Patents by Inventor Lars Bramsløw

Lars Bramsløw 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: 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: 20230353958
    Abstract: 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 is disclosed. The hearing aid comprises a processing unit connected to said input unit and to said output unit, where the processing unit comprises a neural network, and where the processing unit is configured to determine signal processing parameters of the hearing aid based on weights of the neural network. A hearing system and a corresponding method is furthermore disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Asbjørn Leer BYSTED, Jesper JENSEN, Lars Bramsloew
  • 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: 20230127309
    Abstract: A method of defining and setting a nonlinear signal processing of a hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, by machine learning is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Lars BRAMSLØW
  • Patent number: 11632635
    Abstract: A hearing aid comprises a) a multitude of M input transducers each providing an electric input signal representative of environment sound in a time-frequency representation (k, l), and each comprise varying amounts of target (s) and noise (v) signal components; b) a signal processor configured to process said multitude of electric input signals; and comprising a beamformer filter configured to receive said multitude M of electric input signals and to provide a spatially filtered signal and a post-filter configured to receive said spatially filtered signal and to provide an estimate ?(k,l) of a target signal representing said target signal components from said target sound source. The signal processor is configured to provide estimates of power spectral densities ?s(k,l) of said target signal components in dependence of inter-frequency bin relationships between the spectral components enforced by properties of the electric input signals across at least some of said frequency bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Adel Zahedi, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Lars Bramsløw, Thomas Ulrich Christiansen, Jesper Jensen
  • Publication number: 20230027782
    Abstract: A hearing aid comprises a) an ITE-part adapted for being located at or in an ear canal of the user, b) a forward path for processing sound from the environment of the user. The forward path comprises b1) at least one first input transducer providing at least one first electric input signal representing said sound as received at the respective at least one first microphone, said at least one first input transducer being located to allow picking up sound from the environment of the user, b2) an audio signal processor comprising a gain unit for applying a frequency and/or level dependent prescribed gain to compensate for a hearing impairment of the user to said at least one first electric input signal, or a signal or signals originating therefrom, and configured to provide a processed signal in dependence thereof, b3) an output transducer for providing stimuli perceivable as sound to the user in dependence of said processed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Lars BRAMSLØW, Svend Oscar PETERSEN
  • Patent number: 11564048
    Abstract: A method of defining and setting a nonlinear signal processing of a hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, by machine learning is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Lars Bramsløw
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20220240026
    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: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Adel Zahedi, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Thomas Ulrich Christiansen, Lars Bramsløw, Jesper Jensen
  • 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: 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: 20210329388
    Abstract: A hearing aid comprises a) a multitude of M input transducers each providing an electric input signal representative of environment sound in a time-frequency representation (k, l), and each comprise varying amounts of target (s) and noise (v) signal components; b) a signal processor configured to process said multitude of electric input signals; and comprising a beamformer filter configured to receive said multitude M of electric input signals and to provide a spatially filtered signal and a post-filter configured to receive said spatially filtered signal and to provide an estimate ?(k, l) of a target signal representing said target signal components from said target sound source. The signal processor is configured to provide estimates of power spectral densities ?s(k, l) of said target signal components in dependence of inter-frequency bin relationships between the spectral components enforced by properties of the electric input signals across at least some of said frequency bins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Adel ZAHEDI, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Lars BRAMSLØW, Thomas Ulrich CHRISTIANSEN, Jesper JENSEN
  • 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: 20210185465
    Abstract: A method of defining and setting a nonlinear signal processing of a hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, by machine learning is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Lars BRAMSLØW
  • Patent number: 10951995
    Abstract: A binaural hearing system comprises A) left and right hearing devices, each comprising a1) an input unit providing an electric input signal representing sound; and a2) an output unit, B) a binaural level and/or gain estimator comprising b1) left and right level estimators, each comprising respective fast and slow level estimators configured to provide respective fast and slow level estimates of respective electric input signals, b2) a fast binaural level comparison unit receiving the fast level estimates of the respective left and right fast level estimators and providing a fast binaural level comparison estimate; and b3) a fast binaural level and/or gain enhancer providing respective left and right binaural level and/or gain modification estimates, in dependence of said fast binaural level comparison estimate at said left and right ears, respectively, of the user. The binaural hearing system provides that the interaural level cues are either compressed, maintained or enhanced independent of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventor: Lars Bramsløw
  • Patent number: 10743115
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the status and/or performance of one or more hearing devices is disclosed. The system comprises a number of access points configured to receive wireless signals transmitted by the hearing devices, wherein the access points are connected to a central unit communicatively connected to the Internet/cloud, wherein the system is configured to automatically monitor the status and/or performance of one or more parameter of the one or more hearing devices received by access points, wherein the monitored parameters are accessible from the central unit and/or from a cloud service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Lars Pinnerup Frederiksen, Thorvaldur Oli Bodvarsson, Søren Hesselballe Larsen, Lars Bramsløw, Niels Søgaard Jensen, Filip Marchman Rønne, Ariane Laplante-Lévesque, Eline Borch Petersen, Carina Graversen, Lasse Juul Villadsen, Rikke Birksteen Rossing, Adis Bjelosevic
  • Publication number: 20190281395
    Abstract: A binaural hearing system comprises A) left and right hearing devices, each comprising a1) an input unit providing an electric input signal representing sound; and a2) an output unit, B) a binaural level and/or gain estimator comprising b1) left and right level estimators, each comprising respective fast and slow level estimators configured to provide respective fast and slow level estimates of respective electric input signals, h2) a fast binaural level comparison unit receiving the fast level estimates of the respective left and right fast level estimators and providing a fast binaural level comparison estimate; and h3) a fast binaural level and/or gain enhancer providing respective left and right binaural level and/or gain modification estimates, in dependence of said fast binaural level comparison estimate at said left and right ears, respectively, of the user. The binaural hearing system provides that the interaural level cues are either compressed, maintained or enhanced independent of each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Lars BRAMSLØW
  • Publication number: 20190246216
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the status and/or performance of one or more hearing devices is disclosed. The system comprises a number of access points configured to receive wireless signals transmitted by the hearing devices, wherein the access points are connected to a central unit communicatively connected to the Internet/cloud, wherein the system is configured to automatically monitor the status and/or performance of one or more parameter of the one or more hearing devices received by access points, wherein the monitored parameters are accessible from the central unit and/or from a cloud service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Lars Pinnerup FREDERIKSEN, Thorvaldur Oli BODVARSSON, Søren Hesselballe LARSEN, Lars BRAMSLØW, Niels Søgaard JENSEN, Filip Marchman RØNNE, Ariane LAPLANTE-LÉVESQUE, Eline Borch PETERSEN, Carina GRAVERSEN, Lasse Juul VILLADSEN, Rikke Birksteen ROSSING, Adis BJELOSEVIC
  • Patent number: 10362416
    Abstract: A binaural hearing system comprises A) left and right hearing devices, each comprising a1) an input unit providing an electric input signal representing sound; and a2) an output unit, B) a binaural level and/or gain estimator comprising b1) left and right level estimators, each comprising respective fast and slow level estimators configured to provide respective fast and slow level estimates of respective electric input signals, b2) a fast binaural level comparison unit receiving the fast level estimates of the respective left and right fast level estimators and providing a fast binaural level comparison estimate; and b3) a fast binaural level and/or gain enhancer providing respective left and right binaural level and/or gain modification estimates, in dependence of said fast binaural level comparison estimate at said left and right ears, respectively, of the user. The binaural hearing system provides that the interaural level cues are either compressed, maintained or enhanced independent of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Lars Bramsløw
  • Patent number: 10313802
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the status and/or performance of one or more hearing devices is disclosed. The system comprises a number of access points configured to receive wireless signals transmitted by the hearing devices, wherein the access points are connected to a central unit communicatively connected to the Internet/cloud, wherein the system is configured to automatically monitor the status and/or performance of one or more parameter of the one or more hearing devices received by access points, wherein the monitored parameters are accessible from the central unit and/or from a cloud service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Lars Pinnerup Frederiksen, Thorvaldur Oli Bodvarsson, Søren Hesselballe Larsen, Lars Bramsløw, Niels Søgaard Jensen, Filip Marchman Rønne, Ariane Laplante-Lévesque, Eline Borch Petersen, Carina Graversen, Lasse Juul Villadsen, Rikke Birksteen Rossing, Adis Bjelosevic