Patents by Inventor Simon Carlille

Simon Carlille 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: 11102591
    Abstract: An ear-worn electronic device comprises a plurality of EEG sensors configured to sense EEG signals from or proximate a wearer's ear. At least one processor is configured to detect, during a baseline period of no wearer movement, EEG signals from the EEG sensors, and detect, during each of a plurality of candidate control movements by the wearer, EEG signals from the EEG sensors. The at least one processor is also configured to compute, using the EEG signals, discriminability metrics for the candidate control movements and the baseline period, the discriminability metrics indicating how discriminable neural signals associated with the candidate control movements and the baseline period are from one another. The at least one processor is further configured to select a subset of the candidate control movements using the discriminability metrics, each of the selected control movements defining a neural command for controlling the ear-worn electronic device by the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Lauren Petley, Swapan Gandhi, Simon Carlile, Sahar Akram
  • Patent number: 10942700
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a processor configured to generate a virtual auditory display comprising a sound field, a plurality of disparate sound field zones, and a plurality of quite zones that provide acoustic contrast between the sound field zones. The sound field zones and the quiet zones remain positionally stationary within the sound field. One or more sensors are configured to sense a plurality of inputs from the wearer. The processor is configured to facilitate movement of the wearer within the sound field in response to a navigation input received from the one or more sensors. The processor is also configured to select one of the sound field zones for playback via a speaker or actuation of a hearing device function in response to a selection input received from the one or more sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Karim Helwani, Tao Zhang, Simon Carlile
  • Publication number: 20200322737
    Abstract: An ear-worn electronic device comprises a plurality of EEG sensors configured to sense EEG signals from or proximate a wearer's ear. At least one processor is configured to detect, during a baseline period of no wearer movement, EEG signals from the EEG sensors, and detect, during each of a plurality of candidate control movements by the wearer, EEG signals from the EEG sensors. The at least one processor is also configured to compute, using the EEG signals, discriminability metrics for the candidate control movements and the baseline period, the discriminability metrics indicating how discriminable neural signals associated with the candidate control movements and the baseline period are from one another. The at least one processor is further configured to select a subset of the candidate control movements using the discriminability metrics, each of the selected control movements defining a neural command for controlling the ear-worn electronic device by the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Lauren Petley, Swapan Gandhi, Simon Carlile, Sahar Akram
  • Publication number: 20200210141
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a processor configured to generate a virtual auditory display comprising a sound field, a plurality of disparate sound field zones, and a plurality of quite zones that provide acoustic contrast between the sound field zones. The sound field zones and the quiet zones remain positionally stationary within the sound field. One or more sensors are configured to sense a plurality of inputs from the wearer. The processor is configured to facilitate movement of the wearer within the sound field in response to a navigation input received from the one or more sensors. The processor is also configured to select one of the sound field zones for playback via a speaker or actuation of a hearing device function in response to a selection input received from the one or more sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Karim Helwani, Tao Zhang, Simon Carlile
  • Patent number: 10694299
    Abstract: An ear-worn electronic device comprises a plurality of EEG sensors configured to sense EEG signals from or proximate a wearer's ear. At least one processor is configured to detect, during a baseline period of no wearer movement, EEG signals from the EEG sensors, and detect, during each of a plurality of candidate control movements by the wearer, EEG signals from the EEG sensors. The at least one processor is also configured to compute, using the EEG signals, discriminability metrics for the candidate control movements and the baseline period, the discriminability metrics indicating how discriminable neural signals associated with the candidate control movements and the baseline period are from one another. The at least one processor is further configured to select a subset of the candidate control movements using the discriminability metrics, each of the selected control movements defining a neural command for controlling the ear-worn electronic device by the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Lauren Petley, Swapan Gandhi, Simon Carlile, Sahar Akram
  • Publication number: 20200154216
    Abstract: An ear-worn electronic device comprises a plurality of EEG sensors configured to sense EEG signals from or proximate a wearer's ear. At least one processor is configured to detect, during a baseline period of no wearer movement, EEG signals from the EEG sensors, and detect, during each of a plurality of candidate control movements by the wearer, EEG signals from the EEG sensors. The at least one processor is also configured to compute, using the EEG signals, discriminability metrics for the candidate control movements and the baseline period, the discriminability metrics indicating how discriminable neural signals associated with the candidate control movements and the baseline period are from one another. The at least one processor is further configured to select a subset of the candidate control movements using the discriminability metrics, each of the selected control movements defining a neural command for controlling the ear-worn electronic device by the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Lauren Petley, Swapan Gandhi, Simon Carlile, Sahar Akram
  • Patent number: 10620905
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a processor configured to generate a virtual auditory display comprising a sound field, a plurality of disparate sound field zones, and a plurality of quiet zones that provide acoustic contrast between the sound field zones. The sound field zones and the quiet zones remain positionally stationary within the sound field. One or more sensors are configured to sense a plurality of inputs from the wearer. The processor is configured to facilitate movement of the wearer within the sound field in response to a navigation input received from the one or more sensors. The processor is also configured to select one of the sound field zones for playback via a speaker or actuation of a hearing device function in response to a selection input received from the one or more sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Karim Helwani, Tao Zhang, Simon Carlile
  • Patent number: 10582316
    Abstract: An ear-worn electronic device comprises a plurality of EEG sensors configured to sense EEG signals from or proximate a wearer's ear. At least one processor is configured to detect, during a baseline period of no wearer movement, EEG signals from the EEG sensors, and detect, during each of a plurality of candidate control movements by the wearer, EEG signals from the EEG sensors. The at least one processor is also configured to compute, using the EEG signals, discriminability metrics for the candidate control movements and the baseline period, the discriminability metrics indicating how discriminable neural signals associated with the candidate control movements and the baseline period are from one another. The at least one processor is further configured to select a subset of the candidate control movements using the discriminability metrics, each of the selected control movements defining a neural command for controlling the ear-worn electronic device by the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Lauren Petley, Swapan Gandhi, Simon Carlile, Sahar Akram
  • Publication number: 20190166434
    Abstract: An ear-worn electronic device comprises a plurality of EEG sensors configured to sense EEG signals from or proximate a wearer's ear. At least one processor is configured to detect, during a baseline period of no wearer movement, EEG signals from the EEG sensors, and detect, during each of a plurality of candidate control movements by the wearer, EEG signals from the EEG sensors. The at least one processor is also configured to compute, using the EEG signals, discriminability metrics for the candidate control movements and the baseline period, the discriminability metrics indicating how discriminable neural signals associated with the candidate control movements and the baseline period are from one another. The at least one processor is further configured to select a subset of the candidate control movements using the discriminability metrics, each of the selected control movements defining a neural command for controlling the ear-worn electronic device by the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Lauren Petley, Swapan Gandhi, Simon Carlile, Sahar Akram
  • Publication number: 20190087150
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a processor configured to generate a virtual auditory display comprising a sound field, a plurality of disparate sound field zones, and a plurality of quiet zones that provide acoustic contrast between the sound field zones. The sound field zones and the quiet zones remain positionally stationary within the sound field. One or more sensors are configured to sense a plurality of inputs from the wearer. The processor is configured to facilitate movement of the wearer within the sound field in response to a navigation input received from the one or more sensors. The processor is also configured to select one of the sound field zones for playback via a speaker or actuation of a hearing device function in response to a selection input received from the one or more sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Karim Helwani, Tao Zhang, Simon Carlile
  • Patent number: 10133544
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a processor configured to generate a virtual auditory display comprising a sound field, a plurality of disparate sound field zones, and a plurality of quite zones that provide acoustic contrast between the sound field zones. The sound field zones and the quiet zones remain positionally stationary within the sound field. One or more sensors are configured to sense a plurality of inputs from the wearer. The processor is configured to facilitate movement of the wearer within the sound field in response to a navigation input received from the one or more sensors. The processor is also configured to select one of the sound field zones for playback via a speaker or actuation of a hearing device function in response to a selection input received from the one or more sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Starkey Hearing Technologies
    Inventors: Karim Helwani, Tao Zhang, Simon Carlile
  • Publication number: 20180253275
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a processor configured to generate a virtual auditory display comprising a sound field, a plurality of disparate sound field zones, and a plurality of quite zones that provide acoustic contrast between the sound field zones. The sound field zones and the quiet zones remain positionally stationary within the sound field. One or more sensors are configured to sense a plurality of inputs from the wearer. The processor is configured to facilitate movement of the wearer within the sound field in response to a navigation input received from the one or more sensors. The processor is also configured to select one of the sound field zones for playback via a speaker or actuation of a hearing device function in response to a selection input received from the one or more sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Karim Helwani, Tao Zhang, Simon Carlile
  • Patent number: 8755547
    Abstract: A method of enhancing the intelligibility of sounds including the steps of: detecting primary sounds emanating from a first direction and producing a primary signal; detecting secondary sounds emanating from the left and right of the first direction and producing secondary signals; delaying the primary signal with respect to the secondary signals; and presenting combinations of the signals to the left and right sides of the auditory system of a listener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Hear IP Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Jorge Patricio Mejia, Simon Carlille, Harvey Albert Dillon
  • Publication number: 20090304188
    Abstract: A method of enhancing the intelligibility of sounds including the steps of: detecting primary sounds emanating from a first direction and producing a primary signal; detecting secondary sounds emanating from the left and right of the first direction and producing secondary signals; delaying the primary signal with respect to the secondary signals; and presenting combinations of the signals to the left and right sides of the auditory system of a listener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: Hearworks Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Jorge Patricio Mejia, Simon Carlille, Harvey Albert Dillon
  • Patent number: 7580536
    Abstract: A method of enhancing sound heard by a hearing-impaired listener comprises monitoring the sound in an environment in which the listener is located; and manipulating the frequency of high frequency components of the sound in a high frequency band, with little, if any, distortion to components of the sound in a speech frequency band, to enhance spectral cues to aid the listener in sound externalisation and spatialisation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Vast Audio Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Simon Carlile, Craig Jin, Johahn Leung, Andre Van Schaik
  • Patent number: 7542574
    Abstract: A system for customising the synthesis and generation of spatial hearing in virtual auditory space (VAS) for individual listeners includes a measuring ruler (12) and a digital processing unit (DPU) (14) to which the ruler (12) is connected. The ruler (12) is used for measuring various physical dimensions of the morphology of a person's external auditory periphery (16). The ruler (12) comprises a base (18) insertable into an ear canal (20) of the person's ear. A robotic measuring arm (22) extends from the base (18) and has a measuring tip (24) to enable the ruler (12) to record the Cartesian (x,y,z) coordinates of the tip (24) relative to the base (18). By suitable manipulation of the robotic arm (22), the tip (24) can be positioned at desired locations on the person's external auditory periphery (16) to enable the morphological measurements of the person's external auditory periphery (16) to be effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Personal Audio PTY Ltd
    Inventors: Craig Jin, Philip Leong, Johahn Leung, Simon Carlile, Andre Van Schaik
  • Patent number: 7489788
    Abstract: A system for recording and reproducing a three dimensional auditory scene for individual listeners includes one or more microphone arrays (2 and 16); a support (3) for holding, moving the microphone array and also for attaching other devices (14); a data storage and encoding device (9); a control interface (13), and a processor and decoding device (10). The microphones in the microphone array (2) preferably have strong directional characteristics. The microphone array support mount (4) can support one or more physical structures (5) to provide directional acoustic filtering. The directional microphone array is electrically connected via a lead (8) to the sound encoding processor (9) and sound decoding processor (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Personal Audio Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Johahn Leung, Craig Jin, Simon Carlile, Andre Van Schaik
  • Publication number: 20070127748
    Abstract: A method of enhancing sound heard by a hearing-impaired listener comprises monitoring the sound in an environment in which the listener is located; and manipulating the frequency of high frequency components of the sound in a high frequency band, with little, if any, distortion to components of the sound in a speech frequency band, to enhance spectral cues to aid the listener in sound externalisation and spatialisation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Simon Carlile, Craig Jin, Johahn Leung, Andre Van Schaik
  • Patent number: 7209564
    Abstract: A system for customising the synthesis and generation of spatial hearing in virtual auditory space (VAS) for individual listeners includes a measuring ruler (12) and a digital processing unit (DPU) (14) to which the ruler (12) is connected. The ruler (12) is used for measuring various physical dimensions of the morphology of a person's external auditory periphery (16). The ruler (12) comprises a base (18) insertable into an ear canal (20) of the person's ear. A robotic measuring arm (22) extends from the base (18) and has a measuring tip (24) to enable the ruler (12) to record the Cartesian (x,y,z) coordinates of the tip (24) relative to the base (18). By suitable manipulation of the robotic arm (22), the tip (24) can be positioned at desired locations on the person's external auditory periphery (16) to enable the morphological measurements of the person's external auditory periphery (16) to be effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Vast Audio Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Graig Jin, Philip Leong, Johahn Leung, Simon Carlile, Andre Van Schaik
  • Publication number: 20050080616
    Abstract: A system for recording and reproducing a three dimensional auditory scene for individual listeners includes one or more microphone arrays (2 and 16); a support (3) for holding, moving the microphone array and also for attaching other devices (14); a data storage and encoding device (9); a control interface (13), and a processor and decoding device (10). The microphones in the microphone array (2) preferably have strong directional characteristics. The microphone array support mount (4) can support one or more physical structures (5) to provide directional acoustic filtering. The directional microphone array is electrically connected via a lead (8) to the sound encoding processor (9) and sound decoding processor (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Johahn Leung, Craig Jin, Simon Carlile, Andre Van Schaik