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Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2019
Applicant:

Mimi Hearing Technologies Gmbh, Berlin, DE;

Inventor:

Nicholas R. Clark, Royston, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/02 (2006.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01); H04R 5/04 (2006.01); G10K 11/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/505 (2013.01); G10K 11/175 (2013.01); H04R 5/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for modifying an audio signal using custom psychoacoustic models. A user's hearing profile is first obtained. Subsequently, an audio processing function is parameterized so as to optimize the user's perceptually relevant information. The method for calculating the user's perceptually relevant information comprises first processing audio signal samples using the parameterized processing function and then transforming samples of the processed audio signals into the frequency domain. Next, masking and hearing thresholds are obtained from the user's hearing profile and applied to the transformed audio sample, wherein the user's perceived data is calculated. Once perceptually relevant information is optimized, the resulting parameters are transferred to the audio processing function and an output audio signal is processed.


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