Patents by Inventor Jesper Jensen

Jesper Jensen 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).

  • Patent number: 12277952
    Abstract: A hearing device includes a) a multitude of input transducers providing a corresponding multitude of electric input signals; and b) a processor for providing a processed signal in dependence of the electric input signals. The processor includes b1) a beamformer for providing a spatially filtered signal in dependence of electric input signals and beamformer filter coefficients determined in dependence of a fixed steering vector including as elements respective acoustic transfer functions from a target signal source, to each of said multitude of input transducers; and b2) a target adaptation module connected to the input transducers and to at least one beamformer, the target adaptation module being configured to provide compensation signals to compensate the electric input signals so that they match the fixed steering vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Jan M. De Haan, Robert Rehr, Sebastien Curdy-Neves, Svend Feldt, Jesper Jensen, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Michael Noes Gätke, Mohammad El-Sayed, Stig Petri, Karsten Bonke, Gary Jones, Poul Hoang
  • Publication number: 20250111860
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a) at least one input transducer configured to pick up sound from an acoustic environment around the user when the user is wearing the hearing device, the at least one input transducer providing at least one electric input signal representative of said sound, b) at least one analysis filter bank configured to provide said at least one electric input signal as a multitude of frequency sub-band signals, the at least one analysis filter bank comprising b1) a plurality of M first filters hm(n), whose impulse responses are modulated from a first prototype filter h (n), where m=0, 1, . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Jan M. DE HAAN, Jesper JENSEN
  • Publication number: 20250071490
    Abstract: A method of defining and setting a signal processing of a hearing aid is disclosed. The hearing aid is configured to be worn by a user at or in an ear of the user. The method comprises providing at least one electric input signal representing at least one input sound signal from a sound environment of a hearing aid user, determining a normal-hearing representation of said at least one electric input signal based on a selected normal-hearing auditory model fj, determining optimised training parameters of a neural network, where the neural network represents a hearing-impaired representation of said at least one electric input signal based on a hearing-impaired auditory model, wherein determining the optimised training parameters comprises determining a frequency distribution, ?j, and a level and frequency distribution, ?j,1, of said at least one electric input signal based on an equalization of sound pressure levels of said at least one electric input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Peter Asbjørn Leer BYSTED, Jesper JENSEN, Lars BRAMSLØW
  • Patent number: 12225351
    Abstract: A hearing device adapted for being worn at or in an ear of a user, comprises a) an input unit comprising at last two input transducers each for converting sound around said hearing device to an electric input signal representing said sound, thereby providing at least two electric input signals; b) a beamformer filter comprising a minimum processing beamformer defined by optimized beamformer weights, the beamformer filter being configured to provide a filtered signal in dependence of said at least two electric input signals and said optimized beamformer weights; c) a reference signal representing sound around said hearing device; d) a performance criterion for said minimum processing beamformer. The minimum processing beamformer is a beamformer that provides the filtered signal with as little modification as possible in terms of a selected distance measure compared to said reference signal, while still fulfilling said performance criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Adel Zahedi, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Thomas Ulrich Christiansen, Lars Bramsløw, Jesper Jensen
  • Patent number: 12225350
    Abstract: A binaural hearing system comprises first and second hearing aids, each comprising antenna and transceiver circuitry allowing the exchange of audio signals between them and a BTE-part adapted for being located at or behind the external ear (pinna) of the user and comprising front and rear input transducers providing respective front and rear electric input signals. Each of the hearing aids comprises primary and secondary adaptive 2-channel beamformers each providing a spatially filtered signal based on first and second beamformer-input signals. The primary and secondary 2-channel beamformers are coupled in a cascaded structure. The inputs to the primary 2-channel beamformers are, locally generated, front and rear electric input signals. The inputs to the secondary 2-channel beamformer may be beamformed signals from the first and second hearing aids respectively. The spatially filtered signal of the secondary 2-channel beamformer may comprise an estimate of a target signal in the environment of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Eleni Koutrouli, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Jesper Jensen, Jan M. De Haan
  • Patent number: 12208337
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for collaborative online gaming, including at least one of providing a central repository master browser system; providing an experience calibrated match-making service; providing a dynamic multiplayer server component auto deployment and aggregation system; providing a lobby centric simultaneous and collaborative client game play launching feature; and providing a video game screen over-layer technology giving users access to a control interface while inside a video game being played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventor: Jesper Jensen
  • Publication number: 20250030994
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises an input transducer comprising a microphone for providing an electric input signal representative of sound in the environment of the hearing device, a pre-processor for processing electric input signal and providing a multitude of feature vectors, each being representative of a time segment thereof, a neural network processor adapted to implement a neural network for implementing a detector configured to provide an output indicative of a characteristic property of the at least one electric input signal, the neural network being configured to receive said multitude of feature vectors as input vectors and to provide corresponding output vectors representative of said output of said detector in dependence of said input vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Asger Heidemann ANDERSEN, Jesper JENSEN, Nels Hede ROHDE, Anders Brødløs OLSEN, Michael Smed KRISTENSEN, Thomas BENTSEN, Svend Oscar PETERSEN
  • Patent number: 12205611
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a) at least one input transducer configured to pick up sound from an acoustic environment around the user when the user is wearing the hearing device, the at least one input transducer providing at least one electric input signal representative of said sound, b) at least one analysis filter bank configured to provide said at least one electric input signal as a multitude of frequency sub-band signals, the at least one analysis filter bank comprising b1) a plurality of M first filters hm(n), whose impulse responses are modulated from a first prototype filter h(n), where m=0, 1, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Jan M. De Haan, Jesper Jensen
  • Publication number: 20250024209
    Abstract: A hearing aid includes an input providing an input signal representing sound in an environment, the input signal including no speech signal, or one or more speech signals from one or more speech sound sources and additional signal components, termed noise signal, from one or more other sound sources, an own voice detector, a voice activity detector, and a talker extraction unit to determine and/or receive one or more speech signals as separated one or more speech signals from speech sound sources other than the hearing aid user and to detect the speech signal originating from the voice of the user. The talker extraction unit provides separate signals, each including, or indicating presence of, one of the one or more speech signals. A noise reduction system determines speech overlap and/or gap between the speech signal originating from the user's voice and each of the separated one or more speech signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Jesper JENSEN, Jan M. DE HAAN, Poul HOANG
  • Publication number: 20240430624
    Abstract: A hearing aid including a multitude M?2 microphones adapted for providing M electric input signals (x) representative of an environment of a user, at least one beamformer for generating at least one beamformed signal in dependence of beamformer weights (w) configured to be applied to said electric input signals, thereby providing said at least one beamformed signal (Y) as a weighted sum of the M of electric input signals. The beamformer weights (w) are adaptively optimized to a plurality of target positions (?) by maximizing a target signal to noise ratio (SNR) for sound from the target positions (?). The signal to noise ratio may be determined in a number of different ways, e.g. in dependence of first and second output variances (|YT2, |YV|2) of said beamformer, when said electric input signals (x) or said beamformed signal (Y) are/is labelled as target (T) and noise (V), respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Jesper JENSEN, Adam KUKLASINSKI, Fares EL-AZM, Sam NEES, Sigurdur SIGURDSSON, Silvia TARANTINO, Poul HOANG, Jan M. DE HAAN, Mojtaba FARMANI, Svend Oscar PETERSEN
  • Publication number: 20240422481
    Abstract: A hearing aid adapted for being worn by a user comprises at least two microphones, providing respective at least two electric input signals representing sound; a filter bank converting the at least two electric input signals into signals as a function of time and frequency; a directional system connected to said at least two microphones and being configured to provide a filtered signal in dependence of said at least two electric input signals and fixed or adaptively updated beamformer weights. At least one direction to a target sound source is defined as a target direction. For each frequency band, one of said at least two microphones is selected as a reference microphone, thereby providing a reference input signal for each frequency band. The reference microphone for a given frequency band may be selected in dependence of directional data related to directional characteristics of the at least two microphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Jesper Jensen, Christian Asp Mogensen
  • Publication number: 20240414483
    Abstract: A hearing aid comprises a multitude M?2 microphones adapted for providing M electric input signals (x) representative of an environment of a user, at least one beamformer for generating at least one beamformed signal in dependence of beamformer weights (w) configured to be applied to said electric input signals, thereby providing said at least one beamformed signal (Y) as a weighted sum of the M of electric input signals. The beamformer weights (w) are adaptively optimized to a plurality of target positions (?) by maximizing a target signal to noise ratio (SNR) for sound from the target positions (?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Jesper JENSEN, Adam KUKLASINSKI, Fares EL-AZM, Sam NEES, Sigurdur SIGURDSSON, Silvia TARANTINO, Poul HOANG, Jan M. DE HAAN, Mojtaba FARMANI, Svend Oscar PETERSEN
  • Patent number: 12149882
    Abstract: A hearing device adapted for being located at or in an ear of a user, or for being fully or partially implanted in the head of a user comprises a) an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal representing sound in an environment of the user, said electric input signal comprising a target speech signal from a target sound source and additional signal components, termed noise signal components, from one or more other sound sources, b) a noise reduction system for providing an estimate of said target speech signal, wherein said noise signal components are at least partially attenuated, and c) an own voice detector for repeatedly estimating whether or not, or with what probability, said at least one electric input signal, or a signal derived therefrom, comprises speech originating from the voice of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Poul Hoang, Jan M. De Haan, Jesper Jensen, Michael Syskind Pedersen
  • Patent number: 12143775
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises an input transducer comprising a microphone for providing an electric input signal representative of sound in the environment of the hearing device, a pre-processor for processing electric input signal and providing a multitude of feature vectors, each being representative of a time segment thereof, a neural network processor adapted to implement a neural network for implementing a detector configured to provide an output indicative of a characteristic property of the at least one electric input signal, the neural network being configured to receive said multitude of feature vectors as input vectors and to provide corresponding output vectors representative of said output of said detector in dependence of said input vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Asger Heidemann Andersen, Jesper Jensen, Nels Hede Rohde, Anders Brødløs Olsen, Michael Smed Kristensen, Thomas Bentsen, Svend Oscar Petersen
  • Patent number: 12137323
    Abstract: A hearing aid includes an input providing an input signal representing sound in an environment, the input signal including no speech signal, or one or more speech signals from one or more speech sound sources and additional signal components, termed noise signal, from one or more other sound sources, an own voice detector, a voice activity detector, and a talker extraction unit to determine and/or receive one or more speech signals as separated one or more speech signals from speech sound sources other than the hearing aid user and to detect the speech signal originating from the voice of the user. The talker extraction unit provides separate signals, each including, or indicating presence of, one of the one or more speech signals. A noise reduction system determines speech overlap and/or gap between the speech signal originating from the user's voice and each of the separated one or more speech signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Jesper Jensen, Jan M. De Haan, Poul Hoang
  • Publication number: 20240362988
    Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for gas detection. A may include receiving, by a gas detector, sensed data indicative of oxygen content in ambient air, the gas detector having a first alarm setting comprising a first predefined threshold. When the sensed data is above the first predefined threshold, the method may include activating, by the gas detector, an alarm. The method may include generating an acknowledgement request for a user asking if the gas detector has entered a normal operation zone and determining when the gas detector enters the normal operation zone based on an acknowledgement response from the user. When the gas detector has entered the normal operation zone, the method may include deactivating the alarm and altering one or more settings of the gas detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Jesper JENSEN, Jacob Thomas SPECTOR
  • Publication number: 20240357296
    Abstract: A hearing system comprises a) a multitude of M of microphones providing M corresponding electric input signals xm(n), m=1, . . . , M, and n representing time, b) a processor connected to said multitude of microphones and providing a processed signal in dependence thereof, c) an output unit for providing an output signal in dependence of said processed signal, and d) a database (?) comprising a dictionary (?pd) of previously determined acoustic transfer function vectors (ATFpd).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Jan M. DE HAAN, Jesper JENSEN, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Svend FELDT, Stig PETRI, Jakob Sloth LAURIDSEN
  • Patent number: 12108215
    Abstract: A hearing aid adapted for being worn by a user comprises at least two microphones, providing respective at least two electric input signals representing sound; a filter bank converting the at least two electric input signals into signals as a function of time and frequency; a directional system connected to said at least two microphones and being configured to provide a filtered signal in dependence of said at least two electric input signals and fixed or adaptively updated beamformer weights. At least one direction to a target sound source is defined as a target direction. For each frequency band, one of said at least two microphones is selected as a reference microphone, thereby providing a reference input signal for each frequency band. The reference microphone for a given frequency band may be selected in dependence of directional data related to directional characteristics of the at least two microphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Jesper Jensen, Christian Asp Mogensen
  • Publication number: 20240298122
    Abstract: A hearing aid comprises at least one input unit for providing at least one stream of samples of an electric input signal in a first domain; at least one encoder configured to convert said at least one stream of samples of the electric input signal in the first domain to at least one stream of samples of the electric input signal in a second domain; a processing unit configured to process said at least one electric input signal in the second domain, to provide a compensation for the user's hearing impairment, and to provide a processed signal as a stream of samples in the second domain; a decoder configured to convert said stream of samples of the processed signal in the second domain to a stream of samples of the processed signal in the first domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Jesper JENSEN, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN
  • Publication number: 20240292164
    Abstract: A hearing aid system comprises a hearing aid, and a portable auxiliary device’ adapted to establish a communication link between them. The hearing aid comprises a microphone providing an electric input signal, a signal processor, and an output unit. The auxiliary device comprises a microphone providing an auxiliary electric input signal, and a user control interface allowing a user to initiate a specific calibration mode of operation of the hearing aid system. The signal processor of the hearing aid is configured to receive corresponding time segments of said electric input signal and said auxiliary electric input signal to provide an estimate of an acoustic transfer function from said microphone of said auxiliary device to said microphone of said hearing aid. A method of operating a hearing aid system is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in various applications related to own voice detection and estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Nels Hede ROHDE, Thomas BENTSEN, Anders Brødløs OLSEN, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Svend FELDT, Jesper JENSEN