Patents by Inventor Sam NEES

Sam NEES 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).

  • Publication number: 20260172760
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a hearing aid including a multitude M?3 microphones adapted for providing corresponding M electric input signals representative of an environment of a user, and an GSC beamformer configured to provide at least one beamformed signal based on a multitude of M intermediate beamformed signals, the GSC beamformer including a target maintaining beamformer and M?1 target cancelling beamformers, the M beamformers being configured to determine the multitude of M intermediate beamformed signals. The hearing aid is configured to operate in a first mode of operation or a second mode of operation, where the multitude of M microphones are active in the first mode of operation and a subset of the multitude of M microphones are active in the second mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2025
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    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: 20260107096
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method performed by a hearing aid and a hearing aid including one or more processors, a memory, two or more microphones, and an output transducer. The hearing aid is configured to generate a first processed signal (y) based on input signals from the two or more microphones and a steering value, wherein a target direction is associated with the steering value. The steering value can be changed depending on certain criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2025
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Inventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Fares EL-AZM, Adam KUKLASINSKI, Sam NEES, Sigurdur SIGURDSSON, Silvia TARANTINO
  • Patent number: 12532135
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method performed by a hearing aid and a hearing aid including one or more processors, a memory, two or more microphones, and an output transducer. The hearing aid is configured to generate a first processed signal (y) based on input signals from the two or more microphones and a steering value, wherein a target direction is associated with the steering value. The steering value can be changed depending on certain criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Fares El-Azm, Adam Kuklasiński, Sam Nees, Sigurdur Sigurdsson, Silvia Tarantino
  • Patent number: 12532130
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Jesper Jensen, Adam Kuklasiński, Fares El-Azm, Sam Nees, Sigurdur Sigurdsson, Silvia Tarantino, Poul Hoang, Jan M. De Haan, Mojtaba Farmani, Svend Oscar Petersen
  • Patent number: 12513473
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a hearing aid with two or more microphones and a processor; wherein the processor includes a first filter bank, a beamformer, a multiplexer configured to perform multiplexing operations outputting time-frequency values, and a wind noise controller configured to, recurringly, determine a first wind noise level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Sam Nees, Sigurdur Sigurdsson, Silvia Tarantino, Svend Feldt, Fares El-Azm
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20240284127
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a hearing aid with two or more microphones and a processor; wherein the processor includes a first filter bank, a beamformer, a multiplexer configured to perform multiplexing operations outputting time-frequency values, and a wind noise controller configured to, recurringly, determine a first wind noise level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Sam NEES, Sigurdur SIGURDSSON, Silvia TARANTINO, Svend FELDT, Fares EL-AZM
  • Publication number: 20240236587
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method performed by a hearing aid and a hearing aid including one or more processors, a memory, two or more microphones, and an output transducer. The hearing aid is configured to generate a first processed signal (y) based on input signals from the two or more microphones and a steering value, wherein a target direction is associated with the steering value. The steering value can be changed depending on certain criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Fares EL-AZM, Adam KUKLASINSKI, Sam NEES, Sigurdur SIGURDSSON, Silvia TARANTINO
  • Publication number: 20240064478
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a hearing device including a multitude of input transducers providing a corresponding multitude of electric input signals, a noise reduction system comprising first and second beamformer filters configured to provide first and second beamformed signals, respectively, first and second noise reduction controllers configured to receive said multitude of electric input signals, and said first and second beamformed signals, respectively, and to provide respective first and second noise reduced signals, according to first and second adaptive selection schemes, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Adam KUKLASINSKI, Asger Heidemann ANDERSEN, Cristian Andrés Gutiérrez ACUÑA, Fares EL-AZM, Sam NEES, Sigurdur SIGURDSSON, Silvia TARANTINO