HEARING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM WITH OWN VOICE DETECTION

Patent №

US 9,219,964

Granted

2015-12-22

Filed 2014

Owner

STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14464149

A hearing assistance system includes a pair of left and right hearing assistance devices to be worn by a wearer and uses both of the left and right hearing assistance devices to detect the voice of the wearer. The left and right hearing assistance devices each include first and second microphones at different locations. Various embodiments detect the voice of the wearer using signals produced by the first and second microphones of the left hearing assistance device and the first and second microphones of the right hearing assistance device. Various embodiments use outcome of detection of the voice of the wearer performed by the left hearing assistance device and the outcome of detection of the voice of the wearer performed the right hearing assistance device to determine whether to declare a detection of the voice of the wearer.

SpeechH04R 25/505G10L 25/78H04R 25/405H04R 25/407H04R 3/005H04R 2410/01H04R 2460/01H04R 2460/05

AI classification

Speech1.00
Knowledge representation0.08
Evolutionary computation0.02
Vision0.02
Natural language0.01
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.

assignment · 362070026

Assignors

MERKS, IVO

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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