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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2018
Applicant:
Mimi Hearing Technologies Gmbh, Berlin, DE;
Inventor:
Nicholas R. Clark, Royston, GB;
Assignee:
Mimi Hearing Technologies GmbH, Berlin, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/00 (2013.01); G10L 19/02 (2013.01); G10L 19/032 (2013.01); G10L 19/087 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/0204 (2013.01); G10L 19/032 (2013.01); G10L 19/087 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01); H04R 2420/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for modifying an audio signal using custom psychoacoustic methods, for encoding the audio signal. A user's hearing profile is first obtained. Subsequently, a sample of the audio signal is split into frequency components. Next, masking and hearing thresholds are obtained from the user's hearing profile and applied to the frequency components of the audio sample, wherein the user's perceived data is calculated. User's imperceptible audio signal data is then disregarded. The audio sample is quantized and the resulting transformed audio sample encoded.