Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Hearing aids – electrical – Noise compensation circuit
Patent
1998-06-04
2000-10-03
Kuntz, Curtis A.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Hearing aids, electrical
Noise compensation circuit
381314, H04R 2500
Patent
active
061283924
ABSTRACT:
A hearing aid has a microphone (1), or other electromechanical transducer, for converting an acoustic input signal into an electrical signal, a signal-processing and amplifying signal path (2, 3, 13, 4, 5, 6) and an output converter (7) which converts the amplified electrical signals back into acoustic signals, or in the case of an implanted hearing aid into mechanical signals, and a feedback digital finite impulse response filter (FIR filter) (9) for compensation of unwanted feedback (8) from the output converter to the microphone, in which the filter coefficients of filter (9) are determined by feeding a short pulse into the feedback signal path (5, 6, 7, 1, 2) and directly measuring the impulse response of this signal path.
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Delfs Hans
Leysieffer Hans
Dabney P.
Implex Aktiengesellschaft Hearing Technology
Kuntz Curtis A.
Safran David S.
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