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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2014
Applicant:

Sonova Ag, Stafa, CH;

Inventors:

Manuela Feilner, Egg, CH;

Michael Boretzki, Ruti, CH;

Harald Krueger, Affoltern am Albis, CH;

Assignee:

SONOVA AG, Stäfa, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/24 (2013.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/558 (2013.01); G06K 9/00228 (2013.01); G06K 9/00288 (2013.01); G10L 15/24 (2013.01); H04R 25/407 (2013.01); H04R 25/552 (2013.01); H04R 25/405 (2013.01); H04R 2225/43 (2013.01); H04R 2225/55 (2013.01); H04R 2430/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for operating a hearing system including a hearing device, a camera and an auxiliary device, the method including the steps of providing an input signal to the hearing device, capturing an image or a sequence of images of at least sections of a surrounding of a user wearing the hearing device, processing the image or the sequence of images in the auxiliary device) for obtaining consolidated data of a sound source being important for the user, transmitting the consolidated data to the hearing device, generating an output signal in the hearing device by processing the audio signal and by taking into account the consolidated data, and feeding the output signal to an output transducer of the hearing device. Thereby, a hearing system having improved capabilities is obtained.


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