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Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2023
Applicant:

Oticon A/s, Smoerum, DK;

Inventors:

Jesper Jensen, Smoerum, DK;

Poul Hoang, Smoerum, DK;

Simone Birk Bols Thomsen, Aalborg, DK;

Assignee:

Oticon A/S, Smørum, DK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 16/68 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/407 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 16/686 (2019.01); H04R 25/405 (2013.01); H04R 25/505 (2013.01); H04R 25/604 (2013.01); H04R 25/609 (2019.05);
Abstract

A hearing aid configured to be worn at or in an ear of a user including hearing aid comprising A) a multitude of microphones, B) a database including b1) a plurality of acoustic transfer function vectors representing different candidate locations of a target sound source in the environment relative to the microphone system, and b2) a multitude of posterior probabilities related to at least some of the acoustic transfer function vectors, each posterior probability representing the probability of a given acoustic transfer function given a particular eye-gaze direction of the user, and C) a processor configured to determine a current location of the target sound source relative to the user.


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