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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
William S. Woods, Berkeley, CA (US);
Martin McKinney, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Tao Zhang, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Ivo Merks, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
The signal processing functions of a hearing aid as described above necessarily cause some delay between the time the audio signal is received by the microphone or wireless receiver and the time that the audio is actually produced by the output transducer. In some situations, signal processing incorporating longer delays may be better able to improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or other functional parameters for a hearing aid wearer, but a balance should be struck between these positive effects of delay and other negative effects. The techniques described herein address the problem of balancing the positive and negative effects of delay.