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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2015
Applicant:
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Inventor:
Christophe D. Micheyl, Millery, FR;
Assignee:
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/12 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/128 (2013.01); A61B 5/123 (2013.01); A61B 5/72 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for psychoacoustic evaluation of tinnitus synthesizes a test sound that is customized for a patient using the patient's audiogram, a model of the tinnitus related to the patient's audiogram, a psychoacoustic loudness model, and various test-sound parameters. In various embodiments, the system automatically adjusts the intensity and spectral level of the test sound such that the intensity of the test sound as perceived by the patient remains approximately constant across various frequencies and/or sound types used in the psychoacoustic evaluation of tinnitus.