing model is generated and updated for the recipient based on psychoacoustics data associated with the recipient and, in certain cases, based on psychoacoustics data gathered from one or more selected populations of auditory prosthesis recipients. The recipient-specific virtual hearing model can be used, in real-time, to determine one or more settings for the auditory prosthesis.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Alexander von Brasch, Stephen Fung
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Patent number: 11632632Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for adapting settings/operations of a remote microphone device associated with an auditory prosthesis based on a desired/preferred listening direction of a recipient of the auditory prosthesis. More specifically, an auditory prosthesis worn by a recipient and a remote microphone device, which are configured to wirelessly communicate with one another, are both positioned in the same spatial area. At least one of a recipient-specified (e.g., recipient-preferred) region of interest within the spatial area, or a recipient-specified listening direction, is determined. Based on a determined relative positioning (e.g., location and orientation) of the remote microphone device and the auditory prosthesis, operation of the remote microphone device is dynamically adapted so that the remote microphone device can focus on (e.g., have increased sensitivity to) sounds originating from the recipient-specified region of interest/listening direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Soren Nilsson, Kenneth Oplinger, Alexander von Brasch, Roger Smith, Richard Murphy
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Patent number: 11595763Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for monitoring the sensory outcome of a recipient of a sensory prosthesis in an ambient environment that includes one or more controllable network connected devices. The sensory outcome of the recipient in the environment is used to make operational changes to the one or more controllable network connected devices in order to create an improved environment for recipient.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Stephen Fung, Alexander von Brasch
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Publication number: 20220360909Abstract: A method, including implementing a hearing prosthesis automated assistant on one or more computing devices having one or more processors and memory, the method including, at the one or more computing devices, at an input device, receiving hearing prosthesis recipient input, the input invoking the automated assistant, the input being indicative of a problem associated with a hearing prosthesis of the recipient, interpreting the received recipient input to derive a representation of recipient intent, identifying at least one task based at least in part on the derived representation of user intent, and causing a first output to be provided, the first output providing an attempted solution to the problem.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Kieran REED, Alexander VON BRASCH, Stephen FUNG
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Publication number: 20220295196Abstract: A method, including the actions of obtaining access to a virtual reality system; activating a cochlear implant such that the cochlear implant evokes a hearing percept based on first input; and receiving second input from the virtual reality system in temporal proximity with the evocation of the hearing percept based on the first input, wherein the cochlear implant evokes a hearing percept based on the first input, and the second input is correlated with the first input.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Stephen FUNG, Alexander VON BRASCH, Kieran REED
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Publication number: 20220264234Abstract: Presented herein are audio training techniques that facilitate the rehabilitation of a recipient of an auditory prosthesis. In certain embodiments, the audio training techniques presented herein may include real time training aspects in which the recipient's surrounding (ambient) auditory environment, including the sounds present therein, is analyzed in real time. The recipient can then be provided with a real time identity (e.g., audible or visible representation/description) of the sounds present in the auditory environment. The identity of the sounds can be provided to the recipient automatically and/or in response to recipient queries.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Alexander von Brasch, Stephen Fung, Kartik Natarajan
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Patent number: 11290827Abstract: A method, including the actions of obtaining access to a virtual reality system; activating a cochlear implant such that the cochlear implant evokes a hearing percept based on first input; and receiving second input from the virtual reality system in temporal proximity with the evocation of the hearing percept based on the first input, wherein the cochlear implant evokes a hearing percept based on the first input, and the second input is correlated with the first input.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Stephen Fung, Alexander Von Brasch, Kieran Reed
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Publication number: 20220028539Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for generating, updating, and/or using a virtual hearing model associated with a recipient of an auditory prosthesis. The virtual hearing model is generated and updated for the recipient based on psychoacoustics data associated with the recipient and, in certain cases, based on psychoacoustics data gathered from one or more selected populations of auditory prosthesis recipients. The recipient-specific virtual hearing model can be used, in real-time, to determine one or more settings for the auditory prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Alexander von Brasch, Stephen Fung
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Publication number: 20220021992Abstract: Treatment actions can be taken based on an analysis of the ability of a recipient of an auditory prosthesis to perceive musical activities. The occurrence of musical activities and the recipients response thereto can be determined based on transducers. The recipients musical perception can be determined by analyzing the signals from the transducers as stand-alone measures or by comparing the signals against known music. The treatment actions can relate to the treatment of a hearing-impairment of the recipient of the auditory prosthesis, such as by modifying the settings of the auditory prosthesis to affect the ongoing operation of the auditory prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Ivana Popovac, Alexander von Brasch, Justin James Gilmour, Matthew Zygorodimos, Rishi Wadhwani, James Davies
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Publication number: 20210337320Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for monitoring the sensory outcome of a recipient of a sensory prosthesis in an ambient environment that includes one or more controllable network connected devices. The sensory outcome of the recipient in the environment is used to make operational changes to the one or more controllable network connected devices in order to create an improved environment for recipient.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Stephen Fung, Alexander von Brasch
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Publication number: 20210266680Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for adapting settings/operations of a remote microphone device associated with an auditory prosthesis based on a desired/preferred listening direction of a recipient of the auditory prosthesis. More specifically, an auditory prosthesis worn by a recipient and a remote microphone device, which are configured to wirelessly communicate with one another, are both positioned in the same spatial area. At least one of a recipient-specified (e.g., recipient-preferred) region of interest within the spatial area, or a recipient-specified listening direction, is determined. Based on a determined relative positioning (e.g., location and orientation) of the remote microphone device and the auditory prosthesis, operation of the remote microphone device is dynamically adapted so that the remote microphone device can focus on (e.g., have increased sensitivity to) sounds originating from the recipient-specified region of interest/listening direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Soren Nilsson, Kenneth Oplinger, Alexander von Brasch, Roger Smith, Richard Murphy
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Patent number: 11057720Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for adapting settings/operations of a remote microphone device associated with an auditory prosthesis based on a desired/preferred listening direction of a recipient of the auditory prosthesis. More specifically, an auditory prosthesis worn by a recipient and a remote microphone device, which are configured to wirelessly communicate with one another, are both positioned in the same spatial area. At least one of a recipient-specified (e.g., recipient-preferred) region of interest within the spatial area, or a recipient-specified listening direction, is determined. Based on a determined relative positioning (e.g., location and orientation) of the remote microphone device and the auditory prosthesis, operation of the remote microphone device is dynamically adapted so that the remote microphone device can focus on (e.g., have increased sensitivity to) sounds originating from the recipient-specified region of interest/listening direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Soren Nilsson, Kenneth Oplinger, Alexander von Brasch, Roger Smith, Richard Murphy
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Patent number: 11032653Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for monitoring the sensory outcome of a recipient of a sensory prosthesis in an ambient environment that includes one or more controllable network connected devices. The sensory outcome of the recipient in the environment is used to make operational changes to the one or more controllable network connected devices in order to create an improved environment for recipient.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: COCHLEAR LIMITEDInventors: Stephen Fung, Alexander von Brasch
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Publication number: 20210038123Abstract: A method, including obtaining respective first reactions of a recipient to a series of sounds subjected to the recipient of a hearing prosthesis, the first reactions being directly related to the recipient's ability to hear the series of sounds, obtaining respective second reactions of the recipient to the series of sounds, the second reactions being different in kind than the first reactions, and fitting the hearing prosthesis based at least in part on both the first reactions and the second reactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Alexander VON BRASCH, Stephen FUNG