AU2005222499B2 - Method for adjusting the transmission characteristic of a hearing aid - Google Patents
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Abstract
The method involves selecting and reproducing an object, representing in a display area, on a graphical user interface with a pointer device. A blue print (17) is shifted and discarded under usage of the pointer device in another display area. The transmission characteristic of a hearing aid device is changeable by the discarded object. The object comprises an adjustable parameter, which is represented by numerical value.
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PATENTS ACT 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION FOR A STANDARD PATENT Name and Address of Applicant Actual Inventor(s): Address for Service: Invention Title: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH, of Gebbertstrasse 125, 91058, Erlangen, Germany Eduard Kaiser Reinier Kortekaas Soren Kuhrt Michael Sieber Spruson Ferguson St Martins Tower Level 31 Market Street Sydney NSW 2000 (CCN 3710000177) Method for adjusting the transmission characteristic of a hearing aid The following statement is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to me/us:- 5845c o METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTIC C OF A HEARING AID
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The invention relates to a method for using a data processing device which includes a screen and a pointer device to adjust 5 hearing aid transmission characteristic defined by parameters specific to the hearing aid concerned.
Because of the different manufacturers, the very wide diversify of hearing aid types available and the many hearing aid parameters which can be changed by adjusting controls.or by programming, such as frequency response signal edge displacement, rise time in the low and high tone range), gain, starting point of AGC, peak clipping, etc. hearing aid engineers are confronted with such a large number of different programming options that, solely from the point of view of the time involved, it is no longer worthwhile going through all these options to arrive at an optimum adjustment. Over and above this a tedious adjustment process of this type would not be acceptable to users.
Automated adjustment methods have thus already been proposed Z US 4,953,112). Even in such cases however the hearing aid acoustic engineer is still confronted by a plurality of different setting options which have an effect on the acoustic behavior of the hearing aid.
From DE 44 18 203 C2 a method of using a personal computer to 11 adjust the transmission characteristic of a hearing aid defined by device-specific parameters is known, in which a memory for basic values of a hearing aid setting, in conjunction with an algorithm and a data memory, supplies transmission characteristic of the hearing aid and displays this informa- %o tion as a graphical curve on the screen of a personal com- 'puter. A computer mouse with a pointer which can be positioned c-i on the display is used as a pointer device for the adjustment process, so that points or sections of a graphical curve to be 0 changed can be clicked on and moved, thereby changing the shape of the transmission curve. This process is repeated un- Stil, once the desired curve has been obtained, the parameters for the desired curved are transmitted by wire or by the remote control to the hearing aid.
c-i iq Graphical user interfaces of known computer applications fre- S quently provide a functionality referred to as ,,drag-anda drop". In such cases an. object in the graphical user interface is clicked on with the left button of a computer mouse, the button is then held down while the computer mouse drags this object to the other location in the graphical user interface and the left mouse button is released again to drop the object, in which case the object concerned is stored at this other location of the user interface and overwrites the original content of the user interface at this location. This allows complex data to be manipulated relatively quickly and easily.
o The use of a clipboard for copying individual characters or character strings is known from the ,,Microsoft Windows" operating system for personal computers. In such cases the characters to be copied are marked and stored in the clipboard by pressing keys on the computer keyboard or by using a computer mouse. The content of this clipboard can then be inserted later at selected locations of a graphical user interface.
A method for operation of a programming device for a hearing aid is known from DE 101 52 197 Al, in which parameters to control the signal processing in the hearing aid as well as characteristic and functions of the hearing aid are set using the programming device, said method comprising the following steps: a) Activating recording means, b) Executing an operating step at the programming device c) Using the recording means to record the operating step Nl and/or at least one absolute or relative parameter tchange brought about by the operating step, d) Repeating steps b) and c) until an operating sequence is complete, e) Deactivating the recording means, f) Executing the operating steps recorded in steps in steps a) to e) and/or of relative or absolute parameter O changes brought about by the operating steps.
EP 1 142 451 Bl discloses a method for binaural adjustment of transmission characteristics for a hearing aid consisting (N of one part for the left ear and one part for the right ear, with the aid of a data processing system to which a pointer device and a display unit can be connected, with the pointer device being used to change parameters of the transmission characteristics and with the parameters of the one hearing aid part being able to be adjusted both independently of the parameters of the other hearing aid part and also simultaneously with the parameters of the other hearing aid part.
Thus, a need exists to further simplify the adjustment of a hearing aid by means of a data processing system with a graphical user interface.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for adjusting transmission characteristic of a hearing aid defined by hearing aid specific parameters by means of a data processing device comprising a screen and a pointer device, by selecting an object displayed in a first screen area in a graphical user interface with the pointer device, copying it and then moving the copy using the pointer device into a second area of the screen and storing it there, with the transmission characteristic of the hearing aid being able to be changed by the second object.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for adjusting a transmission characteristic of a hearing aid defined by hearing aidspecific parameters by means of a data processing device, which includes a screen and a pointer device, said method comprising the steps of: selecting from a graphical user interface with the pointer device an object shown in a first area of the screen; and C moving said selected object into a second area of the q screen and storing said selected object there, wherein the ci transmission characteristic of the hearing aid device is S io able to be changed by the stored object, wherein the first area is provided for adjusting a first hearing program and the second area for adjusting a second hearing program of said hearing aid, or the first area is provided for adjusting a first hearing aid and the second area for adjusting a second hearing aid.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for adjusting a transmission characteristic of a hearing aid defined by hearing aidspecific parameters by means of a data processing device, including the steps of first selecting with the pointer a graphical object displayed in an area of the screen Sin the graphical user interface and copying the selected graphical object into a clip-board and subsequently inserting a copy of the selected graphical object using a pointer device into a target area, wherein the transmission s characteristic of the hearing aid is able to e changed by the inserted graphical object.
ci The basic idea of the invention is also to use drag-and-drop ci functionality or a clipboard when making adjustments to S 10 hearing aids. The electronic data processing device used ci for the adjustment is as rule embodied as normal Personal Computer (PC) which includes a screen and a pointer device computer mouse) and on which special adjustment software is installed.
In principle hearing aid adjustments involve a plurality of different objects which can be copied using "drag-and-drop".
An object in the sense of the invention is in this case taken to mean in very general terms a specific first area of the screen which is copied into a second area of the screen and thereby overwrites the original content of this second area of the screen, which enables settings or parameters of a hearing aid to be changed. The scope of these screen sections is to be seen as very wide-ranging in this case.
Examples are as follows: a counter value, a specific characteristic transmission curves, a bar chart, settings for graphical controls (push buttons, setting buttons, controls selection elements (on-off markings), specific character strings (file names)etc. An object in the sense of the invention can in this case also include any combination of these types of individual elements.
Furthermore graphical objects are also relevant in conjunction with the invention, these differing from the above-mentioned objects in that a graphical object is taken to mean not simply a character that can be entered via a computer keyboard or a sequence of such characters.
C- An object in accordance with the invention is preferably an individual parameter or groups of parameters which are to be 0 copied. In this case the parameters can be represented by a numerical value or also by a specific graphical symbol. The E symbol illustrates for example whether a specific function filter, output limiter) is switched on or switched off.
For a larger range of parameter values the graphical symbols I can also provide a rough illustration of the value set, e.g.
CI the volume setting or the gain. in the form of a bar display.
Sio In accordance with the invention the numerical value or the c-i graphical symbol which represents the concrete setting is then copied into another area of the graphical user interface. In addition the object involved can also be at least one transmission curve or at least one section of the transmission curve. Transmission curves are frequently selected means for adjusting hearing aids for graphical illustration of the transmission behavior of the hearing aid concerned. This transmission behavior is as a rule heavily frequencydependent. The appropriate transmission curves can be quickly to and easily copied using the invention. In addition a specific control element can also be copied as such into the user interface within the context of the invention. An example of this might be a graphical symbol for a control element for setting up the overall gain of a hearing aid system for binau- 2q ral supply, in which case copying of the overall gain of the binaural hearing aid system can then be used to adjust-the two hearing aids.
To enable repeated access to a hearing aid adjustment once it has been made the settings and parameter values produced dur- 3 ing the adjustment session are stored. Usually the stored data is given a file name so that it can be easily found again. The invention also includes the copying of specific memory content and especially the copying of file names using the graphical user interface.
In an adjustment method in accordance with the invention the graphical user interface is divided up into at least two ar- 0 eas, with a setting made the first area being copied into the second area. The two areas allow a distinction to be made between the adjustment of different hearing programs of one and the same hearing aid for example. Hearing programs are used C generally for adjusting the signal processing of a hearing aid CI to specific hearing situations such as for example ,,speech in c-i a quiet environment", "speech in a noisy environment", "driving in a car", ,,telephone", etc. With many of these different hearing programs the totality of the adjustment parameters is very similar. The invention offers the advantage that the settings and parameters selected in conjunction with a specific hearing program are able to be transmitted quickly and easily to a second hearing program. It is only then necessary to make the changes in this second program in relation to the first program.
Naturally the sequence of the individual hearing programs can be changed quickly and easily by means of the invention by way of the graphical user interface. This is especially important since hearing aids frequently feature only one button as a control for switching over the programs, which only increments the program number by one each time it is pressed or goes from the highest program number back to hearing program 1. Thus for example the invention typically allows the parameters and settings of a specific hearing program to be transferred easily to the hearing program with the program number 1.
The invention does not however only offer advantages for setting an individual hearing aid but especially in those situa- 3o tions where a number of hearing aids, for example for binaural supply to a user, are to be adjusted. Thus the first area of the graphical user interface can advantageously be provided for adjusting a first, e.g. the left-side hearing aid and the second area of the graphical user interface for adjusting the 3T right-side hearing aid. Since the two ears of a user frec- quently have the same hearing loss it makes sense to initially transfer the settings selected for supply to one ear at a 0 hearing aid to the second hearing aid and then to merely make a fine adjustment at the hearing aid for supplying the second S ear. In addition the parameters and settings copied in accordance with the invention can originate from an object library C which especially comprises standard settings for frequently CI occurring hearing losses. In particular for the selection of c-i these types of standard settings which can serve as a starting S point for an individual adjustment, the presetting by means of Cthe invention can use a high level of abstraction as its starting point. Advantageously in this case a plurality of individual settings and parameter values do not have to be copied but merely a specific memory area within the data process- I1 ing device, an operation which can be executed merely by copying a specific file and storing this file in an area of the graphical user interface provided for adjusting the hearing aid concerned.
The practical implementation of the drag-and-a drop functionality is preferably undertaken in compliance with the method known from ,,Microsoft Windows". In this system an object to be copied is selected by positioning the mouse pointer on the object and clicking on the left mouse button. In this case an object to be copied can consist of a number of graphical ele- 2 ments, e.g. a number of characteristic transmission curves which can be jointly selected in the way described. In addition the computer mouse can also be used to define a window on the graphical user interface so that the object to be copied contains a number of graphical elements which all lie within the defined window. Especially for the simultaneous selection of a number of graphical elements it can be worthwhile, in addition to clicking on the left mouse button, to also have to press specific keys on a keyboard of the data processing device.
A selected object is advantageously to be clearly distinguished from a non-selected object, e.g. by a particular coloring, the choice of specific types of line, flashing, etc In addition the user can also recognize with a preferred embodiment of the invention when a copied object is precisely above the target area of the copied object on which it can basically be stored. For example it is not sensible to store numerical values of a specific parameter in a diagram of a transmission function. The adjustment software should thus be embodied so o that this is not possible. Conversely the user should however recognize when the copied object, e.g. a characteristic transmission curve, is now over an area, e.g. a diagram, in which it can sensibly be stored. To illustrate this process graphically either the copied object or the target area can then s change in such a way that it is signaled to the user that he can now release the left mouse button and thereby can sensibly store the object The invention is explained in more detail below on the basis of exemplary embodiments. The figures show: to Figure 1 a data processing device for adjusting a hearing aid, Figure 2 Figure 3 the transmission of characteristic transmission curves set for a right-side hearing aid to a left-side hearing aid, the transmission of an individual transmission curve set for a right-side hearing aid to a left-side hearing aid, the transmission of settings and parameter values from a right-side hearing aid to a left-side hearing aid the transmission of settings stored in an object library on a left-side hearing aid, and Figure 4 3 Figure 5 o Figure 6 the transmission of characteristic transmission O curves of a first hearing program to a second hearing program for one and the same hearing aid.
Figure 1 shows in a schematic diagram and with different scales a data processing device in the form of a personal com- C- puter 1 with a pointer device in the form of a computer mouse c- 2 and a programmable hearing aid 4 which can be connected via I an interface not shown in the drawing and a cable 3. A pointer S6 which can be operated using switches in the form of mouse S buttons 5A and 5B is shown on a screen 7 of the data processing device. The data processing device includes in the known way data memory and computation devices which are also not shown in the drawing. Software specifically adapted for adjusting hearing aids is installed on the data processing device.
Figure 2 shows a graphical user interface for individually adjusting a left-side and a right-side hearing aid to the hearing loss of a user. The screen content 10 is in this case divided up into a left-hand screen area and a right-hand screen 2o area, with settings for the right-side hearing aid being able to be made in the left-hand screen area and settings for the left-side hearing aid of the user in the right-hand screen area. This is indicated by the two graphical symbols 11 and 12. Characteristic transmission curves 13A, 13B, 13C or 14A, 2; 14B, 14C can be seen for both the right-side hearing aid and also for the left-side hearing aid. These illustrate the gain over the frequency for input signals with a low, medium and high signal level. It can also be seen that the transmission functions are different for the right-side and the left-side hearing aid. If the same functions are now to be set for the left-side hearing aid as for the right side hearing aid this setting can be made easily and quickly in accordance with the invention by using the graphical user interface in conjunction with the computer mouse. To this end of the settings of the c- right-side hearing aid which are to be copied are first to be selected. The selection can be made for example by drawing a 0 box with the computer mouse which in the exemplary embodiment encloses all three characteristic transmission curves 13A, s 13B, 13C of the right-side hearing aid. This is possible for example by positioning a mouse pointer 15 initially above the C transmission curves 13A, 13B and 13C and subsequently, while CI holding down the left mouse button, dragging it to a position to the right below the characteristic transmission curves, V I with the marked area being indicated by a rectangle on the screen. It should be pointed out that this type of marking represents one of a number of options so that the invention is not restricted to this type specifically described for the exemplary embodiment. For example the three characteristic 1 transmission curves 13A, 13B and 13C can also be clicked on one after the other in order to mark them jointly. The marked area is then copied into the right-hand screen contents by positioning the mouse pointer for example in the marked area and subsequently, while holding down the left mouse button, drag- Z6 ging it over the diagram shown in the right-hand screen area.
This process is indicated in Figure 2 by the arrow 16 which is merely intended to illustrate the copying process and is not part of the screen contents. While the object is being dragged a copy 17 of the marked area remains visible so that the user zT can follow the current position of the copied area exactly.
Furthermore it can be seen from the copy 17 when this is over an area into which it can sensibly be stored, e.g. over the diagram shown in the right-hand screen half, so that the characteristic curves shown there 14A, 14B and 14C can be over- 3o written by the characteristic curves 13A, 13B and 13C when the mouse button is released. For example of the copy 17 of the marked area can change its line color or line type or can flash to indicate to the user that settings will be overwritten when the mouse button is released.
3- Figure 3 shows a further exemplary embodiment of the invention. By contrast with the exemplary embodiment shown in Figc- ure 2, in this exemplary embodiment only one of the three characteristic curves 13A, 13B, 13C is marked so that in the O exemplary embodiment only the characteristic curve 13C of the gain over frequency for a low signal level of the input signal s is copied and is transferred for the left-side hearing aid. It should be pointed out that this characteristic curve 13C does not necessarily have to replace the characteristic curve 14C CI of the left-side hearing aid but can also replace the curve C-I 14A or 14B depending on which of the three characteristic to curves 14A to 14C the characteristic curve 13C is dragged over. Thus for example the characteristic curve 14B can be replaced by a characteristic curve with the basic curve shape of the curve 13C, with the absolute values of the gain being able to be adjusted graphically by parallel movement of this curve.
S Figure 4 illustrates an exemplary embodiment in which other hearing aid settings rather than characteristic curves, for example the numerical values 20, 21 which determine the gain, or settings made by means of graphical selection elements 22A, 22B, 22C or 23A, 23B, 23C are transferred for the left-side 2o hearing aid. The method of operation here is principally the same as that described in connection with Figures 2 and 3. The only particular feature to be noted is that here, as also already described in connection with Figure 3, only a part of the settings selected in the-current screen of the graphical z2- user interface for the right-side hearing aid are selected and copied. With the copying process in the exemplary embodiment in particular the settings regarding noise reduction which are defined for the right-side hearing aid by the selection elements 24A and 24B and for the left-side hearing aid by the selection elements 25A and 25B are not transmitted to the leftside hearing aid. After the copying process the numerical value 21 (18dB) is overwritten by the numerical value of the right-side hearing aid. The same applies for the selection elements 23A to 23C of the left-side hearing aid S which are overwritten by the corresponding settings of the right-side hearing aid. The settings 25A and 25B with regard c- to the noise reduction of the left-side hearing aid remain unaffected by the copying process since these were not selected 0 for the copying process. The copied area is displayed to the user when it is dragged through the copied screen section 26 Swhich, by contrast with the original section however is only shown as a dashed outline.
i In the exemplary embodiment in accordance with Figure 5 the c- graphical presentation of the settings which are to be transferred from one hearing aid to another is undertaken partly at to a higher level of abstraction. Thus the settings pertaining to the right-side hearing aid are merely symbolized by a file name 28D, with a file being able to be selected from a number of files of a folder 28 directly and dragged over a diagram for the left-side hearing aid so that by the associated copying process the settings stored in file 28D are transferred into the diagram displayed for the left-side hearing aid and are also presented graphically there after the copying process. Naturally in this case the same level of abstraction can be selected for the left-side hearing aid as has been selected for the right-side hearing aid.
By contrast with the previous exemplary embodiments the screen masks that can be seen in Figure 6 is only used for setting an individual hearing aid (the right-side one in the exemplary embodiment). This is indicated by the identical graphic symbol 11 on the left and the right side of the upper edge of the screen. However the screen mask in this case shows simultaneous settings for different hearing programs, namely for program 1 and program 2. These hearing programs are set using the pull-down menus 31 and 32. Using the same operating steps as are used for copying the settings between two different hearing aids, settings in this exemplary embodiment which merely relate to different hearing programs of one hearing aid, are selected from one hearing program (hearing program 1) copied and transmitted to the second hearing program (program 2).
c- As well as the purely graphical copying processes demonstrated as examples in the exemplary embodiments, of the same copying 0 processes can also be executed using a clipboard known from Microsoft Windows. In this case relevant objects such as indi- 7 vidual numerical values, characteristic transmission curves or other settings are selected for hearing aid adjustment and h first copied into the clipboard. Then the target area is se- Ci lected and the contents of the clipboard are copied into the target area, which overwrites the original settings present in ,o this area with the copied settings. This method of operation also allows selected settings of one hearing aid to be copied quickly and efficiently to another hearing aid or to another hearing program of the same hearing aid. The advantage of this method lies in the fact that it enables the user to switch Is- easily between different screen masks which transfers a copy of settings of one screen mask to another screen mask. This method of operation is especially advantageous if it is to be used to copy not only one individual numerical value but a plurality of settings at the same time or when a graphical ob-.
l ject such as a characteristic transmission curve or a diagram are copied, saving the user many operating steps in the individual input of these settings which would otherwise be required.
Since the method of operation using clipboard is very similar zs to the method referred to as ,,drag-and-drop" reference is also made in this case to the exemplary embodiments previously described. Even when the clipboard is used the computer mouse is used initially to mark a specific area of a graphical user interface which is to be copied. Furthermore a "target area" into which the previously copied settings, characteristic transmission curves etc are to be transmitted is also preferably specified by means of the computer mouse. The difference between the two methods is merely that the copying process using "drag and drop of" can be followed directly on the graphi- 3r cal user interface whereas the copied screen area when the clipboard is used is initially invisible to the user, disap- 14 «s pearing into this very clipboard so as to be retrieved again Sfrom there when necessary.
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1. A method for adjusting a transmission characteristic of a hearing aid defined by hearing aid-specific parameters by means of a data processing device, which includes a screen and a pointer device, said method comprising the h steps of: CI selecting from a graphical user interface with the CI pointer device an object shown in a first area of the S 10 screen; and CI moving said selected object into a second area of the screen and storing said selected object there, wherein the transmission characteristic of the hearing aid device is able to be changed by the stored object, wherein the first area is provided for adjusting a first hearing program and the second area for adjusting a second hearing program of said hearing aid, or the first area is provided for adjusting a first hearing aid and the second area for adjusting a second hearing aid.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the object comprises at least one selectable parameter which is represented in particular by a numerical value or a graphical symbol.
3. The method in accordance with either one of claims 1 and 2, wherein the object comprises at least one characteristic transmission curve or at least one section of a characteristic transmission curve.
4. The method in accordance with any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the object at least comprises the setting or selection object displayed on the screen.
The method in accordance with any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the object comprises at least one symbol of a ;memory content displayed on the screen and especially a file name shown on the screen.
6. The method in accordance with any one of claims 1 to wherein the first area is embodied as an object library. c-I (N
7. The method in accordance with any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the first area is embodied as a file folder.
8. The method in accordance with any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the copied object or an object emanating from it remains visible as it is moved on the screen.
9. The method in accordance with any one of the claims 1 to 8, wherein the copied object and/or a destination area for the copied object changing graphically while the object is being moved such that a user can recognize whether the copied object is currently located over a permissible target area within a second area.
The method in accordance with any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the object is changed graphically when selected such that it can be clearly distinguished from an object not selected.
11. A method for adjusting a transmission characteristic of a hearing aid defined by hearing aid-specific parameters by means of a data processing device, which includes a screen and a pointer device, said method comprising the steps of: first selecting in a graphical user interface with the pointer device a graphical object shown in an area of the screen; 17 copying said selected graphical object into a clipboard; and Ssubsequently inserting a copy of said selected graphical object into a target area using the pointer device, wherein the transmission characteristic of the hearing aid device is able to be changed by the inserted graphical object. C-i
12. A method for adjusting a transmission characteristic of a hearing aid defined by hearing aid-specific parameters by means of a data processing device, said method being substantially as described herein with reference to the accompanying drawings. DATED this twenty-first Day of August, 2007 Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH Patent Attorneys for the Applicant SPRUSON FERGUSON
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