EP2114090B1 - Circuit pour l'opération d'un appareil auditif et appareil auditif - Google Patents

Circuit pour l'opération d'un appareil auditif et appareil auditif

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EP2114090B1
EP2114090B1 EP09158350A EP09158350A EP2114090B1 EP 2114090 B1 EP2114090 B1 EP 2114090B1 EP 09158350 A EP09158350 A EP 09158350A EP 09158350 A EP09158350 A EP 09158350A EP 2114090 B1 EP2114090 B1 EP 2114090B1
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Roland Barthel
Robert BÄUML
Dirk Junius
Maja Serman
Nadine Seubert
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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
    • H04R25/70—Adaptation of deaf aid to hearing loss, e.g. initial electronic fitting
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2225/00—Details of deaf aids covered by H04R25/00, not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2225/39—Aspects relating to automatic logging of sound environment parameters and the performance of the hearing aid during use, e.g. histogram logging, or of user selected programs or settings in the hearing aid, e.g. usage logging
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2225/00—Details of deaf aids covered by H04R25/00, not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2225/41—Detection or adaptation of hearing aid parameters or programs to listening situation, e.g. pub, forest
    • 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

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  • Hearing aids are technical aids that compensate for congenital or acquired impairments of hearing that are inaccessible to causal therapy.
  • Hearing aids amplify and modulate the sound, ie the acoustic signal, in front of the actual sensory organ of the ear, the inner ear.
  • Hearing devices consist of one or more microphones, an electronic circuit having at least one analog or digital amplifier, and one or more speakers and a power source for supplying these components.
  • a hearing care professional will individually determine the audiometric characteristics of the hearing for each patient and will thereby make the optimum adjustment of the operating parameter (s) of the hearing aid. In this case, an optimal speech intelligibility is usually sought. However, the damaged hearing is in many cases particularly sensitive to increased output levels. If the damaged hearing is supplied with a hearing aid adapted for optimal speech intelligibility, the patient feels this as uncomfortable and may not use the hearing aid.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide an improved circuit for a hearing aid, which performs a hearing aid training towards a goal situation determined by the hearing care professional as optimal, which is not influenced by the hearing aid wearer or by the hearing care professional (fine) settings and this not affected.
  • a circuit with a control unit which performs the adjustment of the operating parameter (s) in periods of time in which the operating parameters are often influenced by the operating element and / or data processing device, with low matching rate and in periods in which the Operating parameters rarely or not at all influenced by the control element and / or data processing device, performs with higher matching rate.
  • the present invention further relates to a hearing aid with such a circuit.
  • Fig. 1 shows a circuit of a hearing aid in a schematic representation.
  • the reference numeral 1 in Fig. 1 indicates the hearing aid in its entirety. It comprises a microphone 2 and a hearing coil 3, which are each connectable by means of an operating switch 11 with an amplifier module.
  • the amplifier module comprises a preamplifier 4, a Compression circuit 5, for example, a so-called AGC (Automatic Gain Control) circuit with a certain threshold and certain compression ratio, and a sound filter. 6
  • AGC Automatic Gain Control
  • a power amplifier 7, which is connected to the handset 8, as well as a Ohrpnature committee 9 is provided.
  • a battery 10 supplies via an on / off switch 19, the hearing aid 1 with electrical energy.
  • the volume of the hearing aid 1 can be adjusted to a volume control 18.
  • the controller 12 is in communication with an input unit 16.
  • the hearing aid 1 comprises a control unit 12, which cooperates with a memory arrangement consisting of the memory 13 for an operating parameter setting of the initial situation and a memory 14 of the operating parameter setting of the target situation.
  • the operating parameters to be adjusted are preferably the amount of preamplification, the size of the compression ratio, the threshold value and / or the time constant of the compression circuit, and / or the frequency bandwidth which adjusts the sound to the individual hearing and / or the max. Output level.
  • the adjustment of the operating parameters can be done either individually or together.
  • the hearing aid wearer can adjust the sound output of the hearing aid 1 its needs, as well as the input unit 16, which the recording of parameters of a external data processing device, such as a PC, by a Hearing acousticians allow, which in this way can make the (fine) adjustment of the hearing aid.
  • a low match rate may be achieved by making the time intervals at which the match steps are performed longer than usual.
  • a low adjustment rate can also be achieved by reducing the weighting with which the adjustment process exerts influence on the operating parameters to be adjusted.
  • normal adjustment rate is understood here as meaning the adjustment rate which a conventional hearing device uses with continuous adaptation of the operating parameters of the initial situation to the target situation.

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  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Neurosurgery (AREA)
  • Otolaryngology (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Acoustics & Sound (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Circuit For Audible Band Transducer (AREA)

Claims (4)

  1. Circuit pour faire fonctionner une prothèse ( 1 ) auditive ayant au moins un paramètre de fonctionnement variable, circuit qui comporte ce qui suit :
    - un agencement ( 13, 14 ) de mémoire pour mémoriser des réglages de paramètres de fonctionnement dans une situation initiale ainsi que dans une situation visée,
    - une unité ( 12 ) de commande qui effectue sur un intervalle de temps déterminé une égalisation du paramètre de fonctionnement ou des paramètres de fonctionnement selon le réglage de la situation de départ au réglage de paramètre de fonctionnement de la situation visée ; et
    - un moyen de raccordement pour le raccordement à au moins un élément ( 18 ) de commande et/ou à un appareil de traitement de données pour influencer un ou plusieurs paramètres de fonctionnement par un porteur de la prothèse auditive et/ou par un acousticien de prothèse auditive ;
    dans lequel l'unité ( 12 ) de commande est telle que l'adaptation du paramètre de fonctionnement ou des paramètres de fonctionnement, dans des intervalles de temps dans lesquels le paramètre de fonctionnement ou les paramètres de fonctionnement sont influencés souvent au moyen de l'élément ( 18 ) de commande et/ou de l'appareil de traitement de données, peut s'effectuer avec un degré d'adaptation petit et dans des intervalles de temps, dans lesquels le paramètre de fonctionnement ou les paramètres de fonctionnement sont influencés rarement ou pas du tout au moyen de l'élément de commande et/ou l'appareil de traitement de données, peut s'effectuer avec un degré d'adaptation plus grand.
  2. Circuit suivant la revendication 1, dans lequel on atteint un degré d'adaptation petit en tirant partie de paramètres d'adaptation ayant une pondération petite.
  3. Circuit suivant la revendication 1, dans lequel un degré d'adaptation petit est obtenu en choisissant des intervalles de temps assez grands entre des stades d'adaptation individuels.
  4. Prothèse ( 1 ) auditive comprenant un circuit suivant l'une des revendications précédentes.
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