Oticon A/s

Lars Ivar Hauschultz

Michael Syskind Pedersen

Thomas Lunner

Niels Henrik Pontoppidan

Graham Naylor

Karsten Bo Rasmussen

Henning Knak Poulsen

Povl Koch

Eline Borch Petersen

The present disclosure relates to communication devices. Such devices may comprise input for receiving sound signal to be processed and presented to a user, and output for outputting the processed signal to a user perceivable as sound. Such processing may be performed by use of a processor for processing the sound signal in dependence of a setting or a set of setting to compensate a hearing loss profile. Further, the communication device may comprise a bio-signal acquisition and amplifier component in communication with a user interface for providing the bio-signals as input to the user interface, the user interface controlling the setting or set of setting for operation of the communication device.

Hearing assistance device with brain computer interface

A control apparatus comprises a housing and is adapted to control a hearing device by recognizing predefined gestures made by the device wearer by moving one arm and/or or hand relative to the housing when the housing is in an operating position at or on the wearer's body. The housing comprises a reference electrode coupled capacitively to the wearer when the housing is in the operating position and a first sensor electrode. The control apparatus further comprises: a first signal generator to provide a first electric probe signal between the first sensor electrode and the reference electrode; a first measurement circuit to determine first signal values in dependence on the impedance between the first sensor electrode and the reference electrode; a detector to recognize gestures in dependence on the first signal values; and a control unit to provide control commands to the hearing device in dependence on recognized gestures.

Body-worn control apparatus for hearing devices

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Valby, Denmark

Lars Ivar Hauschultz