EP1511357B1 - Hörgerät mit individuell konfigurierbarer Hardwareschnittstelle - Google Patents

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EP1511357B1
EP1511357B1 EP04019750.1A EP04019750A EP1511357B1 EP 1511357 B1 EP1511357 B1 EP 1511357B1 EP 04019750 A EP04019750 A EP 04019750A EP 1511357 B1 EP1511357 B1 EP 1511357B1
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Jörg Bindner
Matthias Lechner
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/55—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception using an external connection, either wireless or wired
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/35—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception using translation techniques
    • H04R25/356—Amplitude, e.g. amplitude shift or compression
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/50—Customised settings for obtaining desired overall acoustical characteristics
    • H04R25/505—Customised settings for obtaining desired overall acoustical characteristics using digital signal processing
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/55—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception using an external connection, either wireless or wired
    • H04R25/558—Remote control, e.g. of amplification, frequency

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  • the present invention relates to a hearing device with a memory device for storing adjustment data of the hearing device and an interface device for data communication with the memory device. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for adapting such a hearing aid.
  • Hearing aids are being developed by implementing new signal processing knowledge in circuits housed on an integrated circuit (IC) in the hearing aid.
  • IC integrated circuit
  • the time span between the development of a circuit and its successor generation is generally a few years.
  • several hearing aid families and generations are constantly on the market.
  • High-end hearing aid platforms are developed by implementing all the capabilities of state-of-the-art signal processing on an IC.
  • the IC is provided with an interface which provides access to the signal processing units housed on the IC, i. H. a read and also a setting of the same, allow.
  • the interface is designed so that contiguous cut-outs are handled as a hearing aid device, which already reproduce the above-mentioned concepts of signal processing.
  • these hearing aid actuators are not only present in large numbers according to their number, but also every single one of the hearing aid actuators has a widely designed, extensive adjustment range.
  • a universal software container is created which is not only able to map all hearing aid actuators to their full extent, but which can also be configured in such a way that it follows the configuration only makes use of a limited selection of hearing aid users and, where appropriate, only a limited adjustment range under these.
  • This configuration process therefore specializes in providing a universal platform for a specific hearing aid on which the software performs all actions initiated by the end user.
  • the software described is built up in layers, so that in a first layer, the reduction of the platform's own Hearing aid whilrraums on the device's own hearing aid user space is made.
  • the device's own controller space is made available on an interface of another software layer.
  • a second software layer houses an interpreter that processes sequences of program instructions by modifying the current position of the hearing aid in accordance with these program instructions. For this purpose, explicit reference is made to the document ( EP 109 16 20 A1 ) of the Applicant.
  • the second software layer is superordinate to a third software layer, which displays a user interface for the end user and accepts input commands from the user. Such an input command can, for example, cause a loading of a program command sequence, which is executed in the second layer by the interpreter.
  • a concrete example of this would be the dialogue unit implemented in an adaptation software, which lists as menu selection a number of typical hearing situations and their corresponding, frequently named hearing problems. Each of the selection points causes the interpreter to execute a program instruction sequence that adjusts the hearing aid according to the named problem in order to achieve an improvement in the hearing sensation.
  • Such a method is in the document US 6,574,340 B1 described.
  • each hearing aid has its own communication protocol. Furthermore, each hearing aid has its own, individual register model. Approaches to standardizing communication protocols and register models are not yet known. Only freely programmable hearing aids would offer such an approach at the expense of a very high area and power consumption with high complexity. Also in the already mentioned document US 6,574,340 B1 Only external software is presented that provides a generalized interface in the form of macros and converts them into IC-specific register modifications and communication signals.
  • the hearing aid has a memory which can be programmed via an interface of a control logic.
  • the control logic can be manually operated by a magnetic switch.
  • the control logic itself is externally programmable to change its functionality.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to be able to use a command set for hearing aids that is unified across hearing aid families and generations, whereby a requirement for small and specialized software modules for hearing aid control, for example by means of a smartphone, can be created.
  • a hearing device having a first memory device for storing setting data of the hearing device and an interface device for data communication of an external device with the first memory device, wherein the interface device is implemented in the hearing device as hardware and the interface device is individually configurable.
  • the interface device has a masking unit with which a predetermined part of the data transferable via the interface device can be masked.
  • a method of adjusting such a hearing aid by providing the hearing aid, providing a universal instruction set, interpreting a universal instruction set instruction, masking the interpreted instruction according to the type of hearing aid, and accessing the first storage means according to the masked interpreted instruction.
  • the interface device provided in the hearing device according to the invention can have an allocation unit with which data packets can be assigned semantically to or from the first memory device.
  • access to the register or the first memory device by means of hardware by a uniform registry language .
  • a computing device which is connected to the interface device can be integrated for executing program instructions.
  • the program commands to be performed for adaptation can be executed directly in the hearing aid, and it can be dispensed with an external PC for this purpose.
  • a second memory device for storing program commands integrated into the hearing aid.
  • macro commands can be stored in a domain-specific language.
  • the computing device should then have interpreter functionality.
  • a hearing aid instruction set is provided, to whose central component is an adjustment of signal processing manipulated variables, such as gain, compression concept, knee point, compression ratio, etc., belongs.
  • this hearing aid instruction set is designed for expandability from the beginning, so that signal processing manipulated variables that are only defined in the future can be replaced by a simple supplement to the vocabulary, but usually without Neudefi or Extension of the syntax in which the instruction set can be included.
  • the signal processing variables can be assigned to the operators of a hearing device. This assignability is guaranteed across all software layers.
  • hearing aid actuators that assume the same function as in the precursor generation are currently being addressed differently.
  • the format of such a hearing device is other than that of its predecessor generation. For example, a larger number of bits is used in the corresponding hardware register.
  • the invention therefore further provides for defining a uniform but expandable system of addresses and formats for hearing aid users and for implementing this on the IC. This system could then be maintained from a first hearing aid generation for each subsequent generation.
  • the invention provides that now also the interpreter is implemented in such a way that, triggered by corresponding program instructions, it modifies or reads out the hearing device actuators in this unified system.
  • the invention provides for the interpreter implemented on the IC to be provided with an outbound interface through which hearing aid programs or individual hearing aid program instructions may be provided, there is a domain specific interface (ie, language associated with terminology of FIG Application area) programming instruction set.
  • This interface makes the development of smaller, possibly multi-platform, intergenerational and possibly multi-vendor software modules economically interesting.
  • a register 1 in which the adjustment values of the various hearing aid actuators are stored is manipulated by means of a user interface 2 installed on a PC.
  • a user interface 2 installed on a PC.
  • each bit stands for a configuration of a signal processing module.
  • the register 1 is arranged on the IC of the hearing aid.
  • a conventional HIPRO interface 3 for hearing aids ensures the access of an external Software, controlled by the user interface 2, on the register 1. All components between the HIPRO interface 3 and the user interface 2 are executed according to the prior art as PC software.
  • a large part of the data processing components between the register 1 and the user interface 2 is executed as hardware.
  • only one abstraction unit 4, which is connected downstream of the user interface 2 is implemented as software.
  • This abstraction unit then communicates directly with a HIPRO interface 3 'or optionally with a wireless interface.
  • This interface 3 'establishes a connection to a computing unit 5 and an associated memory unit 6, both of which are installed on the hearing aid IC.
  • program instructions or macros from the memory unit 6 are processed. These macros or commands are formulated in a domain-specific language for manipulating a hearing aid control or global access control. The desired commands are triggered by the abstraction unit 4.
  • the hearing device-specific commands are assigned to the standardized instruction set.
  • the command for setting the gain in a certain frequency band for a high-end device with many setting possibilities consists of five data units (see FIG.
  • the same command may exist for a low-end hearing aid of fewer data units 7, since this device has fewer settings.
  • the unused data units 8 are therefore masked when read from the register 1 by a masking unit 9. Therefore, the unused data units 8 in accessing the register 1 to use the standardized command syntax at the low-end device in the reversal of the masking process again be supplemented.
  • the standardized instruction 10 thus obtained is assigned semantically to the register units in an allocation unit 11.
  • the arithmetic unit 5 and the memory unit 6 are arranged on the hearing aid IC, it is possible to accomplish complex optimization tasks with the hearing aid itself without the aid of an external PC. For example, if a hearing aid wearer perceives dishwashing or newspaper rustling through his hearing aid as too loud, the group of reinforcements relevant to these situations can be reduced with the hearing aid itself.
  • the HIPRO interface or wireless interface 3 is then arranged immediately after the masking unit 9.
  • this instruction set is uniformly standardized across hearing aid families and generations, the complexity of the fitting software is significantly reduced. This creates a requirement to provide small and specialized software modules for hearing aid control (for example, smart assistant on smartphone).
  • the hearing aid combines the advantages of a freely programmable device with those of a power-saving and area-saving device. With the possible enforcement even the customer request for uniform software can be fulfilled. In addition, research is facilitated.

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