JP4308452B2 - Programmable hearing aid data acquisition apparatus, acquisition system thereof, and acquisition method thereof - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a device for realizing a simple setting of a programmable hearing aid.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, hearing aids have also been miniaturized and advanced, and the sound adjustments made by the hearing aids are programmed so that the input sounds can be adjusted and output according to the user's hearing. It has become possible to individually set the adjustment output characteristics of audio.
[0003]
As shown in FIG. 5, this type of programmable hearing aid can connect the portable controller 2 to the hearing aid 1 used by the user A, and the hearing ability of the user A (each frequency measured in advance). The operator B inputs the measurement data of the audible limit threshold in the portable controller 2 to set the hearing aid 1 to the sound adjustment output characteristic that is optimum for the hearing ability of the user A based on the measurement data. Data (various parameters, etc.) can be calculated and acquired by a fitting calculation program built in the portable controller 2 or can be acquired by searching in a database prepared in advance and set in the hearing aid 1. It is like that.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, since the setting of such a conventional programmable hearing aid has caused the small portable controller 2 connected to the hearing aid 1 to perform calculation processing of the setting data based on the measurement data, the version upgrade of the fitting calculation program is performed individually. Since it must be performed on the controller 2 and the installation work becomes a burden, it is impossible to quickly update to the latest fitting calculation program and reset the sound adjustment output characteristics of the hearing aid 1 was there.
[0005]
In addition, the portable controller 2 is designed to be small so that it can be brought to the location of the hearing impaired and set the adjustment output characteristics of the sound of the hearing aid 1. It takes time to calculate the setting data due to the area capacity, etc., and it is not possible to incorporate a complicated fitting calculation program, and there is a limit to optimizing the sound adjustment output characteristics of the hearing aid 1. There was a problem that there was.
[0006]
The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and provides an apparatus, a system, and a method capable of easily obtaining data for optimally setting a programmable hearing aid with the latest fitting calculation program. is there.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
An apparatus for acquiring data for programmable hearing aids according to the present invention includes a communication unit that communicates with a mobile terminal device, and adjusts the programmable hearing aid based on hearing loss measurement data transmitted from the mobile terminal device. For calculating or searching for setting data for returning to the portable terminal device,
[0008]
The programmable hearing aid data acquisition system of the present invention includes a portable terminal device and a server device that communicate with each other, and the portable terminal device transmits hearing loss measurement data of a hearing impaired person to the server device, and the server device. Receiving the setting data for adjusting the programmable hearing aid, and the server device returns the setting data calculated or searched based on the hearing measurement data to the portable terminal device.
[0009]
With such a configuration, by transmitting the user's hearing measurement data from a portable terminal device such as a cellular phone to a server device or the like, arithmetic processing of hearing aid setting data based on the measurement data (or search processing from a database, hereinafter referred to as database processing) Can be performed by a server device remote from the portable terminal device, and the hearing aid setting data returned from the server device to the portable terminal device can be used to set the hearing aid. Therefore, as a device that is remote from the mobile terminal device, a server device that has sufficient processing capacity, work area, etc. can be adopted, and the latest fitting calculation program can be sequentially installed in the server device, so that the hearing aid It is possible to easily obtain setting data optimum for a user who inputs and sets from an input device.
[0010]
Furthermore, in the programmable hearing aid data acquisition system of the present invention, the portable terminal device transmits the measurement data input while displaying information transmitted from the server device to the server device, and the server device. While the setting data based on the measurement data returned from the screen is displayed on the screen, the server device transmits information for setting the hearing aid to the portable terminal device and is input according to the information to the portable device. Based on the measurement data transmitted from the terminal device, the setting data is calculated or searched and returned to the portable terminal device.
[0011]
In addition, the programmable hearing aid data acquisition method of the present invention is a method in which measurement data of a user of a programmable hearing aid that can be set by inputting setting data from an input device is transmitted from a server device that has called and called. The mobile terminal device is operated to transmit the information to the server device while displaying the incoming information on the mobile terminal device, and then the setting data calculated or searched by the server device based on the measurement data is stored in the mobile terminal device. The setting data received by the portable terminal device is then displayed on the screen.
[0012]
With such a configuration, for example, as a mobile terminal device, by inputting user measurement data from a site (display screen) provided by a server device accessed using a general-purpose mobile phone or the like, the server device can be input to the server device. The measurement data can be transmitted, and the setting data calculated by the server device can be displayed on the display of the mobile phone and acquired. At this time, by preparing an input device capable of setting the setting data in the hearing aid based on the DTMF signal sent from the mobile phone, the DTMF signal is operated by the button operation of the mobile phone corresponding to the setting data calculated from the server device. Can be sent to the input device to cause the hearing aid to set the setting data. Therefore, it is possible to easily obtain and set the optimum setting data for the user using a general-purpose mobile phone or the like.
[0013]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 are views showing a first embodiment of an acquisition system including the acquisition device for implementing the method for acquiring programmable hearing aid data according to the present invention.
[0014]
In FIG. 1, the server device 10 includes communication means for exchanging data with a mobile phone 20 having a general-purpose WEB connection function, and is input by the CPU executing a calculation program installed in the memory. It is possible to perform the arithmetic processing of the data that has been performed while using the work area, and to transmit the arithmetic result to the external device via the communication means.
[0015]
In this server device 10, a hearing aid is set to a sound adjustment output characteristic that is optimal for the user's hearing based on the hearing data of the user of the programmable hearing aid (measurement data such as an audible limit threshold at each frequency). A fitting calculation program for calculating setting data (such as various parameters) to be installed is installed, and a site that can be accessed from the mobile phone 20 to calculate the setting data is prepared. By transmitting data to be displayed on the liquid crystal screen (display screen) 21 of the cellular phone 20 that has been called and received, and receiving data input by the cellular phone 20, the display of the liquid crystal screen 21 of the cellular phone 20 is displayed. In accordance with the hearing data entered by the operator and based on the hearing data And it is capable of displaying the setting data calculated on the liquid crystal screen 21 of the mobile phone 20.
[0016]
That is, the server device 10 constitutes an acquisition device according to the present invention, and constitutes an acquisition system that can implement the acquisition method according to the present invention together with the mobile phone 20. Here, the mobile phone 20 may be configured to be able to use various sites with a function that can use i-mode provided by NTT DoCoMo, Inc., and is limited to i-mode. Needless to say, it may be executed at a site that can be referred to by various services provided by other communication carriers.
[0017]
For this purpose, an operator who has visited a user's home that uses a programmable hearing aid opens a site for calculating setting data of the programmable hearing aid by operating the mobile phone 20 and accessing the server device 10, and then the liquid crystal screen. By performing an operation of inputting the user's hearing data measured in advance according to the display of 21, the server device 10 can be made to perform setting data calculation processing based on the hearing data, and then the liquid crystal is returned and returned. The calculation result displayed on the screen 21 can be obtained with reference to the setting data.
[0018]
Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 2, the operator connects the portable program device 40 to the programmable hearing aid 30 used by the user A via a cable, and the setting displayed on the liquid crystal screen 21 of the mobile phone 20. By performing an operation of inputting data, the hearing aid 30 can be set to a sound adjustment output characteristic optimum for the user A.
[0019]
As described above, in the present embodiment, the setting data of the calculation result by the server device 10 is transmitted to the server device 10 installed at a remote place from the general-purpose mobile phone 20 by simply transmitting the hearing data of the user A. The setting data can be input and set to the hearing aid 30 from a small portable program device 40. Therefore, the setting data can be obtained by performing arithmetic processing based on the hearing data in the server device 10 that can be constructed in a large size without causing the small portable program device 40 to execute a complicated fitting calculation program. Then, the setting data set in the hearing aid 30 so as to obtain the optimum sound adjustment output characteristic for the user A can be quickly acquired by causing the server device 10 to process a complicated fitting calculation program. The program can be easily upgraded to the latest version by simply installing it on the server device 10.
[0020]
Next, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are diagrams showing a second embodiment of an acquisition system including the acquisition device for executing the programmable hearing aid data acquisition method according to the present invention. Since the present embodiment is configured in substantially the same manner as the above-described embodiment, the same reference numerals are given to the same configurations using FIG.
[0021]
In FIG. 3, the interface device 50 can be connected to the programmable hearing aid 30 via a cable in the same manner as the portable program device 40 described in the above embodiment, and also to the earphone terminal of the mobile phone 20 via a cable. The DTMF signal (tone signal) generated by the button operation of the cellular phone 20 can be reconverted into setting data, and the setting data can be input and set to the hearing aid 30.
[0022]
For this reason, the operator who visited the user's home using the programmable hearing aid operates the mobile phone 20 to access the server device 10 as described in the above embodiment, and then uses the server device 10 based on the hearing data. After calculating the setting data, as shown in FIG. 4, a DTMF signal is generated by a button operation based on the setting data displayed on the liquid crystal screen 21, and the setting data obtained by reconverting the DTMF signal is input to the hearing aid 30. Can be set.
[0023]
As described above, in this embodiment, in addition to the operational effects of the above-described embodiment, it is possible to easily obtain and set the optimum setting data for the hearing aid 30 of the user A using the general-purpose mobile phone 20. . Therefore, the adjustment output characteristic of the sound of the hearing aid 30 can be optimized for the user A by using the general-purpose mobile phone 20 without using a special mobile terminal device.
[0024]
In the above-described embodiment, the case where the mobile phone 20 is used will be described. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and it is needless to say that the embodiment can be realized by a portable personal computer or a dedicated terminal having a communication function.
[0025]
In addition, although a case where setting data is calculated and acquired based on hearing data will be described, since a remote external device called a server device is used, various setting data corresponding to the pattern of hearing data are stored in the server device. A large database can be prepared, and a system that searches for setting data optimum for the hearing data of the user A and transmits it to the mobile phone can be constructed. It goes without saying that the same operation effect can be obtained by implementing the same method as in this embodiment also with this system.
[0026]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, the measurement data of the user can be transmitted from the portable terminal device to the acquisition device (server device) having excellent calculation processing capability to perform the calculation processing of the setting data. By using an acquisition device that easily and sequentially installs the fitting calculation program, optimal setting data to be set in the user's hearing aid can be calculated and easily acquired.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram for explaining a first embodiment of an acquisition system including an acquisition device for carrying out a method for acquiring programmable hearing aid data according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram of programmable hearing aid data according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram for explaining the use of the first embodiment of an acquisition system including the acquisition device for carrying out the acquisition method. FIG. 3 shows the acquisition device for implementing the method for acquiring data for programmable hearing aids according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram for explaining a second embodiment of an acquisition system including the present invention. FIG. 4 illustrates use of the second embodiment of the acquisition system including the acquisition device for carrying out the method for acquiring programmable hearing aid data according to the present invention. Schematic diagram [Fig. 5] Schematic diagram explaining the prior art [Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Server apparatus 20 Cellular phone 21 Liquid crystal screen 30 Programmable hearing aid 40 Portable program apparatus 50 Interface apparatus

Claims (1)

A acquisition system programmable hearing aid data Ru comprising a portable terminal apparatus and the server apparatus performs communication with each other,
The mobile terminal device transmits hearing measurement data of a hearing impaired person to the server device while displaying information transmitted from the server device, and receives setting data for adjusting a programmable hearing aid from the server device And display the setting data,
The server device, in which a fitting calculation program is installed, transmits information for setting the hearing aid to the mobile terminal device, and is input according to the information and transmitted from the mobile terminal device reply to the mobile terminal device calculates or retrieves the setting data using the fitting calculation program based on the data acquisition system data for a programmable hearing aid.

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