Patents by Inventor Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran
Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran 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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Patent number: 11438713Abstract: A new hearing aid is provided in which signals that are received from an external device, such as a spouse microphone, a media player, a hearing loop system, a teleconference system, a radio, a TV, a telephone, a device with an alarm, etc., are filtered in such a way that a user can localize the monaural signal transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: GN HEARING A/SInventors: Jesper Udesen, Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran
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Patent number: 10869142Abstract: A new binaural hearing aid system is provided with a hearing aid in which signals that are received from external devices, such as a spouse microphone, a media player, a hearing loop system, a teleconference system, a radio, a TV, a telephone, a device with an alarm, etc., are filtered with binaural filters in such a way that a user perceives the signals to be emitted by respective sound sources positioned in different spatial positions in the sound environment of the user, whereby improved spatial separation of the different sound sources is facilitated.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: GN Hearing A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran, Brian Dam Pedersen
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Patent number: 10524062Abstract: A hearing aid includes a microphone for converting sound into an audio input signal, a hearing loss processor, an adaptive feedback suppressor configured for generation of a feedback suppression signal by modelling a feedback signal path of the hearing aid, a subtractor coupled to an output of the adaptive feedback suppressor, wherein the subtractor is configured for subtracting the feedback suppression signal from the audio input signal, and outputting a feedback compensated audio signal to the hearing loss processor, and wherein the hearing loss processor is configured for processing the feedback compensated audio signal in accordance with a hearing loss of a user of the hearing aid, a synthesizer configured for generation of a synthesized signal based at least on a sound model and the audio input signal, and a receiver for generating an output sound signal based at least on the synthesized signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: GN HEARING A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran, Guilin Ma
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Publication number: 20190342677Abstract: A new binaural hearing aid system is provided with a hearing aid in which signals that are received from external devices, such as a spouse microphone, a media player, a hearing loop system, a teleconference system, a radio, a TV, a telephone, a device with an alarm, etc., are filtered with binaural filters in such a way that a user perceives the signals to be emitted by respective sound sources positioned in different spatial positions in the sound environment of the user, whereby improved spatial separation of the different sound sources is facilitated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: GN HEARING A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan GRAN, Brian Dam PEDERSEN
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Patent number: 10425747Abstract: A new binaural hearing aid system is provided with a hearing aid in which signals that are received from external devices, such as a spouse microphone, a media player, a hearing loop system, a teleconference system, a radio, a TV, a telephone, a device with an alarm, etc., are filtered with binaural filters in such a way that a user perceives the signals to be emitted by respective sound sources positioned in different spatial positions in the sound environment of the user, whereby improved spatial separation of the different sound sources is facilitated.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: GN Hearing A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran, Brian Dam Pedersen
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Patent number: 10397711Abstract: The present disclosure relates in a first aspect to a method of determining an objective perceptual quantity of a noisy speech signal using directional sound information. The method comprises steps of applying a noisy speech signal comprising a mixture of target speech and interfering noise to a first hearing instrument with an adjustable microphone arrangement and controlling the adjustable microphone arrangement to produce first and second directivity patterns exhibiting first and second directivity indexes, respectively, wherein said second directivity index is smaller than the first directivity index at one or more reference frequencies. First and second noisy speech segments are recorded from the adjustable microphone arrangement using the first and second directivity patterns, respectively, and at least one value of the objective perceptual quantity of the noisy speech signal is determined by comparing the first noisy speech segment and the second noisy speech segment.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: GN Hearing A/SInventors: Jesper Bunsow Boldt, Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran, Mads Graesboll Christensen
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Publication number: 20190110137Abstract: A new hearing aid is provided in which signals that are received from an external device, such as a spouse microphone, a media player, a hearing loop system, a teleconference system, a radio, a TV, a telephone, a device with an alarm, etc., are filtered in such a way that a user can localize the monaural signal transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: GN Hearing A/SInventors: Jesper Udesen, Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran
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Patent number: 10154357Abstract: A new hearing aid system is provided that facilitates determination of listening performance of a user of the hearing aid system and adjustment of a hearing aid for improved listening performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: GN HEARING A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran, Aalbert De Vries
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Patent number: 9838805Abstract: A new hearing aid system is provided that facilitates determination of listening performance of a user of the hearing aid system and adjustment of a hearing aid for improved listening performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: GN Hearing A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran, Aalbert De Vries
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Publication number: 20170295440Abstract: A new hearing aid system is provided that facilitates determination of listening performance of a user of the hearing aid system and adjustment of a hearing aid for improved listening performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: October 12, 2017Applicant: GN HEARING A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan GRAN, Aalbert DE VRIES
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Patent number: 9774960Abstract: A hearing aid includes: a first microphone system configured for conversion of sound emitted by a sound source into a first audio signal; a first matched filter configured for filtering the first audio signal into a first filtered audio signal, the first matched filter having a first matching transfer function that substantially matches a first transfer function of a first sound propagation path leading from the sound source to the first microphone system, when a user wears the hearing aid; and a hearing loss processor configured to provide a hearing loss compensated output signal that compensates for a hearing loss of the user based at least in part on the first filtered audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: GN HEARING A/SInventor: Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran
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Patent number: 9723415Abstract: A new hearing aid system is provided that facilitates determination of listening performance of a user of the hearing aid system and adjustment of a hearing aid for improved listening performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: GN HEARING A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran, Aalbert De Vries
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Patent number: 9699574Abstract: The present disclosure relates in a first aspect to a method of superimposing spatial auditory cues to an externally picked-up sound signal in a hearing instrument. The method comprises steps of a generating an external microphone signal by an external microphone arrangement and transmitting the external microphone signal to a wireless receiver of a first hearing instrument via a first wireless communication link. Further steps of the methodology comprise determining response characteristics of a first spatial synthesis filter by correlating the external microphone signal and a first hearing aid microphone signal of the first hearing instrument and filtering the external microphone signal by the first spatial synthesis filter to produce a first synthesized microphone signal comprising first spatial auditory cues.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: GN Hearing A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran, Jesper Udesen
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Publication number: 20170094420Abstract: The present disclosure relates in a first aspect to a method of determining an objective perceptual quantity of a noisy speech signal using directional sound information. The method comprises steps of applying a noisy speech signal comprising a mixture of target speech and interfering noise to a first hearing instrument with an adjustable microphone arrangement and controlling the adjustable microphone arrangement to produce first and second directivity patterns exhibiting first and second directivity indexes, respectively, wherein said second directivity index is smaller than the first directivity index at one or more reference frequencies. First and second noisy speech segments are recorded from the adjustable microphone arrangement using the first and second directivity patterns, respectively, and at least one value of the objective perceptual quantity of the noisy speech signal is determined by comparing the first noisy speech segment and the second noisy speech segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: GN Hearing A/SInventors: Jesper Bunsow BOLDT, Karl-Fredrik Johan GRAN, Mads Graesboll CHRISTENSEN
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Publication number: 20170055090Abstract: A new hearing aid system is provided that facilitates determination of listening performance of a user of the hearing aid system and adjustment of a hearing aid for improved listening performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicant: GN ReSound A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan GRAN, Aalbert DE VRIES
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Publication number: 20160373869Abstract: A new hearing aid system is provided that facilitates determination of listening performance of a user of the hearing aid system and adjustment of a hearing aid for improved listening performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: GN ReSound A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan GRAN, Aalbert DE VRIES
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Publication number: 20160192090Abstract: The present disclosure relates in a first aspect to a method of superimposing spatial auditory cues to an externally picked-up sound signal in a hearing instrument. The method comprises steps of a generating an external microphone signal by an external microphone arrangement and transmitting the external microphone signal to a wireless receiver of a first hearing instrument via a first wireless communication link. Further steps of the methodology comprise determining response characteristics of a first spatial synthesis filter by correlating the external microphone signal and a first hearing aid microphone signal of the first hearing instrument and filtering the external microphone signal by the first spatial synthesis filter to produce a first synthesized microphone signal comprising first spatial auditory cues.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: GN ReSound A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan GRAN, Jesper UDESEN
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Publication number: 20160183011Abstract: A hearing aid includes: a first microphone system configured for conversion of sound emitted by a sound source into a first audio signal; a first matched filter configured for filtering the first audio signal into a first filtered audio signal, the first matched filter having a first matching transfer function that substantially matches a first transfer function of a first sound propagation path leading from the sound source to the first microphone system, when a user wears the hearing aid; and a hearing loss processor configured to provide a hearing loss compensated output signal that compensates for a hearing loss of the user based at least in part on the first filtered audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: GN RESOUND A/SInventor: Karl-Fredrik Johan GRAN
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Patent number: 9338561Abstract: A method of determining parameters of a BTE hearing aid having at least one ITE microphone and at least one BTE microphone, the method includes: determining Head-Related Transfer functions HRTFl(ƒ); determining a hearing aid related transfer function Hl,iITEC(ƒ) of a ith microphone of the at least one ITE microphone for direction l; determining a hearing aid related transfer functions Hl,jBTEC(ƒ) of a jth microphone of the at least one BTE microphone; determining transfer functions GiIEC(ƒ) of a ith cue filter of at least one cue filter filtering audio sound signals of the at least one ITE microphone; and determining transfer functions GjBTEC(ƒ) of a jth cue filter of the at least one cue filter filtering audio sound signals of the at least one BTE microphone; wherein the transfer functions GiIEC(ƒ) and the transfer functions GjBTEC(ƒ) are determined using a processing unit based on equation: minGiIEC(ƒ),GiBTEC(ƒ)?l=0L-1W(l)?W(ƒ)HRTFl(ƒ)??iGiIEC(ƒ)Hl,iIEC(ƒ)??jGjBTEC(ƒ)Hl,jBTEC(ƒ))?p.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: GN ReSound A/SInventors: Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran, Guilin Ma
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Patent number: 9282411Abstract: A hearing aid system includes a first microphone and a second microphone for provision of electrical input signals, a beamformer for provision of a first audio signal based at least in part on the electrical input signals, the first audio signal having a directional spatial characteristic, wherein the beamformer is configured to provide a second audio signal based at least in part on the electrical input signals, the second audio signal having a spatial characteristic that is different from the directional spatial characteristic of the first audio signal, and a mixer configured for mixing the first audio signal and the second audio signal in order to provide an output signal to be heard by a user.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: GN ReSound A/SInventor: Karl-Fredrik Johan Gran