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  • CONCEPT FOR ATTACHING A SOUND PROCESSOR TO THE HEAD VIA AN INTERCHANGEABLE MAGNET
    Publication number: 20210152954
    Abstract: A hearing aid for placement on the head. The hearing aid includes a first part comprising an acoustic input transducer adapted to convert an ambient sound picked up at an ear of the user to an electric signal, a signal processor adapted to process the electric signal according to specifications of the user into a processed electric signal, and an output transducer adapted to convert the processed electric signal into a transmission signal, and a second part linkable to said first part by magnetic forces and comprising a receiver adapted to receive the transmission signal and convert the transmission signal to an output signal perceivable as sound by the user. Said first part comprises a receptacle adapted to receive an insert element, said insert element comprising protrusions configured for engaging with a recess of said first part by rotating the insert element relative to said first part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Oticon Medical A/S
    Inventors: Emilie Munk HAAGERUP, Claus TIPSMARK, Johan ROSENGREN, Rasmus LUND, Glenn JENSEN, Bent JAKOBSEN
  • Hearing device and a hearing system comprising a multitude of adaptive two channel beamformers
    Patent number: 10887703
    Abstract: A hearing system comprises a first hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid. The hearing system comprises at least three input transducers, one of which being selected as a reference input transducer providing a reference input signal, at least two adaptive 2-channel beamformers, each providing a spatially filtered signal based on first and second beamformer-input signals, wherein the adaptive 2-channel beamformers maintain unit amplitude and phase for a target component of said reference input signal. The at least two 2-channel beamformers are coupled in a layered structure at least comprising a primary layer and a secondary layer. The adaptive parameter of a given 2-channel beamformer is determined from the first and second beamformer-input signals for the 2-channel beamformer in question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Eleni Koutrouli, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Jesper Jensen, Jan M. De Haan
  • Providing and transmitting audio signal
    Patent number: 10880659
    Abstract: There is provided a system (100) comprising an audio streaming device (102) having an audio streaming device receiver (104) arranged for receiving a first audio signal (106) comprising a first audio content and a second audio signal (108) comprising a second audio content, the system furthermore comprising a memory device (110) arranged for storing a user defined setting (112), a processor (114) arranged for providing an output audio signal (116), said output audio signal comprising a combination of the first audio content, and the second audio content, wherein the output audio signal comprises a ratio of a level of the first audio content and a level of the second audio content, and the ratio is determined based on the user defined setting (112), and wherein the system is further comprising a system transmitter (118) arranged for wirelessly transmitting the output audio signal (116).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Povl Koch, David Thorn Blix, Matias Tofteby Bach
  • Hearing device comprising a sensor configuration detector
    Patent number: 11089412
    Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, comprises first and second hearing device parts having separate first and second housings and being electrically connectable by a connecting element. The second hearing device part is available in a multitude of variants. The connecting element comprises an electric cable comprising a multitude of electric conductors, and a first electric connector comprising a multitude of first electric termination elements. The second hearing device part comprises a loudspeaker, and/or a number of sensors each providing an electric sensor signal representative of a current property of the environment of the hearing device and/or a current state of the user wearing the hearing device. The first hearing device part comprises a configuration extractor electrically connected to said second hearing device part via said connecting element and adapted to identify a current configuration of sensors in said second hearing device part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Jan M. De Haan, Angela Josupeit, Sara Klimt-Møllenbach
  • RF ANTENNA AND HEARING DEVICE WITH RF ANTENNA
    Publication number: 20170245068
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an RF antenna adapted to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic RF signals within a first frequency range enclosing a first frequency of resonance of the RF antenna, the RF antenna comprising: an electrically conductive antenna element having a feed for electrically connecting to an RF transmitter and/or an RF receiver; an electronic component adapted to receive and/or provide one or more electric signals from/to an electronic circuit within a second frequency range not overlapping the first frequency range; and one or more electric leads electrically connected to lead the one or more electric signals between the electronic component and the electronic circuit, each of the one or more electric leads being electrically connected to the electronic circuit through a respective inductor adapted to reflect and/or attenuate signals within the first frequency range and pass signals within the second frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Jens TROELSEN, Oliver SUNDBERG, Kåre Tais CHRISTENSEN, Henning Knak POULSEN
  • RF ANTENNA AND HEARING DEVICE WITH RF ANTENNA
    Publication number: 20190052980
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an RF antenna adapted to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic RF signals within a first frequency range enclosing a first frequency of resonance of the RF antenna, the RF antenna comprising: an electrically conductive antenna element having a feed for electrically connecting to an RF transmitter and/or an RF receiver; an electronic component adapted to receive and/or provide one or more electric signals from/to an electronic circuit within a second frequency range not overlapping the first frequency range; and one or more electric leads electrically connected to lead the one or more electric signals between the electronic component and the electronic circuit, each of the one or more electric leads being electrically connected to the electronic circuit through a respective inductor adapted to reflect and/or attenuate signals within the first frequency range and pass signals within the second frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Jens Troelsen, Oliver Sundberg, Kåre Tais Christensen, Henning Knak Poulsen
  • Method and anastomotic instrument for use when performing an end-to-side anastomosis
    Patent number: 6066148
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for establishing an end-to-side anastomosis by using an instrument (501) is disclosed. The instrument has a passage (502D) for a bypass vessel, terminated by a circumferential anvil (502A, 503B), about which the end of the bypass vessel may be everted and then inserted through an anastomosis opening in a second vessel, such as a coronary artery. After insertion, the tissue edges to be joined are first clamped together by clamping slides (505) and then stapled together by stapling plungers (506) so as to interconnect the two vessels. The stapling plungers (506) are arranged to move at an angle to the passage (502D) instead of parallel to it. With this arrangement, it is possible to use a greater number of staples than has been possible in previous related methods. Preferably also, the instrument is adapted to be divided lengthwise of the passage (502D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignees: Oticon A/S, Bernafon AG
    Inventor: J.o slashed.rgen A. Rygaard
  • Hearing assistance system with improved signal processing comprising an implanted part
    Patent number: 9895535
    Abstract: The application relates to a hearing assistance system (a method and its use) for processing an input signal representative of sound according to a user's needs, the hearing assistance system comprising an implanted part adapted for being at least partially implanted in a user's head and comprising a sensing unit capable of measuring an endocochlear potential at one or more positions along the length of the cochlear partition. The hearing assistance system further comprises a decoder configured to receive said endocochlear potentials or signals derived therefrom and to transform the received signals into signals appropriately conditioned for use as control inputs to the signal processing unit, and wherein the signal processing unit is configured to process the electric input signal in dependence of said control inputs from said decoder. Thereby the processing of the audio signal of a hearing assistance device can be automatically adapted over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Graham Naylor
  • Hearing aid with feedback compensation
    Patent number: 5201006
    Abstract: In a hearing aid with feedback compensation by virtue of at least one secondary microphone feeding into a delay unit and an attenuator feeding into one input of a difference amplifier, the other input with opposite polarity of which is connected to the output of the primary microphone receiving the ambient sound to be amplified and fed into the hearing-aid receiver and output duct, at least two secondary signal paths are provided. Each path comprises a secondary microphone with its associated delay unit and attenuator. An operational control unit may select the strongest signal to be used for feedback compensation. This makes it possible to achieve feedback compensation in various situations, such as may arise e.g. with an "in-the-ear" hearing aid when the user is chewing or yawning, creating various possible paths from the output duct past the housing of hearing aid to the primary microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Soren Weinrich
  • System and method for determining directionality of sound detected by as hearing aid
    Patent number: 8270643
    Abstract: This invention relates to a system (200) for determining directionality of a sound. The system (200) comprises a first audio device (202) placed on one side of a user's head (100) and having a first microphone unit (110, 112) for converting said sound to a first electric signal, a second audio device (204) placed on the other side of the user's head (100) and having a second microphone unit (114, 116) for converting said sound to a second electric signal, and comprises a transceiver unit (220, 238) for interconnecting the first and second audio device and communicating the second electric signal to the first audio device (202). The first audio device (202) further comprises a first comparator (222) for comparing the first and second electric signals and generating a first directionality signal from the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Ulrik Kjems, Michael Syskind Pedersen
  • Method of programming a communication device and a programmable communication device
    Patent number: 7340231
    Abstract: In the method according to the invention the communication device has a microphone and a signal path leading from the microphone to a speaker, where the signal path comprises a programmable signal processing unit. According to the method the user is given control in a training session over one or more signal processing parameters within the signal processing unit. In the training session the user listens to the sound of his or her own voice transmitted through the communication device, and adjusts the one or more signal processing parameters until he or she is satisfied with the sound quality of his/her own voice. The values of the signal processing parameters chosen by the user during the training session are stored in a storing means within the device, and the programmable signal processing automatically uses the stored parameter when detection means within the unit detects the users own voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Behrens, Claus Nielsen, Thomas Lunner, Claus Elberling
  • Providing and transmitting audio signal
    Patent number: 10659893
    Abstract: There is provided a system (100) comprising an audio streaming device (102) having an audio streaming device receiver (104) arranged for receiving a first audio signal (106) comprising a first audio content and a second audio signal (108) comprising a second audio content, the system furthermore comprising a memory device (110) arranged for storing a user defined setting (112), a processor (114) arranged for providing an output audio signal (116), said output audio signal comprising a combination of the first audio content, and the second audio content, wherein the output audio signal comprises a ratio of a level of the first audio content and a level of the second audio content, and the ratio is determined based on the user defined setting (112), and wherein the system is further comprising a system transmitter (118) arranged for wirelessly transmitting the output audio signal (116).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Povl Koch, David Thorn Blix, Matias Tofteby Bach
  • System and method for matching microphones
    Publication number: 20070086602
    Abstract: This invention relates to a system (10) and method for matching one or more microphones. A first and second microphone (110, 210) communicates, respectively, a first and second microphone signal to an amplitude compensating means (16) adjusting amplitude of the first microphone signal in accordance with amplitude of the second microphone signal. The amplitude compensating means (16) communicates an adjusted first microphone signal (100) and the second microphone signal (200) to a phase matching means (18) comprising a correction filter means (113) receiving the adjusted first microphone signal (100). The correction filter means (113) comprises a low-pass filter means (111), which is controlled in accordance with a subtraction between the first microphone signal output (102) and the second microphone signal (200), and a high-pass filter means (112), which is controlled in accordance with a comparison between the first microphone signal output (102) and the second microphone signal (200).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Kim Petersen, Meng Gou
  • In-the-ear hearing aid device, a hearing aid, and an electro-acoustic transducer
    Patent number: 11350211
    Abstract: An in-the-ear hearing aid device is disclosed. The device at least one electro-acoustic transducer, and at least one sensor or at least one active electronic component. The at least one electro-acoustic transducer comprises a capsule enclosing a transducer sound active part and a transducer air volume. The transducer air volume is air volume which is enclosed by said capsule and which is in fluid-connection with said transducer sound active part. At least a portion of said at least one sensor or of said at least one active electronic component is provided within said transducer air volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Troels Holm Pedersen, Therese Schønemann Blom, Seri Jalonen, Jan Thor Lunddahl Larsen, Niels Stubager Kiemer, Jesper B. Johansen, Povl Koch, Svend Oscar Petersen, Anders Erik Petersen, Kåre Tais Christensen, Antonello Salvatucci, Franz Treue
  • Hearing aid with a child-proof battery compartment
    Patent number: 8767990
    Abstract: A hearing aid with a child-proof battery compartment includes a shell and a battery door mounted in the shell for rotational movement between an open position and a closed position. A latch mechanism between a pivotal latch of the battery door and a corresponding arrest part is at an internal side of an arrest wall. The battery door in the closed position includes external wall parts facing away from the hearing aid and all of the external wall parts are flush with or recessed with respect to adjacent wall parts of the hearing aid shell, such that an opening force cannot be applied to the external wall parts. The arrest wall includes a narrow gap opening which grants access to the pivotal latch and allows an opening force to be applied to the pivotal latch through the opening to release the battery door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Peter Spragge, Michael F. Jørgensen, Rune Værndal
  • VIBRATOR WITH ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20110317859
    Abstract: A vibrator is provided with a spring having a first end and a second end and, a frame immovably attached to the second end where the frame is carrying a movable armature and at the second end of the spring a coupling with an armature plate is immovably attached. The armature plate and the movable armature are provided in close proximity with an air gap there between and a permanent magnet is associated with one or both of the armature plate and/or the movable armature and an electrical coil is associated with one or both of the armature plate and/or the movable armature. An adjustment screw is provided to displace the movable armature towards or away from the armature plate, wherein the screw is inserted in a bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: OTICON MEDICAL A/S
    Inventor: Lars JINTON
  • Bone conducting hearing aid with connection
    Patent number: 8059844
    Abstract: The hearing aid according to the invention comprise: a skin penetrating abutment, a skin penetrating abutment, a rod with a coupling part, operative to allow releasable connection between the rod and the abutment, a hearing aid housing with an opening, where the rod extends through the opening and into the hearing aid housing, a vibrator connected to the rod in the hearing aid housing, and resiliently mounted between a distal housing wall part which faces away from the opening and a proximal housing wall part which comprises the opening, whereby the proximal wall part further comprise a relief portion which extends into the area between the vibrator and the coupling part of the rod and where, the distance between the relief portion and the coupling part of the rod is smaller than the distance between the vibrator and the inside of the distal wall part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Patrik Westerkull, Anton Hedström, Bengt Bern
  • DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION IN MINIATURE DEVICES USING A SOUND SENSOR ARRAY
    Publication number: 20190014422
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a sound system for estimating the direction of arrival of sound emitted by one or more sound sources creating a sound field. The sound system comprises an array of N sound receiving transducers (microphones), each providing an electric input signal, a processing unit comprising a) a model unit comprising a parametric model configured to be able to describe the sound field at the array as a function of the direction of arrival in a region surrounding and adjacent to the array; b) a model optimizing unit configured to optimize said model with respect to its parameters based on said sound samples; c) a cost optimizing unit configured to minimize a cost function of the model with respect to said direction of arrivals; d) an estimating unit configured to estimate the direction of arrival based on said parametric model with the optimized parameters and the optimized cost function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas LUNNER, Fredrik GUSTAFSSON, David LINDGREN, Gustaf HENDEBY
  • Methods and devices for correct and safe placement of an in-ear communication device in the ear canal of a user
    Patent number: 10448177
    Abstract: A method for correct placement of an in-ear communication device, e.g. a hearing aid, in an ear canal of a user, the in-ear communication device comprising an acoustic seal towards inner surfaces of the ear canal and being configured to be located in a bony part of the ear canal during normal operation, comprises: placing the in-ear communication device in the ear canal thereby forming a substantial acoustic seal in the soft part of the ear canal; generating body-conducted sound to inner surface portions of the user's ear canal; gradually inserting the device deeper into the ear canal in the direction towards the ear drum, until a position where the sound level perceived by the user decreases; maintaining the device in this position in the ear canal, this position being the correct position of the device in the bony part of the ear canal. An in-ear device is furthermore provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Claus Nielsen, Søren Laugesen
  • PORTABLE SYSTEM FOR GATHERING AND PROCESSING DATA FROM EEG, EOG, AND/OR IMAGING SENSORS
    Publication number: 20210235203
    Abstract: A method for picking up body signals from the head of a user comprises a) placing first and second electrodes on first and second different positions at a first side of the user's head in direct or capacitive contact with the user's head, said first side comprising a first eye of the user, the first and second electrodes being configured to pick up first and second electric potentials, respectively, from the user's body, and b) providing an Electrooculography signal representative of a corneo-retinal potential difference of said first eye of the user in dependence of said at first and second electric potentials. The first and second positions may be (substantially) located in a plane including the first eye of the user. A portable electronic device providing an Electrooculography signal, and a hearing device utilizing an Electrooculography signal is further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas LUNNER, Alejandro LOPEZ VALDES, Henrik BENDSEN, Claus CHRISTENSEN, Peter SCHMIDT, Ole ANDERSEN, Mikkel NIELSEN, Tanveer BHUIYAN
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