EP1453355A1 - Signalverarbeitung in einem Hörgerät - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a device and a method for signal processing in a hearing aid according to the preambles of the independent claims.
- the invention is particularly suitable for improving speech intelligibility by suppressing noise from hearing aids or hearing aids.
- a generic method is known for example from EP 1 067 821 A1, the content of which is hereby incorporated into this application.
- There will be one Hearing aid described in which a suppression of noise in one Input signal takes place in a main signal path, which is neither a transformation in the frequency range is still divided into subband signals, but only one Suppression filter.
- a transfer function of the suppression filter is periodically redetermined based on weakening factors that are signal analysis path lying parallel to the main signal path can be determined.
- the Attenuation factors are used to attenuate signal components in Frequency bands with a significant proportion of noise are used.
- the Suppression filter is implemented as a transversal filter, its impulse response periodically as a weighted sum of the impulse responses of transverse ones Bandpass filtering is recalculated. In this way, processing with low signal delay possible.
- the invention makes it possible to adjust the amplitude response of the filter changing voice and interference signals as well as the needs of one adjust hearing impaired person, with a delay time for filtering of the input signal is kept small.
- Another advantage is that the compression gain is different Gain values for different frequency ranges of the input signal.
- Another advantage is that only one controllable filter can be used for both Compression amplification is used as well as noise suppression.
- a signal level is determined from a partial signal of the input signal, which is formed by filtering the input signal and dividing it into partial signals with signal components in only one frequency range in each case.
- the signal levels are iteratively determined as instantaneous effective values of a signal power in the respective frequency ranges of the input signal. This makes it possible to track the compression gain with a temporal resolution that corresponds to a sampling rate of the input signal.
- the modulation depths d m are determined from a chronological order of maximum and minimum values of a signal level p m in the respective frequency range ⁇ m . This makes it possible to selectively filter out weakly modulated, i.e. monotonous, background noise.
- Time constants for adjusting the noise cancellation are preferably in the range of around 50 milliseconds or less.
- the frequency ranges ⁇ m for the noise suppression are small in comparison with the frequency ranges F n for the compression gain. It therefore comprises at least one frequency range F n two or more frequency ranges ⁇ m . Accordingly, filters for determining portions of the input signal in the frequency ranges ⁇ m have a longer signal delay or delay than filters for the frequency ranges F n . This enables a sharp division of the frequency range to suppress interference and, at the same time, rapid adaptation of the compression gain to a changing speech signal.
- a maximum tolerable delay for the adaptation of coefficients of the compression gain is 5 milliseconds, values below 2.5 milliseconds are preferred. According to the invention, values of less than one millisecond can be achieved.
- the filter is not exactly tracked to the newly calculated coefficients in each sampling interval. Instead, it becomes only according to one or more changed coefficients tracked. This allows an adjustment with little computing effort and correspondingly low energy consumption.
- the adaptation preferably takes place only for the coefficient or coefficients whose change is a predetermined one Exceed the threshold or which is comparatively large or largest. A periodic change of one or a few is also possible Coefficients, or a pseudo-random iteration and adjustment of all Coefficients.
- an influence of the Noise suppression in the determination of the coefficients for the Compression gain taken into account.
- a means of Determination of noise suppression coefficients Determination of coefficients of the compression gain correction values, which is a signal attenuation caused by noise suppression correspond.
- the device according to the invention has the features of claim 10 on.
- a hearing aid according to the invention has means for performing the method according to the invention.
- FIG. 1 schematically shows a structure of the signal processing in a hearing device according to the invention.
- An input signal X is fed to a controllable filter 6, to a means for determining a compression gain 7 and to a means for determining a noise suppression 8.
- the controllable filter 6 is designed to form an output signal Y in accordance with filter coefficients c 1 ..c M.
- the input signal X is fed to a first filter unit 1 by means of determining the compression gain 7.
- parameters or coefficients or adaptation values of the compression gain g 1 ..g M are calculated from the signal components x 1 ..x N.
- these coefficients are also referred to as amplification values.
- other coefficients are also referred to as gain values.
- the input signal X is routed to a second filter unit 2 by means of determining the noise suppression 8.
- parameters or coefficients or adaptation values of the noise suppression a 1 ..a M are calculated from the signal components y 1 ..y M. These coefficients are also referred to as attenuation values in view of the noise suppression achieved with them.
- the combination unit 5 combines the coefficients of the compression gain g 1 ..g M with the coefficients of the noise suppression a 1 ..a M and calculates combined logarithmic gain values c 1 ..c M as the filter coefficients of the controllable filter 6.
- the signal processing for noise suppression 4 transmits the signal processing for compression amplification 3 correction values r 1 ..r N , which correspond to a respective signal attenuation in the frequency ranges F 1 ..F n caused by the noise suppression.
- the first filter unit 1 and the second filter unit 2 are not implemented as separate units, but rather as a combined filter unit. For example, filtering with broad frequency bands is carried out sequentially to determine the signal components x 1 ..x N and these filtered signals are further filtered to determine the signal components y 1 ..y M.
- the invention in the embodiment shown works in summary as follows:
- the input signal is divided into three signal paths, a main signal path with a controllable filter, a first parallel signal analysis path for the Compression gain and a second parallel signal analysis path for the Noise cancellation.
- FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a calculation of gain values in the signal processing for compression gain 3.
- Signal levels in N relatively few frequency ranges are calculated for the compression gain.
- FIG. 2 shows the calculation for one of these N frequency ranges; the same structure is used for the other frequency ranges.
- a signal power is formed in a block 21 from a signal component x n in this frequency range, for example as a running sum of squared signal values.
- a signal level p n is formed by logarithmization.
- the term signal level here means the effective value of the instantaneous signal power in the frequency range F n , expressed in a logarithmic number range, for example in dB.
- a modified signal level p n ' is calculated from the signal level p n by subtracting 23 a correction value r n .
- the determination of correction values r n is discussed separately below.
- At least one frequency range ⁇ m of noise suppression is assigned to each frequency range F n of the compression gain.
- These functions f m take into account individual hearing loss and audiological experiences. Parameters, amplification values or hearing correction values contained in the functions f m are preferably user-specific and are stored, for example, in an EPROM of the hearing device.
- the total number of these functions f m and the gain values g m is equal to the number M of the frequency ranges ⁇ m of the noise suppression.
- the aim is to amplify quiet phonemes, i.e. consonants, in a speech signal more than loud phonemes, ie vowels, so that as far as possible all phonemes can be clearly heard in a continuously spoken language for a hearing impaired person
- the signal levels p n must be determined in such a way that Differences between quiet and loud consecutive phonemes are well recorded.
- the continuously determined gain values g m must be applied in time to those signal sections in which the associated phonemes are located, ie the gain values must act on the audio signal X synchronously.
- Such a synchronous compression amplification which works so fast in the rhythm of successive phonemes, only gives good results if the number of separate frequency ranges is chosen to be small, e.g.
- the compression amplification is carried out jointly for only a single frequency band, that is to say for the entire frequency range of the audio signal.
- noise suppression is to attenuate partial signals in frequency ranges of the audio signal in which there are mainly only monotonous noise.
- the signal level p m is formed segment by segment for segments of a length of approximately 20-30 ms as the current effective value of the signal power in the corresponding frequency range ⁇ m .
- the noise suppression can thus be tracked with a temporal resolution p m, for example under 50 ms.
- Estimation functions tracked To do this, every sampling interval stored maximum value either linearly by a small increment or according to an exponential function, or it becomes the current level value accepted if it exceeds this reduced maximum value. Analogous the minimum value is increased by a small increment in each sampling interval or the current level value is adopted if it has the raised minimum value below.
- the modulation depth is the difference between these two Estimate sizes. A small modulation depth is created with the same Signal energy. To avoid sudden changes in the modulation depth, the difference values determined in this way are preferably still a smoothing subjected. By appropriate selection of the mentioned increments, the sound Extremes with time constants in the range of a few seconds.
- the modulation depth takes on values of 30 dB and more.
- the low frequency range up to about 500 Hz is often dominated by monotonous noise, so that even when speech signals are present, the modulation depth in this frequency range drops to almost 0 dB.
- Other interfering noises in turn cover the speech signal in higher frequency ranges.
- Partial signals are preferably attenuated in frequency ranges ⁇ m , in which the modulation depth d m falls below a critical value of, for example, 15 dB, the extent of the attenuation a m increasing monotonically and, for example, linearly as the modulation depth decreases.
- the gain values g m of the compression gain 3 and the attenuation values a m of the noise suppression 4 are combined for each frequency range and supplied to the controllable filter 6 in the main signal path as control variables c m . If necessary, the transfer function of the controllable filter is tracked frequency-specifically in one or a few frequency ranges in each sampling interval of the input signal and is left unchanged in all other frequency ranges.
- the use of segment-by-signal processing has the following further disadvantages:
- the signal levels p n are calculated as mean values in a segment, as a result of which a pronounced signal increase at a specific point in time is only recorded with the temporal resolution of a processing segment.
- the determination of the individual gain values and thus the entire transfer function is also carried out only in time with the successive segments.
- the filtering of the input signal X is preferably carried out on the basis of a separate and parallel signal analysis for noise suppression as well as for compression amplification.
- the combined and parallel processing takes place as follows: In the lowest signal path, the audio signal passes through a controllable filter 6, which carries out the required frequency-dependent signal modifications.
- the two upper signal paths each contain a filter unit, which divide the audio signal into partial signals of separate frequency ranges.
- the first filter unit 1 effects a signal division into only a few, N wide frequency ranges F n , which can be carried out with a small signal delay.
- the second filter unit 2 effects a signal division into many, M narrow frequency ranges ⁇ m , which results in a long delay time.
- the frequency ranges are preferably selected so that each frequency range ⁇ m is a partial range of a frequency range F n .
- the frequency ranges for compression gain F n together preferably cover the same frequency range as the frequency ranges for noise suppression ⁇ m .
- a frequency range for compression amplification covers several frequency ranges for noise suppression. Relationships between the widths of frequency ranges and between the division of frequency ranges are preferably at least approximately logarithmic.
- a typical frequency range for the input signal is: 0 to 10 kHz.
- this is divided into the following frequency ranges for compression gain and noise suppression: Compression gain (Hz) Noise Cancellation (Hz) 0 to 1250 0 to 312.5 312.5 to 625 625 to 937.5 937.5 to 1250 1250 to 2500 1250 to 1562.5 1562.5 to 1875 1875 to 2187.5 2187.5 to 2500 2500 to 10000 2500 to 3125 3125 to 3750 3750 to 4375 4375 to 5000 50000 to 6250 6250 to 7500 7500 to 10000
- the sampling rate is 20 kHz, for example, and accordingly Usable bandwidth is half, i.e. 10 kHz. In another embodiment of the According to the invention, these values are 16 kHz and 8 kHz, respectively.
- the assigned signal level p m , the modulation depth d m and the attenuation value a m are determined for each of the M frequency ranges ⁇ m , the latter advantageously being expressed in a logarithmic number range.
- the modulation depth d m is determined in accordance with the specification, ie as a function of the time profile of the corresponding signal level p m
- the coefficients a m are determined in accordance with the corresponding modulation depth d m .
- the second filter unit 2 and part of the signal processing for noise suppression 4 thus form a means for determining these variables p m , d m and a m in a second set of frequency ranges of the input signal X.
- the signal level p n is determined in each of the N frequency ranges F n in such a way that each signal value of the partial signal x n [ k] contributes to an update of the signal level, which leads to a higher temporal resolution than that of the mere one Determination of a segmental mean.
- the first filter unit 1 and part of the signal processing for compression amplification 3 thus form a means for determining signal levels in a first set of frequency ranges of the input signal X.
- the correction values r n take into account any weakening of the signal powers as a result of the noise suppression.
- the compression gain in the signal processing combined according to the invention can also be realized with a much more flexible transfer function, i.e. with M instead of only N functions f m , than if only one gain value for each broad frequency range F n would be set.
- the gain values g m are in turn preferably expressed in a logarithmic number range.
- the functions f m determine a desired frequency-specific gain according to audiological principles depending on the signal level.
- the M combined logarithmic gain values c m arrive at the controllable filter 6, where they are transformed into linear gain values ⁇ m .
- ⁇ H (z) [k] ( ⁇ m [k] - ⁇ m [ ⁇ m ]) ⁇ H m (Z), where ⁇ m denotes the sampling interval in which the frequency range ⁇ m was last updated.
- ⁇ m denotes the sampling interval in which the frequency range ⁇ m was last updated.
- the frequency range ⁇ m can be updated for which
- m simply runs through all values from 1 to M again and again systematically or pseudorandomly.
- the following facts are taken into account by means of the correction values r 1 ..r n :
- the noise suppression determines attenuation values that only depend on the modulation depths, but not on the signal levels themselves, as is correct for normal hearing people.
- Hearing-impaired people whose subjective perception of loudness generally increases in a non-linear manner with the signal level, will consequently perceive a signal attenuation by a fixed value a m as differently pronounced depending on the signal level. This effect would be corrected automatically in serial processing, i.e. with noise suppression followed by compression amplification.
- the correction values r 1 ..r n are transmitted from the noise suppression to the compression amplification in order to carry out this correction.
- attenuation-related correction values r n are therefore determined for the N signal levels of the compression amplification, and the amplification values are calculated using signal levels that are reduced by these correction values.
- the compression gain is therefore corrected in accordance with the noise suppression. This ensures that the signals that are optimally processed for the normal hearing by means of noise suppression are individually and correctly mapped in the hearing range of every hearing impaired person.
- FIG. 3 shows a block diagram for a corresponding signal processing as it takes place in the signal processing for noise suppression 4 for determining the correction quantities r n .
- a case is shown where three frequency ranges ⁇ m of noise suppression are included in one frequency range of compression gain.
- a signal power s [k] on signal path 38 is determined in a known manner and a signal level is derived therefrom in block 32, and a modulation depth d m therefrom in block 33 and an attenuation value a m therefrom in block 34.
- the logarithmic attenuation value a m is linearly scaled and the reduced signal power u [k] on signal path 36 is calculated by multiplying it by the signal power s [k].
- the reduced signal power u [k] is calculated in parallel for each of the three frequency ranges, that is to say for y m , y m + 1 , y m + 2 , and summed in node 37.
- the signal powers s [k] of the three frequency ranges are summed at summation point 39.
- the sums are logarithmically scaled in the blocks 40 and 41, respectively, and the correction value r n is formed as the difference in the subtraction 41.
- the device according to the invention is preferably at least partially as an analog device Circuit or microprocessor based or using application-specific integrated circuits or a combination of these Techniques implemented.
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- werden Koeffizienten einer Kompressionsverstärkung, welche eine frequenzabhängige Anpassung des Eingangssignals nach Massgabe von frequenzabhängigen Signalpegeln des Eingangssignals beschreiben, bestimmt,
- werden Koeffizienten einer Geräuschunterdrückung, welche eine frequenzabhängige Anpassung des Eingangssignals nach Massgabe von im Eingangssignal detektierten Störgeräuschen beschreiben, bestimmt, und
- werden Koeffizienten eines Filters zur Filterung des Eingangssignals aus den Koeffizienten der Kompressionsverstärkung und den Koeffizienten der Geräuschunterdrückung berechnet..
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- ein Blockdiagramm einer Berechnung von Verstärkungswerten; und
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- ein Blockdiagramm einer Berechnung von Abschwächungswerten und Korrekturgrössen gemäss der Erfindung.
| Kompressionsverstärkung (Hz) | Geräuschunterdrückung (Hz) |
| 0 bis 1250 | 0 bis 312.5 |
| 312.5 bis 625 | |
| 625 bis 937.5 | |
| 937.5 bis 1250 | |
| 1250 bis 2500 | 1250 bis 1562.5 |
| 1562.5 bis 1875 | |
| 1875 bis 2187.5 | |
| 2187.5 bis 2500 | |
| 2500 bis 10000 | 2500 bis 3125 |
| 3125 bis 3750 | |
| 3750 bis 4375 | |
| 4375 bis 5000 | |
| 50000 bis 6250 | |
| 6250 bis 7500 | |
| 7500 bis 10000 |
cm = gm - am.
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- Signalverarbeitung zur Kompressionsverstärkung
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- steuerbares Filter
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- Mittel zur Bestimmung einer Kompressionsverstärkung
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- Mittel zur Bestimmung einer Geräuschunterdrückung
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- Vorrichtung zur Signalverarbeitung in einem Hörgerät, aufweisend ein Filter (6) zur frequenzabhängigen Amplitudenanpassung eines Eingangssignals (X) und Mittel zur Anpassung von Koeffizienten dieses Filters (6) nach Massgabe des Eingangssignals (X),
dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Vorrichtung aufweist
ein Mittel zur Bestimmung von Koeffizienten einer Kompressionsverstärkung gm welche eine frequenzabhängige Anpassung des Eingangssignals (X) nach Massgabe von frequenzabhängigen Signalpegeln xn des Eingangssignals (X) beschreiben,
ein Mittel zur Bestimmung von Koeffizienten einer Geräuschunterdrückung am, welche eine frequenzabhängige Anpassung des Eingangssignals (X) nach Massgabe von im Eingangssignal (X) detektierten Störgeräuschen beschreiben,
wobei das Mittel zur Anpassung von Koeffizienten des Filters (6) diese Koeffizienten aus den Koeffizienten der Kompressionsverstärkung gm und den Koeffizienten der Geräuschunterdrückung am ermittelt. - Vorrichtung gemäss Anspruch 1, wobei das Mittel zur Bestimmung von Koeffizienten der Kompressionsverstärkung gm aufweist ein Mittel zur Bestimmung von Signalpegeln pn in einer ersten Menge von Frequenzbereichen Fn mit n=1..N des Eingangssignals (X) und ein Mittel zur Bestimmung der Koeffizienten gm zur Kompressionsverstärkung für jeden einer zweiten Menge von Frequenzbereichen Φm mit m=1..M des Eingangssignals (X) als Funktion eines dem Frequenzbereich Φm zugeordneten optional modifizierten Signalpegels pn.
- Vorrichtung gemäss Anspruch 2, wobei das Mittel zur Bestimmung von Signalpegeln pn diese iterativ als momentane Effektivwerte einer Signalleistung im entsprechenden Frequenzbereich Fn bildet.
- Vorrichtung gemäss einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, wobei das Mittel zur Bestimmung von Koeffizienten der Geräuschunterdrückung am aufweist Mittel zur Bestimmung von Modulationstiefen dm in einer zweiten Menge von Frequenzbereichen Φm mit m=1..M des Eingangssignals (X) und ein Mittel zur Bestimmung der Koeffizienten am zur Geräuschunterdrückung für jeden der Frequenzbereiche Φm des Eingangssignals (X) nach Massgabe der entsprechenden Modulationstiefen dm.
- Vorrichtung gemäss einem der Ansprüche 2 bis 4, wobei N < M ist und mindestens einer der Frequenzbereiche Fn zur Kompressionsverstärkung mindestens zwei der Frequenzbereiche Φm zur Geräuschunterdrückung umfasst.
- Vorrichtung gemäss Anspruch 5, wobei die Signalverarbeitung zur Kompressionsverstärkung 3 dazu ausgebildet ist, jeden Koeffizienten gm zur Kompressionsverstärkung jeweils als gm = fm(pn) zu bestimmen, wobei pn der optional modifizierte Signalpegel desjenigen Frequenzbereiches Fn zur Kompressionsverstärkung ist, der den Frequenzbereich Φm zur Geräuschunterdrückung umfasst, und fm eine von M Funktionen ist, die in ihrer Gesamtheit eine frequenzabhängige Kompressionsverstärkung bestimmen.
- Vorrichtung gemäss Anspruch 6, wobei die miteinander kombinierten Koeffizienten am und gm logarithmisch skaliert sind und ihre Kombination durch Subtraktion einen kombinierten logarithmischen Verstärkungswert cm = gm-am bildet.
- Vorrichtung gemäss einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, wobei das Mittel zur Anpassung von Koeffizienten des Filters (6) dazu ausgebildet ist, in vorgegebenen Zeitintervallen nicht alle, sondern nur ausgewählte Koeffizienten anzupassen.
- Vorrichtung gemäss einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, aufweisend Mittel (23,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42) zur Korrektur der Kompressionsverstärkung (3) durch Modifikation der Signalpegel pn nach Massgabe der Geräuschunterdrückung.
- Verfahren zur Signalverarbeitung in einem Hörgerät, in welchem Koeffizienten eines Filters (6) zur frequenzabhängigen Amplitudenanpassung eines Eingangssignals (X) nach Massgabe dieses Eingangssignals (X) angepasst werden, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verfahren die folgenden Schritte aufweist:Bestimmen von Koeffizienten einer Kompressionsverstärkung gm, welche eine frequenzabhängige Anpassung des Eingangssignals (X) nach Massgabe von frequenzabhängigen Signalpegeln des Eingangssignals (X) beschreiben,Bestimmen von Koeffizienten einer Geräuschunterdrückung am, welche eine frequenzabhängige Anpassung des Eingangssignals (X) nach Massgabe von im Eingangssignal detektierten Störgeräuschen beschreiben, undBerechnen der Koeffizienten des Filters (6) aus den Koeffizienten der Kompressionsverstärkung gm und den Koeffizienten am der Geräuschunterdrückung.
- Verfahren gemäss Anspruch 10, wobei zur Bestimmung von Koeffizienten der Kompressionsverstärkung gm in einer ersten Menge von Frequenzbereichen Fn jeweils zugeordnete Signalpegel pn mit n=1..N des Eingangssignals (X) bestimmt werden, und die Koeffizienten der Kompressionsverstärkung gm für jeden einer zweiten Menge von Frequenzbereichen Φm mit m=1..M des Eingangssignals (X) als Funktion eines dem Frequenzbereich Φm zugeordneten Signalpegels pn bestimmt werden.
- Verfahren gemäss Anspruch 11, wobei ein Signalpegel pn jeweils iterativ als momentaner Effektivwert einer Signalleistung im entsprechenden Frequenzbereich Fn berechnet wird.
- Verfahren gemäss einem der Ansprüche 10 bis 11, wobei zur Bestimmung von Koeffizienten der Geräuschunterdrückung am in einer zweiten Menge von Frequenzbereichen Φm mit m=1..M des Eingangssignals (X) Modulationstiefen dm bestimmt werden und die Koeffizienten am für jeden der Frequenzbereiche Φm nach Massgabe der entsprechenden Modulationstiefe dm bestimmt werden, wobei die Modulationstiefen dm aus einer zeitlichen Reihenfolge von Maximalund Minimalwerten eines Signalpegels pm im jeweiligen Frequenzbereich Φm bestimmt werden, und der Signalpegel pm in einem Frequenzbereich Φm als Effektivwert der Signalleistung im entsprechenden Frequenzbereich Φm gebildet wird.
- Verfahren gemäss Anspruch 13, wobei für jede Modulationstiefe dm, die einen vorgegebenen Wert übersteigt, der zugeordnete Koeffizient am null ist, und für Werte der Modulationstiefe dm unterhalb des vorgegebenen Wertes mit abnehmender Modulationstiefe dm der Koeffizient am monoton wächst.
- Verfahren gemäss Anspruch 10-14, wobei mindestens einer der Frequenzbereiche Fn zur Kompressionsverstärkung mindestens zwei der Frequenzbereiche Φm zur Geräuschunterdrückung umfasst, und jeder Koeffizient gm zur Kompressionsverstärkung jeweils als gm = fm(pn) bestimmt wird, wobei pn der Signalpegel desjenigen Frequenzbereiches Fn zur Kompressionsverstärkung ist, der den Frequenzbereich Φm zur Geräuschunterdrückung umfasst, und fm eine von M Funktionen ist, die in ihrer Gesamtheit eine frequenzabhängige Kompressionsverstärkung bestimmen, und wobei die Koeffizienten am und gm logarithmisch skaliert sind und ihre Kombination durch Subtraktion einen kombinierten logarithmischen Verstärkungswert cm= gm-am bildet.
- Verfahren gemäss Anspruch 10-15, wobei die Koeffizienten des Filters (6) in regelmässigen Zeitabständen aufdatiert werden, bei jedem Aufdatieren aber nicht alle, sondern nur wenige der Koeffizienten aufdatiert werden, insbesondere nur jene Koeffizienten, deren Änderung am grössten ist oder einen vorgegebenen Wert überschreitet.
- Verfahren gemäss Anspruch 16, wobei die kombinierten Koeffizienten des Filters (6) cm im Filter (6) in lineare Werte γm transformiert werden und eine iterative, frequenzspezifische Aktualisierung einer Übertragungsfunktion des Filters (6) gemäss H(z)[k] = H(z)[k - 1] + Σm (γm[k] - γm[κm]) · Hm(z) erfolgt, wobei Hm(z) nur im Frequenzbereich Φm Durchlass- und sonst Sperrcharakteristik aufweist, κm ein Abtastintervall bezeichnet, in dem die Übertragungsfunktion für den Frequenzbereich Φm zum letzten Mal aktualisiert wurde, und eine Summation Σm in einem Abtastintervall k jeweils nur einen oder einige wenige der insgesamt M Frequenzbereiche umfasst.
- Verfahren gemäss Anspruch 10-17, wobei die Bestimmung von Koeffizienten der Kompressionsverstärkung gm unter Berücksichtigung der Werte der Koeffizienten der Geräuschunterdrückung am geschieht.
- Verfahren gemäss Anspruch 18, wobei die Koeffizienten der Kompressionsverstärkung aus modifizierten Signalpegeln pn' anstelle der Signalpegel pn bestimmt werden, wobei pn' = pn-rn ist, und rn logarithmisch skalierte Korrekturwerte sind, die einer durch die Geräuschunterdrückung verursachten Signalabschwächung entsprechen.
- Hörgerät, aufweisend Mittel zur Ausführung des Verfahrens gemäss einem der Ansprüche 10 bis 19.
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