Oticon A/s

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Michael Syskind Pedersen

Jan Mark De Haan

Svend Feldt

Anders Højsgaard Thomsen

Sigurdur Sigurdsson

Sam Nees

Silvia Tarantino

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a hearing aid with two or more microphones and a processor; wherein the processor includes a first filter bank, a beamformer, a multiplexer configured to perform multiplexing operations outputting time-frequency values, and a wind noise controller configured to, recurringly, determine a first wind noise level.

Hearing aid including wind noise reduction

Disclosed herein are embodiments of methods, in particular performed by at least one hearing device, uses of the method, hearing devices and hearing systems. The method can include determining a reference orientation and/or position, in particular a reference vector u, of a hearing device; detecting at least one movement and/or acceleration of the hearing device; determining at least one deviating orientation and/or position, in particular at least one deviation vector v, of the hearing device based on the detected at least one movement and/or acceleration; and determining at least one deviation, in particular at least one deviation angle θ, between the reference orientation and/or position, in particular the reference vector u, and the at least one deviating orientation and/or position, in particular the at least one deviation vector v.

Optimizing positioning and configuration of a hearing device

The application relates to a hearing aid comprising a forward path comprising a) a multitude of input units for providing a multitude of electric input signals IN, i=1, . . . , M, representative of sound, b) a multi input beam former filtering unit for providing a beam formed signal Yfrom said multitude of electric input signals, c) a gain unit for applying a hearing aid gain Gto said beam formed signal Y, and providing a processed signal, and d) an output unit for providing stimuli perceivable by a user as sound based on said processed signal or a signal derived therefrom. The hearing aid further comprises e) a gain control unit for limiting said hearing aid gain Gto a modified full-on gain value G'. The multi input beam former filtering unit is configured to apply a current frequency dependent directional gain Gto each of said multitude of electric input signals IN, and the gain control unit is configured to determine the modified full-on gain value G&#x2032;in dependence of said current directional gains G, i=1, . . . , M, and a previously determined full-on gain value G. Thereby an improved hearing aid is provided. The invention may e.g. be used for hearing instruments, headsets, or active ear protection systems.

Configurable hearing aid comprising a beamformer filtering unit and a gain unit

A hearing device comprises A) a forward path, comprising a1) an input unit for providing a time-domain electric input signal as digital samples, a2) an analysis filter bank configured to provide a time-frequency representation of said electric input signal, a3) a signal processing unit for processing a signal of the forward path and providing a number of processed channel-signals, B) an onset detector configured to receive said time-domain electric input signal before entering said analysis filter bank, and to provide an onset control signal dependent on a current first order derivative of an envelope thereof, C) a level estimation unit for estimating a current level of said frequency sub-band signals, and comprising c1) a level adjustment unit configured to adjust the current levels of said frequency sub-band signals, and to control said level adjustment in dependence of said onset control signal. The invention may be used in audio devices, e.g. hearing aids.

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