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Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Mimi Hearing Technologies Gmbh, Berlin, DE;

Inventors:

Guido Knook, Berlin, DE;

Nicholas R. Clark, Royston, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/12 (2006.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/18 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/121 (2013.01); A61B 5/7278 (2013.01); G10L 25/18 (2013.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for evaluating hearing health of a given user. An input audio signal is transformed into the frequency domain and a first and second hearing profile are applied to the input audio sample. The first hearing profile represents a healthy hearing standard and the second hearing profile is the given user's hearing profile. Using the hearing profiles, first and second perceptually relevant information (PRI) values are generated for the input audio sample. The first and second PRI values are analyzed against each other to generate a PRI index value for the given user, where the PRI index value is a hearing health index value for the given user. The given user's hearing profile may additionally be applied to differently processed audio samples to evaluate the amount of perceptual rescue offered by various digital signal processing algorithms.


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