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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2017
Oticon A/s, Smørum, DK;
Thomas Lunner, Smørum, DK;
Fredrik Gustafsson, Linköping, SE;
David Lindgren, Linköping, SE;
Gustaf Hendeby, Linköping, SE;
Oticon A/S, Smørum, DK;
Abstract
A hearing device comprises a sound system for estimating the direction of arrival of sound emitted by one or more sound sources creating a sound field. The sound system comprises an array of N sound receiving transducers (microphones), each providing an electric input signal, a processing unit comprising a) a model unit comprising a parametric model configured to be able to describe the sound field at the array as a function of the direction of arrival in a region surrounding and adjacent to the array; b) a model optimizing unit configured to optimize said model with respect to its parameters based on said sound samples; c) a cost optimizing unit configured to minimize a cost function of the model with respect to said direction of arrivals; d) an estimating unit configured to estimate the direction of arrival based on said parametric model with the optimized parameters and the optimized cost function.