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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2020
Sonova Ag, Staefa, CH;
Manuela Feilner, Egg bei Zürich, CH;
Harald Kruger, Affoltern am Albis, CH;
Anahi Balbi, Richterswil, CH;
Claudio Santelli, Staefa, CH;
Sonova AG, Staefa, CH;
Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling hearing devices are disclosed. Each hearing device is worn by a user, the users of the hearing devices having a conversation and the hearing devices being communicatively interconnected with each other for data exchange to form a hearing device system. A method includes acquiring a sound signal of each user with a microphone of the hearing device of the user; acquiring spatial information of each user; determining conversation patterns from the spatial information acquired for all users; determining conversation groups from the conversation patterns; outputting the sound signals from the users with a hearing device, such that sound signals from users of a conversation group that the user of the hearing device is a member of are output to the user and that sound signals from users of conversations groups of which the user is not a member are muted.