User control for hearing prostheses

Details User control for hearing prostheses User control for hearing prostheses

2011-06-14

2011-06-14

Le, Huyen D (Department: 2614)

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices

Hearing aids, electrical

Programming interface circuitry

C381S060000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07961898

ABSTRACT:
A hearing prosthesis whereby the change of a parameter by the user is only possible in discrete maximum steps, with the availability for further increments being dependant upon some conditional event or occurrence (“condition” herein) represented by one or more parameters such as the time which has elapsed since some previous event. In embodiments in which the parameter(s) include an event, such event may be, for example, the initial fitting or adjustment by a clinician, the last user adjustment, the last upward adjustment by the user, etc. In certain embodiments, the condition parameter(s) may include, for example, an elapsed period of time, a certain quantity of stimuli at a particular current level, or some combination of time, stimulation count and stimulation level. In alternative embodiments, there may be a tiered set of increasing increments, of which more gradually are available over time.

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Examiner's First Report on Australian Patent Application No. 2006200934, issued Nov. 18, 2010 , 3 pages.

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