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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 16, 2020
Applicant:

Sivantos Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Maja Serman, Erlangen, DE;

Cecil Wilson, Erlangen, DE;

Eghart Fischer, Schwabach, DE;

Assignee:

Sivantos Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/0364 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/505 (2013.01); G10L 21/0364 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); H04R 25/604 (2013.01); H04R 2225/021 (2013.01); H04R 2225/025 (2013.01); H04R 2225/43 (2013.01);
Abstract

A hearing system contains a hearing instrument and the hearing instrument is configured to support the hearing of a hearing-impaired user. The hearing instrument is operated via an operating method. The method includes capturing a sound signal from an environment of the hearing instrument, processing the captured sound signal to at least partially compensate the hearing-impairment of the user and outputting the processed sound signal to the user. The captured sound signal is analyzed to recognize speech intervals, in which the captured sound signal contains speech. During recognized speech intervals, at least one time derivative of an amplitude and/or a pitch of the captured sound signal is determined. The amplitude of the processed sound signal is temporarily increased, if the at least one derivative fulfills a predefined criterion.


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