GENERAL PURPOSE DEVICE TO ASSIST THE HARD OF HEARING

Patent №

US 9,747,814

Granted

2017-08-29

Filed 2015

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14887644

An approach to notifying a person who is hard of hearing of audible events based on a configurable device. The device has microphones and associated buttons mounted on its surface. The user programs the device by depressing a selected button longer than a preconfigured time to place the device in listen mode. The user generates the desired audible event and the device records the audible event. The selected button is depressed again to instruct the device to associate the audible event with a visual alarm indicator of colored/flashing lights and/or a text projection. The device listens for the audible event and activates the visual alarm indicator when the device detects the audible event.

SpeechG09B 21/009A61F 11/04G08B 5/22G08B 7/06G08B 17/117G08B 21/14H04R 25/407H04R 29/008+1 more

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language0.49
Vision0.13
Machine learning0.01
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 368320329

Assignors

BARISKA, ARTHUR J., JR., MASSER, JOEL L., MCKENZIE, KEVIN D., TEDESCO, EILEEN P.

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