Patents by Inventor Michael Smed KRISTENSEN

Michael Smed KRISTENSEN 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: 11968501
    Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be arranged at least partly on a user's head or at least partly implanted in a user's head. The hearing device comprises a) at least one input transducer for picking up an input sound signal from the environment and providing at least one electric input signal representing said input sound signal; b) a signal processor connected to the at least one input transducer, the signal processor being configured to analyze the electric input signal and to provide a transmit control signal in dependence thereof; c) a memory buffer, e.g. a cyclic buffer, for storing a current time segment of a certain duration of said at least one electric input signal, or a processed version thereof; and a transmitter for transmitting at least a part of said time segment, or a processed version thereof, to an external device in dependence of said transmit control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Nels Hede Rohde, Thomas Bentsen, Anders Brødløs Olsen, Asger Heidemann Andersen, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Svend Oscar Petersen, Jesper Jensen, Michael Smed Kristensen
  • Publication number: 20230100340
    Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be arranged at least partly on a user’s head or at least partly implanted in a user’s head. The hearing device comprises a) at least one input transducer for picking up an input sound signal from the environment and providing at least one electric input signal representing said input sound signal; b) a signal processor connected to the at least one input transducer, the signal processor being configured to analyze the electric input signal and to provide a transmit control signal in dependence thereof; c) a memory buffer, e.g. a cyclic buffer, for storing a current time segment of a certain duration of said at least one electric input signal, or a processed version thereof; and a transmitter for transmitting at least a part of said time segment, or a processed version thereof, to an external device in dependence of said transmit control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Nels Hede ROHDE, Thomas BENTSEN, Anders Brødløs OLSEN, Asger Heidemann ANDERSEN, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Svend Oscar PETERSEN, Jesper JENSEN, Michael Smed KRISTENSEN
  • Publication number: 20230056617
    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: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    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: 11546707
    Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be arranged at least partly on a user's head or at least partly implanted in a user's head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Nels Hede Rohde, Thomas Bentsen, Anders Brødløs Olsen, Asger Heidemann Andersen, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Svend Oscar Petersen, Jesper Jensen, Michael Smed Kristensen
  • Patent number: 11540063
    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: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    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
  • Publication number: 20220124444
    Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be worn by a user at or in an ear or to be fully or partially implanted in the head at an ear of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Asger Heidemann ANDERSEN, Jesper JENSEN, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Nels Hede ROHDE, Anders Brødløs OLSEN, Michael Smed KRISTENSEN, Thomas BENTSEN, Andreas Thelander BERTELSEN
  • Patent number: 11245993
    Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be worn by a user at or in an ear or to be fully or partially implanted in the head at an ear of the user. The hearing device comprises a) an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal in a time frequency representation k, m, where k and m are frequency and time indices, respectively, and k represents a frequency channel, the at least one electric input signal being representative of sound and comprising target signal components and noise components; and b) a signal processor comprising b1) an SNR estimator for providing a target signal-to-noise ratio estimate for said at least one electric input signal in said time frequency representation; and b2) an SNR-to-gain converter for converting said target signal-to-noise ratio estimate to respective gain values in said time frequency representation. The signal processor comprises a neural network, wherein the weights of the neural network have been trained with a plurality of training signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Asger Heidemann Andersen, Jesper Jensen, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Nels Hede Rohde, Anders Brødløs Olsen, Michael Smed Kristensen, Thomas Bentsen, Andreas Thelander Bertelsen
  • Publication number: 20210105565
    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 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    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
  • Publication number: 20200336846
    Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be arranged at least partly on a user's head or at least partly implanted in a user's head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Nels Hede ROHDE, Thomas BENTSEN, Anders Brødløs OLSEN, Asger Heidemann ANDERSEN, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Svend Oscar PETERSEN, Jesper JENSEN, Michael Smed KRISTENSEN
  • Publication number: 20200260198
    Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be worn by a user at or in an ear or to be fully or partially implanted in the head at an ear of the user. The hearing device comprises a) an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal in a time frequency representation k, m, where k and m are frequency and time indices, respectively, and k represents a frequency channel, the at least one electric input signal being representative of sound and comprising target signal components and noise components; and b) a signal processor comprising b1) an SNR estimator for providing a target signal-to-noise ratio estimate for said at least one electric input signal in said time frequency representation; and b2) an SNR-to-gain converter for converting said target signal-to-noise ratio estimate to respective gain values in said time frequency representation. The signal processor comprises a neural network, wherein the weights of the neural network have been trained with a plurality of training signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Asger Heidemann ANDERSEN, Jesper JENSEN, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Nels Hede ROHDE, Anders Brødløs OLSEN, Michael Smed KRISTENSEN, Thomas BENTSEN, Andreas Thelander BERTELSEN
  • Patent number: 10306374
    Abstract: A method detects whether an ear mold of a listening device is correctly mounted in the ear of a user. An indication of whether or not a mold of a listening device is correctly mounted in an ear canal of a user is provided. The method comprises a) providing a long term estimate of the feedback path; b) providing an estimate of the current feedback path; c) comparing the long term feedback path estimate with the current feedback path estimate, and providing a measure of their difference, termed the feedback difference measure FBDM; and optionally d) providing an alarm indication, if the feedback difference measure exceeds a predefined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Smed Kristensen, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Thomas Kaulberg
  • Patent number: 9769574
    Abstract: The application relates to a hearing device comprising a) a forward path between an input transducer for converting an input sound to an electric input signal and an output transducer for converting an electric output signal to an output sound, the forward path comprising a signal processing unit for applying a level and/or frequency dependent gain to the electric input signal or a signal originating therefrom and for providing a processed signal, and feeding the processed signal or a signal originating therefrom to the output transducer, an acoustic feedback path being defined from said output transducer to said input transducer; b) a configurable anti-feedback system comprising a feedback estimation unit for providing an estimate of said acoustic feedback path; c) a number of detectors, each providing a detector signal for characterizing a signal of the forward path. The object of the present application is to save power in a hearing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Michael Smed Kristensen, Anders Meng, Steen Michael Munk
  • Publication number: 20160249139
    Abstract: The application relates to a hearing device comprising a) a forward path between an input transducer for converting an input sound to an electric input signal and an output transducer for converting an electric output signal to an output sound, the forward path comprising a signal processing unit for applying a level and/or frequency dependent gain to the electric input signal or a signal originating therefrom and for providing a processed signal, and feeding the processed signal or a signal originating therefrom to the output transducer, an acoustic feedback path being defined from said output transducer to said input transducer; b) a configurable anti-feedback system comprising a feedback estimation unit for providing an estimate of said acoustic feedback path; c) a number of detectors, each providing a detector signal for characterizing a signal of the forward path. The object of the present application is to save power in a hearing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Smed KRISTENSEN, Anders MENG, Steen Michael MUNK
  • Patent number: 9374638
    Abstract: The application relates to a hearing assistance device and to a method of performing a real ear measurement. The method comprises providing a first controlled acoustic feedback path from an output transducer to a measurement input transducer via a standard acoustic coupler; generating a first probe signal; estimating and storing a first estimate of the first controlled acoustic feedback path; and providing a second controlled acoustic feedback path from the output transducer to the measurement input transducer via the residual volume between the ITE part of the hearing aid device and the user's eardrum; generating a second probe signal; estimating and storing a second estimate of the second controlled acoustic feedback path; and determining a real ear to coupler difference from said first and second acoustic feedback estimates. An alternative and relatively simple method of determining an RECD-value in hearing assistance device of a particular user is thereby provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Svend Oscar Petersen, Jesper Nøhr Hansen, Jesper Hansen, Thomas Kaulberg, Michael Smed Kristensen
  • Patent number: 9185505
    Abstract: A method provides a long term feedback path estimate of a listening device. The method comprises a) providing an estimate of the current feedback path; b) providing a number of detectors of parameters or properties of the acoustic environment of the listening device and/or of a signal of the listening device, each detector providing one or more detector signals; c) providing a criterion for deciding whether an estimate of the current feedback path is reliable based on said detector signals; d) storing said estimate of the current feedback path, if said criterion IS fulfilled and neglecting said estimate of the current feedback path, if said criterion is NOT fulfilled; e) providing a long term estimate of the feedback path based on said stored estimate(s) of the current feedback path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Michael Smed Kristensen, Michael Syskind Pedersen
  • Publication number: 20150063614
    Abstract: The application relates to a hearing assistance device and to a method of performing a real ear measurement. The method comprises providing a first controlled acoustic feedback path from an output transducer to a measurement input transducer via a standard acoustic coupler; generating a first probe signal; estimating and storing a first estimate of the first controlled acoustic feedback path; and providing a second controlled acoustic feedback path from the output transducer to the measurement input transducer via the residual volume between the ITE part of the hearing aid device and the user's eardrum; generating a second probe signal; estimating and storing a second estimate of the second controlled acoustic feedback path; and determining a real ear to coupler difference from said first and second acoustic feedback estimates. An alternative and relatively simple method of determining an RECD-value in hearing assistance device of a particular user is thereby provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Svend Oscar PETERSEN, Jesper Nøhr HANSEN, Jesper HANSEN, Thomas KAULBERG, Michael Smed KRISTENSEN