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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2020
Oticon A/s, Smørum, DK;
Sławomir Kwasiborski, Warsaw, PL;
Morten Guld, Smørum, DK;
Svend Oscar Petersen, Smørum, DK;
Michael Syskind Pedersen, Smørum, DK;
Christophe Lesimple, Berne, CH;
Oticon A/S, Smørum, DK;
Abstract
A hearing system comprises a hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, configured to be worn by a particular user at or in an ear, or to be fully or partially implanted in the head at an ear of the user. The hearing device comprises at least one microphone for converting a sound in the environment of the hearing device to an electric input signal. The hearing system, e.g. the hearing device, comprises a processor comprising an own voice analyzer configured to characterize the voice of a person presently wearing the hearing device based at least partly on said electric input signal, and to provide characteristics of said person's voice, and an own voice acoustic channel analyzer for estimating characteristics of an acoustic channel from the mouth of the person presently wearing the hearing device to the at least one microphone based at least partly on said electric input signal, and to provide characteristics of said acoustic channel of said person. The hearing system further comprises a user identification unit configured to provide a user identification signal indicating whether or not, or with what probability, the person currently wearing the hearing device is said particular user in dependence of said characteristics of said person's voice and said characteristics of said acoustic channel of said person.