Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Acoustical noise or sound cancellation – Adjacent ear
Reexamination Certificate
2006-03-21
2006-03-21
Chin, Vivian (Department: 2644)
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Acoustical noise or sound cancellation
Adjacent ear
C381S023100, C704S216000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07016507
ABSTRACT:
This invention describes a practical application of noise reduction in hearing aids. Although listening in noisy conditions is difficult for persons with normal hearing, hearing impaired individuals are at a considerable further disadvantage. Under light noise conditions, conventional hearing aids amplifying the input signal sufficiently to overcome the hearing loss. For a typical sloping hearing loss where there is a loss in high frequency hearing sensitivity, the amount of boost (or gain) rises with frequency. Most frequently, the loss in sensitivity is only for low-level signals; high level signals are affective minimally or not at all. A compression hearing aid is able to compensate by automatically lowering the gain as the input signal level rises. This compression action is usually compromised under noisy conditions. In general, hearing aids are of lesser benefit under noisy conditions since both noise and speech are boosted together when what is really required is a reduction of the noise relative to the speech. A noise reduction algorithm with the dual purpose of enhancing speech relative to noise and also providing a relatively clean signal for the compression circuitry is described.
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AMI Semiconductor Inc.
Bereskin & Parr
Chin Vivian
Tran Con P.
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