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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2015
Applicant:
GN Hearing A/s, Ballerup, DK;
Inventor:
Erik Cornelis Diederik Van Der Werf, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
GN Hearing A/S, Ballerup, DK;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/353 (2013.01); H04R 25/356 (2013.01); H04R 25/505 (2013.01); H04R 25/552 (2013.01); H04R 2225/021 (2013.01); H04R 2225/023 (2013.01); H04R 2225/025 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hearing device includes: a microphone for reception of sound and conversion of the received sound into a corresponding first audio signal; a processing unit for providing a second audio signal compensating a hearing loss of a user of the hearing aid based on the first audio signal; and a receiver for providing an output sound signal based on the second audio signal; wherein the processing unit comprises a band splitter, a pitch shifter, and a frequency shifter, and wherein the pitch shifter and the frequency shifter are arranged in a first channel for performing frequency mapping.